May 2024
It goes to Rio: Monash Uni replaces Simon McKeon with Megan Clark
Australia’s largest university has replaced its chancellor, an ex-Rio Tinto director, with … an ex-Rio Tinto director. What are the odds?
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- Myriam Robin
March 2023
Rio Tinto’s JS Jacques banks another $16 million
Retirement is playing out marvellously for JS Jacques, of Juukan Gorge fame.
- Joe Aston
February 2023
Paula Dwyer, Simon McKeon headline governance summit
What could be a more perfect venue for this professional development opportunity than a renowned echo chamber?
- Joe Aston
The man with a plan to cut the grubbiest companies’ emissions by 92pc
The former CSIRO chairman and current NAB and Rio Tinto board member says Australia’s biggest industrial emitters believe they can decarbonise and grow.
- Jacob Greber
March 2022
Rio Tinto board gets off scot-free
Australia’s proxy firms have reverted to their default behaviour: tickling the tummies of Rio Tinto’s lousy directors.
- Joe Aston
February 2022
Rio Tinto’s board has learnt nothing
In the Rio boardroom, any sense of collective shame has clearly passed.
- Joe Aston
December 2021
- Opinion
- Rear Window
Heads did roll: Rear Window’s 2021 in review
A year that started in court has had plenty of victims, some unlikely saviours, and the greatest boondoggle ever.
- Joe Aston
Dominic Barton emerges as frontrunner to be next Rio Tinto chairman
Canada’s outgoing ambassador to China and former McKinsey boss is leading the race to be the next chairman of the global miner.
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- Neil Hume
September 2021
Cancel culture forgot the Monash chancellor
For tedious sanctimony, does it get any worse than university academics?
- Joe Aston
July 2021
Rio Tinto’s malaise years in the making
Rio Tinto will ship less iron ore in 2021 than it did in 2016.
- Joe Aston
May 2021
Shadow of Juukan hangs over Rio AGM as investors lob protest vote
More than 60pc of investors voted against the company’s remuneration report over the lucrative exit packages given to JS Jacques in the wake of the Juukan Gorge scandal.
- Peter Ker and Brad Thompson
March 2021
ISS against Rio director Megan Clark
The global proxy adviser has recommended Rio Tinto shareholders vote against the re-election of director Megan Clark.
- Joe Aston
The shame of Rio Tinto director Megan Clark
She invokes her shame now only to save her own job – one that richly deserves to be lost.
- Joe Aston
Thompson’s utopian Rio agenda meets reality
Rio Tinto chairman Simon Thompson lacked a plausible explanation for how he mismanaged the aftermath of Juukan Gorge.
- Joe Aston
Simon McKeon, no man for a crisis
If you wanted a masterclass in crisis management, you’d scarcely turn to company director Simon McKeon.
- Joe Aston
December 2020
Rio appoints finance boss Stausholm as next CEO
Rio Tinto has promoted its chief financial officer Jakob Stausholm to be its next chief executive, resisting pressure to appoint an Australian citizen as part of efforts to boost its engagement with the nation that provides the majority of its earnings.
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- Peter Ker
September 2020
Simon McKeon is Rio Tinto's weakest link
McKeon has managed to parlay his monstrous inertia throughout the Juukan Gorge crisis into a promotion and a £45,000 pay rise.
- Joe Aston
- Exclusive
- Iron ore
Frydenberg tells Rio Tinto to hire Australian CEO
The Morrison government wants and expects an Australian chief executive and majority Australian board. Will the London headquarters listen?
- Jennifer Hewett
Golden parachutes to haunt Rio Tinto board
Thankfully, large Rio Tinto shareholders are privately acknowledging that Thompson is finished.
- Joe Aston
Rio Tinto misleads parliamentary inquiry
Rio Tinto's contempt for the Australian Parliament is demonstrable.
- Joe Aston