June
Property investor’s $100m soccer rescue in doubt
Player payments missed as officials say $100m takeover of cash-strapped A-League club Western United has not progressed since May.
Former Crown boss Rob Rankin among the faithful at Lords
Rankin, previously right-hand man to James Packer has been in self-imposed exile in London.
May
Stephen Conroy’s man behind the ‘factional assassin’
The former minister’s protege has hurdled his way into the ministry, over the still-warm bodies of competent ministers.
December 2024
The NRL goes down a fourth CFO in four years
The rugby league keeps chewing up and spitting out finance chiefs.
Furious Stephen Conroy was dumped as Business Council lobbyist
When did the BCA exactly became a discredited rabble of a business lobby? And was it around the time Conroy’s TG Public Affairs ceased receiving a retainer?
Stephen Conroy goes spluttering and unhinged against the BCA
The former Labor senator went troppo at the Business Council, whose members include his own lobby clients.
October 2024
No ‘secrets’ at RBA private briefings
Andrew Hauser dismissed concerns about the RBA holding private discussions with market participants, arguing it must understand what is happening in the economy.
August 2024
Gabby RBA spills its press flacks
If the intention is for Reserve Bank figures to keep giving interesting speeches, its figureheads are going to need serious PR support.
July 2024
Hacked Optus gets award for cybersecurity nous
The irony of the award going to a company defending both a class action and an ACMA civil lawsuit for alleged security failures hung heavy in the room.
April 2024
Labor’s $5m fundraising chief turns lobbyist
As director of the Federal Labor Business Forum, Kate Dykes spent 12 years as the all-important cog in the Labor fundraising machine.
February 2024
Stephen Conroy becomes death, destroyer of CEOs
The former Labor powerbroker keeps showing up ringside to sudden resignations in the corporate world.
November 2023
Gambling industry wins political game at democracy’s expense
The gaming industry adds little to the economy, but it is a big player when it comes to the political influence business.
June 2023
Third super giant joins boycott of PwC
HESTA is the latest super giant to boycott PwC; Labor has denied Brittany Higgins and her partner discussed strategising with Finance Minister Katy Gallagher when she was in opposition. How the day unfolded.
May 2023
Switkowski’s Telstra was major client of PwC
Decades before being appointed to investigate the accounting firm’s scandal, Ziggy Switkowski was a major client of then-PwC operative (and future CEO) Luke Sayers.
December 2022
Inside the bloody political war that led to a $31b NBN blowout
The NBN has cost a lot more public money than Labor promised back in 2009 but the Coalition’s meddling was largely to blame for a decade of misguided spending.
Labor under water on $32b ‘commercial’ NBN investment
The federal government is unlikely to recoup the $31.9 billion injected into the NBN, even if the NBN Co is eventually privatised in the 2030s, a leading telco analyst says.
NBN loses $31b. Just don’t call it a write-down
The only surprising aspect of acknowledgement that NBN Co will never deliver a commercial return for taxpayers is how many years it took to admit the obvious.
June 2022
Fury after Australia gave Pacific nations faulty boats
Major design flaws have been identified among a fleet of patrol boats gifted to Pacific nations, including poisonous carbon monoxide being pumped onboard.
April 2022
TG Public Affairs hires Michael Choueifate
Mark Brandon-Baker’s TG Public Affairs, which has nabbed Albo’s ex-chief of staff to join as one of the firm’s principals.
May 2021
Court halts ALP preselections after union challenge
A push by Anthony Albanese and the ALP to fast-track preselections in Victoria ahead of the next federal election has been delayed by a court order.