Seven Group
Analysis
Earnings season
Forget the TV drama, Stokes shows Seven’s industrial might
Financially troubled and scandal-ridden Seven West may be grabbing the headlines, but the Stokes family fortune is soaring to fresh heights at the $16 billion Seven Group Holdings.
- by Colin Kruger
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Sharemarket
Utilities and energy firms lift ASX; Kathmandu drops
The Australian sharemarket staged a major turnaround in the latter half of the trading session to finish on a high, after Wall Street equities backed away from recent records.
- by Millie Muroi
‘I made it all up’: Shocking questions over evidence in case against Channel Seven contestants
Two people involved in the case against two Channel Seven TV contestants who face charges of torture and rape have claimed they made up evidence.
- by Cloe Read
Analysis
Defamation
Lehrmann judgment will bring some comfort to sexual assault victims everywhere
The judgment by Justice Michael Lee in finding Bruce Lehrmann was a rapist is a masterpiece of common sense and cut-through.
- by Jacqueline Maley
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World markets
ASX slides despite Wall Street rebound
Rate-sensitive sectors including consumer stocks dragged the local sharemarket lower, despite a US equities rebound overnight following its steep sell-off.
- by Millie Muroi
Billionaire Stokes family wins support for takeover of Australia’s largest concrete maker
Boral’s independent directors have caved in to Seven Group’s hardball takeover bid.
- by Simon Johanson
Analysis
Media & marketing
Bruce McWilliam is known for his fiery emails and texts. We pull apart one he sent today
Seven’s outgoing commercial director has fired off a text in a bid to minimise the fallout from a new network expenses scandal.
Opinion
Workplace culture
Seven West Media’s culture needs rehabilitation
Hollowing out of management was the punishment dealt to other listed companies when serious cultural, ethical or governance breaches were uncovered.
- by Elizabeth Knight
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Media & marketing
New Seven expenses affair rocks Sunrise, top network executives
On October 5, 2022, one of the Seven Network’s most powerful executives sent an extraordinary email to a young media reporter.
- by Nick McKenzie, Calum Jaspan and Kate McClymont
Allegations ‘do not reflect’ culture says Seven, as executives distance themselves from Spotlight boss
Outgoing commercial director Bruce McWilliam distanced the network’s senior executives from Spotlight executive producer Mark Llewellyn in fresh evidence in court on Thursday afternoon.
- by Calum Jaspan
Analysis
Defamation
Good Taylor, Naughty Taylor do battle in a bomb-throwing display
Taylor Auerbach’s evidence was the wildest and weirdest development in a case that has careened from the Canberra bubble to the Emerald City.
- by Harriet Alexander
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