The Chemist Warehouse founders were back in suburban Melbourne to vote in its huge merger with ASX-listed Sigma. The celebrations were a typically low-key setting for some of Australia’s richest entrepreneurs.
Let’s call it the first — and ultimate — status update of the corporate season. School assembly for the CEOs. The gathering of big-shots and silverbacks. The Australian Open tennis finals.
Alex Waislitz has drawn a line in the sand, declaring he will defend his reputation as a string of legal cases loom for the billionaire investor this year.
A little known Australian billionaire is battling a legal action that could cost him hundreds of millions of dollars, while facing separate allegations he berated staff with homosexual slurs.
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The attire was formal and the guest list stacked, as billionaires, models, actors, political heavyweights and new family friends welcomed in the new year. Among them: former prime minister Scott Morrison.
Billionaire Alex Waislitz says his ex-wife failed to involve herself in the affairs of their family business, and called a court case she lodged against him ‘embarrassing’.
Many of Australia’s most famous exports have returned home to spend Christmas in the sun.
The Australian billionaire is back in favour with incoming US president Donald Trump, whose policies are set to help lift Pratt Industries to its highest ever levels.
The incoming president was feted by some of the biggest names in the world at Mar-a-Lago, with an Australian billionaire suddenly back in favour, and a little-known 29-year-old from Perth also among the sea of corporate titans and political operatives.
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