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Tansy Harcourt is a senior writer and columnist with the Australian. Tansy has worked in radio, TV and print and previously worked at the Australian Financial Review, Bloomberg and the ABC, with a four year “break” working in strategy at Qantas. Connect with Tansy via LinkedIn.

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Aust Business 020703 Powertel Extrordiary General meeting in Sydney..Businessmen from (l to r) Sam Gazal,Geoff Counsel and Trevor Kennedy,Charles Gulotto.Pic Brett Faulkner

Sam Gazal, media investor and Sydney deal-maker, dies

Gazal, 87, who rode the corporate boom of the 1980s with a string of high-profile food and media deals, passed away on Wednesday.

Tansy Harcourt and Colin Packham

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20/6/25: KPMG Whistleblower Brendan Lyon at his home on the south coast. Brendan is now a professor at the Uni of Wollongong and used to be a partner at KPMG before blowing the whistle.He is taking legal action to try and get rid of the legal cap that limits the amount of money consultants are liable for if they give bad advice. John Feder/The Australian

KPMG whistleblower in legal fight to scrap big four protections

Brendan Lyon is lawyered up. The KPMG partner turned whistleblower has just launched legal action to try to scrap liability protections enjoyed by big four schemes under laws he describes as outdated.

Tansy Harcourt

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Mark Mentha (top left) and Mark Korda (top right)

Inside KordaMentha’s secret billionaires’ factory

It’s no accident that you won’t find Mark Korda or Mark Mentha on any rich list, as the duo use their financial acumen unpicking failing businesses to turn themselves into secret billionaires.

Tansy Harcourt

Big FourBusiness

21/5/25: PwC Australia CEO Kevin Burrowes speaks about progress in reforming the firm nearly two years on from taking charge in the wake of the PwC's tax scandal. John Feder/The Australian.

Partner pay revealed for PwC’s top dogs

The six-figure average income of PwC partners have been revealed in the firm’s annual report as it tries to repair its image damaged in the tax leaks scandal.

Tansy Harcourt

CommentaryBusiness

New Virgin Australia CEO Dave Emerson. Picture: supplied

Will the Virgin Australia IPO happen just in time?

Days out from its float, Virgin Australia’s shareholders will be strategizing how to navigate the tragic Air India crash, and fears of war in the Middle East.

Tansy Harcourt

CommentBusiness

Activists like Perpetual need Joe Aston to remind us what they’re good at

How the mighty has fallen. Once-great fund manager Perpetual is tapping journalist Joe Aston to promote the cause of activist investing.

Tansy Harcourt

ExclusiveBusiness

Founder of fast growing K-Beauty cosmetics company - W Cosmetics, Li (Lee) Yang. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

The buzzy beauty entrepreneur quietly making millions

Meet Lee Li, the mysterious Chinese-born founder who everyone is talking about, as he turns Australians’ love affair with trendy skincare into a $200m empire.

Tansy Harcourt

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Billionaire Blundy unwraps a racy new label

Billionaire retailer Brett Blundy has launched his new sleepwear, lingerie and beauty brand Léays with a catwalk at the Sydney Opera House steps.

Eli Greenblat and Tansy Harcourt

Big FourBusiness

Busting the ‘$1’ myth behind private equity’s bad bet on Scyne

Buying PwC’s old consulting arm for ‘$1’ was a dollar too much according to the latest financials for Scyne. New records reveal the deal’s true cost was millions more and it has posted an $81m loss as professional services demand crumbles.

Tansy Harcourt

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Supplied image of cattle from AACO Westholme Beef

Shock departure of top exec at billionaires’ plaything AACo

The nation’s biggest agricultural company is reeling from the sudden exit of an influential executive, who quit by saying ‘I’m simply going to focus on my own career’.

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