Banks play Jones like their fiddle
Not only is Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones wrapped tightly around Australian Banking Association chief Anna Bligh’s finger, but it’s the worst-kept secret in Canberra.
Not only is Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones wrapped tightly around Australian Banking Association chief Anna Bligh’s finger, but it’s the worst-kept secret in Canberra.
The Australian Financial Review was supposed to hold its Government Services Summit at the Canberra Hyatt on Tuesday but that’s on hold thanks to picketing journalists.
With all the attention on Bonza’s failure and Virgin Australia’s float being pushed back Rex has flown under the radar but it appears everything isn’t rosy there either.
NSW Young Lawyers secretary Seth Harlen was in court with others to be welcomed to the profession but his activist stunt may make that welcome short lived.
MinRes under Chris Ellison is a giant, heaving boys club stinking of chauvinism and Lynx Africa. Just ask the profusion of senior women who have walked out over shabby treatment.
Gretel Packer has emerged as the surprise buyer of the historic Metro-Minerva theatre in Sydney’s Potts Point, meaning it is more likely to be revived than left to the developer’s wrecking ball.
Mark McGowan was so tired when he announced that he would step down as West Australian premier in May last year. But in a matter of months, he’s gone from zero jobs to four.
While the hall monitors at ACMA keep chest-beating about their supposed crackdown on illegal online casinos, most of the 1011 sites ‘blocked’ actual remain easy to access.
Hundreds of PwC’s highest-paid are in meltdown after being told the firm botched their tax returns and they now personally face repaying bills of up $300,000 within two weeks.
The Australian Catholic University convened a marathon sitting of its governing council and concluded that, yes, all members have been doing a splendid job, irrespective of the external brouhaha.
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