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Yoni BashanMargin Call Editor

Yoni Bashan is the editor of the agenda-setting column Margin Call. He began his career at The Sunday Telegraph and has won multiple awards for crime writing and specialist investigations. In 2014 he was seconded on a year-long exchange to The Wall Street Journal. His non-fiction book The Squad was longlisted for the Walkley Book Award. He was previously The Australian’s NSW political correspondent.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JUNE 20, 2023: PWC, Price Water House Coopers signage on a building in BarangarooPicture: NCA NewsWire / Damian Shaw

The next PwC lawsuit set to go nuclear

His name may not immediately chime with those trailing the PwC Australia implosion, but this crucial ‘rover’ has not taken kindly to losing his lucrative pension in the scandal wash-up.

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23/8/23: Jan Adams dfat Secretary, Mike Henry BHP CEOAnd Michael Watchtel future fund board member at the Business Council of Australia Annual Dinner in Sydney. John Feder/The Australian.

Question of identity at BCA power bash

There’s nothing like the Business Council of Australia’s annual dinner to break off a snapshot of the nation’s corporate hierarchy, or measure the ego inflation of certain CEOs.

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25/02/2021. Clayton Larcombe is starting Australia's first e-sports investment fund, photographed at his offices in Sydney. Britta Campion / The Australian

A rare backward step for PAC’s Larcombe

PAC Capital’s Clayton Larcombe didn’t appreciate recent reporting and made legal noises to that effect. So why is he ‘stepping back’ as its CEO?

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21/08/2023 Mark Leibler and Noel Pearson with Anthony Pratt during the 70th Birthday Celebration of Arnold Bloch Leibler at the Grand Hyatt in Melbourne. Aaron Francis / The Australian

Billionaires and backers play nice, mostly, at ABL’s 70th

The uppermost elite, deep-pocketed backers, enough politicians for a cabinet meeting and just a touch of frost between some – Arnold Bloch Leibler’s anniversary bash had it all.

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The cargo ship Explorer before departing from Brisbane port 04/02/98.ShippingQueensland

Cry me a river as well-paid sea pilots strike over salary

Poseidon says it doesn’t have enough extra cash for its pilots who earn $347,000 for 23 weeks’ work. But perhaps the non-union labour being dispatched to Melbourne is what’s really at stake.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. AUGUST 11, 2023: Outgoing Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe and incoming governor Michele Bullock appear before the House of Representatives Economics Committee at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

New RBA governor’s shredder problem

Treasurer Jim Chalmers may want to think twice before giving incoming Reserve Bank boss Michele Bullock anything important for safe keeping.

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Generic cemetery, headstone, burial plot photos taken at Wamberal Cemetery.

Obituary a Pearce de resistance

Quadrant managing partner Jonathan Pearce hasn’t left this mortal coil, so who’s behind a cheeky newspaper obit hours after the firm talked up a restructure?

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Cultural cringe as MinRes’ top women keep quitting

MinRes recruited lawyer Bronwyn Grieve, ostensibly to change its culture – and now she’s the latest woman to quit. We wonder why?

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Berry Liberman and Danny Almagor at the offices of their social venture Small Giants

Banking forum heats up as rich-lister goes off script

Monied Melbournian Berry Liberman treated NAB’s private wealth clients to quite a spectacle at a recent gathering, via a thinly veiled swipe at her hapless banking hosts.

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Video footage of Iraqi politician Minister of Information Muhammad Saeed as-Sahaf talking to media outside Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq 08 Apr 2003. mohammed al-SahhafWar on Iraq - Military Operation Iraqi Freedom by USA led coalition armed forces.

Maybe Scales will fall from his eyes – or not

Not since the Iraqi information minister nicknamed ‘Baghdad Bob’ has there been someone so determined to deny the evidence, but Scale Facilitation’s David Collard is a strong challenger.

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