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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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Nicole Scurrah39yrs, ( Qld Premier Anna Bligh's new Chief of Staff) with her dog Tiger, at Oriel Park, Ascot.

Team Scurrah nabs QIC contract

Nicole Scurrah’s post-Sayers enterprise has bagged a Queensland government-owned fund manager as a client, showing it’s potentially productive to have friends in high places.

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EMBARGO FOR TWAM 01 JULY 2023. FEE MAY APPLY. Tom Seymour, chief executive officer of PwC Australia, speaks during the AFR Summit in Sydney, Australia, on Wednesday, March 10, 2021. Photographer: Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg via Getty Images

PwC board warned over picking Seymour as CEO

PwC chairman Peter van Dongen was warned by authorities that incoming CEO Tom Seymour was potentially compromised by an ATO investigation, but appointed him anyway.

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SaniteX Global chief executive and founder David Collard. Picture: Supplied

Billionaire sues Collard over unpaid US rent

Scale supremo David Collard is not only months behind paying his staff and contractors, but he’s being sued over alleged unpaid rent on a Manhattan apartment.

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Rival doctors ... Norman Swan (left) and Nick Coatsworth. Pictures: File

Nine hires Coatsworth to tackle ABC’s Dr Doom

‘Australia’s most trusted doctor’ was the overblown moniker bestowed by Norman Swan upon himself, but it seems he will have an on-air rival in the guise of Nick Coatsworth.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire photos AUGUST 17, 2022: Ex Prison guard Wayne Gregory Astill at Downing Centre Court in Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Dylan Coker

Probe into cover-up of rapist prison officer

The Australian’s investigation into the cover-up of sexual assaults committed by former prison officer Wayne Astill will be subject to an independent inquiry, ordered by the NSW government.

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David Collard, whose company Scale Facilitation was raided by Australian Federal Police last month, has a close relationship with Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles and they communicate using the Signal encrypted messaging app.

‘Force of nature’: Ministers’ praise for Collard during funding bid

Deputy PM Richard Marles was effusive about ‘entrepreneurial’ David Collard who, as documents suggest, then tried some ministerial name dropping to speed up his federal funding.

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Founder of Australian company, Scale Facilitation, David Collard in the One World Trade Center office. Pic Abby Holden

Staff exodus picks up pace as lofty promises broken again

While Scale Facilitation boss David Collard oils around his rented NYC office, key staff are fleeing while others remain unpaid at the troubled innovation firm.

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Adam Powick, Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte AustraliaPicture: Lucas Dawson

Deloitte chief can’t skip Senate grilling

You can duck, you can weave, you can even consider offering up a proxy but there’s no avoiding the cut and trust of a Senate committee, as Deloitte chief Adam Powick has learned.

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17/02/2022 BHP chief executive officer Mike Henry. Photo: Aaron Francis / BHP

Investors the wildcards in BHP coal mines sale

The bidders for BHP’s Queensland coal mines are a disparate bunch but apparently Whitehaven’s main opposition won’t come from rivals but from within its shareholder ranks.

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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

PwC scarpers political schmoozing groups

PwC is closing its backdoor access to political briefings by cutting its memberships with the Federal Labor Business Forum and the Liberal-linked Australian Business Network.

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