MARGIN CALLMargin CallWhile politicians rage over a $45m Arnott’s loan, the government’s $365m buyout of a successful tech company has barely raised an eyebrow.
Margin CallMargin CallCorporate bosses reckon Victoria’s two day work-from-home proposal is a disaster? Pull the other one. Those same C-suiters’ companies thrived during the pandemic.
Margin CallMargin CallThe $1 trillion worth of international pension fund clout was supposed to guilt trip Westpac investors into stopping fossil-fuel lending. But the bank’s AGM proved self interest wins every time.
MARGIN CALLMargin CallTroubled industrialist Sanjeev Gupta’s accounting chaos has claimed another victim after an auditing firm quit over an internal transaction that secured his control of a NSW coal mine.
Margin CallMargin CallGovernment emails reveal how Creative Australia officials performed bureaucratic backflips to help secure funding perks to a left-wing political website with no cultural content.
MARGIN CALLMargin CallA 122-year-old bowls club has achieved what corporations can’t, by booting Olvera Advisors who racked up $640,000 in fees in just four months with a court ordering costs in the club’s favour.
MARGIN CALLMargin CallThe tax office has been savaged for ‘wilful blindness’ and been been ordered to return millions of dollars seized during its prized Project Wickenby investigations.
Margin CallMargin CallCelebrated publisher Morry Schwartz took the rare step of writing to the Biennale of Sydney board in August, demanding the removal of an artistic ambassador over an anti-Semitic post. She’s still there.
MARGIN CALLMargin CallAgainst all odds, Sanjeev Gupta has pulled off another financial escape act to keep control of his prized Tahmoor colliery.
Margin CallMargin CallDeparting High Commissioner to the UK Stephen Smith made enemies by calling time on parties. But has he forgotten that canapes and drinkie-poos are in our national interest?
MARGIN CALLMargin CallOur most absurd legal marathon involves a vodka trademark and has outlived two judges, delivered 29 findings but the bottom of the bottle isn’t in sight. Now a third judge has had a gutful.
Margin CallMargin CallThe Finance Department has insisted on hiring a heavyweight legal eagle in its case against former defence minister Linda Reynolds because he needs to be ‘trauma-informed’. But is he?
MARGIN CALLMargin CallHealth privacy is sacrosanct unless you are the actual regulator AHPRA, which has fessed up to its own ombudsman it’s exposed contact details of more than 3100 practitioners.
Margin CallMargin CallASIC commissioner Alan Kirkland gave a speech this week laying out all the problems with private credit markets. But even he seems to admit ASIC can’t do much about it.
MARGIN CALLMargin CallThe man who rode Trump’s Greenland obsession to a $1.4bn fortune is now playing corporate games that defy financial logic at a Perth explorer.
Margin CallMargin CallAccenture sauntered off with $78m from Bureau of Meteorology’s website redo. That’s not cost overrun or scope creep. That’s a heist. And a predictable one at that.
MARGIN CALLMargin CallThe collapse of Sanjeev Gupta’s major Australian company has exposed an extraordinary web linking Korean steel, Romanian fraud allegations and 600 worried workers.
Margin CallMargin CallTech billionaire Scott Farquhar championed Cranbrook’s historic move to admit girls and pledged millions for scholarships, but has now moved one of his children to an all-boys school.
MARGIN CALLMargin CallThe contractor that walked off the job at Sanjeev Gupta’s Tahmoor colliery over unpaid bills has returned with a buyout offer.
Margin CallMargin CallDespite lecturing everyone about polluting the planet, Atlassian’s results on carbon emissions weren’t so flash. The founder now says they’re not too bad – when divided up per person.
MARGIN CALLMargin CallAustralia’s corporate elite has crumbled spectacularly with a number of ASX companies enduring governance meltdowns that have left shareholders licking their wounds.
Margin CallMargin CallGerry Harvey is concerned wealth inequality could give rise to a popular democratic socialist of the kind just elected mayor of New York City. Here’s three reasons why that will never, ever happen.
MARGIN CALLMargin CallFormer One Nation senator Rod Culleton has lost another court battle over his repossessed farm after a judge found he cited non-existent case law in his latest legal challenge.
Margin CallMargin CallAfter hiring private detectives to surveil families and seizing nine million documents, Fortescue’s corporate espionage case has ended with zero proof and a whimper rather than vindication.
MARGIN CALLMargin CallLiberty Primary Metals Australia faces a $130m debt crisis but Sanjeev Gupta is attempting a controversial administration strategy he hopes will retain ownership of Tahmoor Coal.
Margin CallMargin CallAustralian Catholic University has endured a horror week of poor rankings, zero recognition and controversy over an academic who scrubbed his ‘white supremacy’ social media.
Margin CallMargin CallSeven years after a man put a pie in his face, Joyce gave a speech in Perth that touched on the finer points of that fateful day, including how his Zegna suit was unable to be salvaged.
MARGIN CALLMargin CallI did nothing wrong. That’s the blunt message Oleg Vornik delivered to select DroneShield shareholders in a leaked briefing, following his $50m share dump.
Margin CallMargin CallThe Mexican food chain that vowed to overtake McDonald’s has gained just three US stores in 18 months and watched its share price return to IPO levels.
Margin CallMargin CallAs DroneShield’s share price dived, it has emerged that its leadership cancelled a crucial investor meeting while maintaining an aggressive international promotional schedule.
