Sneesby carrying a torch for trouble
Is Mike Sneesby the most tone-deaf CEO in the country? He skipped off for a European holiday on the day his staff at Nine learned of job cuts, now he’s jumping at an Olympic gig.
Margin Call
Skrbis blames media for ACU woes
For a real-time view of an academic leader scrambling to save his job, look no further than the vice-chancellor of the Australian Catholic University, Zlatko Skrbis.
Hefty ‘termination’ pay to pro-abortion ACU legal star revealed
There are major problems with ACU’s spin that it didn’t sack its outspoken feminist Dean of Law, Kate Galloway, but let’s start with the $1m ‘termination’ and damages it paid her.
Odd case of the missing ACU academic
In January, the ACU named Professor Kate Galloway as the incoming dean of its Law School, but good luck finding any evidence of that appointment online.
Top secret ways to combat leaks and trust issues for NSW Libs
Disappearing messages, watermarked papers and withholding raw numbers. Such are the lengths the NSW Liberal Party has to go to these days when sharing party numbers and finances.
ACU loses millions in failed bet
Panic stations, evidently, at the Australian Catholic University after this column ventilated much dirty linen over the state of its finances and the consequent number of senior staff being sacked.
Vatican losing faith in university
A deepening crisis is engulfing the Australian Catholic University, its finances in a parlous state and enrolments dropping from a vertiginous height under vice-chancellor Zlatko Skrbis.
Airport chief makes an odd departure
Australian Airports Association boss James Goodwin’s sudden exit has raised eyebrows given the industry is about to cop its five-yearly review into monopolies.
Disney executive in high demand
Her name keeps being connected with – and being passed over for – vacant positions of power, but Kylie Watson-Wheeler insists she’s not interested in the jobs in the first place.
Photos reveal rocky conversion from meat lover to plant-based paramour
Now he’s dating Victorian Animal Justice Party MP and vegan Georgie Purcell, federal Labor MP Josh Burns is on the path to becoming an enlightened vegetarian. But it hasn’t been easy.
Rinehart left in lurch for Games tickets
We’re four weeks out from the Paris Olympics and we’re hearing of a mad scramble by the AOC to get a much-coveted swimming pass for the country’s wealthiest person, Gina Rinehart.
Deloitte heavies humbled in court
A courtroom capitulation is one of the few acceptable forms of public humiliation still left for a society to relish, especially when it involves the insolvency team at one of the world’s largest accounting firms.
Snapchat‘s transparent political gambit
Snapchat has announced measures to protect its teenage users from predators, coincidentally or perhaps not, just as its policy honcho faces an Australian parliamentary grilling.
Perrottet now keen to call time
Liberal strategists in NSW want former premier Dominic Perrottet to follow one-time treasurer Matt Kean out the political door so is that about to happen?
DFAT off the hook on staff towels in rare scandal
A stoush over staff lockers at DFAT has caused something of a stink, figuratively and literally, at what is ordinarily Canberra’s most diplomatic of places.
Bonus query not the only noise Joyce creating
Alan Joyce was not afraid to make some noise when leading Qantas so it’s no surprise his renovation plans have raised the volume of discontent in his Sydney apartment block.
Hungry for fast profits from GyG float
Some canny investors used the stockmarket debut of fast food chain Guzman y Gomez as an opportunity to take significant amounts of money off the table.
Hi-tech refurb for an old mansion
What is it with these newly minted tech billionaires who want to embed themselves amid old money, but recast the landscape in their own, new-money style?
Huawei still pandering to Beijing
Out of favour in Australia, Huawei’s operations here in 2023 still managed to more than double its payments back to China despite revenue almost halving and only employing 35 people.
Former AFL boss Gill McLachlan finally settles the jobs debate
The ex-AFL boss finally has a new job. Before taking the Tabcorp role though, he had a very interesting lunch. And for now he has the backing of Racing NSW boss Peter V’landys.
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