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Former ANZ retail boss Maile Carnegie (L), former chief executive Shayne Elliot, and Mark Whelan, ANZ’s current head of institutional bank (R), have all lost their bonuses.

Clawing back millions from top bosses isn’t easy but one bank just did it

A former ANZ boss has had his bonus payment ransacked to the tune of $13.5 million in another sign that his successor is serious about cleaning house at the big bank.

  • Elizabeth Knight

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Elon Musk.

‘I super appreciate it’: Elon Musk wins $US1 trillion Tesla pay deal despite backlash

The pay agreement clears a path for the world’s richest person to become the first-ever trillionaire.

  • Kara Carlson and Tom Maloney
Musk’s pay has long been a source of controversy at Tesla. He does not receive a salary or bonus but is instead rewarded through tailor-made pay schemes.

Elon Musk might leave Tesla if $US1 trillion pay deal rejected, warns Australian powerbroker

Tesla chair Robyn Denholm has sent an open letter to the company’s shareholders, urging them to give Elon Musk’s controversial pay deal the green light.

  • James Warrington

Most people think CEOs are grossly overpaid. What can we do about it?

The average CEO of a publicly listed company earns more than 100 times the pay of the average full-time employee. This needs to change.

  • Matt Wade
The Future Fund

The pay packets at these Aussie companies made a major investor mad

The $252 billion taxpayer-owned Future Fund is a huge ASX investor, holding stakes in firms across the index. A new report shows how it voted at annual meetings last year.

  • Clancy Yeates
Jayne Hrdlicka will collect nearly $50 million after leaving Virgin Australia.

Golden handshake: Jayne Hrdlicka’s $50m Virgin Australia bonanza

Alan Joyce’s former lieutenant at Qantas departed Virgin Australia in style with a payout that dwarfs her former boss’s controversial exit package.

  • Colin Kruger
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Elon Musk; could be become the 1 trillion dollar man?

Musk’s $1.5 trillion pay proposal. Is he worth it?

This remuneration package, devised by Australian Robyn Denholm, Tesla chair, sits miles outside the bell curve.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce speaking in Sydney in August.

Alan Joyce has his last Qantas bonanza, reaping $3.8m in final payout

When the board voted to cut Joyce’s pay in 2024, it scrapped all of Joyce’s long-term incentives except for the period of 2023-2025, which is vesting now

  • Chris Zappone
Xero CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy is photographed at the Xerocon expo in Brisbane, September 2, 2025.

We spoke to one of the ASX’s highest-paid CEOs. Here’s how she defended her $23m pay packet

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy is in a rare and elite class of highly paid ASX executives, but investors have delivered a stern rebuke.

  • David Swan
Alan Joyce, John Mullen and Vanessa Hudson.

Bonus, anyone? Someone’s going to pay for Qantas’ embarrassing $90m fine

After Justice Lee’s scornful words, some large shareholders appear to be limbering up to protest about executive bonuses.

  • Elizabeth Knight

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