Southern Cross Media Group has appointed former WA premier Mark McGowan and prominent technology executive Karen Stocks to its board.
Adrian Rauso
BCI Minerals has lured Covalent Lithium chair Ian Hansen to the board as harvesting gets under way at the company’s massive Mardie Salt project near Karratha.
Daniel Newell
Ben Wyatt’s chair prospects enhanced as former Anglo American board Mark Cutifani quits Woodside Energy for gold miner’s board amid disclosure concerns.
Sean Smith
Elliott Investment Management has upped the ante in its push for a radical shake-up of Super Pit owner Northern Star Resources.
Brett McKeon founded AFG in 1994 alongside Kevin Matthews, Malcolm Watkins and the late Brad McGougan, running the company until transitioning to a non-executive directorship seven years ago.
Vulcan Energy Resources executive chair Francis Wedin will step down from the top job and transition into a consultancy role.
SGH chief executive Ryan Stokes has been appointed chair of Australia’s biggest media group, Southern Cross Media.
Adrian Lowe
The corporate watchdog has cleared Mineral Resources founder Chris Ellison and board members over a series of scandals that rocked the miner in late 2024 and shaved billions of dollars off its market value.
Woodside’s boss has shrugged off reports the director did not fully disclose his involvement in an activist campaign against Northern Star Resources, as the energy giant considers elevating him to chairman.
Rebecca Le May
Fortescue has suspended an executive at the centre of a sexual harassment investigation, days after defending its decision not to do so.
Bosses are cycling through Australia’s biggest companies 40 per cent faster, but what gets them fired has changed even more dramatically, with non-financial failures now behind most sackings.
Ryan Johnson
Ben Wyatt believes Australia’s resources sector needs to get better at communicating its worth to society and that hostility towards politicians has veered into ‘dangerous territory’.
The activist investor agitating for change at Northern Star has flung mud back at the gold miner’s board.
Telstra has lifted profit and shareholder returns by charging mobile customers more but investors marked the stock down after signs some higher-paying customers are drifting away.
Telstra boss Vicki Brady has copped a more than $600,000 penalty for an outage in July that left up to 25 million people without phone coverage.
Michael Chaney chastised Northern Star’s noisy activist investor after shunning the US hedge fund’s board wish-list by appointing former Wesfarmers executive and BHP director Terry Bowen.
Adrian Rauso and Daniel Newell
Mark Cutifani and former Arcadium Lithium boss Paul Graves are among a list of six willing potential directors proposed by Elliott to help right the gold miner.
Women are exerting more influence in the State’s boardrooms than ever before
His tenures on the boards of Woodside and global miner Rio Tinto have given the former WA Treasurer a lick of big company experience to take on one of the country’s toughest and most prominent chair roles.
Australia’s ASX200 bosses took home bigger bonuses last year but were still out-earned by a growing number of US-based chief executives who pocketed as much as $48 million in pay.
Tony O’Neill has departed to ‘remove unnecessary distraction’ following concerns among some shareholders over his business relationship with another Woodside director.
The gas producer says chief financial officer and company secretary Tim Cooper, who joined Strike barely a year ago, will depart the group at the end of September.
The KPMG disaster should be filed as a case study under Smart People Doing Dumb Things.
WiseTech has insisted the tech giant is unaware of any Australian Federal Police investigation into its founder and executive chairman, Richard White.
