The KPMG disaster should be filed as a case study under Smart People Doing Dumb Things.
Sean Smith
Brandon Craig is a few days away from taking the reins of Australia’s most valuable company and he will inherit a sprawling list of fires to fight.
Adrian Rauso
Perth product Jessica Farrell is back in the global mining spotlight after BHP promoted her to run its fast-growing, but problematic, North American business.
Daniel Newell and Adrian Rauso
The chief executive of a family-owned transport group is unexpectedly stepping down after nearly 12 years, triggering a search for a new boss.
WiseTech has insisted the tech giant is unaware of any Australian Federal Police investigation into its founder and executive chairman, Richard White.
Daniel Newell
Investors sold off the software company after reports Federal Police are investigating its chairman Richard White over allegations he coerced a Brazilian woman into sex as she sought an Australian visa.
Rebecca Le May
David Jones has dumped long-serving boss Scott Fyfe to appoint its first female chief executive in the department store’s 188-year history.
Cheyanne Enciso
Mineral Resources has hinted who its successor to managing director Chris Ellison will be but is refusing to lock in a handover date.
Brandon Craig, who takes the helm of BHP in July, has had responsibility for Jansen for two years as head of the company’s Americas division.
The top executive at a massive $24.8b Woodside Energy LNG project has departed suddenly, just over a year after she was hired.
Ruth Liao
US-based Elliott Investment Management continues its attack on beleaguered Super Pit owner Northern Star Resources, saying its board ‘doesn’t understand’ how much shareholder trust has been lost.
Being just the second chair who hasn’t worked at Wesfarmers makes the appointment of Ken MacKenzie rare enough to question whether he will stick to the succession script when it comes to the next CEO.
Lynas Rare Earths chief operating officer Pol Le Roux will take the reins from Amanda Lacaze, at least temporarily, while the mining major’s board decides on a permanent boss.
Stuart Macnaughton will join the lithium joint venture next month and take its helm when Wesfarmers veteran Ross Martelli retires at the end of the year.
The head of KPMG has reportedly resigned after the corporate regulator publicly confirmed in real time it's probing registered company auditors at the firm.
Kaaren Morrissey
Gene Miller has been running Austal USA and its Mobile, Alabama shipyard as interim president since the exit of Michelle Kruger in February after a profit blunder that torpedoed Austal’s profit guidance.
The Fortescue chief executive admits getting ‘hot under the collar’ over the CME’s defence of BHP’s decarbonisation efforts and blames the media for miners’ weaker appetite for risk.
The Albanese Government’s Budget does little to fix Australia’s productivity crisis and does ‘nothing’ to grow the economic pie, according to SGH boss Ryan Stokes.
Northern Star Resources’ long-serving boss Stuart Tonkin is set to quit his post within months once he finishes overseeing a troubled expansion project.
Adrian Rauso and Daniel Newell
In a win for the corporate watchdog, a regional airline's former executive chair has admitted a market publication he signed off on misled the investors.
Adrian Black
The world is underestimating how long the impact of the Iran war will last on global supply of liquefied natural gas, according to Australia’s top exporter of the fuel.
Keira Wright
A Barramundi breadcrumb and close ties with Chris Ellison’s billionaire chum has a former liquidator pegged as the boss of a new family office.
A regional airline's former board members have been taken to court by the financial regulator over allegedly misleading investors about turning a profit.
Chris Ellison has offloaded a massive slice of his stake in Mineral Resources to pocket more than $122 million and kick-start a family office.
