David Fyfe, the man overseeing WA’s $3.8b transition to a renewably powered grid has no doubt the energy chaos on the Eastern States will be avoided – but that optimism comes with a warning.
Josh Zimmerman
Gareth Evans, the man touted to take over from Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce, has quit the top job at subsidiary Jetstar.
Geoffrey Thomas
The State’s highest court has permanently banned the principal of St Georges Terrace law firm Tang Legal over his attempts to cover up a $12,500 bribe linked to a property job referral.
Neale Prior
A Mineral Resources lawyer says ousted executive Steven Pigozzo had no legal basis to include alleged comments made by a psychologist about company founder Chris Ellison in his statement of claim.
Boral chairman Ryan Stokes is pushing ahead with the next phase of the group’s transformation, appointing Vik Bansal to the top role to oversee an improvement in its operational performance.
Sarah-Jane Tasker
The regulator found the Perth-based mining engineering company failed to disclose “in a timely manner” the backroom dealings that forced out its chief executive after an internal revolt.
Sean Smith
Billionaire mining contractor Chris Ellison has slapped a lid on a potentially explosive legal action by his sacked procurement boss, for now at least.
Pilbara Minerals has appointed resource sector executive Dale Henderson as its new managing director and chief executive, following an exhaustive international search.
Caitlin Paroczai
A teenage protester confronted the head of Australia’s biggest business lender at a conference on Tuesday, accusing the bank of not doing enough to cut its funding of fossil fuels.
Harry Brumpton
Businessman Michael Chaney supported his daughter Kate's bid to run as an independent despite initially being against the idea.
Liz Hobday
Canva founders Melanie Perkins and husband Cliff Obrecht have solidified their spots among the list of Australia’s 10 wealthiest people, despite the tech-sell off and a tumbling Nasdaq hurting their fortunes.
Westgold Resources executive director Wayne Bramwell will assume the chief executive role following the sudden departure of Debbie Fullarton.
Stuart McKinnon
The farm products supplier and livestock agency said sales were boosted by strong demand for fertilisers and crop protection.
When Synkro wellness centre owner Andrew Ballantyne was in his early 20s, he wasn’t entirely sure what he wanted to do with his life.
Beach Energy will stick with acting chief executive Morné Engelbrecht to lead the company’s push to complete the $768 million Waitsia joint venture gas project near Dongara.
Daniel Newell
Billionaire mining magnate Andrew Forrest will reprise his role as executive chairman at the company he founded nearly two decades ago as it transitions into a global green energy giant.
There’s no edit button on Twitter. But Elon Musk may be trying to put one on his $US44 billion ($62b) takeover bid, which means there’s not likely to be much upside for shareholders any time soon.
Subrat Patnaik and Ryan Vlastelica
It’s an extraordinary call that will alarm those investors already worried about Andrew Forrest’s relentless recalibration of the company around green hydrogen.
The Perth-based mining engineering firm is already dealing with a profit downgrade and a regulatory hit after failing to disclose an internal power struggle that forced out its chief executive.
The ban follows a Takeovers Panel finding last week that the trio breached the Corporations Act by failing to disclose their association to the Australian Securities Exchange.
David Fyfe joined the State Government-owned utility two years ago after more than a decade with Western Power.
It’s been a long few weeks since the crypto crowd was partying in Miami. Here’s how much crypto billionaires’ fortunes have plummeted amid the market slump.
Scott Carpenter and Tom Maloney
The WA Chamber of Minerals and Energy has again gone outside its ranks to appoint a new chief executive, who will be the first female to head the State’s powerful resources lobby group in its 122-year history.
The panel believes the managers who banded together to force change at DRA breached the Corporations Act by not disclosing their association.
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