Hannah Wootton

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Jun 5, 2025 – 7.13pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Banker John Wylie and COVID-19 ski party superspreader Andrew Abercrombie’s dealings with each other at Humm Group are finally over. It ended with more of a whimper than a bang. Surprising given the fireworks that defined the former friends’ relationship.

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Jun 4, 2025 – 6.36pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? When IDP Education shares dived 48 per cent on Tuesday, wiping an eye-watering $523 million of its market value, there were two clear losers: CEO Tennealle O’Shannessy and incoming chair Tracey Horton. Both eminently qualified. Both recent recruits to the education and training provider.

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Jun 3, 2025 – 6.19pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? What is it with boomer company founder’s brains imploding when they get their hands on an iPhone with the X app installed? Brett Kelly, the founder and boss of ASX-listed accountancy Kelly Partners Group, is the latest example. Loading... Hannah Wootton is a Rear Window columnist, based in Melbourne.

5 days ago | afr.com | Hannah Wootton

When the expansive Toorak estate of late billionaire philanthropist couple Marc and Eva Besen sold a couple of weeks ago, it apparently went for around $51 million. That would make it the second-biggest property deal in Melbourne’s residential market this year. We say apparently, because these high-end off-market sales are always shrouded in mystery until the buyer is forced to disclose the amount on settlement. At this stage, no one is willing to confirm the price. Loading...

5 days ago | afr.com | Hannah Wootton

The country’s fleets of management consultants can rest easy. Their fears that Anthony Albanese’s second term might see Labor finally fulfil its promise to cut government outsourcing seem ill-founded. Just look at the job recently advertised by Washington DC firm, Democracy International (DI). It’s for a “presentation and facilitation training expert” on a two-year contract to run, as the name suggests, training workshops for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra. Loading...