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4 weeks ago | 
afr.com | Lap Phan |Edmund Tadros |Maxim Shanahan
Mar 26, 2025 – 4.45pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? EY will make sweeping changes to its global structure to cut costs and address stagnant growth, slashing the number of regional divisions and ending the independence of its financial services arm.
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Campbell Kwan |Maxim Shanahan |Mat Ward
Campbell Kwan, Maxim Shanahan and Mat WardMar 5, 2025 – 8.39am or Subscribe to save article13 mins ago – 8.30AMCoalition’s economic pitch to voters Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor has kicked off day two of the Financial Review Business Summit with his economic pitch to voters promising to focus on restoring standards of living and keeping inflation at sustainable levels.
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Campbell Kwan |Maxim Shanahan |Mat Ward
Campbell Kwan, Maxim Shanahan and Mat WardUpdated Mar 5, 2025 – 9.14am, first published at 8.39am or Subscribe to save article2 mins ago – 9.14AMCoalition pulls back from breaking up insurance companiesShadow treasurer Angus Taylor has said a Peter Dutton-led government will not pursue break-up laws for insurance companies and the Coalition’s divestment strategy would be limited to supermarkets.
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Campbell Kwan |Maxim Shanahan |Mat Ward
Campbell Kwan, Maxim Shanahan and Mat WardUpdated Mar 5, 2025 – 9.42am, first published at 8.39am or Subscribe to save article13 mins ago – 9.30AMRBA did not overrule staff on call to cut, says HauserThe Reserve Bank of Australia’s deputy governor has used his address at the summit to articulate why the central bank chose to cut rates in February. He pushed back on criticism the decision was inconsistent with its outlook for the economy, inflation and the jobs market.
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Campbell Kwan |Maxim Shanahan |Andrew Hobbs
Campbell Kwan, Maxim Shanahan and Andrew HobbsMar 4, 2025 – 9.07am or Subscribe to save article7 mins ago – 9.02AMRules of global trade have changed: SlatteryGeraldine Slattery, the president of BHP’s Australian operations, says the rules of international trade have changed since the election of US president Donald Trump, but that Australia is well-positioned to take advantage.
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Edmund Tadros |Maxim Shanahan |Hannah Wootton
Edmund Tadros, Maxim Shanahan and Hannah WoottonMar 1, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Mari Ruiz-Matthyssen was working from home on February 21 when she received a phone call from a colleague at class action law firm Slater and Gordon.
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Maxim Shanahan |Edmund Tadros
Feb 28, 2025 – 3.22pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? An incendiary all-staff email detailing pay, performance ratings and workplace enmities at Slater and Gordon was sent to 25 external sources by employees in the hour before it was deleted from the law firm’s internal servers.
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2 months ago | 
afr.com | Hannah Wootton |Maxim Shanahan |Myriam Robin
Law firm Slater + Gordon is investigating an all-staff email purportedly sent by out-going chief people officer Mari Ruiz-Matthyssen that appears to contain salaries, bonuses, performance ratings and criticisms of key executives. The alleged handover email, sent from a personal email address bearing Ruiz-Matthyssen’s name and part of a larger email chain that appears to include a Slater + Gordon work email address, was blind copied to all staff at the law firm on Friday morning. Loading...
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2 months ago | 
afr.com | Paul Karp |Maxim Shanahan
Federal Court Justice Michael Lee says antisemitism has grown in Australia due to cancel culture and intolerance in its universities and moral relativism in its school curriculum. The judge best known for presiding over the Bruce Lehrmann defamation case made the comments on Thursday at an antisemitism forum in Bondi. The forum was also attended by the NSW Premier Chris Minns, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Attorney General Mark Dreyfus. Loading...
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2 months ago | 
afr.com | Zoe Samios |Maxim Shanahan |Patrick Durkin |Sally Patten
CompaniesGaming & WageringCasinos“It’s a private company” is a big selling point for directors when headhunters call, and ASIC’s case against the embattled casino group is making many directors even more nervous about public company boards. The former board of Star, who are facing civil penalties for alleged breaches of directors’ duties. Top row from left: John O’Neill, Matt Bekier, Kathleen Lahey, Richard Sheppard.
