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  • 4 days ago | rampart.news | Joe Aston

    On Thursday evening, the godhead of company directors, David Gonski, received a lifetime achievement award at the Australian Financial Review's inaugural director awards. Gonski's career is a triumph in the eyes of fellow company directors, all of whom aspire to emulate him, but certainly not to public company shareholders. Objectively, his track record is not great. Westfield has been the great success, which had sweet FA to do with him.

  • 5 days ago | rampart.news | Joe Aston

    Last Monday, Justice Michael Lee – yes, him again – was grappling aloud with the reasonable expectations of former directors of Star Entertainment, several of whom are in Federal Court defending civil penalty proceedings brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. Those directors' defence, when it's boiled down, is that they couldn't have been expected to comprehend Star's dodgy dealings because they were buried so deep in the board papers.

  • 1 week ago | rampart.news | Joe Aston

    After spending half of last week in Federal Court trying to follow the rococo English of senior counsel, I desperately needed some light reading. Macquarie Group's latest financial accounts – released nearly three weeks back – felt like the logical place to start. Two things stood out to me. The first was the remuneration outcome of Ben Way, the divisional head of Macquarie Asset Management, who earned $20.6 million in financial 2025.

  • 1 week ago | rampart.news | Joe Aston

    At 10:30 on Wednesday morning, mining analysts and investors will set off from the port of Ashburton on a taut three-hour bus ride along Mineral Resources' infamous private haul road to its Ken's Bore iron ore mine.

  • 2 weeks ago | rampart.news | Joe Aston

    Qantas' chief people officer Catherine Walsh joined the airline in February 2024.[[The position of chief people officer was eradicated by Alan Joyce in 2017 upon the retirement of Jon Scriven, when human resources was shoved under Rob Marcolina, then the head of corporate strategy, and industrial relations fatefully folded under general counsel Andrew Finch.

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