Today
Macquarie’s Tim Joyce puts annual conference to good use
There’s nothing like the annual Macquarie Australia conference to drive home the synergies available to the full-service investment bank.
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Daniel Besen’s mansion gets trunked
You might buy a $20 million trophy home with all the bells and whistles you can hope for. But who says someone won’t, one day, drop a tree on it.
Yesterday
PwC’s failed complaint over professor’s spicy LinkedIn posts
Andy Schmulow’s more polite jibes included calling PwC “a cancer” on society, “thugs in suits”, and a “parasite”. PwC reckons it’s all beyond the pale.
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This Month
Vanessa Hudson’s ACCC settlement is six months too late
Vanessa Hudson could have made settling the ACCC case a hallmark of her regime. Nine months after her elevation, it’s a little late for that.
Stephen Jones boosts dud Islamic super fund
The minister in charge of the super sector still provides tacit endorsement to a fund that performs so badly it is being regulated out of stand-alone existence.
Animus Rex: airline’s extraordinary threat to ground a local mayor
King Island mayor Marcus Blackie has been threatened with a Rex blacklisting after he accused the airline of price-gouging.
Gold Dinner raises record $33.4 million despite Albo’s declining pull
The country’s most lavish charity dinner delivered another record haul, even though demand was soft for the prime minister.
Man lodges 20,000 noise complaints, Greens hold noise inquiry
Yes, aircraft noise complaints are rising, says Airservices Australia. But only because of one guy.
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April
‘Optus lost’. Until it didn’t: A history of the spectrum war
On these troubled shores, things never stay peaceful for long.
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Grill’d boss Simon Crowe tells on himself
Power and self-awareness make for uneasy bedfellows. A few delicately probing questions and people so often just tell on themselves.
Adelaide LIV goes off with Liveris, Fox and Saudi critic Anika Wells
The federal sports minister once called for a boycott of Saudi Arabia’s sporting endeavours. Now even she’s a guest at the Saudi-funded tournament.
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BHP’s Mike Henry breaks bread with Andrew Liveris at Beppi’s
The place was nearly empty, so snippets of Henry and Liveris’ long, relaxed degustation rang through the room of the power diner.
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Australian Club showdown gives members indigestion
You know what totally ruins the vibe? Democracy. Of which members of Melbourne’s prestigious Australian Club have had a gutful.
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PwC aside, big four political donations are so back baby
PwC is still in the sin bin. But all its rivals are now back in the game.
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Green antics give corporates nightmares
After Nick McKim’s savaging of Brad Banducci, business may be wary of co-operating with Greens-led inquiries. Some, it seems, already are.
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Jim Chalmers’ office marks its own homework
The whole point of this exercise was to suggest the IMF was floored with Chalmers’ performance. In truth, the IMF wasn’t even considering it.
APRA’s lavish $70,000 Christmas Party
Do you think all that time peering over the expenses of financial institutions has induced a spot of envy within the APRA social committee?
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Nick McKim’s Senate antics make it all worse
This is all entirely on brand for McKim, a man eternally promoting simple, populist solutions to complicated problems.
The Lehrmann judgment’s best line wears many hats
Who wouldn’t want credit for the line that more than any other will come to characterise this trial?
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Primo founder sues daughter over trophy home
Maintaining an aversion to publicity is tricky in court.
