Today
ANZ is paying for Shayne Elliott’s failure
The playbook at ANZ Banking Group only gets more surreal.
- 46 mins ago
- Joe Aston
Ministerial gravy train withers for EOS
The former ASX 300 darling Electro Optic Systems is searching for cash.
- 1 hr ago
- Michael Roddan
Yesterday
Free glow-up for Adore Beauty’s Kate Morris
Despite Adore Beauty’s share market meltdown, The Australian has lionised Morris and her private equity sidekick Justin Ryan.
- Joe Aston
Labor’s Treasury hides super fund donations
Treasury’s first Labor-directed consultation walks back donation disclosure reforms.
- Michael Roddan
This Month
ANZ and MYOB: what could possibly go wrong?
ANZ boss Shayne Elliott is pretending to walk and chew gum at the same time when he can’t even walk.
- Joe Aston
Scott Morrison’s global revisionism tour
The former prime minister laments the supremacy the state premiers wielded over the federal government during the crisis.
- Michael Roddan
Amanda Stoker’s wild imagination
Post-parliamentary careers are often a thing of wonder given the general lack of discernible skills human beings need to operate in civil society.
- Michael Roddan
You wouldn’t know it, but Gerry Harvey is being silenced
Harvey’s stifled voice was heard for 23 minutes on Neil Mitchell’s morning radio program.
- Joe Aston
Ron Shamgar, EML rocketman
For a professional fund manager, Ron Shamgar cultivates a strikingly unsophisticated social media profile.
- Joe Aston
QBE’s Pat Regan targeted by ASIC probe
The circumstances around Pat Regan’s dismissal were the subject of a long-running investigation by ASIC.
- Michael Roddan
J Capital’s Mali stinker
J Capital’s new and rather late attack on Lake Resources follows a shocker long bet on gold and lithium minnow Firefinch.
- Michael Roddan
New blue blood at the Australian Club
Malcolm Turnbull is proposing a new member while Michael Cannon-Brookes also joins the fold.
- Joe Aston
Scott Morrison’s rugby league delusion
The former prime minister is a pretend NRL fan just like he is, fundamentally, a pretend Liberal.
- Joe Aston
Labor’s sharia super poster boy fails his own test
Financial services minister Stephen Jones will review superannuation performance tests.
- Michael Roddan
Lobbyists will be lobbyists...
The entire influence-peddling industry is tying itself in knots over the Coaldrake review in Queensland.
- Joe Aston
Rob Luciano’s penetrable fortress
VGI Partners’ website was hijacked by essay-writing software spruikers.
- Michael Roddan
Tom Selleck, reverse mortgages and payday loans
The Magnum PI actor sells mortgages in the US, and some folks sell such products in Australia. The kicker is who owns some ventures. It’s not always clear.
- Liam Walsh
Zoe Foster Blake can count on Andrew Forrest at BWX
BWX is now raising $23 million just to keep the lights on.
- Joe Aston
Why shouldn’t you name bridge after a sleazy, corrupt mayor?
In the modern era of tearing down statutes of people with questionable pasts, one council was looking at going the other way. And it’s not alone.
- Liam Walsh
Alex Malley rises from the ashes
All these years later, Malley clings to his pitiful delusion, having learnt nothing.
- Joe Aston