This Month
The Trojan takeover of Magellan by Guy y Grounds has it all
It’s got all the marquee names with their marauding egos and elephantine bonuses, producing radioactive levels of envy up and down the street.
February
Finally, the Rio Tinto-Glencore deal is recognised as the joke it is
What would Rio Tinto shareholders have got out of this? The copper assets could never compensate for the cultural cancer it would have brought.
December 2025
Exiting Jamie Pherous should be the easiest decision ever
In the middle of each night, when Corporate Travel chairman Ewen Crouch gets up for a pee, he must silently acknowledge that he’s got absolutely no idea.
October 2025
The miscalculations of Aaron Erter, American moron
The window for investors to save James Hardie is closing. Its CEO’s Azek egg can’t be unscrambled, but he should be forced to face some adults in the room.
Like watching a pair of spotted hyenas casing a snuggle of tree sloths
The Southern Cross Media deal shows there is nothing the Stokeses enjoy more than circling a few soft-palmed company directors who are not up for a fight.
September 2025
At James Hardie, reasonable people are an alien species
As class action lawyers circle, Aaron Erter is going to be pushing shit uphill to show he didn’t know the cash register had stopped ringing.
July 2025
What am I, Andrew Forrest, going to do today?
Twiggy has been busy fortifying his self-image as human rights hero and climate change white knight even as he abandons his hyper-hyped green projects.
July 2025
ASX’s fetish for dual-class shares is downright nuts
Computershare’s PointsBet fiasco, the ASX’s James Hardie waiver and its fetish for dual-class shares are the result of decades of policy malaise and neglect of financial infrastructure.
June 2025
Directors preach against hellfires of regulation. Don’t believe them
Planet Ark’s collapse makes yet another lie of the propaganda from Australia’s director-class that boards face unreasonable regulatory risks.
May 2025
We are being led by numpties
A gobsmacking lack of intellectual heft in politics has us on a desperately unsustainable path, yet nobody is proposing to do anything meaningful about it.
April 2025
ASX opens the door to the great James Hardie heist
Last week in broad daylight, the American pirates running James Hardie swept in and stole the company from its Australian shareholders. What did the ASX do?
March 2025
WiseTech shareholders just one cheeseburger away from the void
Richard White’s blind confidence in his own understanding of people – learned from those psychology books he recommends to women on LinkedIn – is deeply misplaced.
