Gas producer Beach Energy says the threat of intervention over soaring energy bills could further inflame the east-coast gas crisis.
The head of billionaire Kerry Stokes’ conglomerate,Ryan Stokes,says Australia’s skilled migration program is in desperate need of a fix.
For most public companies,Vik Bansal would seem cultural kryptonite – but not for the Stokes-controlled Boral. Bansal would be on the “if only” wish list for most boards.
Shell and Seven Group have sanctioned the $US2.5 billion ($3.5 billion) Crux gas field off WA’s Kimberley coast to supply Shell’s Prelude floating LNG plant.
When Kerry Stokes’ Seven Group took control of building materials group Boral,it acquired part-ownership of a controversial 1935ha site in western Sydney.
Seven Group CEO Ryan Stokes says inflation is now a structural issue and the hunt for talent is not a transitory problem either.
The mining equipment and media magnate is the big winner from Boral’s $3 billion return to investors following the sale of its troubled businesses in the US.
The chairman of oil and gas producer Beach Energy has insisted ex-CEO Matt Kay ‘wasn’t pushed’ from the job when he suddenly resigned last week.
A small group of powerful men,and increasingly women,dominate the boards of Australia’s biggest companies. And some fear the group is too small.
An investigation by The Age and Herald has pieced together the incredible story of Bill Papas and the alleged $400 million fraud against Westpac.
It’s the Claytons resignation that will save him from signing board papers,maybe free up a bit of time,but it won’t signal that he has taken his hands off the rudder.