Note from Joe
Todd Sampson's departure and dancing with David Di Pilla
Qantas' loss of Todd Sampson went unmourned while HMC Capital's investor day intrigued the market.
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James Hardie
The pirates take James Hardie
Hardie has engineered the perfect heist, diluting its Australian shareholders and escaping the ASX primary listing and its pesky checks on executive pay.
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Note from Joe
ANZ Plus blues and Qantas' Finnair turbulence
ANZ Plus briefing baffles banking analysts and a pilot strike in Helsinki disrupts Qantas' Singapore route.
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Eleven Barrack
Eleven Barrack, as you like it
Sydney's new grill with gumption, mere steps from the George Street light rail, gets the simple things right then nails the flourishes, too.
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Opthea
Regal's Phil King plays a blinder
King has always been a shrewd risk manager, incredibly deft at placing his bets on a variety of colours and numbers before the ball goes. That's what's so surprising about this f— up.
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Geoff Wilson
Geoff Wilson maximises ambiguity
Wilson holds the underperformers to account. It's only reasonable, then, that his own performance is scrutinised, but for that we'd need real numbers.
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Note from Joe
Richard White, Clive Palmer make it personal
On Wednesday came the extraordinary findings of the WiseTech board's investigation INTO Richard White's misconduct, and the complete lack of consequences.
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NEXTDC
Craig Scroggie rides his luck
NEXTDC's 'ginger maniac' is surfing the wave to $112 million of free shares. But can the momentum possibly last?
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Sanjeev Gupta
Sanjeev Gupta's final InfraBuild sleight
As he goes under, Gupta is attempting to asset strip Australia's essential steel producer to pay off Lex Greensill's administrator in London. Doing so may well push InfraBuild under, too.
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Melbourne Place
Melbourne Place, true to its name
New to the Paris end of Melbourne's CBD is Melbourne Place: smaller, idiosyncratic and just a bit cooler than the tired international chain hotels around it.
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Qantas
Falling for Vanessa Hudson
Hudson is continuing to strategically underinvest in the Qantas (but never the Jetstar) fleet, even while she claims the opposite and everyone nods along.
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