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Qantas boss Vanessa Hudson has been punished for a major cyber attack on the airline’s customers earlier this year while her predecessor Alan Joyce has taken home his final multi million-dollar bonus.

AviationCommentsAlan Joyce gets final bonus while Qantas bosses face cuts

Qantas boss Vanessa Hudson has been punished for a major cyber attack on the airline’s customers earlier this year while her predecessor Alan Joyce has taken home his final multi million-dollar bonus.

Sean Smith and Cheyanne Enciso

Mineral Resources managing director Chris Ellison pictured at their offices in Osborne Park.

MiningCommentsPremiumWill he stay or go? Ellison’s MinRes departure still unclear

Mineral Resources chair Mal Bundey said plans are afoot to find a new boss to replace Chris Ellison, but a succession timeline has been tossed out the window.

Adrian Rauso

Chris Ellison is founder and CEO of Mineral Resources.

MiningCommentsPremiumMinRes names new board member after Langer’s shock exit

Mineral Resources has named a new appointee to a key board committee following the shock exit of cricket legend Justin Langer.

Daniel Newell

Justin Langer has quit the board of Chris Ellison's Mineral Resources.

MiningCommentsPremiumAnd that’s out! Justin Langer quits Mineral Resources board

The Former Test cricketer’s resignation from the board will take effect from Wednesday.

Sean Smith and Simone Grogan

Incoming Endeavour chief Jayne Hrdlicka with Ari Mervis, who has resigned as executive chair.

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Endeavour executive chair quits over board disagreement

Endeavour has been slammed as ‘rudderless’ after executive chair Ari Mervis called it quits at the embattled pubs and hotels group, citing disagreements with the board.

Cheyanne Enciso

A jumbo truck on the MinRes Onslow haul road.

MiningCommentsPremiumMinRes hits the mark on iron ore, lithium to end horror year

Mineral Resources capped off a tumultuous financial year by reaching revised iron and lithium targets, but a mountain of debt still casts a shadow over the Chris Ellison-led company.

Daniel Newell and Adrian Rauso

The Lucky Bay garnet operation.

MiningCommentsBig brother MinRes not ruling out RDG rescue

Mineral Resources is potentially interested in picking up the pieces of Resource Development Group, the debt-laden garnet developer led by Chris Ellison’s younger brother Andrew Ellison.

Simone Grogan

Kim Beazley joined the board of Perth biotech Orthocell last year.

BiotechCommentsPremiumHealth issues force Kim Beazley’s exit from Orthocell

Former WA governor and US ambassador Kim Beazley will step down from the board of Perth regenerative medicine company Orthocell due to health reasons.

Cheyanne Enciso

Macquarie Group chief executive Shemara Wikramanayake.

BankingPremiumMacquarie hit with ‘first strike’ on pay

Despite intense lobbying by management and the board, voting numbers from Thursday’s annual general meeting confirm 25.4 per cent of shares were voted against the investment bank’s remuneration report.

Sean Smith

Fortescue head of decarbonisation Christiaan Heyning.

MiningCommentsPremiumFMG green energy bigwig steps down from full-time role

The executive responsible for rolling out the plan to eliminate carbon emissions across Fortescue’s sprawling iron ore mining empire is the latest to depart Andrew Forrest’s flagship company. 

Mineral Resources managing director Chris Ellison.

CEOsCommentsPremiumMinRes cast doubts over Chris Ellison departure

Presentation notes to be used by new chair Malcolm Bundey in meetings with investors and proxy advisers this week say Mr Ellison’s planned exit timeline is being ‘reviewed’.

Sean Smith

MinRes has added Ross Carroll to its board, along with Lawrie Tremaine.

MiningCommentsPremiumFormer Woodside CFOs, Justin Langer make MinRes ethics team

Mineral Resources’ all-important ethics and governance committee has gone from all-female to all-male with two new directors joining and Justin Langer shuffled in.

Adrian Rauso

Malcolm Bundey will immediately join the lithium and iron ore miner as a non-executive director and will succeed outgoing chair James McClements on July 1.

BoardsPremiumDay one for fix-it man Bundey as chair of Mineral Resources

The change comes as penance for a series of corporate governance shortcomings at the miner, which were acknowledged as “periods that have tested us” by departing chair James McClements.

Simone Grogan

An independent review commissioned last year by the IGO board found the Cosmos transaction was littered with failures across pricing, due diligence and integration.

BoardsPremiumIGO chair bumped as part of looming board restructure

A restructure has been foreshadowed at the boardroom of IGO, following a shift led by ex-Rio Tinto executive Ivan Vella to make the price battered battery metals miner “leaner and more agile”.

Simone Grogan

Outside of antics at the poker table Tony Guoga has had a career in politics and as an entrepreneur.

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Famed poker larrikin Tony G ups ante at Perth crypto firm

Poker player and crypto bull Tony Guoga has emerged as the controlling shareholder in a local Bitcoin play, stationing his daughter as a board director and lining up a deal with a Canadian company he chairs.

Simone Grogan

Greatland Gold board member Elizabeth Gaines, CEO Shaun Day, and Mark Barnaba in 2022.

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A golden debut as Barnaba-backed Greatland joins the bourse

Greatland Resources’ arrival on the ASX on Tuesday made it one of the largest listed companies in WA after years of groundwork and deal making, but chairman Mark Barnaba believes the real work starts now. 

Simone Grogan

Vince Catania is the new CEO of Hastings

MiningPremiumFormer MP to lead rare earths play partnered with Forrest

WA Labor turncoat Vince Catania has ascended to the top job at Hastings Technology Metals less than a month after the company mended fences with Andrew Forrest’s private mining arm.

Adrian Rauso

Shiva McMahon ran Woodside Energy’s international operations for two years.

EnergyPremiumOil float hopeful lures former Woodside international chief

As chief executive of Petro Australis Energy, Shiva McMahon will play a guiding management role alongside founders Saxon Palmer and Laurie Brown ahead of a proposed float at year’s end.

Sean Smith

Michael Smith, former West Coast Eagles chair, has been awarded an Order of Australia Medal.

BoardsCommentsPremiumEx-Eagles chair says he ‘never lost connection’ with club

It might have been over two decades since he stepped down as chair of the West Coast Eagles, but Michael Smith says he’s never really lost connection with the club.

Cheyanne Enciso

Barrenjoey board, from left, former assistant treasurer of Australia Kelly O’Dwyer, independent chair David Gonski, non-executive director Fiona Hick and former RBA governor Philip Lowe

BoardsCommentsPremiumEx-FMG boss Fiona Hick joins Australian investment bank

Former resources executive Fiona Hick has closed the book on her career in the C-suite and added a non-executive directorship with investment bank Barrenjoey to her post-Fortescue resume. 

Simone Grogan

The Onslow haul road being repaired and resurfaced on Wednesday.

MiningCommentsPremiumOnslow site tour works a charm for MinRes

The Onslow Iron haul road is looking better and the new chairman left a good impression — that was the verdict from a throng of analysts inspecting Mineral Resources’ most important project.

Adrian Rauso

Crown Resorts chair John Borghetti said both of the appointees were highly regarded and were ideally positioned to lead Crown Perth.

BoardsCommentsCrown Perth names new chief executive and chair

Crown Perth has unveiled its new chief executive and concurrently named former WA treasurer Ben Wyatt to succeed John Van Der Wielen as chair.

Cheyanne Enciso

Austal chief executive Paddy Gregg at its facility in Mobile, Alabama.

BoardsCommentsPremiumWA shipbuilder Austal names banking boss to join board

Henderson naval shipbuilder Austal has picked former Credit Suisse Australia boss Richard Gibb to join its board as a non-executive director.

Cheyanne Enciso

Malcolm Bundey will immediately join the lithium and iron ore miner as a non-executive director and will succeed outgoing chair James McClements on July 1.

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MinRes’ surprising new chair pick to start rebuild

Mineral Resources has named its man to lead a rebuild of the miner’s depleted board and regain the trust of shareholders left burnt by a series of scandals.

Daniel Newell and Adrian Rauso