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STORY ANGLES - Focuses on leadership and governance issues: Covers executive sackings, boardroom drama, and investor backlash (e.g., Super Retail Group, James Hardie).

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
26
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Sep 17, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Colin Kruger

    KPMG consultant admits to ‘gaps’ in its whistleblower report (opens the original)

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    The authors of a report designed to document KPMG’s whistleblower failings qualified their findings on the basis that they were unable to interview key staff – including the whistleblower – and found gaps in the accounting firm’s records of crucial meetings. Boutique advisory Andrews Group, which penned the report published on Thursday, said it conducted interviews and relied on public and internal documents from KPMG, but admitted this exercise, “despite providing rich information, still left g

  2. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Colin Kruger, Clancy Yeates

    The private credit cockroaches eating our rich-listers (opens the original)

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    It was shaping up to be a diabolical year for Sydney Swans chairman Andrew Pridham, even before he had to get to grips with the suspension of key players ahead of the AFL’s finals season. The asset management giant Pridham co-founded, ASX-listed MA Financial Services, was getting smashed by nervous investors fretting if it was the next private lender saddled with loans to a failed developer like bankrupt pub tsar Jon Adgemis, or collapsed home builder The Bathla Group. Investors recalled the pro

  3. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Colin Kruger

    Major private hospital operator to be broken up after lenders back consortium bid (opens the original)

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    Australia’s second-largest private hospital operator Healthscope will be broken up, with Sydney’s Prince of Wales Private Hospital and Melbourne’s Knox Private Hospital to be sold to private equity under a deal announced on Monday. Lenders to the embattled healthcare group approved the deal, which follows its financial collapse in April last year under $1.7 billion worth of debt after its private equity owners, Brookfield, walked away. “We are pleased to announce agreements have been reached whi

  4. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Colin Kruger, Clancy Yeates

    After axing 3500 jobs, ANZ chief’s grand plan has a long way to go (opens the original)

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    “I must confess, it’s a very emotional moment to me. This is a moment where you feel you achieve your dreams.” It was just before Christmas 2024 and ANZ Bank’s incoming chief executive Nuno Matos was giving his 40,000 future colleagues a taste of how much passion and ambition he would bring to the role in his first interview with the bank’s communications platform Bluenotes. The veteran Portuguese-born banker had been overlooked for the top job at HSBC, and had been picked by ANZ’s board as the

  5. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Colin Kruger

    Macquarie director met ex-KPMG colleagues amid $700m bid (opens the original)

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    Macquarie Group has detailed interactions between its board member, former KPMG partner Michelle Hinchliffe, and KPMG executives during the tender process for its lucrative audit contract but did not indicate there was any wrongdoing on her part. KPMG was dumped as Macquarie’s preferred auditor last week following the revelations that emerged from the whistleblower scandal, in which senior audit partners accessed confidential client information to win new business. One of the whistleblower alleg

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