Yesterday
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The good, bad and ugly of business in 2023
Big deals, dud deals, scandals and success stories. In a year of high drama and big market moves, we look back at the winners and losers.
- Updated
- James Thomson
This Month
- Opinion
- BOSS
Drumstick Awards: Five biggest corporate stuff-ups of 2023
It’s been a golden year for corporate scandals. But one company has outshone the rest, taking home the inaugural Triple Drumstick.
- James Thomson
Ex-chief Kelly Bayer Rosmarin severs final ties with Optus
The former chief executive stayed for the transition to acting chief executive of Michael Venter, who is also the company’s chief financial officer.
- Jenny Wiggins
- Analysis
- Sharemarket
Will Newmont’s secondary listing work? History says it will be hard
Navigating investor apathy and keeping management’s attention on local shareholders is not easy, as Singtel and Janus Henderson have found.
- Tom Richardson
LinkedIn is rotting our leaders, says Alan Joyce’s former speechwriter
Lucinda Holdforth reckons executives should focus on delivering results and ditch the bubble talk about authenticity and vulnerability.
- Myriam Robin
November
This fast-growing telco is the most trusted in Australia
Aussie Broadband has overtaken Vocus to become Australia’s fourth-biggest internet provider, and has the highest revenue of any company in the AFR Fast 100 in 2023.
- Christopher Niesche
Optus appeals judgment in battle to keep Deloitte report secret
The telco is appealing a court ruling that could lead to the release of a forensic report into last year’s cyberattack, as a review into the latest outage gets under way.
- Jenny Wiggins
Optus chairman says next chief executive should have telco experience
Paul O’Sullivan broke his silence to argue that Australians’ desire for “scalps” after corporate crises could deprive the country of good executives.
- Nick Bonyhady
Ban on paying hacker ransoms is inevitable, but not yet: Labor
After industry resistance, Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil says Australian firms aren’t prepared for a ban on paying off cyber criminals to get data back.
- Andrew Tillett and Paul Smith
- Opinion
- The AFR View
CEO pays the price for Optus’ outage opacity
Optus had already worn out too much goodwill in the hack of customer details in September last year to regard this simply as a technology problem.
- The AFR View
Telstra denies 000 failure, rejects ‘expensive’ network sharing idea
Telstra and TPG take opposing views on whether networks should be shared during outages, warning it could escalate into a double network failure.
- Paul Smith
Inside the Optus HQ rumour mill – and blame game
Last year’s cyberattack did not claim the telco’s chief executive, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin. There was little doubt a massive network outage this month would.
- Kylar Loussikian
- Opinion
- Telecommunications
Why the Optus CEO had to go – and quickly
The telco’s outage points to much deeper problems in Australia’s readiness to cope with cyberattacks and tech failures affecting critical infrastructure.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Updated
- Telecommunications
Optus’ leadership up for grabs as CEO resigns
Former StarHub boss Peter Kaliaropoulos has been installed as chief operations officer, with Gladys Berejiklian, the former NSW premier, another contender.
- Updated
- Paul Smith
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The warning in Kelly Bayer Rosmarin’s resignation from Optus
The speed with which the Optus CEO has departed shows how community expectations of corporate accountability have brutally shifted.
- James Thomson
Optus CEO quits; ASX’s new plan; Macquarie’s guru on what’s next
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Stock tips from Sohn | Optus’ big problem | Banks brawl
In this week’s episode, James and Anthony bring you some of the inside stock tips from the Sohn Hearts & Minds conference, discuss the Optus CEO’s Senate hearing showdown, and ask why war has broken out among the big banks.
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Optus’ planning failure will hang over Kelly Bayer Rosmarin
CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin told a Senate inquiry that Optus never believed an outage of the scale it suffered was possible, raising questions about risk management.
- Updated
- James Thomson
‘We didn’t have a plan’: Optus admits it was caught out
In a make-or-break appearance for Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, senators failed to land a knockout blow, but gleaned some damaging admissions.
- Updated
- Paul Smith
Optus CEO grilled; Revelations at Sohn; Why Britain’s divided
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
