4 March, 2021
Rio Tinto chair Simon Thompson to step down in 2022
Simon Thompson, chair of mining group Rio Tinto, has announced he will not seek re-election at next year’s AGM. He joined Rio...
11 December, 2020
Australian parliamentary report slams Rio Tinto board and culture
There’s no way of getting around it. The destruction in May of the Juukan Gorge caves in Pilbara, Australia, by Rio Tinto iron ore workers was an outrage and dug one of the deepest reputational hole...
11 September, 2020
Governance week: Rio Tinto, ESG, climate risk, Aussie audit
Fallout for Rio Tinto The equivalent of going nuclear in governance is clearing out a company’s leadership. This week investors managed to detonate a bomb under Rio Tinto when the chief ex...
11 September, 2020
Rio Tinto CEO resigns following Aboriginal caves scandal
Rio Tinto CEO Jean-Sébastien Jacques is to step down owing to investor pressure over the company's destruction of the Juukan Gorge Aboriginal caves in Australia. Jacques will leave the company by ...
17 July, 2018
Australian CEO pay scales new heights
Chief executive pay in Australian has hit "record highs", according to research which found that pay for CEOs in the ASX 100 rose by 12.4% in 2017. Median pay for an ASX 100 chief executive is now ...
5 June, 2018
Commonwealth Bank faces record fine over money laundering failings
Commonwealth Bank, Australia's largest bank, is to pay a fine of AU$700m (£400.3m; €456.8m) to resolve a money laundering case. It is thought to be the biggest civil penalty ever imposed in Aust...
29 November, 2017
Are directors courting legal action by keeping quiet on climate risk?
In the UK, as in many other countries, directors are legally required to consider material financial risks facing their business, and to report these risks in their corporate disclosures. This can oft...
13 February, 2017
What’s behind the rise in shareholder class actions?
Lately in Australia, there have been several
10 November, 2016
Australian investors angry over exec pay
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