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The Mardi Gras after-party held at the Hordern Pavilion in 2023.

Mardi Gras calls off $2 million party as board tensions flare

The biggest queer event of the year has been rocked after the organisation called off its official after-party weeks before the event was due to take place.

  • Kayla Olaya

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A parade participant at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival 2025 holding up a sign saying: “Protect trans + nonbinary kids!”

‘Spitting in the face of trans people’: Mardi Gras board slammed over defying members

In an email to members on Tuesday, the organisation’s board said it would not implement resolutions from its AGM as they did not “align” with their values.

  • Kayla Olaya
Westpac faces a shareholder resolution from environmentalists over its fossil fuel lending.

Foreign pension giants sour on banks over green issues

Funds managing hundreds of billions of dollars are backing shareholder resolutions from environmental groups pushing for change at Westpac and NAB.

  • Clancy Yeates
WiseTech co-founder and current executive chairman, Richard White, and his chief executive Zubin Appoo at the company’s AGM on Friday.

WiseTech cops pay strike as board downplays AFP raid

The company’s board had few answers when it came to AGM queries about the scandals that have savaged its share price over the past year.

  • Colin Kruger
Anne Lloyd (left) has been dumped as the chairwoman of James Hardie, but remains defiant over the Azek buyout and the long-term value creation she says is ahead. Aaron Erter (right) has been CEO since 2022.

How this Aussie giant’s annual meeting turned into a board lynching

By the end of James Hardie’s 17-minute AGM, chair Anne Lloyd and two fellow directors had lost their jobs. As far as shareholder protests go, this was one for the history books.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Anne Lloyd (left) has been dumped as the chairwoman of James Hardie, but remains defiant over the Azek buyout and the long-term value creation she says is ahead. Aaron Erter (right) has been CEO since 2022.

Bloodbath not over for James Hardie as investors sack their chair

James Hardie investors have dumped chairwoman Anne Lloyd and two other board members in an unprecedented display of anger, and its CEO may be next.

  • Colin Kruger
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The disaster began with James Hardie CEO Aaron Erter engineering a $14 billion buyout of outdoor decking and railings company Azek in March this year.

James Hardie bloodbath looms after year of hypocrisy, greed and hubris

The $20 billion group’s disgraceful year will come to a head this week as investors try to wrest back control from an underperforming board seeking a huge pay hike.

  • Colin Kruger
Super Retail Group’s incoming CEO Paul Bradshaw and chairwoman Judith Swales at the company AGM in Brisbane on Thursday.

‘Inadequate oversight’: Super Retail chair cops stiff protest vote

Judith Swales has put trust and culture as top company priorities, even as she ducked questions about the board’s controversial backing of a CEO it ultimately sacked.

  • Jessica Yun and Colin Kruger
Macquarie Group chair Glenn Stevens, a former Reserve Bank governor.

Macquarie Group cops historic backlash on executive pay

The investment banking giant’s chairman Glenn Stevens has conceded that a lot of investors feel the board had not done enough to adjust pay.

  • Clancy Yeates
Shayne Elliott last month, as he presented ANZ’s full-year results to investors. He has been with the bank since 2009.

ANZ chief Shayne Elliott to forgo $3m bonus after investor revolt

Nearly 40 per cent of the company’s shareholders voted against ANZ’s executive pay scheme at the company’s AGM on Thursday.

  • Dominic Powell