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Sonos chief executive Tom Conrad.

‘App-ocalypse’: The disastrous update that nearly sank a cult brand

A botched app update cost Sonos its chief executive and the trust of its many customers. Tom Conrad is the “fixer” cleaning up the mess.

  • David Swan

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Outgoing CSL boss Paul McKenzie.

Boss of $83b giant CSL exits abruptly

Australian pharmaceuticals heavyweight CSL says its chief executive Paul McKenzie is leaving the company with immediate effect.

  • Clancy Yeates
Husbands Lenard Swanepoel-Trollip and Christiaan Swanepoel-Trollip.

The missing money and litigation overshadowing an NDIS network

From a collapsed real estate firm in South Africa, to troubled NDIS businesses in Australia, an expanding business network is drawing increasing scrutiny.

  • Carla Hildebrandt
Gregory O’Shea and wife Sarah Fyfe.

Logistics heir says he has just $2 in cash after birthday on private Fiji island

Melbourne businessman Gregory O’Shea has declared himself bankrupt as a conga line of creditors pursue his collapsed freight company.

  • Cameron Houston
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
WiseTech founder Richard White has faced a wave of allegations.

White’s grip on WiseTech on shaky ground after police raid

Investors have called for the WiseTech founder’s departure, but it could wipe billions from its market valuation, warns an analyst.

  • David Swan and Colin Kruger
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Affinity chief executive Tim Hickey appears at a NSW parliamentary inquiry into childcare.

Childcare giant knew kids were left alone, while pushing for more enrolments

Affinity Education knew for years that kids were being left unsupervised, but failed to act before safety scandals, as leaked documents reveal its marketing playbook.

  • Carla Jaeger and Sherryn Groch
The Future Fund

The pay packets at these Aussie companies made a major investor mad

The $252 billion taxpayer-owned Future Fund is a huge ASX investor, holding stakes in firms across the index. A new report shows how it voted at annual meetings last year.

  • Clancy Yeates
The business community has mixed views about Donald Trump’s radical policy reset.

Trump’s assault on capitalism has a surprising new victim

America was once a country in which the government stayed out of the business of running businesses. Not any more.

  • Bret Stephens
The boss of collasped childcare chain Genius, Darren Misquitta, outside Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Monday.

Genius Childcare boss fined for handling proceeds of crime as investigators chase missing millions

Darren Misquitta escaped conviction but his legal woes may be just beginning as investigators search for missing millions from his childcare empire and allege breaches of company law.

  • Noel Towell