Corporate Governance

Oil and gas giant Woodside denies its business model is "weak" while arguing that paying a proposed flat tax on gas exports would kill the company's projects.

There's a push to get younger people, women and more diverse community members on the boards making the big decisions in Australian life. 

Labor has called on the Tasmanian government to investigate allegations a metals mine, when under a previous ownership, was being used by organised crime affiliates to launder money.

The Tasmanian government has taken steps to revoke the operating licence of one of the state's biggest mining operations, after being warned it was allegedly used as a "vehicle for money laundering" and former owners were associated with underworld figures.

Albury Wodonga Health CEO Bill Appleby resigns after several recent votes of no confidence in the hospital's executive leadership.

Star casino's former top boss and its legal counsel both breached their director's duties and "failed" to heed warnings about money laundering by Chinese criminal syndicates, the Federal Court in Sydney has found.

An Aboriginal organisation in Victoria's north-west elects its new board in a re-run of its general meeting, which resulted in two of the elected directors fighting the service in the court.

Australia's anti-slavery commissioner calls for tough new laws forcing companies to take slavery in their supply chains seriously, as Ansell and Kmart face scrutiny.

An investigation into whistleblower allegations finds senior managers at a NSW coal mine were involved in a decision by the mine to award their own companies multi-million-dollar contracts.

The former owner of the Whyalla steelworks, Sanjeev Gupta's OneSteel Manufacturing, owed $18.5 million in royalties when it was forced into administration last year, the ABC can reveal.

The dramatic escalation in the fight for Warner Bros is one of the biggest in recent corporate memory, drawing an unlikely cast of celebrities and business figures including Jared Kushner.

APRA says the fallout of HESTA's planned outage led to a "severe, prolonged disruption" that caused direct harm to some of its 1.1 million members, in a damning assessment of the fund.

The corporate regulator is threatening Australia's nascent private lending industry with tighter regulation if it does not see a significant lift in standards. 

James Hardie has a long history of attempting to avoid its responsibilities. The drama began when the company announced a $14 billion purchase of a rival firm.

As questions mount about how Australia's retirement funds industry is regulated, a senator says regulator ASIC must more quickly and forcefully enforce the law.

ANZ bank has agreed to a record penalty with the corporate regulator over its dealings with about 65,000 customers, as well as the federal government.

A local council has awarded nearly half a million dollars' worth of contracts to a builder with a fraught past. 

A new administrator's report has revealed Traveldream paid another company to secure flights, accommodation and tours for customers, which has now gone into administration itself.

The ASX at record highs is 'overvalued', according to market analysts, who say investors are paying too much for shares, considering some of Australia's largest companies revealed underwhelming profits during the August reporting season.

Over 2023 and 2024, Equity Trustees oversaw the investment of retirement savings into Shield, which collapsed last year.