Complete public company tilt record

2000

Woolworths (54.75% of proxies), November 20, 2000
The best AGM yet as was almost elected.
See Mayne Report package.

NRMA Insurance (45.59% of vote), November 28, 2000
Shafted with the proxies by Whitlam and saved the company $300 million.
See Mayne Report package.

Commonwealth Bank (39.71% of vote), October 26, 2000
Did flyers out the front and polled well.
See Mayne Report package.

AMP (33.89% of vote), May 18, 2000
First ever board tilt.
See Mayne Report package.

WA News (28.41% of vote) November 2, 2000
Best result when didn't turn up - see results.

Telstra (14.65% of vote), November 17, 2000
The best of the three tilts at the telco.
See Mayne Report package.

ASX (13.52% of vote), October 23, 2000
Second best of four ASX tilts.
See Mayne Report package.

David Jones (11.46% of vote), December 11, 2000
Alan Kohler used this tilt as basis for this story on The 7.30 Report.
See Mayne Report package.

National Australia Bank (9.14% of vote), December 14, 2000
Spoke to meeting at very start but failed to make double figures.
See Mayne Report package.

Westfield Holdings (0.37% of vote), November 9, 2000
Hostile reception from Frank Lowy.
See Mayne Report package.

Cable & Wireless Optus August 17, 2000
UK parent meant board tilt failed miserably

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2001

John Fairfax (20.58% of vote) November 7, 2001
Best of three tilts at the media company - see results.

PMP (11.24% of vote) November 19, 2001
It was good to have some competition from another external candidaet at PMP in 2001.
See Mayne Report package.

ASX (10.69% of vote) October 29, 2001
Slightly less than previous year - see results.

Telstra (4.76% of vote) November 16, 2001
Slightly less than previous year - see results.

Southern Cross Broadcasting (3.85% of vote) November 1, 2001
Gave chairman John Dahlsen a spray as Steve Price defamation battle rolled on.
See Mayne Report package.

AXA (1.1% of vote) February 15, 2001
Polled poorly given French parent but mounted a strong argument.
See Mayne Report package.

NRMA Insurance November 2, 2001
Less support than previous year - see results.

Spotless (6.5% of vote) November 14, 2001
This was the toughest notice of meeting every produced against a board tilt.
See Mayne Report package.


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2002

News Corp (12.89% of vote), October 9, 2002
Round four with Rupert and almost elected from floor.
See Mayne Report package.

ASX (18.7% of vote) October 29, 2002
Best of four ASX tilts - see results.



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2003

AMP (11.41% of vote) May 15, 2003
Disappointing result after $10bn was lost in UK.
See Mayne Report package.

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2005

Gunns (14.7% of vote) October 27, 2005
Disappointing vote but had a victory when John Gay submitted himself for election in 2006.
See Mayne Report package.

John Fairfax (8.2% of vote) November 18, 2005
Ran for the board and the lights went out.
See Mayne Report package.

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2006

Macquarie Bank (15.53%) July 20, 2006
Failed in board tilt but polled okay with over 21 million votes.
See Mayne Report package.

Woolworths (2.8%) November 24, 2006
Dramatically less than the record high 2000 vote - see results.

Telstra (2.25%) November 14, 2006
Crushed by the Howard Government again - see results.

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2007

West Australian Newspapers (14% of the vote) November 9, 2007
Really stuck it to the board but lost election.
See Mayne Report package



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2008

West Australian Newspapers (14% of the vote) April 23, 2008
See Mayne Report package.

Alumina Ltd (6.2% of the vote) May 1, 2008
Elected to Alumina board on show of hands but defeated in poll.
See Mayne Report package.

ASX September 24, 2008
5.05% in favour but total protest 24.83% when include huge abstain vote.
See Mayne Report package.

Centro Retail November 27, 2008
435 million votes in favour which was 71% of the independent vote after strip out 1.1 billion shares controlled by Centro. However, formal poll outcome shows 26.7% in favour.
See Mayne Report package.

BHP Billiton (12.38% of the vote) November 27, 2008
See Mayne Report package.

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2009

Oz Minerals (7% of the vote) June 11, 2009
See Mayne Report package.

Fairfax Media (3% of the vote) November 10 2009
See Mayne Report package.

Ten Network Holdings (0.9% of vote) December 10, 2009
Second worst vote ever as board censored the platform and used no vacancy rort.

National Australia Bank (5.6% of proxies) December 17, 2009
Chairman Michael Chaney didn't suffer any voting backlash for SPP shafting of retail investors but was happy with my vote given two previous flops. And the board did well to publish the platform in full in the notice of meeting.

AWB December 23, 2009 Results of meeting - 8.6% of vote
See Mayne Report package.

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2010

MAP (4.88% of the vote)May 27, 2010
See Mayne Report package.

Woolworths AGM (6.6% of the vote) November 18, 2010
See Mayne Report package



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2011

May 5, 2011: ran for Santos board on a capital raising platform. Won the show of hands but only received 4.8% in the poll.


May 5, 2011: ran for Rio Tinto board and polled only 3.04% in the poll after AGMs in London and Perth.