What I've been up to lately

Latest email edition - Babcock, Macquarie, Allco, Centro, Rupert and much more.

BHP board tilt - watch video announcement

Woolies and pokies special
* Read Tuesday's Crikey story on the Woolies profit.
* Listen to interview on 4BC Brisbane with Mike Smith.
* Check out www.pokiewatch.org which lays bare the shameless Woolies approach.
* Listen to pokies billionaire Bruce Mathieson call me a liar on 3AW in 1997.
* Listen to discussion of Woolworths profit on ABC Sydney with Deborah Cameron and ABC Melbourne interview with Lindy Burns.
* Read Nick Xenophon's extraordinary speech to Woolies and the other pokies players last Sunday.

Monday: Crikey story on Mike Tilley quiting Challenger and Mayne Report email update.

Watch the combative AWB EGM videos
Two videos in favour of reform: opening spray against dissident directors and my final plea for gang of four to change their minds
The against case: Jock Munro's rant and Bob Iffla's erroneous News Corp argument followed by chairman's slap down.

Saturday: Listen to debate with American skeptic Michael Shermer on Radio National's All In The Mind program.

Friday: Edition covering Babcock, ANZ, AWB, ABC Learning, OZ Minerals and Owen Hegarty payout.

Thursday: radio interview on 936 ABC Hobart with Tim Cox about Gunns.


Wednesday: special editions after Macquarie Capital privatisation meeting and James Hardie AGM in Sydney.

Tuesday: Crikey story on BHP profit, plus Mayne Report edition on Babcock, Macquarie, AWB and Gunns.

Wednesday: Mayne Report subscriber edition on Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo's pay, record CommBank profit and CSL's bold blood move. Listen to interviews about Telstra with Mike Smith on 4BC and John Stanley on 2UE.

Tuesday: listen to regular chat with Deborah Cameron on 702 ABC Sydney about Babcock, interest rates, the banks and big corporate losses. Crikey story on Janet Albrechtsen conflicts plus Mayne Report subscriber edition on Babcock, BHP tilt, Bradken, record traffic and Rich List. Updated list on successful Australian exporters.

Friday: Mayne report edition on Commander collapse, ASX conflicts, Seven EGM and activist funds.

Thursday: updated biggest corporate losses list, Crikey story on Rudd cronyism and listen to interview on foreign debt with 4BC's Mike Smith in Brisbane.

Wednesday: new video on shareholder showbags, two Crikey stories plus Mayne Report edition on WA News, News Corp and Brian Healey.

Tuesday: two Crikey stories plus Mayne Report edition on Seven result and ABC radio discussion at 5.40pm.

Monday: Crikey story on continuous disclosure plus Mayne Report edition on Asciano private equity bid and ANZ board tilt.


Saturday: appeared on Sky's Business View program.

Friday: attended Hartnell Colloquium at ANU on corporate law reform, plus one Crikey story on BrisConnections float fiasco.

Thursday: Special Mayne Report subscriber edition on the Brisconnections float fiasco. Listen to interview on ABC NewsRadio about NAB's fired CEO. Two Crikey stories on NAB changes and evening speech to Swinburne students on corporate governance.

Wednesday: Speech to Australian Investors Association conference on the Gold Coast. New video lamenting the demise of the Sunday program and reflecting back on a classic Col Allan moment. Subscribe to the Mayne Report podcast to view the full Sunday program episode and other Mayne Report videos. Subscriber edition on BHP tilt, ASX conflicts, Rupert buy and recent trading.

Tuesday: listen to regular chat with Deborah Cameron on 702 ABC Sydney about tumbling bank shares, Qantas and NSW state budget. Listen to regular chat with Lindy Burns on 774 ABC Melbourne about market turmoil, Qantas and Starbucks.

Monday: special Mayne Report edition on Australand's emergency $550 capital raising, Crikey stories on Qantas and bank write-downs, plus interview on 4BC about the tumbling bank shares.

Friday: subscriber edition on OZ Minerals, board tilt, Stokes raid, more Macquarie videos and some. Speech to McPherson Media management retreat.

Thursday: cracking new video on the Macquarie Model and the dead parrot sketch.

Wednesday: subscriber edition after a cracking debate at the Macquarie Group AGM.


Tuesday: listen to regular chat with Lindy Burns on ABC 774 about QANTAS and Frank Lowy

Monday: hard-hitting video on outrageous spin record of Oxiana chairman Barry Cusack.

Friday: special edition on the rolling of Owen Hegarty's $10.7m Oxiana payout.

Thursday: subscriber edition after Village Roadshow EGM and SP Ausnet AGM.

Wednesday: subscriber edition on Qantas, SP Ausnet, activist funds, Rich List and ANZ outsourcing. Plus Crikey story on state finance disclosures.

Tuesday: special Glenn Milne video, plus listen to latest chats on 702 ABC Sydney with Toni Matthews and on 774 ABC Melbourne with Lindy Burns about the global credit crisis.

Monday: two Crikey stories on AWB constitutional reform and Toll's Virgin Blue giveaway.

Thursday: new video on GPT fiasco plus special edition on the hunt for new directors.

Wednesday: six stories in subscriber edition plus updated lists tracking biggest share tanks and new CEOs who slash asset values.

Tuesday: 4BC with Michael Smith about our relationship with China from economic and ownership perspective. Weekly chat on 774 ABC Melbourne with Bev O'Connor.

Monday: two Crikey stories plus a four-story subscriber edition of The Mayne Report and this new video on Kevin Rudd and climate change.


Background Briefing: listen to the first serious media feature on shareholder activism.

ABC Radio spots: listen to last chats with Deborah Cameron on 702 ABC Sydney and Lindy Burns on 774 ABC Melbourne.

Time to go: Listen to polite retirement advice for Australia's busiest director Peter Mansell at Zinifex-Oxiana merger EGM.

Lateline Business: appeared talking about Babcock troubles.



Babcock: check out special package on the Babcock troubles and watch Phil Green's body language in this video on Babcock & Brown crisis.

ABC Learning: hard-hitting Crikey Story calling for ABC Learning to be nationalised.

Industry funds: video interview with Gary Weaven, father of the all-powerful industry funds.

Booming traffic: See our growth in this article.




Foreign ownership: updated foreign-owned mines lists after Queesland coal royalty slug and listen to 774 ABC Melbourne chat with Lindy Burns.

Babcock & Brown AGM: Listen to the Babcock & Brown AGM audio files.

Mayne Report Rich List: new video on BRW Rich List plus our own Mayne Report Rich List.

Macquarie Airports AGM - listen to these exchanges with chairman Max Moore-Wilton.



MFS EGM debacle: subscriber-only account of lively MFS EGM. Watch MFS video. Listen to this spray after CEO Craig White tried to blame market analysts.

Alan Jones spray: packaged up audio spraying Alan Jones at Macquarie Radio AGM last year. It's a beauty.

ABC Learning implosion: Listen to hard-hitting analysis on ABC Sydney , ABC Melbourne and Lateline.

Allco Finance Group unravels: See Crikey report, listen to interview on 702 ABC Melbourne and see Rod Eddington spray.

Australia's woeful foreign ownership record
The Chinese raid on Rio Tinto has sparked strong debate so we've seriously cranked up our foreign ownership lists: 50 foreign owned resources projects, big foreign investors, Aussie companies doing well overseas and foreign government investment in Australia.
Also, listen to 702 ABC Sydney and watch Today Tonight story but don't blame Channel Seven for that silly Jaws music at the end.

Hot News Corp documents
We've got some hot court documents exposing Rupert Murdoch's colourful business practices.

Macquarie Fortress
Macquarie gets an absolute shellacking over the $220 million Fortress debacle - watch video.