Here are links to recent columns for Fairfax Media's www.businessday.com.au, Australia's most popular business news website, with the latest capturing all the action as we see record votes against remuneration reports.
Stephen Mayne was the founder of www.crikey.com.au and still contributes occasional articles. Here are links to the stories he has written for Crikey in 2009. Check out the 264 stories from 2008, the 354 from 2007, the 295 from 2006 and the 257 from 2005 when Crikey was sold.
Have a listen to Stephen's various interviews on 774 ABC Melbourne and why not sign up for our video and audio podcasts to hear and see much more. Also, check out these special packages for our other regular media spots.
Here are some of the tough anti-Kennett opinion pieces that appeared on Andrew Bolt's opinion pages in the Herald Sun during the 1990s.
We've just seen an entertaining public stouch between director head hunter Chris Thomas and Dean Paatsch, the man who critiques board performance and pay more heavily than anyone else in Australia. Here's how it unfolded.
Have a look at Stephen's various appearances and contributions in the media and why not sign up for our video and audio podcasts to hear and see much more.
Have a listen to Stephen's various interviews with Mike Smith on 1116 4BC Brisbane and why not sign up for our video and audio podcasts to hear and see much more. Also, check out these special packages for our other regular media spots.
Have a listen to Stephen's various interviews on 702 ABC Sydney and why not sign up for our video and audio podcasts to hear and see much more. Also, check out these special packages for our other regular media spots.
Have a listen to Stephen's various interviews with Jon Faine on 774 ABC Melbourne and why not sign up for our video and audio podcasts to hear and see much more. Also, check out these special packages for our other regular media spots.
Below are the links to some of the interviews we've done with John Stanley, the Drive presenter on Fairfax Radio's 2UE radio station in Sydney.
Have a listen to Stephen's various interviews on RRR Melbourne and why not sign up for our video and audio podcasts to hear and see much more. Also, check out these special packages for our other regular media spots.
Here are the audio files from various "year in review" discussions on ABC radio over the years.
Here is a transcript from the lively 70 minute appearance before the Productivity Commission inquiry into executive pay at the Melbourne hearings on June 24.
Have a listen to Stephen's various interviews on ABC radio's PM program and why not sign up for our video and audio podcasts to hear and see much more. Also, check out these special packages for our other regular media spots.
Have a listen to Stephen's various interviews on ABC radio national and why not sign up for our video and audio podcasts to hear and see much more. Also, check out these special packages for our other regular media spots.
Here is an archive of my appearences on the National Interest program on ABC Radio National
Have a listen to Stephen's various radio interviews and why not sign up for our video and audio podcasts to hear and see much more. Also, check out these special packages for our other regular media spots.
This list tracks all the web accessible columns by Australia's major business commentators about the extraordinary rorting and dilution that has been going during the record breaking $100 billion capital raising binge over the past 18 months.
Here are some recent Crikey comments about affairs at Fairfax Media.
Out-going Fairfax Media chairman Ron Walker has had a lot to say in recent times about his position at the company and the Fairfax family. Here is a a chronological run-down.
After almost eight years of regular radio chats with 702 ABC Sydney morning presenter Virginia Trioli, it's over, and why not sign up for our video and audio podcasts to hear and see much more. Also, check out these special packages for our other regular media spots.
Have a listen to Stephen's various interviews on ABC radio The World Today and why not sign up for our video and audio podcasts to hear and see much more. Also, check out these special packages for our other regular media spots.
Some of the best of Stephen Mayne's appearances on the Sky News Business View program. Watch the videos here.
Panel discussion on the ABC's Difference of Opinion debating the topic of "Spending Surplus" with Dr John Hewson and others.
Various spots on The 7.30 Report and why not sign up for our video and audio podcasts to hear and see much more. Also, check out these special packages for our other regular media spots.
Here is some newspaper commentary from over the years about the broader issue of our shareholder activism, rather than AGM-specific coverage, over the past 10 years. Why not sign up for our video and audio podcasts to hear and see much more. Also, check out these special packages for our other regular media spots.
Here are links to the articles written by Stephen Mayne for The Reader magazine and why not sign up for our video and audio podcasts to hear and see much more. Also, check out these special packages for our other regular media spots.
These articles appeared in Brisbane's Courier Mail following the 2009 NAB AGM
Here are links to the articles written by Stephen Mayne for The Eye fortnightly magazine back in 1999 and why not sign up for our video and audio podcasts to hear and see much more. Also, check out these special packages for our other regular media spots.
On Financial Times blog Alphaville. Why not sign up for our video and audio podcasts to hear and see much more. Also, check out these special packages for our other regular media spots.
Here are links to the articles written by Stephen mayne for Ethical Investor magazine and why not sign up for our video and audio podcasts to hear and see much more. Also, check out these special packages for our other regular media spots.
Here are links to some opinion pieces we've written for The Sunday Age.
Bernard Madoff, the former NASDAQ chairman, has been charged with defrauding his clients through a massive pyramid-type investment scheme. Here are links to various interviews about the world's biggest financial scam.
This RMIT journalist student wrote this article about maverick journalists on April 27, 2009
Here are links to the various media reports of the scandalous Toll Holdings AGM.
The 2008 AGM season provided plenty of lively exchanges with the rich and powerful, as demonstrated by some of these newspaper articles.
The ASX AGM had been a belter in terms of debate and disclosure but a very disappointing election outcome. But this was also the highest ever percentage abstain vote, so clearly several major shareholders lodged a quasi protest against the board. Check out the media coverage below.
It has taken a while, but the mainstream press has finally cottoned onto the ASX board tilt with this brief comment piece by Chanticleer columnist Alan Jury in The AFR on Wednesday, September 3.
The following column on corporate governance and boards will appear in the August edition of Investors Voice, the journal of the Australian Investors Association.
This Sandra Lee feature about mysterious Crikey political correspondent Hillary Bray appeared in The Australian on February 8, 2001.
The following column about political donations and Labor's big bank investments appeared in The Sunday Age and the Sydney Sun-Herald on February 10, which led to this discussion with Mike Smith on 4BC Brisbane on February 12. It was also foreshadowed on Sky Business News.
Here are the audio files of Stephen Mayne's radio discussions about the political donations figures for 2006-07 which were released on February 1.
Here are the audio files of Stephen Mayne's radio discussions about the political donations figures for 2006-07 which were released on February 1.
The 2007 AGM season provided plenty of lively exchanges with the rich and powerful, as demonstrated by some of these newspaper articles.
We didn't exactly create a media firestorm around our tilt against Peter Costello in Higgins, but here is some of the coverage that was generated.
The media have shown quite a bit of interest in our campaign to introduce real democracy at News Corporation.
This opinion piece appeared in The Daily Telegraph on October 30, 1997 and has some interesting parallels given the latest plunge and recovery we've just seen on the Australian stock market.
Decmeber 14, 2007 This week I had the opportunity to interview independent journalist-cum-shit stirrer Stephen Mayne - the founder of Crikey, and more recently the Australian social news aggregator Kwoff and the shareholder activist and news website, The Mayne Report.
Centro Property Group's $5 billion one-day equity collapse was discussed by Stephen Mayne on ABC Radio.
James Murdoch has been promoted by his father at News Corp, sparking the following three Stephen Mayne appearances on ABC Radio.
This Tim Blair piece appeared in Online Journalism Review back in February 2001.
This radio appeared on Monday, 30 October 200 on PM where Stephen was mentioned
Transcript of interview with Terry Laidler on December 2, 1999, about the Burwood by-election which I contested as an independent. While 3AW's shock jocks, Neil Mitchell and Steve Price, refused to interview Burwood's only independent candidate, 3LO's drive time host Terry Laidler, put the man at number at five on the ballot paper through his paces yesterday afternoon. It was no easy ride from Laidler who challenged a number of his policies after the official launch of his campaign on December 1.
This article appeared in the Weekly Times on December 16, 2009.