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An Aussie icon is finding new ways to be a corporate disgrace

Even for a company with an ongoing asbestos scandal in its 137-year history, James Hardie’s disastrous week is one for the ages.

22.08.2025 20

WA Today

Colin Kruger

An Aussie icon is finding new ways to be a corporate disgrace

An Aussie icon is finding new ways to be a corporate disgrace

Even for a company with an ongoing asbestos scandal in its 137-year history, James Hardie’s disastrous week is one for the ages.

22.08.2025 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Colin Kruger

An Aussie icon is finding new ways to be a corporate disgrace

An Aussie icon is finding new ways to be a corporate disgrace

Even for a company with an ongoing asbestos scandal in its 137-year history, James Hardie’s disastrous week is one for the ages.

22.08.2025 7

The Age

Colin Kruger

An Aussie icon is finding new ways to be a corporate disgrace

Even for a company with an ongoing asbestos scandal in its 137-year history, James Hardie’s disastrous week is one for the ages.

22.08.2025 7

Brisbane Times

Colin Kruger

Trump’s tariffs and anti-vaxxer clash with Australia’s $130b health giant

Trump’s tariffs and anti-vaxxer clash with Australia’s $130b health giant

CSL is battling the US president’s threat against big pharma and the vaccine scepticism of his health tsar, but that’s not why its shares plunged...

19.08.2025 5

WA Today

Colin Kruger

Trump’s tariffs and anti-vaxxer clash with Australia’s $130b health giant

Trump’s tariffs and anti-vaxxer clash with Australia’s $130b health giant

CSL is battling the US president’s threat against big pharma and the vaccine scepticism of his health tsar, but that’s not why its shares plunged...

19.08.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Colin Kruger

Trump’s tariffs and anti-vaxxer clash with Australia’s $130b health giant

Trump’s tariffs and anti-vaxxer clash with Australia’s $130b health giant

CSL is battling the US president’s threat against big pharma and the vaccine scepticism of his health tsar, but that’s not why its shares plunged...

19.08.2025 3

The Age

Colin Kruger

Trump’s tariffs and anti-vaxxer clash with Australia’s $130b health giant

Trump’s tariffs and anti-vaxxer clash with Australia’s $130b health giant

CSL is battling the US president’s threat against big pharma and the vaccine scepticism of his health tsar, but that’s not why its shares plunged...

19.08.2025 4

Brisbane Times

Colin Kruger

The humiliation of Qantas is now complete

The humiliation of Qantas is now complete

The brutal judgment and record fine against Qantas have stripped away the carefully cultivated PR campaign that suggests the airline has moved on from...

18.08.2025 7

WA Today

Colin Kruger

The humiliation of Qantas is now complete

The humiliation of Qantas is now complete

The brutal judgment and record fine against Qantas have stripped away the carefully cultivated PR campaign that suggests the airline has moved on from...

18.08.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Colin Kruger

The humiliation of Qantas is now complete

The humiliation of Qantas is now complete

The brutal judgment and record fine against Qantas have stripped away the carefully cultivated PR campaign that suggests the airline has moved on from...

18.08.2025 40

The Age

Colin Kruger

The humiliation of Qantas is now complete

The humiliation of Qantas is now complete

The brutal judgment and record fine against Qantas have stripped away the carefully cultivated PR campaign that suggests the airline has moved on from...

18.08.2025 7

Brisbane Times

Colin Kruger

Friend or foe? The AI bloodletting has begun in Australia

Friend or foe? The AI bloodletting has begun in Australia

Recent job cuts at tech giant Atlassian and Commonwealth Bank show AI’s job annihilation is already hitting Australian shores.

15.08.2025 8

WA Today

Colin Kruger

Friend or foe? The AI bloodletting has begun in Australia

Friend or foe? The AI bloodletting has begun in Australia

Recent job cuts at tech giant Atlassian and Commonwealth Bank show AI’s job annihilation is already hitting Australian shores.

15.08.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Colin Kruger

Friend or foe? The AI bloodletting has begun in Australia

Friend or foe? The AI bloodletting has begun in Australia

Recent job cuts at tech giant Atlassian and Commonwealth Bank show AI’s job annihilation is already hitting Australian shores.

15.08.2025 10

The Age

Colin Kruger

Friend or foe? The AI bloodletting has begun in Australia

Friend or foe? The AI bloodletting has begun in Australia

Recent job cuts at tech giant Atlassian and Commonwealth Bank show AI’s job annihilation is already hitting Australian shores.

15.08.2025 6

Brisbane Times

Colin Kruger

The $2.6 trillion monopoly failing Australian investors

If Australians had any choice when it comes to buying locally listed shares, the $12 billion ASX Ltd would surely be out of business. But we don’t,...

14.08.2025 4

WA Today

Colin Kruger

The $2.6 trillion monopoly failing Australian investors

If Australians had any choice when it comes to buying locally listed shares, the $12 billion ASX Ltd would surely be out of business. But we don’t,...

14.08.2025 3

The Sydney Morning Herald

Colin Kruger

The $2.6 trillion monopoly failing Australian investors

If Australians had any choice when it comes to buying locally listed shares, the $12 billion ASX Ltd would surely be out of business. But we don’t,...

14.08.2025 4

The Age

Colin Kruger

The $2.6 trillion monopoly failing Australian investors

If Australians had any choice when it comes to buying locally listed shares, the $12 billion ASX Ltd would surely be out of business. But we don’t,...

14.08.2025 2

Brisbane Times

Colin Kruger

Media a bust for Stokes but the billionaire’s fortunes are in good shape

Forget the share wipeout – the Stokes family’s industrial juggernaut is being bolstered by two recession-proof customers: governments and miners. 

12.08.2025 3

WA Today

Colin Kruger

Media a bust for Stokes but the billionaire’s fortunes are in good shape

Forget the share wipeout – the Stokes family’s industrial juggernaut is being bolstered by two recession-proof customers: governments and miners. 

12.08.2025 3

The Sydney Morning Herald

Colin Kruger

Media a bust for Stokes but the billionaire’s fortunes are in good shape

Forget the share wipeout – the Stokes family’s industrial juggernaut is being bolstered by two recession-proof customers: governments and miners. 

12.08.2025 5

The Age

Colin Kruger

Media a bust for Stokes but the billionaire’s fortunes are in good shape

Forget the share wipeout – the Stokes family’s industrial juggernaut is being bolstered by two recession-proof customers: governments and miners. 

12.08.2025 4

Brisbane Times

Colin Kruger

Rupert Murdoch shows Trump his own version of the ‘Art of the Deal’

How do you woo a US president who is suing you for $US10 billion? Rupert Murdoch offered a masterclass in carrot, stick and artful deflection. 

06.08.2025 3

WA Today

Colin Kruger

Rupert Murdoch shows Trump his own version of the ‘Art of the Deal’

How do you woo a US president who is suing you for $US10 billion? Rupert Murdoch offered a masterclass in carrot, stick and artful deflection. 

06.08.2025 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Colin Kruger

Rupert Murdoch shows Trump his own version of the ‘Art of the Deal’

How do you woo a US president who is suing you for $US10 billion? Rupert Murdoch offered a masterclass in carrot, stick and artful deflection. 

06.08.2025 10

The Age

Colin Kruger

Rupert Murdoch shows Trump his own version of the ‘Art of the Deal’

How do you woo a US president who is suing you for $US10 billion? Rupert Murdoch offered a masterclass in carrot, stick and artful deflection. 

06.08.2025 4

Brisbane Times

Colin Kruger

Trump stumbled on Epstein, and Rupert Murdoch has pounced

Rupert Murdoch’s marriage of convenience with Donald Trump might finally be unravelling, and there can only be one winner in their long-running...

25.07.2025 9

WA Today

Colin Kruger

Trump stumbled on Epstein, and Rupert Murdoch has pounced

Rupert Murdoch’s marriage of convenience with Donald Trump might finally be unravelling, and there can only be one winner in their long-running...

25.07.2025 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Colin Kruger

Trump stumbled on Epstein, and Rupert Murdoch has pounced

Rupert Murdoch’s marriage of convenience with Donald Trump might finally be unravelling, and there can only be one winner in their long-running...

25.07.2025 10

The Age

Colin Kruger

Trump stumbled on Epstein, and Rupert Murdoch has pounced

Rupert Murdoch’s marriage of convenience with Donald Trump might finally be unravelling, and there can only be one winner in their long-running...

25.07.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Colin Kruger

Relentless push for profit is failing our kids

Childcare standards need to be lifted across the country but can the for-profit operators meet the challenge?

03.07.2025 3

WA Today

Colin Kruger

Relentless push for profit is failing our kids

Childcare standards need to be lifted across the country but can the for-profit operators meet the challenge?

03.07.2025 3

The Sydney Morning Herald

Colin Kruger

Relentless push for profit is failing our kids

Childcare standards need to be lifted across the country but can the for-profit operators meet the challenge?

03.07.2025 4

The Age

Colin Kruger

Relentless push for profit is failing our kids

Childcare standards need to be lifted across the country but can the for-profit operators meet the challenge?

03.07.2025 3

Brisbane Times

Colin Kruger

In a world of conflict, the spoils are rich from gold and guns 

Forget the Magnificent Seven tech giants, defence stocks and gold are the winners in this volatile economic and geopolitical environment.

29.06.2025 4

WA Today

Colin Kruger

In a world of conflict, the spoils are rich from gold and guns 

Forget the Magnificent Seven tech giants, defence stocks and gold are the winners in this volatile economic and geopolitical environment.

29.06.2025 4

The Sydney Morning Herald

Colin Kruger

In a world of conflict, the spoils are rich from gold and guns 

Forget the Magnificent Seven tech giants, defence stocks and gold are the winners in this volatile economic and geopolitical environment.

29.06.2025 2

The Age

Colin Kruger

In a world of conflict, the spoils are rich from gold and guns 

Forget the Magnificent Seven tech giants, defence stocks and gold are the winners in this volatile economic and geopolitical environment.

29.06.2025 6

Brisbane Times

Colin Kruger

Danger signs are building as the ‘grumpy rally’ gathers steam

The investment environment has been compared to the lead-up to the dot com bust in 2000, as share prices hit records despite ongoing Trump chaos and...

14.06.2025 10

WA Today

Colin Kruger

Danger signs are building as the ‘grumpy rally’ gathers steam

The investment environment has been compared to the lead-up to the dot com bust in 2000, as share prices hit records despite ongoing Trump chaos and...

14.06.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Colin Kruger

Danger signs are building as the ‘grumpy rally’ gathers steam

The investment environment has been compared to the lead-up to the dot com bust in 2000, as share prices hit records despite ongoing Trump chaos and...

14.06.2025 10

The Age

Colin Kruger

Danger signs are building as the ‘grumpy rally’ gathers steam

The investment environment has been compared to the lead-up to the dot com bust in 2000, as share prices hit records despite ongoing Trump chaos and...

14.06.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Colin Kruger

‘Over my dead body’: Fight to keep Healthscope’s hospitals alive just getting started

Just what will it take to ensure the lights stay on at 37 hospitals employing 18,000 staff across Australia? We are about to find out.

06.06.2025 6

WA Today

Colin Kruger

‘Over my dead body’: Fight to keep Healthscope’s hospitals alive just getting started

Just what will it take to ensure the lights stay on at 37 hospitals employing 18,000 staff across Australia? We are about to find out.

06.06.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Colin Kruger

‘Over my dead body’: Fight to keep Healthscope’s hospitals alive just getting started

Just what will it take to ensure the lights stay on at 37 hospitals employing 18,000 staff across Australia? We are about to find out.

06.06.2025 10

The Age

Colin Kruger

‘Over my dead body’: Fight to keep Healthscope’s hospitals alive just getting started

Just what will it take to ensure the lights stay on at 37 hospitals employing 18,000 staff across Australia? We are about to find out.

06.06.2025 8

Brisbane Times

Colin Kruger

AI could cure cancer, and kill your job

Someone will have to pay for the trillion dollars being invested in artificial intelligence. Will it be workers?

30.05.2025 8

WA Today

Colin Kruger

AI could cure cancer, and kill your job

Someone will have to pay for the trillion dollars being invested in artificial intelligence. Will it be workers?

30.05.2025 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Colin Kruger