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Joe Aston

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ASX’s fetish for dual-class shares is downright nuts

Computershare’s PointsBet fiasco, the ASX’s James Hardie waiver and its fetish for dual-class shares are the result of decades of policy malaise...

05.07.2025 10

Financial Review

Joe Aston

Directors preach against hellfires of regulation. Don’t believe them

Planet Ark’s collapse makes yet another lie of the propaganda from Australia’s director-class that boards face unreasonable regulatory risks.

06.06.2025 9

Financial Review

Joe Aston

We are being led by numpties

A gobsmacking lack of intellectual heft in politics has us on a desperately unsustainable path, yet nobody is proposing to do anything meaningful...

02.05.2025 30

Financial Review

Joe Aston