After less than two months on the ASX, what a curious little company Wind Hydrogen Ltd is proving to be, full of sound and green promises, but looking more speculative by the day, and none too rewarding thus far for the investors talked into punting $12 million on the IPO, writes Michael Pascoe.
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Crikey Cabbie Panel: Steve Price doesn’t tip
Peter Garrett’s encounter with 2UE announcer Steve Price in Qantas’ Chairman’s Lounge at Melbourne airport last Friday led to all sorts of trouble for the Labor Party over the weekend. Garrett says it was a joke. Price heard it differently.
Revealed: how media companies hide from electoral scrutiny
The starter’s gun has been fired and once again, we’ve got a political election in Australia coinciding with the corporate AGM season when more than 2000 public company directors will face a poll of their own. Stephen Mayne writes.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
Richard Pratt’s honorary Doctorate in Law from Melbourne Uni is a qualification that presumably gives him unusual insight into these thoughts from ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel on the operation of cartels, a ”form of theft … little different from classes of corporate crime that already attract criminal sentences”.
Tilt 29 – Another crack at the board of WA News
Despite being a serial board candidate, there hasn’t been a tilt yet in 2007 – but that all changed this week when West Australian Newspapers company secretary Bernard Yates confirmed my nomination to run for the board had been accepted.
