The AGM season formally finishes next Wednesday, November 30, and the final days will feature the traditional avalanche of penny dreadful gatherings, most of which will be missed by the media.
Gunns
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Seeing the ocean through the trees in Gunns debate
Crikey readers have their say.
Minister: Gunns quit logging ‘because the market forced it to’
Stephen Mayne is wrong. Gunns does not have “a strong environmental story to tell”. It has been the author of an epic Tasmanian tragedy, a tale that has reduced good people to tears, writes Greens MP Cassy O’Connor.
Mayne: Gunns believes pulp mill approval is inevitable — as it should be
Tasmanian forestry giant Gunns is working flat stick on its $2.3 billion pulp mill project. While the mainstream media has left the impression the project will fall over, there is a sense of inevitability on site that it will ultimately be delivered.
Tassie forests deal like a Gunn to the head
The ultimate peace deal to end the 40-year war in Tasmania’s forests is dead in the water, writes political journalist Bruce Montgomery from Hobart.
Fairfax, BlueScope and Gunns should have declared much bigger losses
The biggest week of the annual reporting season is drawing to a close and some companies are hacking into their balance sheets like the GFC days.
Mayne: where to for Gunns, logging and the pulp mill?
Shares in the financially struggling Tasmanian timber giant Gunns remain suspended ahead of Monday’s profit announcement and the ongoing clifftop poker around exiting old-growth logging and financing the $2.3 billion pulp mill.
Gunns’ pulp mill: in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
Gunns Ltd’s pulp mill has paralysed and poisoned Tasmania’s public life and private life, even divided towns and families, writes Lindsay Tuffin, of Tasmanian Times.
Why Gunns is teetering in Tassie
What company has received $500 million in cash from the issue of new shares over the past three years but only has a market value of $300 million? asks accountant John Lawrence.
Tasmania’s political alliance won’t be pulped — but the people smell a con
Before Tasmania’s highly contentious pull mill is built, friendships will be tested, political alliances between Labor and the Greens at state and federal level will be stretched to the limit (though not ruptured). And the people will revolt, writes Bruce Montgomery in Hobart.
Sue Cato spins for Gunns, not that Q&A let on
Q&A defends itself against allegations of impropriety in the wake of an appearance from Gunns spin doctor Sue Cato on Monday night’s program.
Gay, Gunns and logging — just what nobody wanted to talk about
Gunns chair John Gay is fighting back days out from an election. His bid to fend off concerns over corporate governance issues is a pivotal development in Tasmanian environmental politics, writes Bob Burton.
Business As Usual: Saving Gunns … billion dollar Toll … where you should live
Time for a bailout, there’s an election in Tasmania and one federally this year and the biggest flashpoint in the state is Gunns’ pulp mill. Plus, paying the toll at Toll and RBA watchers pay attention.
Tony Burke shares PR with Gunns
The Greens have caught Agriculture Minister Tony Burke out with some apparent cutting and pasting from propaganda produced by pulp mill proponent Gunns.
Morning Market Report: Wall St down
Wall St was down 34 on Friday, with metals and oil struggling.
Sackwatch 12: Unemployment figures may be staying put for a while…
Crikey continues to track the job-loss carnage.
The True Face of David Bartlett
After 11 years of Labor rule in Tasmania, where has the money gone?
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Budget 09, created like no other chocolate
Crikey’s readers weigh in on Budget 09. And more about Cadbury’s chocolate block changes.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: A chocolatey clarification and more reader comments
Daniel Ellis, Corporate Communication Manager for Cadbury Australia, writes with some information about the 250gm block changes.
Morning Market Report: Market drops 100
All sectors bar telecom stocks were down, and the Dow dropped 289.
Record 52 companies join the $100m loss club
The 2008 interim profit season officially finished at close of business on Friday but quite a few late-comers are still dribbling out losses, writes Stephen Mayne.
First Dog Special News Bulletin…
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