News Ltd chairman John Hartigan gave quite an entertaining and interesting address for the Andrew Olle memorial lecture last Friday. However, there was a touch of hypocrisy in some of his comments when you consider what his boss Rupert Murdoch was doing in New York a couple of hours later, writes Stephen Mayne.
Shareholder resolutions
Did Qantas unleash the dogs of war on union critics?
As Qantas continues to mull over how to deal with five shareholder resolutions put up the Transport Workers Unions, the board would have been delighted by yesterday’s massive attack on the union by Nine’s Sunday program.
TWU hits Qantas with shareholder resolution
The requirement that 100 signatures are necessary to produce a shareholder resolution in Australia has long been a ridiculous barrier to a proper culture of shareholder pressure. There literally hasn’t been a shareholder resolution at an Australian AGM for three years.
