While the whole experience was very frustrating for shareholders who wanted to hold the board to account, the AGM was a PR success for Telstra, with minimum scrutiny of the board’s performance.
Telstra shareholders
Non-executive director fees: what is reasonable?
Telstra’s remuneration committee chairman, Charles Macek, claims that several factors make the recent increases in non-executive director fees reasonable. The only problem with Macek’s reasoning is that it bears little resemblance to reality, writes Adam Schwab.
Geoffrey Cousins, all is forgiven
For a supposedly close mate of the Prime Minister, Telstra director Geoffrey Cousins appears to have joined his colleagues in going native although in his case the issue is Malcolm Turnbull’s approval of the Gunns pulp mill, writes Stephen Mayne.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 21 August, 2007
Overnight Fairfax sacked their star, Walkley-winning blogger Jack Marx for suggesting that Kevin Rudd might be capable of maintaining an er-ction. Whether this assertion may have provided a long-awaited point of difference with John Howard is moot, the issue is rather one of editorial timidity.
