Stephen Mayne
Journalist and Crikey founder @MayneReport
Stephen Mayne founded Crikey in February 2000, and has remained as a contributor since selling it in 2005. He’s a former political staffer and local government councillor who also pursues shareholder advocacy as a two-time former director of the Australian Shareholders’ Association. He also spent two years working for the Alliance for Gambling Reform.
The Oz has revealed that the ABC's Mark Scott got a pay rise -- but the paper is strangely silent on the massive pay packets taken home by the Murdoch family.
As aging Aurizon Holdings chairman John Prescott finally falls on his sword, Stephen Mayne looks around for more dead wood to cut.
Victorian Planning Minister Matthew Guy is indeed the most transparent in the state's history. And he also has a distinct fondness for skyscrapers.
Protest votes are on the rise in AGM season. Is it a sign of a wider malaise?
The sky's the limit as far as the control Victoria's Planning Minister has over new tower approvals. And if Labor wins government in November, that control will go to a member of the construction union.
Tomorrow, the City of Melbourne will introduce a proposal that would encourage all Victorian councils to produce publicly accessible audio recordings of all their meetings.
Big businesses do not need to be protected from shareholder activists hijacking EGMs, no matter what The Australian says.
Gina Rinehart's abysmal attendance record at Ten Network board meetings has been conveniently omitted from the glowing coverage of her in The Australian.
A recent land purchase has Melbourne City Council excited about the prospect of rejuvenating Queen Vic Market's landscape.
Is it ageist to suggest companies might be better off electing at least a few younger faces to their boards? You know, so we don't have quite so many executives dying on the job ...
