June
The tallest tales from 50 years of Chanticleer
Movers and shakers from around Australia helped celebrate 50 years of The Australian Financial Review’s revered Chanticleer column. Here are the top tales and anecdotes from each of our past columnists.
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Chanticleer’s best calls, biggest rogues and dud deals
This week in a special episode of the Chanticleer podcast, James and Anthony take you inside Chanticleer’s 50-year anniversary lunch, and share the best stories, insights and moments.
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Australian business is at a crossroads. Can we get out of our own way?
Chanticleer’s 50th anniversary celebration showed Australia’s long period of prosperity and growth will be challenged by geopolitics, regulation and competition.
- James Thomson
‘Pretty surreal’: Transurban chief remembers ‘sexism’ storm
Michelle Jablko’s appointment as ANZ CFO in 2016 was initially lauded, but then the bank’s reaction to criticism of her became the story.
- Lucas Baird
‘Chanticleer for a day’ draws out three big issues
Infrastructure planning, boosting equity markets and re-thinking social advocacy by companies are three things these movers and shakers put on Chanticleer’s agenda.
- Anthony Macdonald
ASX investors spooked by rising technology costs
Shares in the equities market operator slumped 8 per cent after it revealed elevated capital expenditure over the medium term, as it continues with the CHESS fix.
- James Eyers
The leak that got away: Chanticleer on Foxtel’s $2b losses
Seven former Chanticleer columnists reminisced about their biggest stories on Thursday to celebrate the column’s 50th anniversary. Here’s what they said.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
'They could talk to each other now via my words. And they did.': Gottliebsen
Founding Chanticleer columnist Robert Gottliebsen describes what it was like at the birth of "personality journalism".
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Big business’ Voice advocacy backfired: new Qantas chairman
John Mullen said businesses should not be “completely anaesthetised” on social issues, but warned it can be dangerous for firms to back politicised causes.
- Nick Bonyhady
February 2023
- Opinion
- Opinion
Battle lines drawn over director protections in new climate regime
A legal opinion by one of Australia’s top experts on climate financial risk says new disclosure laws should not expose directors to new liabilities.
- James Thomson
February 2021
- Exclusive
- Lunch with the AFR
Australia could have become a nuclear power: physicist Greg Clark
The scientist and businessman says climate science is still a work in progress and that Australia needs a national project.
- Tony Boyd
December 2019
Australia's opportunity to aid China's growth
Australia's leadership in agricultural efficiency presents an opportunity for collaboration with China as it reforms its rural sector and urbanises about 220 million people over the next decade.
- Tony Boyd
November 2019
Meet the Aussie start-up the Microsoft CEO likes
When the newly anointed Fortune CEO of the year Microsoft chief Satya Nadella uses a public appearance to praise your company, it's a pretty big deal.
- Natasha Gillezeau
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Microsoft CEO says trust is key
Satya Nadella, who transformed Microsoft's fortunes when many thought Windows was dead, has reaffirmed the importance of business earning its social licence.
- Tony Boyd
- Opinion
- The AFR View
The lessons of Microsoft's return to the top
In 2000, Microsoft was the most valuable listed company in the world. In 2019, it is back. Its chief executive Satya Nadella talked about what happened in between.
- The AFR View
Microsoft chief says not all big tech is the same
As US presidential candidates debate breaking up big tech giants, Microsoft's Satya Nadella says his firm is not the same as some of its peers.
- Paul Smith and James Thomson
'I represent it all': In conversation with Microsoft's Satya Nadella
This is an edited transcript of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaking with The Australian Financial Review's Chanticleer columnist Tony Boyd.
Satya Nadella entices cream of business to Chanticleer Lunch
Billionaire fund manager Hamish Douglass of Magellan Financial Group, outgoing BHP chief executive Andrew Mackenzie and Labor MP Ed Husic were among the throng to hear from Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella.
- Natasha Gillezeau
No regrets for Nadella over heading for the cloud
With cloud revenues on the increase and mobile phone revenues on the decline, Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella's decision to choose the cloud over the phone is paying off.
- John Davidson
Satya Nadella's secrets to work-life balance
The Microsoft chief says an early boss told him he would 'spend so much time at (work) ... it had better have deeper meaning than just being a job'.
- James Thomson
