Gavin Slater likes to describe his work at the National Australia Bank as a “full body transplant”. It is costing $1 billion a year. How does he stay cool?

The Federal Government's tweaks to unfair dismissal processes are entirely sensible, even if they have left employer groups predictably underwhelmed.

In October and November, many listed Australian companies will hold their annual general meetings. We take a look at some of the most interesting AGMs coming up over the next few months.

The lesson for other leading companies from the Gunns fallout is that serious action came too late: heads should have rolled years ago. The board and fund managers pumped other people’s money into what could arguably have been seen as a fantasy.

It's only taken 107 years, but Cricket Australia is finally set to appoint a woman to its board. The move follows considerable pressure on the organisation to attract a more diverse group of individuals to the table.

The High Court today found mining billionaire Andrew Twiggy Forrest did not mislead investors and breach the Corporations Act eight years ago. The finding will come as a blow to ASIC, which has engaged in a long legal battle with Forrest.

The tomato sauce, the regular staff barbecues and the brewed coffee are on their way out at the iron ore mining company, Fortescue Metals Group. After narrowing escaping breaching its debt covenants, FMG is tightening its belt and searching every nook and cranny to cut costs.

Appointing a woman to the top job would be a significant move for Macquarie Bank. It'd be a huge appointment in an industry that's still not even attracting an equal number of women to men in the early years, let along retaining those women long enough to see them reach key leadership positions.

The king is dead, long live the king. Well, kings. Nathan Tinkler’s spectacular wealth wipeout has been crystallised by the release of the first Rich List since things started to really go pear-shaped for him about two months ago.