Cairns is now handing the chairmanship of Woolworths to the man who originally handed it to him.
Cairns’ choice of Perkins is not so much radical as repetitive. In October 2020, Cairns retired as the chairman of Origin Energy, having named Perkins as his successor there too. Cairns invited Perkins onto the Origin board in July 2015, the month before Cairns was named Woolworths chairman. Perkins remains Origin’s chairman today.
Cairns was right in the running to succeed McCann as Macquarie chairman. Instead, Waters imploded at Woolworths and Cairns took that hospital pass in August 2015. Four weeks later, McCann announced he was handing the baton at the millionaires’ factory toHaving missed out on his own dubious quinella, McCann now enjoys retirement, his most recent act of patronage being to
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