The pandemic and an M&A boom played key roles in many of the thrills and spills in 2021. Year
. Templeman-Jones was returned despite a 40 per cent protest vote, and Tambassis didn’t get nearly enough votes – which means the whole battle is likely to roll on into the new year.Holgate should signal the death of the “pub test”
But in an explosive appearance before a Senate committee in April, she claimed she had been bullied out of her job and unlawfully stood down because she was entitled to give the watches out. “The pub test I was being judged against was handing out gold watches in the middle of a crisis, that’s not what happened,” she declared. Holgate received a $1 million payout, Australia Post and the government got a black eye, Cartier got a whole lot of publicity, and everyone else needed a drink.
Helen Coonan was supposed to be the one to lead Crown Resorts out of the darkness. But Ray Finkelstein ensured that instead she was the final big sacrifice on the altar of change at the casino giant. Having had her reform agenda ticked off by the NSW inquiry in February, Coonan went into Finkelstein’s Victorian royal commission buoyed by a takeover offer and a merger proposal.
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