Rogue Corporations Inside Australia’s biggest business scandals

Crown Casino, the Bond Group, James Hardie, HIH Insurance, Geoffrey Edelsten’ s Allied Medical Group, 7 Eleven and Rio Tinto, the list goes on… Award-winning author Quentin Beresford has dissected the rise and fall of the Gunns logging company and analysed the proposed Adani mine and our greatest river system. Now he takes on Australia’ s rogue corporations. In a crisis of corporate culture, the unparalleled power of Australian companies has been accompanied by an unrelenting stream of scandals -- bankruptcies, criminal charges, ethical misconduct and damage to the reputation of companies and their executives and boards. Beresford investigates corporate Australia’ s highest-profile scandals, the rise of celebrity CEOs, the role of regulators, the increased pressure on boards to abide by ethical standards and the murky links between big business, governments, banks, media and lobby groups.

Quentin Beresford is an Adjunct Professor at Sunshine Coast University and the author of The Rise and Fall of Gunns LTD, Adani and the War over Coal and Wounded Country (winner of the 2022 Queensland Premier’ s Award for a work of state significance) for NewSouth.

Introduction Chapter one: Ripping off medibank: The rise of corporate medicine Chapter two: Empire of debt: Bond Corporation Chapter three: Dreams of hollywood: Christopher Skase and Qintex Chapter four: ‘ The shambolic journey to oblivion’ : HIH insurance: Chapter five: A plot from machiavelli: James Hardie Chapter six: The cult: Storm Financial Chapter seven: Franchising exploitation Chapter eight: Dark money: The Federal Group Chapter nine: ‘ Horror stories’ : Bupa Aged Care Chapter ten: ‘ Free pass to paedophiles’ : Westpac Chapter eleven: ‘ The climate change hoax’ : News Corp Chapter twelve: inflitrated by criminals: Crown Resorts Chapter thirteen: Vandals: Rio Tinto and Juukan Caves Conclusion: Taming the beast