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CDM Article
01 Apr 2013
Jac Nasser, described as a chairman of chairmen, talks to Tony Featherstone about succession planning, leadership development, board composition and other governance matters at the world’s biggest mining company.
It is easy to judge boards only on big events: the CEO appointment, successi...
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CDM Article
01 Apr 2013
Phil Ruthven argues that Australia’s growth potential lies in developing its top one-third to take advantage of the Asian century.
By world standards, Australia has not populated or developed as much of its massive landmass, water resources or coastline as most other continents and nations ...
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CDM Article
01 Mar 2013
Michael Tooma outlines the lessons Australian directors can learn from New Zealand’s Pike River Mine disaster that killed 29 miners in November 2010.
At one level, the New Zealand report, Royal Commission on the Pike River Coal Mine Tragedy, reads like so many reports before it – another ...
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CDM Article
01 Feb 2013
Western Australia’s economy may be experiencing a bit of a hiccup, but as Sam Walker discovers, there are still many opportunities to be taken advantage of in the state.
A lull in the performance of the resources sector has not halted the enormous contribution Western Australia is making ...
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CDM Article
01 Feb 2013
Phil Ruthven believes that even if commodity prices have peaked, mining will continue to boost Australia’s wealth on the back of volume growth, improved productivity and, possibly, a drop in the value of the dollar.
Australia’s mining industry is in its sixth cycle since 1788, the year in...
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CDM Article
01 Nov 2012
Keith De Lacy talks to Tony Featherstone about the deteriorating relationship between government and business in Australia, life after politics and the joys and challenges of being a company director.
A full-time board career is an obvious, orderly, linear progression for many directors a...
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CDM Article
01 Nov 2012
Tony Featherstone examines the many hurdles faced by mining boards and provides some tips on how directors can overcome them.
Spare a thought for Australia’s resource sector. It faces a perfect storm of falling commodity prices, rising costs, new federal and state government taxes and roy...
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CDM Article
01 Sep 2012
Tony Featherstone warns that over the next 12-18 months, the directors of some junior miners could find themselves severely tested as they look to raise capital at a time when resource stocks may be out of favour and commodity prices are falling.
Australia’s resource sector has had a forg...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jun 2012
Tony Featherstone predicts good directors will be in great demand as a once-in-a-generation resources boom picks up pace.
Director demand on resource boards will be boosted by:
More mining companies forming; others growing rapidly.
The retirement of baby boomer director...
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CDM Article
01 Jun 2012
The key message from the Company Directors national conference in Darwin last month was that Australia could lose out on the benefits of the resources boom if it did not take the right actions now. Zilla Efrat reports.
It was perhaps most fitting that last month’s Australian Institute of ...
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CDM Article
01 Apr 2012
Zilla Efrat investigates the challenges faced in sustaining and harnessing the bounty of Australia’s extraordinary resources boom.
Australia is indeed the lucky country. Not only is it endowed with abundant mineral resources, it is on the doorstep of fast-growing and hungry resource cons...
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CDM Article
01 Feb 2012
Tony Featherstone believes directors of small explorers in search of capital face a difficult year ahead and should lift their governance game.
Boards of small mining companies must be on their game in 2012. Higher market, commodity and regulatory risks could threaten cash-strapped explo...
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CDM Article
01 Sep 2010
The resources boom is creating golden opportunities for those looking for new board positions. But as
Tony Featherstone
reports, these directors will have to sift through many challenges before uncovering any nuggets.
A new gold rush
Challenges for directors new to resource c...
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CDM Article
01 Jul 2010
Tony Featherstone
would like to see the junior mining sector take advantage of a once-in-a-generation mining boom to lift its governance to the next level.
Taking junior miners to the next level
The mining boom’s sheer force and its effect on the economy are well known. Less consider...
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CDM Article
01 Oct 2009
As it enters into its sixth cycle since 1788,
Phil Ruthven
FAICD reviews mining’s contribution to Australia’s economy and its prospects over the next decade.
Market Watch
Mining comes and goes in cycles in Australia’s economy, as Figure 1 shows.
It is an industry now into its six...
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CDM Article
01 Sep 2009
Rick Crabb FAICD, a member of AICD’s WA Division Council and the chairman of several resources companies, talks about the challenges of directorship.
Q&A with Rick Crabb
Company Director (CD): What unique challenges do directors of mining companies face?
Rick Crabb (RC): Balancing the comm...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Dec 2006
Phil Ruthven argues that the current mining bonanza is more a case of serendipity than it is of traditional hard work and productivity.
Price increases causing mining bonanzas
The mining industry in Australia has passed through five cycles in our relatively short history from 1788 to 2006. ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jan 2006
Power to peddle
Australia’s gas and energy sectors have attracted media attention for a surfeit of reasons – from conflict over price regulation to sustainable development and the re-emerging debate over nuclear power. Joe Parkes takes a closer look at the industry at the heart of the headlines.&nbs...