Joe Aston
@mrjoeaston
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Founder of @rampart_news, former @FinancialReview columnist. My book on @Qantas, The Chairman’s Lounge, out now.
Sydney, Australia
Joined September 2009
Next month I'll be returning to regular writing with my new media venture, @rampart_news. I can't wait to get started. More to come ahead of the official launch, but make sure you're on the waitlist to be the first to find out more:
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Investigative commentary on Australian business and finance, led by Joe Aston.
Introducing Rampart - a new media venture led by @mrjoeaston. Rampart will bring you the best analysis on Australian business and finance. If you’re a top executive, policymaker or investor - or you aspire to be - get on the waitlist to find out more.
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“Every time a platinum blonde MILF with enormous Michael Boltons is subpoenaed in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, there Richard White is, lurking in her DMs.” - via @rampart_news .($).
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Another of the billionaire's "mentoring" relationships has been exposed, this time with an OnlyFans creator.
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RT @rampart_news: Another of the billionaire's "mentoring" relationships has been exposed, this time with an OnlyFans creator. @mrjoeaston….
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Another of the billionaire's "mentoring" relationships has been exposed, this time with an OnlyFans creator.
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RT @rampart_news: "Private equity isn't complicated," Joe Aston writes in his latest column about Virgin Australia's finances. "It has one….
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Virgin is taking money out of its left pocket, stuffing it back in its right pocket and calling it transformation.
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RT @rampart_news: Yet more tumult for HMC Capital, as its energy transition strategy follows its hospital and data centre funds into the ma….
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Yet more tumult for HMC Capital, as its energy transition strategy follows its hospital and data centre funds into the market doghouse.
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Vik Bansal resigns as Boral CEO. One I predicted earlier: .($) #ausbiz $SGH.AX.
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Perennially on the move, Boral's CEO is baiting all the hooks that he can. Rampart investigates.
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RT @rampart_news: Caledonia takes concentrated bets with the fortunes of Sydney's richest, oldest families. For the first time in years, it….
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Caledonia takes concentrated bets with the fortunes of Sydney's richest, oldest families. For the first time in years, it's added two new stocks to its portfolio.
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RT @rampart_news: Macquarie invented infrastructure as an asset class, dominating it globally for 25 years. Until now… In his latest articl….
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Macquarie invented infrastructure as an asset class, dominating it globally for 25 years. Until now…
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RT @rampart_news: Blue Sky's bitter founder capitulates in court, plus Graeme Samuel's inevitable route back to himself. @mrjoeaston writes….
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Blue Sky's bitter founder capitulates in court, plus Graeme Samuel's inevitable route back to himself.
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RT @rampart_news: Policy consultations always flush out the crazies walking among us, writes @mrjoeaston in his latest article for Rampart.….
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Meanwhile, the ASX takes haplessness to new heights.
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RT @rampart_news: The list for the nation's highest civil honour has been announced, and it's a total eye roll. In his latest note to subsc….
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Joe explores the lowlights of the latest Order of Australia inductees, plus more shenanigans at IDP Education.
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RT @rampart_news: Investors expect that a material amount of IDP's revenue from the last six months now won't materialise. Former Chanticle….
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Investors now expect that a material amount of IDP's revenue from the last six months now won't materialise.
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RT @rampart_news: "No matter how ludicrous the words that fall from Gonski's lips, everyone nods along as if some papal edict has just been….
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No matter how ludicrous the words that fall from Gonski's lips, everyone nods along as if some papal edict has just been uttered.
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RT @rampart_news: "The job of a director has evolved over time, but what rules and regulations can't control for is competence." @mrjoeasto….
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The job of a director has evolved over time, but what rules and regulations can't control for is competence.
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RT @rampart_news: With its investigation into the dominant property advertising portal, the ACCC is not fooling around. Ivor Ries explores….
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With its investigation into the dominant property advertising portal, the ACCC is not fooling around.
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RT @rampart_news: It's paying more tax and letting "community outcomes" affect the profit share pool in asset management. Has the millionai….
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It's paying more tax and letting "community outcomes" affect the profit share pool in asset management. Has the millionaires' factory gone soft?
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RT @rampart_news: Following Healthscope's collapse into receivership on Monday, Ivor Ries explores why PE and hospitals are a terrible mix.….
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As the US experience demonstrates, PE and hospitals are a terrible mix.
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RT @rampart_news: Come Wednesday, investors are touring the company's troubled Onslow haul road in the Pilbara. @mrjoeaston explores in his….
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Come Wednesday, investors are touring the company's troubled Onslow haul road in the Pilbara.
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You may remember Andrew Finch from this command performance before the Senate. .
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.@Qantas has hired new general counsel, Kate Towey, to replace Andrew Finch, from the same law firm Allens: ($).
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The airline's three days in Justice Lee's courtroom could scarcely have gone worse.
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The airline's three days in Justice Lee's courtroom could scarcely have gone worse.
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