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Business

Thirteen scandals

A litany of corporate wrongdoing
by Stuart Kells
April 2024, no. 463

Rogue Corporations: Inside Australia’s biggest business scandals by Quentin Beresford

NewSouth, $34.99 pb, 426 pp

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Quentin Beresford, an adjunct professor in politics at Sunshine Coast University, has written and edited about a dozen books, including the excellent Wounded Country (2021), which dealt with the failure of water policy in the Murray-Darling Basin. His latest offering explores thirteen ‘business scandals’ in Australia. Beresford’s definition of a scandal is selective and eclectic. The scope of the book extends to corporate collapses but also to wage theft, climate-change denial, occupational health and safety failures, and the destruction of Indigenous heritage sites.

 


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Rogue Corporations: Inside Australia’s biggest business scandals by Quentin Beresford

NewSouth, $34.99 pb, 426 pp

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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