Glenn Hunt/AAP August 10, 2021 Casino operator Crown plays an old business trick: using workers as human shields Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Threatening that if you lose your business your workers won’t have jobs has been tried in the past by figures such as Alan Bond and Clive Palmer.
Mutual admiration between big businessmen like Alan Bond (left) and the Labor Party was a double-edged sword for Bob Hawke in the 1980s. AAP/NAA December 1, 2015 Book extract: The Eighties – The Decade That Transformed Australia Frank Bongiorno, Australian National University In the 1980s Australians grappled with the challenges of living in an era that brought together boom and crisis, nationalism and globalisation, confidence and anxiety, and conservatism and exuberance.
They said he’d never make it. AAP Image/Tony McDonough June 5, 2015 Alan Bond’s lesson for Australia: we get the fraudsters we deserve John Rice, University of New England and Nigel Martin, Australian National University Bond was often called an entrepreneur but that was never really true.