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Australian CEOs are still getting their bonuses. Performance doesn’t seem to matter so much

Written by Richard Denniss, Adjunct Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

Almost all of Australia’s top chief executives are, according to their boards at least, knocking it out of the park in terms of performance.

That is despite sluggish productivity, persistently high carbon emissions, rising inequality and Australia’s public spending on research and development being among the lowest in...

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