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For years, the rise of the Bundaberg farmer’s son turned London banker seemed unstoppable. Then things started to fall apart.
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Rick Morton.
Lex Greensill.
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Lex Greensill started the week as a billionaire. Within days, the boy from Bundaberg had lost his empire.
The collapse of his fortune is, in part, explained by close links to Australia’s biggest renewables investor, Sanjeev Gupta. And as such, Greensill’s trouble may drag down Gupta’s global empire, with jitters already spreading to the 1200 workers at South Australia’s Whyalla steelworks, which was purchased by the Gupta Family Group (GFG) Alliance in 2017.
Employment by Kelmeny Fraser
Premium Content  Women are being encouraged to enter male-dominated trades, only to face sexism on a depressingly regular basis, warns an employment lawyer for a major compensation firm. While industry campaigns have spent years enticing lady tradies to pick up the tools in a male-dominated trade, sexual harassment and discrimination are too often the ugly reality of workplaces who pay lip service to boosting diversity while failing to meaningfully confront the power imbalance faced by women on the job, warns Maurice Blackburn principal Giri Sivaraman. Mr Sivaraman, who heads the firm s employment law division in Brisbane, said the reality undermined glossy industry campaigns to promote gender diversity in male-dominated workplaces, and was exposing bosses to the risk of costly legal action for discrimination.
Employment by Kelmeny Fraser
Premium Content  Women are being encouraged to enter male-dominated trades, only to face sexism on a depressingly regular basis, warns an employment lawyer for a major compensation firm. While industry campaigns have spent years enticing lady tradies to pick up the tools in a male-dominated trade, sexual harassment and discrimination are too often the ugly reality of workplaces who pay lip service to boosting diversity while failing to meaningfully confront the power imbalance faced by women on the job, warns Maurice Blackburn principal Giri Sivaraman. Mr Sivaraman, who heads the firm s employment law division in Brisbane, said the reality undermined glossy industry campaigns to promote gender diversity in male-dominated workplaces, and was exposing bosses to the risk of costly legal action for discrimination.
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