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After ousting Alexander, Crown’s Coonan makes desperate pitch to save her own job – Sydney Morning Herald
Helen Coonan staged a ‘coup’ to oust former Crown executive chairman John Alexander in January and now she’s trying to keep her own job.
Alexander’s plank walking exercise was richly rewarded with a $3.5 million pay package for a year’s work – more generous even than Barton’s salary. The announcement didn’t expressly say Alexander would leave in the year but anyone that made inquiries was made aware that was the deal.
Coonan’s take on January’s management and board upheaval was that it was a nod to non-Packer shareholders who were looking for a more conventional governance strategy. Anyone who has followed the Crown inquiry over…
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