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    Marius Kloppers

    April

    The Australian Electoral Commission released data on the major donations on Tuesday.

    Ramsay Foundation splashed $7m on failed Voice campaign

    Rich Listers, major charitable foundations and big corporates spent millions on last year’s Indigenous referendum.

    • Tom McIlroy

    February

    Keating’s list of business greats spans miners and property moguls

    Keith Campbell, Rod Carnegie and Marius Kloppers were all praised by the prime minister who oversaw a period of great change in the Australian economy.

    • Michael Stutchbury

    August 2023

    Truly: the Marius Kloppers-era ban on hot desk soup had nothing on this.

    BHP’s ‘inclusive language’ scolds strike again

    At the new, inclusive BHP, workers don’t get smashed in the wet mess, but unwind by drinking amazingly at the tavern. 

    • Myriam Robin

    March 2022

    Don Argus says BHP increased Marius Kloppers’ security.

    Former BHP chairman Don Argus says board worried for CEO’s safety

    Former BHP CEO Marius Kloppers was under a safety cloud in China when he was negotiating much higher spot prices for Australian iron ore exports.

    • Andrew Clark
    Marius Kloppers was instrumental in the push for a spot price and managed to convince Chinese steelmakers to drop the annual contracts in favour of the price of the day in March 2010.

    Fear and loathing at BHP and Rio Tinto

    Spying, intrigue, fears over the safety of BHP’s CEO: welcome to the rough-house world of noughties iron ore price negotiations.

    • Andrew Clark
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    October 2020

    Cerrejón – owned equally by miners BHP, Anglo American and Glencore – is one of the largest open-pit coal mines in the world, covering 69,000 hectares in the middle of indigenous Wayuus' ancestral land.

    BHP runs screaming from Queensland election

    The Big Australian has devolved from cold-blooded killer to avowed pacifist in a few short years.

    • Joe Aston

    August 2020

    Soup

    No soup bans in BHP's office of the future

    In the new world of work, BHP staff won't have to worry about smuggling in contraband soup if they choose to return to the office.

    • Natasha Boddy

    November 2019

    Mike Henry's data-driven precision making makes him a perfect fit for BHP chairman Ken MacKenzie's view of what a modern CEO needs to be

    Henry promises continuity with a twist

    BHP's next boss has offered an opening narrative that echoes the contrasting strategies of both current and past chief executives.

    • Matthew Stevens

    The big worry for the new BHP boss is China

    BHP's new chief executive, Mike Henry, is hostage to the performance of his company's biggest customer, China.

    • Tony Boyd
    The big three: BHP chair Ken MacKenzie, CEO-elect Mike Henry and retiring CEO Andrew Mackenzie

    Seamless change at BHP bodes well for Australia too

    Past CEO changes have been abrupt, but this time there's no sharp change of direction for the Big Australian.

    • The AFR View

    September 2019

    BHP plots an end to boom-bust bonus cycle

    How BHP was inspired to build an executive bonus scheme that's less volatile than the one that paid former boss Marius Kloppers $US76 million in five years.

    • Matthew Stevens