Executive snow job can't conceal Christmas loot

'Tis the season to be outraged. Each year, a few weeks before the fat man attempts the impossible, squeezing an ever-larger frame down the same old chimney, we bear witness to a remarkably similar ritual as, en masse, our corpulent captains of industry and finance stuff ever more loot into those overstretched stockings.

Resurrecting the Anzac stoicism that made this nation what it is, they disregard weather, health of the economy, the state of the sharemarket, shareholders, community standards and even their own performance, all in the noble quest of providing society with a sense of stability - that in a world of turbulence and upheaval, some things never change.    More Read