Mark Westfield comments in The Weekend Australian on Joe Hockey’s faulty recollections as the responsible minister at the time for the collapse 20 years ago of HIH Insurance. Mark won a Walkley award in 2001 for his coverage leading to the collapse and wrote a best-selling book, HIH: The Inside Story of Australia’s Biggest Corporate Collapse (John Wiley).
Mark Westfield comments on managing a crisis in this article by Tony Featherstone in the Australian Institute of Company Directors’ magazine in September 2016.
Malcolm Turnbull: law, journalism, business deals, banking
Read Mark Westfield’s article on Malcolm Turnbull in the Australian in September 2015.
Mark Westfield’s book review of Margaret Simon’s biography of Kerry Stokes ‘Self-Made Man’ in the Australian in January 2014.
Mark Westfield book review of Andrew Burrell’s unauthorised Andrew Forrest biography ‘Twiggy’ in the Weekend Australian in November 2013.
Mark Westfield book review of Clive Palmer’s biography ‘Clive: The Story of Clive Palmer’ in the Weekend Australian in September 2013.
Cover feature in the Weekend Australian magazine on the Bible Society’s work in remote Australia negotiated by Mark Westfield.
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Mark Westfield reviews Colleen Ryan’s book Fairfax: The Rise and Fall on the Fairfax saga for the Weekend Australian in June 2013.
Mark Westfield writing in The Australian in March 2012 on continuing upheavals in Australia’s pay-TV industry, noting that the survivor is “the operator with the deepest pockets”.