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Business/Robbery etc

Changing the leader when the going gets tough?

26 September 2015

9:00 AM

26 September 2015

9:00 AM

It’s as questionable in business as it is in politics: when facing the prospect of disaster, just change the leader and everything will be OK. As the slide in profits and share-prices of Australia’s largest retailer, Woolworths, have mirrored former Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s dismal personal polling, its shareholders are still wondering who their ‘magic Malcolm’ will turn out to be.

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