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Episode 12: Geoff Cousins Independents CAN Podcast
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- Государство
Featuring Geoff Cousins, a highly successful Australian businessman, environmental activist, author, the founding chair of the Australian arm of the children’s charity Starlight Foundation, and the founding chair of Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art.
In 1995 Geoff became the first CEO Optus Vision, and for a decade he was a senior adviser to Prime Minister John Howard.
From 2006 to 2015 he was on the board of Telstra IAG Insurance, Hudson Conway, PBL and Seven, and worked for 25 years with Australia’s leading advertising agency, George Patterson, rising to become Chairman.
In 2007, Geoff published a novel called The Butcher Bird, which is set in Australian boardrooms, yachts, and waterfront mansions, a thriller that details shocking corruption and disturbing, unethical and probably illegal, behaviour, perhaps inspired from some of the behaviour Geoff witnessed and was shocked by himself in the corporate world.
The same year the Butcher Bird was published, Geoff Cousins became a ferocious environmental campaigner, opposing the Gunns pulp mill in Tasmania and later the location of Woodside’s gas-processing plant north of Broome in 2012, taking aim at our recent guest, Malcolm Turnbull who was then environment minister.
Geoff took on the role leading the Australian Conservation Foundation from 2014 to 2018, he took a very robust public stand against government support for the Adani coal mine in central Queensland. He has also served on the boards of the Smith Family, the Sydney Theatre Company and the St George Foundation.
Featuring Geoff Cousins, a highly successful Australian businessman, environmental activist, author, the founding chair of the Australian arm of the children’s charity Starlight Foundation, and the founding chair of Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art.
In 1995 Geoff became the first CEO Optus Vision, and for a decade he was a senior adviser to Prime Minister John Howard.
From 2006 to 2015 he was on the board of Telstra IAG Insurance, Hudson Conway, PBL and Seven, and worked for 25 years with Australia’s leading advertising agency, George Patterson, rising to become Chairman.
In 2007, Geoff published a novel called The Butcher Bird, which is set in Australian boardrooms, yachts, and waterfront mansions, a thriller that details shocking corruption and disturbing, unethical and probably illegal, behaviour, perhaps inspired from some of the behaviour Geoff witnessed and was shocked by himself in the corporate world.
The same year the Butcher Bird was published, Geoff Cousins became a ferocious environmental campaigner, opposing the Gunns pulp mill in Tasmania and later the location of Woodside’s gas-processing plant north of Broome in 2012, taking aim at our recent guest, Malcolm Turnbull who was then environment minister.
Geoff took on the role leading the Australian Conservation Foundation from 2014 to 2018, he took a very robust public stand against government support for the Adani coal mine in central Queensland. He has also served on the boards of the Smith Family, the Sydney Theatre Company and the St George Foundation.
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