Rampart Talks

This is just an excerpt. The full interview with ALEX VYNOKUR is available exclusively for Rampart subscribers - go to rampart.news to watch now.

When Alex Vynokur started Betashares in 2009, most Australians who heard of “ETFs” thought it was a reference to electronic fund transfers, rather than exchange-traded funds. 

Sixteen years later, the company holds about 20% of Australia’s ETF market, with $80 billion in assets under management for a million Australians. It’s second only to global behemoth Vanguard. 

In this episode of Rampart Talks, host Joe Aston traces Vynokur’s path from arrivin...

This is just an excerpt. The full interview with GREG BOORER is available exclusively for Rampart subscribers - go to rampart.news to watch now.

In 2007, Greg Boorer put his house on the line to build a data centre in Canberra, when the government's critical systems were still sitting in office basements. Nearly two decades later, CDC is a $20 billion business, and Greg is one of the most powerful (and least-known) figures in Australia's AI infrastructure boom.

Joe Aston sits down with the low-profile founder to ask whether data...

This is just an excerpt. The full interview with MICHAEL LEE is available exclusively for Rampart subscribers - go to rampart.news to watch now.

Justice Michael Lee has presided over some of the most important trials in recent Australian history:  Bruce Lehrmann v Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson; Qantas' illegal sacking of 1,820 ground workers and the corporate regulator ASIC's case against Star Entertainment's former board directors and company executives. 

He's also the judge who ruled against journalist Joe Aston and Nine Entertainment in a defamation trial taken by...

This is just an excerpt. The full interview with JOHN MULLEN is available exclusively for Rampart subscribers - go to rampart.news to watch now.

John Mullen is the chair of Qantas and one of Australia’s most respected business leaders.

He took over as chair in February 2024 when the company was at a low ebb. Long time CEO Alan Joyce had resigned in disgrace the previous year and the company was broadly loathed by the Australian public.

Two years later, Mullen says Qantas is in a much stronger position, both because of im...

This is just an excerpt. The full interview with TODD GREENBERG is available exclusively for Rampart subscribers - go to rampart.news to watch now.

Cricket Australia CEO Todd Greenberg joins Rampart’s Joe Aston for a conversation about the future of the sport and his attempt to privatise the domestic T20 Big Bash League.  

Greenberg has been in sports administration for three decades, starting at the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs rugby league club. His leadership weathered many crises and scandals before his abrupt departure in the early days of the...

This is just an excerpt. The full interview with RUTHIE ROGERS is available exclusively for Rampart subscribers - go to rampart.news to watch now.

American-British restaurant legend Ruthie Rogers is Joe Aston’s guest on this month’s Rampart Talks. She’s the owner of the River Cafe, a Michelin starred Italian restaurant on the banks of the River Thames in London, about halfway between Harrods and Heathrow.

This podcast explores the humble beginnings of the restaurant which has become a global phenomenon. In 1987, Rogers and her co-founder Rose Gray had a basic goal: to ser...

This is just an excerpt. The full interview with HAMISH DOUGLASS is available exclusively for Rampart subscribers - go to rampart.news to watch now.

The co-founder of Magellan Financial Group Hamish Douglass is Joe Aston's guest on this month's Rampart Talks interview series. In his first major interview since disappearing abruptly from public life in February 2022, Douglass speaks candidly about the extraordinary events that brought him to his knees. 

We explore the huge changes in his personal life and identity; the disturbing rumours about him that survive to t...

This is just an excerpt. The full interview with Oliver Curtis is available exclusively for Rampart subscribers - go to rampart.news to watch now.

What happens when a man with everything to prove builds a company that Nvidia, Meta and Blackstone can't ignore?

Oliver Curtis – a convicted insider trader and now aspiring ASX-listed company CEO – sits down with Joe Aston for one of the most candid conversations in Australian business. This is a story about second chances, big bets, and a technology race that could reshape Australia's economy for generations.

​​Curtis makes the case...

This is just an excerpt. The full interview with Matt Comyn is available exclusively for Rampart subscribers - go to rampart.news to watch now.

Commonwealth Bank CEO Matt Comyn sits down for a candid conversation with Rampart’s Joe Aston. From the very restaurant where he landed his first CBA job in 1999, Comyn opens up about being the unlikely choice as CEO, his two days in the witness box at the Banking Royal Commission and the subsequent challenge of restoring public trust in the company. 

What makes this episode unmissable:

The world's mos...

This is just an excerpt. The full interview with Nick Molnar is available exclusively for Rampart subscribers - go to rampart.news to watch now.

In this episode of Rampart Talks, Joe Aston sits down with Afterpay co-founder Nick Molnar in Los Angeles to discuss his remarkable journey from selling jewellery on eBay as a teenager to creating one of Australia's most successful tech exports.

Molnar opens up about the origins of Afterpay, revealing how a casual conversation with his neighbour Anthony Eisen while moving furniture sparked the idea that would disrupt consumer lending. He...

This is just an excerpt. The full interview with Jayne Hrdlicka is available exclusively for Rampart subscribers - go to rampart.news to watch now.

Former Jetstar and Virgin Australia CEO Jayne Hrdlicka has built a reputation as one of Australia's toughest corporate operators. Now she's taking on her biggest challenge yet: turning around the Endeavour Group, the $7 billion pokies and liquor business struggling with declining sales and a 35% share price collapse since demerging from Woolworths.

This interview with Jayne is a candid conversation about resilience, ambition, and the personal cost of corporate leadership. Topics...

This is Brad Banducci’s first major interview since that infamous "walkout" (a term he disputes) on Four Corners.

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When Banducci took the helm of Woolies in 2016, the company was a market pariah following its disastrous foray into hardware via Masters. On his watch, Woolworths regained, and for many years maintained, its ascendancy over arch-rival Coles. He was certainly, in Joe Aston’s view, one of the outstanding major company CEOs of the last decade. Yet his final year was marred by controversy, as Woolworths (and Coles) b...

The full interview with Gil McLachlan is available exclusively for Rampart subscribers - go to rampart.news to watch now.

In this second episode of Rampart Talks, Joe Aston sits down with Gil McLachlan, former CEO of the AFL and now chief executive at Tabcorp.

The conversation is wide-ranging, covering his footy legacy, from his regrets over the handling of the Adam Goodes racism scandal to the blockbuster commercial growth of Aussie rules (now comfortably the richest sport in the country) to the messy succession to Gil’s lieutenant Andrew Dillon led by the AFL Co...

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The full interview with James Packer is available exclusively for Rampart subscribers - go to rampart.news to watch now. 

In this first episode of the Rampart Talks series, Joe Aston sat down with James for a conversation that spans Crown, the Murdochs, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, mental health and his profound dislike of the former Victorian Premier Dan Andrews. 

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Joe Aston sits down with some of Australia's most accomplished and fascinating business leaders, like billionaire James Packer, former AFL CEO turned Tabcorp boss Gil McLachlan, ex-Woolworths chief Brad Banducci, Afterpay co-founder Nick Molnar and more to be announced.

If you want to know how money and power works in Australia - and what makes these leaders tick - you won't want to miss this. 

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