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Encyclopedia > Don Argus

Don Argus is an Australian businessman, and the current chairman of BHP Billiton and Brambles. A Chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. ... Billiton redirects here. ... Brambles Industries is an Australian-headquarted multinational group of companies specialising in logistics, including waste management, document management, and other logistical issues. ...


Argus spent much of his early career in the banking industry. He was the general manager of products and service at the National Australia Bank (NAB) having being at the bank since the 1956. He became the Chief Executive Officer in October 1, 1990.[1] He was credited with leading NAB to recovery from a difficult period in the late 1980s. However there was criticism of huge financial losses from overseas acquisitions that occurred under his leadership.[2] For other uses, see Bank (disambiguation). ... The National Australia Bank or nab (ASX: NAB, LSE: NAB, NYSE: NAB, TYO: 8637) colloquially the National or the NAB. The NAB is part of the NAB Group. ... “Chief executive” redirects here. ...


In joined the board at BHP in 1996, and in 1999 he assumed the role of chairman at the corporation, where he oversaw its merger with Anglo-African miner Billiton.[3] He was also part of the board of the winemaker Southcorp, but resigned following its acquisition of Rosemont. In 2007 he was named one of the most influental figures in Australian business by The Bulletin magazine.[4] Rosemount is an Australian winery based in Hunter Valley and South Australia. ... The Bulletin is an Australian weekly magazine, which has been published in Sydney since 1880. ...


He is a close friend of the Prime Minister John Howard, and provided substantial financial backing to the Liberal Party campaign at the 1996 election.[5] John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian politician and the 25th Prime Minister of Australia. ... The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party. ... Federal elections were held in Australia on 2 March 1996. ...


References

  1. ^ Aylmer, Sean. "A Spell For The Don Before BHP", The Sydney Morning Herald, February 3, 1999. Retrieved on 2007-09-24. 
  2. ^ Martin, Peter. "NAB writes off $3.3 billion on US investment", AM, September 4, 2001. Retrieved on 2007-09-24. 
  3. ^ Wood, Leonie. "BHP Banks On Argus", The Sydney Morning Herald, August 4, 1998. Retrieved on 2007-09-24. 
  4. ^ Greenwood, Ross. "Most Influential in Business: 7 Don Argus", The Bulletin, September 21, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-09-24. 
  5. ^ Mayne, Stephen. "What's driving BHP?", Crikey, May 1, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-09-24. 

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Inside Business - 30/11/2003: Don Argus reflects on his year at the top (1873 words)
DON ARGUS: Yeah, that's part of it but again it is a different model that you've...it's a complex model that you've got to, sort of, have your hands on all the time.
DON ARGUS: These are one of the challenges that you have as you work through a merger.
DON ARGUS: I think it would be, at this point of time, I'd like to see the Brambles thing through to get the same results we got in BHP Billiton.
Argus - FAQ (2834 words)
Argus is run either as a persistant daemon, reading live packets from a network interface, or as a user program, reading packets from a packet capture file.
Argus has a large number of options, which can be set through an.Argusrc file, the use of command line options, or through a separate configuration file that is specifed at run time.
Argus can be easily tuned to be more timely in reporting audit events, but without that tuning, Argus could take as long as 30-120 seconds to print out a particular record, depending on the load of the Argus, the protocol and when the last packet was seen.
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