Joe Aston

One of the most influential commentators
on business and politics in Australia.

Joe Aston

author, commentator, speaker

Joe Aston is one of Australia’s most influential commentators on business, finance and politics. 

For 12 years he struck fear into the hearts of the nation’s political and corporate leaders with his must-read column Rear Window in The Australian Financial Review.

He interrogated some of the country’s biggest business stories including Rio Tinto’s Juukan Gorge scandal; CPA Australia and its Naked CEO Alex Malley; the decline and fall of both Magellan Financial Group and Alan Joyce’s Qantas. In 2023, Joe and his AFR colleagues won a Walkley Award for their coverage of the PwC tax leaks scandal.

AFR editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury says Aston “turned a gossip column into a form of journalism like never before seen in Australia, and arguably the world.”

In 2024 he became a best-selling author with the publication of his first book, The Chairman’s Lounge.

He lives in Sydney.

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