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Mark Di Stefano

Chris Ellison and MinRes choose the path of most avoidance

For the Mineral Resources founder, as well as its chairman, James McClements, temporary embarrassment is a price worth paying.

Shortly before taking a cream pie to the face, Rupert Murdoch declared that facing UK politicians in 2011 over his News of the World phone-hacking scandal was “the most humble day of my life”.

MinRes founder Chris Ellison was similarly sombre on his decades-long offshore tax scheme. It is “a dark cloud in my life that I’ve lived with forever”.

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Mark Di Stefano is Rear Window columnist, based in the Sydney newsroom. He previously worked at BuzzFeed, the Financial Times and The Information before joining the Financial Review as a media and tech correspondent. Connect with Mark on Twitter. Email Mark at mark.distefano@afr.com

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