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The directors of ASX-listed companies should spend less time in the boardrooms of Sydney and Melbourne, and more time channelling country town values to better serve worker and community knowledge about ESG requirements, says Bega executive chairman Barry Irvin.

Meanwhile, respected columnist Robert Gottliebsen takes a journey back through the past 60 years of business highs and lows in a revealing look at what shaped Australia.

And Saudi Aramco has dismissed a media report that the company was pondering a takeover of Australia's Santos.