Fairfax Media and John Singleton's Macquarie Radio network are very close to finalising a $200 million talkback radio merger, less than a year after talks collapsed in bitter circumstances.

A relatively flat week on the ASX belied some dramatic moves as a busy five days of earnings results revealed some big winners and losers.

Daniel Gibbs was scrolling through job ads last week when he came across a position for a "recruitment consultant" that seemed almost too good to be true.

Westpac has become the latest big listed company - and the first bank - to be targeted by a shareholder campaign on business lobby groups amid Australia's long-running and vexed climate policy debate.

Kevin Ward is among experienced employees joining a corporate sea change from larger to smaller companies.