Gold dust rains on the lucky at James Hardie, including $23 million for CEO Louis Gris

By Colin Kruger
Updated May 25 2015 - 7:08am, first published 12:15am

It might be hard to believe in the current climate, but when James Hardie fled Australia for the Netherlands in 2001, it claimed that it was not trying to dodge its compensation obligations to its asbestos victims, it was purely to dodge tax. Or, in their words, minimise it.

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