Jun 5, 2026 – 12.00pmMichael Chaney could not help but smile after a shareholder asked him, “as a 76-year-old”, when would he retire as chairman of Northern Star Resources.“I’m only 75,” the grey-haired veteran of multiple ASX boardrooms interjected, eliciting ripples of laughter among attendees at November’s shareholder meeting. Sadly for the under-fire board and investors, the intervening months have provided them with few similarly lighthearted moments.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Mark WembridgeResources reporterMark Wembridge covers resource companies for The Australian Financial Review, based in Perth. He formerly worked for the Financial Times in London and Hong Kong.Fetching latest articles