Dominic O’Brien

Career chronology

• Joined in 2020; issuer reports legal and senior management experience at Allens, MIM Holdings, Xstrata and Peabody Energy.: New Hope Group — Executive General Manager and Company Secretary. Board and Executive Leadership Team (Dominic O’Brien biography)

Education and qualifications

Reported qualifications

Reported in issuer biography available at review · issuer reported · low materiality

The company reports University of Queensland arts and honours law degrees, a Queensland University of Technology Master of Laws and AICD graduate status.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Credential reported by issuer; independent institutional or professional-body verification was not obtained.

Relevance: Professional background for the role.

Board and Executive Leadership Team (Dominic O’Brien biography)

Industrial safety

Injury rate and critical-control audit

FY2026 · issuer reported · high materiality

The group reported zero fatalities in FY2026 and total recordable injury frequency rising from 3.22 to 3.89, while high-potential event frequency fell from 5.82 to 3.59. Separately, the board reported that an independent critical-control audit identified ineffectiveness and improvement opportunities during the measurement period for the 2024-series long-term award.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The executive oversees group health and safety functions; no individual causation established.

Relevance: Safety control oversight.

FY2026 annual report (PDF pp11, 29 and 92, printed pp8, 26 and 89: safety performance and 2024-series award)

Environmental record

Bengalla sediment discharge and EPA penalty

2024–2025 · issuer reported · high materiality

Bengalla reported sediment-laden water escaped into the Hunter River in July 2024. The operator reported a NSW EPA penalty and caution in March 2025; New Hope reported the penalty as A$30,000 and said it reviewed systems and made improvements.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. O’Brien’s group remit includes corporate affairs, legal and health and safety; the sources do not establish personal operational involvement or fault.

Relevance: Environmental compliance during group leadership.

Bengalla annual review 2024, amended May 2025 (printed pp79–80, incident and corrective action); FY2025 annual report (p45, Compliance)

Suitability for the current role

Reported experience and role relevance

Career through 2026 · analyst inference · low materiality

Analyst inference: issuer-reported experience is relevant to the stated role. Joined in 2020; issuer reports legal and senior management experience at Allens, MIM Holdings, Xstrata and Peabody Energy.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Role fit is an inference from the cited career, not proof of an individual operating result.

Relevance: Relevance to the role.

Board and Executive Leadership Team (Dominic O’Brien biography)

Evidence gaps

• Independent verification of qualifications and memberships was not obtained.

• Prior-employer tenure, outcomes and individual responsibility were not comprehensively established.

• Public-source searches do not constitute exhaustive litigation, regulatory, criminal or sanctions screening.

• A single broad person-and-employer web query was reused across multiple topics; dedicated prior-employer and topic-specific searches were not completed.