Australia’s richest person dishes out $100,000 prizes to workers
Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart combined her belated birthday festivities with a staff windfall.
A vote for stagnation and chaos
A hung parliament will pave the way towards falling living standards
Twiggy’s Time Magazine puff piece: a hat-trick of hot air howlers
You wouldn’t know from the puff piece TIME magazine ran on Andrew Forrest that the green hydrogen dream suffered a hat-trick of setbacks last week.
‘Get in bed with Greens and the lights go out’
A hung parliament could spell trouble for Australia’s renewable energy rollout, Infrastructure NSW chairman and veteran company director Graham Bradley has warned.
McGrathNicol report warns high numbers of insolvencies to continue
While the Australian economy appears to have weathered the transition to a higher interest rate regime, there are increasing concerns about specific sectors of the economy including the building industry, retail and hospitality.
ASIC intervention in private markets, private credit earns mixed reception from investors and asset managers
The corporate regulator has raised concerns about potential problems for investors and the retirement system caused by the growing pile of private market assets.
Greens and teals to pressure a minority Albanese government to cancel NorthWest shelf gas extension
Anthony Albanese will come under immediate pressure from the Greens and teals to cancel the $30bn extension of the North West Shelf gas project if Labor falls into minority government.
WEAK EV DEMAND A CHALLENGE: AMPOL
The sluggish uptake of EVs is a blow to the federal Labor government, which insisted its plan to use tax concessions would drive new orders.
Strandline Resources: Taxpayers on the hook as Mid West mineral sands miner falls into administration
Almost $150 million of Federal Government funds are tied up with a local mineral sands miner that is now insolvent.
WA $30bn gas row shows folly of hung parliaments
With the Greens and teals set to demand a stop to the North West Shelf extension in the event of a hung parliament, the row is a prime example of why voters need to back a majority government, with our economic future front and centre of its policy platform.
Receivers take control of taxpayer-funded miner Strandline with $140m in debt
Taxpayers are set to be the big losers after struggling mineral sands miner Strandline Resources waved the white flag and entered voluntary administration.
The pendulum on corporate culture ‘swung too far left’: BlackRock’s Larry Fink
Financially-stretched governments around the world need to find a better way to drive more private investment in much needed infrastructure. The BlackRock boss says markets can play a role.