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Anthony Pratt, Australia's richest man, at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last year.

Trump factor keeps Pratt on top of Australia's rich list

Anthony Pratt remains top of the Australian Financial Review Rich List thanks to some help from a special friend, while Gina Rinehart took back second spot.

  • by Colin Kruger
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The cash rate could go as low as 0.5 per cent to help the economy along.

Rates could fall as low as 0.5% amid warnings of GFC-like slowdown

The economy may be growing at its slowest since the depths of the global financial crisis, leaving economists predicting more financial support.

  • by Shane Wright and Lucy Battersby
Australia faces power supply instability from renewables unless more is done to support it with other forms of power, a energy conference has heard.

Renewables sector will 'become unstable' if government, industry can't agree

A major national energy industry conference has been told more needs to be done to ensure stability of power supply as renewables take up more of the market.

  • by Stuart Layt
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Small business

Organisations can be much more strategic about redundancies so they harness the goodwill and talent of employees when they leave.

Why empathy in redundancy is smart business

Firms can harness the goodwill and talent of ex-employees in their networks.

  • by Tony Featherstone
Startups are using AI to predict when kids might be at risk.

Cyber bullying to self-harm: AI is predicting at-risk students

Fighting bullying and risky behaviour in schools is increasingly a real-time tech problem.

  • by Emma Koehn

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