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Zlatko Todorcevski will take the helm at Boral.
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Executive shake-up

'Nothing off the table': New Boral boss set deadline for revamp

The new boss of building materials giant Boral says he aims to make decisions on the company's portfolio and strategy by October.

  • by Darren Gray
Australian shares are tipped to rise in early trade.
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Markets Live

As it happened: ASX correction enters third day as COVID jitters mount

  • by Alex Druce and Lucy Battersby
The race to save Virgin is down to two bidders.
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Aviation

Redux: The Virgin Australia of the future is set to be very different - but very familiar

  • by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Super Retail Group will raise $203 million to help the company move more sales online.
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Retail

Super Retail raises $203m for online shift as sales fluctuate

  • by Dominic Powell
Seven West Media has been trying to pay down its half a billion dollar debt pile.
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Seven boss turns away Oaktree Capital

  • by Zoe Samios
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Jetstar Pacific was established in 2007 but has been loss making for much of its history.
Aviation

Qantas to exit Vietnamese joint venture as COVID crisis takes toll

Qantas has confirmed it will exit its minority stake in the Vietnamese airline Jetstar Pacific and is expected to hand full control of the budget carrier over to co-owner Vietnam Airlines.

  • by Patrick Hatch
Boral's claims that it should be allowed to pay lower prices for cement it buys from Wagners have been backed by the Queensland Supreme Court.
Opinion
Activist shareholders

Boral's new broom cements role of three activist shareholders

Boral's incoming boss has a wealth of experience in finance and strategy – perfect for a cost-cutting candidate – and is handy with an asset clean-up broom.

  • by Elizabeth Knight
Billionaire Warren Buffett assured Berkshire Hathaway the company is well prepared for the future.
Floyd protests

How Warren Buffett's brick company got caught up in a conspiracy theory about US protests

  • by Mark Bergen
The race to save Virgin is down to two bidders.
Opinion
Aviation

Redux: The Virgin Australia of the future is set to be very different - but very familiar

  • by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Hong Kong billionaire Joseph Lau Luen Hung and his wife Chan Hoi-wan.
Rich families

Former reporter takes control of fugitive husband's $11.7 billion fortune

  • by Blake Schmidt
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Markets

The Australian dollar retreated.
Currencies

Australian dollar slides lower on worries about second wave of coronavirus

  • by Stanley White
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Markets Live

As it happened: ASX correction enters third day as COVID jitters mount

  • by Alex Druce and Lucy Battersby
Investing

'King of deals' getting ready to pounce on pandemic-hit companies

  • by Yuki Furukawa and Takashi Mochizuki

The economy

Australian LNG exports have fallen sharply as the coronavirus crisis and supply glut takes a toll.
Energy

Australia's LNG tankers sitting idle as global supply glut, COVID start to bite

  • by Nick Toscano
Opinion
Australian recession

Morrison's report: high marks so far, but now the hard part

  • by Ross Gittins
Opinion
Mining

Our economic dealings with the world have been turned on their head

  • by Ross Gittins

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Ashik Ahmed, co-founder of Deputy, which makes software for hourly-paid workforces. It suddenly has far fewer shifts to give thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Start-ups

Startups reliant on JobKeeper to stave off redundancies

Startups are relying on the government's JobKeeper program to keep staff employed and are preparing for the $70 billion program to be rolled back. 

  • by Cara Waters
An empty Bourke Street Mall in Melbourne. Businesses need to keep in mind another disaster may be around the corner post-COVID.
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Work in Progress

Your business isn’t ready for another crisis, is it?

Too many business owners are viewing the pandemic as a once-in-a-lifetime crisis, but there could be more disasters ahead.

  • by James Adonis
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the JobKeeper program has been an economic life line for businesses.
Coronavirus pandemic

Casual workers bear brunt of coronavirus job cuts

  • by Cara Waters
James Cameron, of Airtree Ventures, has warned of the impact of JobKeeper coming to an end.
Start-ups

Startups will need help once JobKeeper disappears

  • by Cara Waters
A transit worker cleans a railing at a New York subway station.
Coronavirus pandemic

'Snake oil salesmen': COVID-19 claims under microscope as disinfectants boom

  • by Emma Koehn

Consumer affairs

Men making early super withdrawals have spent more on gambling than women after receiving the payment
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Superannuation

Sex and super: how men spend their nest-egg withdrawals differently to women

  • by Matt Wade
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Renting

'Make it your own': NSW push to boost build-to-rent housing

  • by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Video games

Sony fined $3.5 million over video game refund failures

  • by Matt Bungard

Workplace

Industrial Relations Minister Christian Porter and ACTU secretary Sally McManus have been talking regularly through the coronavirus pandemic about how to deal with workers and jobs.
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The lowdown

Pandemic reunites a not-so-odd couple

  • by Anthony Forsyth
Pay

Real estate agent lodges claim for more than $743,000 in alleged unpaid commissions

  • by Anna Patty
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JobKeeper

Tip-offs point to employers cheating staff on JobKeeper

  • by Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Commercial real estate

A former Colliers International real estate agent has lodged a claim in the federal court for more than $743,000 in alleged unpaid commissions.
Pay

Real estate agent lodges claim for more than $743,000 in alleged unpaid commissions

  • by Anna Patty
Commercial real estate

More hotels coming to Collingwood

  • by Simon Johanson
Commercial real estate

Restaurant Giro D’Italia cycles to South Yarra

  • by Nicole Lindsay

Mining

Rio Tinto chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques.
Indigenous

Miners lash Aboriginal heritage inquiry as Rio boss breaks his silence

  • by Hamish Hastie
Opinion
Mining

Our economic dealings with the world have been turned on their head

  • by Ross Gittins
Mining

'Incomprehensible': How Rio Tinto reduced 46,000 years of history to rubble

  • by Emma Young and Nick Toscano

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