Business
Companies
Stockland explores affordable land lease housing as sector booms
Stockland plans to deliver more than 3000 lots in its burgeoning land lease division, which offers affordable manufactured homes for the retirement sector.
- by Carolyn Cummins
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Empty sheds a rarity as vacancy rates plunge
Truck giant Scania will drive into a new distribution centre in Melbourne’s north at a time when the industrial sector’s vacancy rate is shrinking to record lows.
- by Simon Johanson
Opinion
Legal Cannabis
From coal to cannabis: Gina Rinehart branches out with her investments
What does an army of Millennial investors have in common with Australia’s richest person? An appetite for investing in cannabis.
- by Elizabeth Knight
‘Magnitude was unbelievable’: Crown tax underpayment raised in 2012
Newly appointed director Nigel Morrison says Crown Resorts knew it may have been underpaying gaming tax to the Victorian government as far back as 2012.
- by Paul Sakkal and Patrick Hatch
Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart goes green with $15m medical cannabis play
Hancock Prospecting has turned over a new leaf, investing in the blooming medicinal cannabis industry but has hit environmental regulation trouble with a Canadian coal project.
- by Peter de Kruijff
Rupert Murdoch eyes UK sports broadcasting bid
Rupert Murdoch is exploring a tie-up with BT’s television arm as he attempts to reshape and secure his media legacy amid the decline of print newspapers.
- by Christopher Williams
Google chief Sundar Pichai’s leadership under scrutiny
It is hard to argue that things aren’t going great for Google, but as cracks in the tech giant start to appear, questions are being asked about chief Sundar Pichai.
- by Daisuke Wakabayashi
Corrosion could cause a ‘major accident’: Watchdog to Woodside
Woodside has been told to make sure several 24-tonne caissons at its North Rankin Alpha platform off WA’s Pilbara were safe after it reported some corrosion.
- by Peter de Kruijff
‘Batteries on wheels’: The smart-charging tech in garages needed to drive EV boom
One of Australia’s biggest power companies has called on governments to promote smart chargers in garages to prevent EV motorists from overloading the grid.
- by Nick Toscano
Opinion
Kerry Stokes
Boral’s $3.4 billion windfall both a celebration and a headache
The takeover target needs to figure out how to best reward shareholders without handing control on the cheap to its major stakeholder Kerry Stokes’ Seven Group.
- by Elizabeth Knight
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Mergers & acquisitions
Stokes takes Boral to task for selling US business at a loss
Boral largest shareholder and suitor, Kerry Stokes’s Seven Group, says the company’s management should have pushed for a better price for the asset.
- by Colin Kruger