Business
Market movers
Rio Tinto delivers dividends bonanza after record profit
Rio Tinto, the nation’s biggest iron ore miner, has delivered a record first-half profit of $US12.1 billion and announced $US9.1 billion in dividends.
- by Colin Kruger and Nick Toscano
As it happened: ASX fades from highs as miners hit reverse
- by Lucy Battersby and Alex Druce
Opinion
Iron ore
Rio and BHP shareholders should enjoy the cash deluge while it lasts
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Currency
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Companies
Former Rio Tinto boss joins Aboriginal corporation board amid tensions between miners and traditional owners
Sam Walsh’s appointment will turn heads in the mining sector, which is still reeling from the Juukan Gorge saga.
- by Hamish Hastie
Rio Tinto delivers dividends bonanza after record profit
Rio Tinto, the nation’s biggest iron ore miner, has delivered a record first-half profit of $US12.1 billion and announced $US9.1 billion in dividends.
- by Colin Kruger and Nick Toscano
Markets
As it happened: ASX fades from highs as miners hit reverse
- by Lucy Battersby and Alex Druce
Updated
World markets
ASX set to retreat as tech giants help end Wall Street’s winning streak
- by Damian Troise and Alex Veiga
The economy
Opinion
Negative gearing
Young Australians should score Labor’s housing policy gymnastics harshly
- by Jessica Irvine
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
COVID authoritarianism sweeps across Europe – but the economy is saved
- by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Opinion & Perspectives
Young Australians should score Labor’s housing policy gymnastics harshly
Jessica Irvine
The ALP’s backflips on property taxes are a betrayal of Australians squeezed out of the housing market, especially the young.
Banking & finance
‘Beyond not good enough’: Alleged Westpac fraudster slammed in court
- by Sarah Danckert and Charlotte Grieve
Exclusive
White collar crime
Forum’s $500,000 car crash footage emerges as wealthy investors dodge bullet
- by Sarah Danckert and Charlotte Grieve
Exclusive
Westpac
‘Forum can help’: Company at centre of $400m Westpac fraud open for business
- by Charlotte Grieve and Sarah Danckert
Entrepreneurship
How tech won the pandemic and now may never lose
As the world reeled, Silicon Valley supplied the tools that made life and work possible. Now tech companies are awash in money — and questions about what it means to win amid so much loss.
- by David Streitfeld
CSIRO ‘brews’ milk for animal-free dairy startup
The CSIRO has set its sights on helping animal-free dairy get to supermarket shelves, backing a startup that’s using fermentation technology to create an alternative.
- by Cara Waters
Consumer affairs
‘Nothing effective is being done’: Business warns PM’s cheap gas push is falling short
- by Nick Toscano and Mike Foley
Workplace
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Trade unions
‘Essential worker hero’ shelf stackers in pay dispute with Woolworths
- by Ben Schneiders
‘Hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube’: Young workers resisting returning to office
- by Nelson D. Schwartz and Coral Murphy Marcos
