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The Sydney Morning Herald editor Lisa Davies resigns
The Sydney Morning Herald’s editor Lisa Davies has resigned.
- by Zoe Samios
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Qantas charged for standing down cleaner who raised COVID-19 concerns
Qantas has been charged with breaches of workplace safety law after it stood down an employee who raised concerns staff could be exposed to COVID-19 when cleaning an aircraft that arrived in Sydney from China early in the pandemic.Â
- by Patrick Hatch
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz builds a second fortune
When Dustin Moskovitz stepped away from Facebook four years after helping start it, the 24-year-old owned a piece of the social-media giant that today would be worth about $US18 billion. Now he has another fortune to rival the first.
- by Scott Carpenter
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Mining
BHP reports drop in iron ore shipments from Australia
BHP warns major maintenance works, a labour shortage and COVID-19 border restrictions are slowing output of the nation’s most valuable export.
- by Nick Toscano
Battery battle: nickel miner picks Twiggy Forrest’s ‘superior’ offer in race with BHP
Billionaire Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest has struck a deal to buy Canadian nickel miner Noront, raising the prospect of a bidding war with BHP.
- by Nick Toscano
Microsoft leaders warned Bill Gates over ‘inappropriate’ emails
Microsoft executives warned Bill Gates in 2008 about inappropriate emails he had sent to a female employee, a Microsoft spokesman confirmed.
- by Emily Flitter
Endeavour to use algorithms, facial recognition to tackle problem gamblers
Australia’s largest drinks and hotels business Endeavour Group has unveiled plans to use predictive algorithms and facial recognition to identify problem gamblers.
- by Dominic Powell
New deal to turn waste timber into hydrogen at Bass Strait port
The developer of the largest clean hydrogen hub in Australia’s south-east has struck a $30 million deal for a biomass-to-hydrogen project.
- by Nick Toscano
Juukan Gorge inquiry urges national laws to protect sacred sites
An inquiry into Rio Tinto’s blasting of the Juukan Gorge caves has recommended giving traditional owners the right to withhold consent to works on their land.
- by Nick Toscano and Jack Latimore
Cryptocurrency should not become another ‘boys club’, warns Bamboo COO
The Perth-based micro-investments start-up’s chief operating officer, Tracey Plowman, says crypto assets give women a way to take control of their finances outside the typically male-dominated world of traditional finance.
- by Dominic Powell
Squid Game delivers Netflix a $1.2b windfall
The low-budget smash hit is welcome news for Netflix after a bumpy few months.
- by Lucas Shaw