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Rio Tinto pledges $10 billion to halve emissions by 2030
Australia’s biggest iron ore miner has dramatically escalated its push to slash greenhouse gas emissions across its global operations.
- by Nick Toscano
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As it happened: ASX closes at 4 week high, Kogan rebounds
- by Lucy Battersby and Colin Kruger
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Breaking
Mining
Rio Tinto pledges $10 billion to halve emissions by 2030
Australia’s biggest iron ore miner has dramatically escalated its push to slash greenhouse gas emissions across its global operations.
- by Nick Toscano
Origin Energy faces climate push as investors dial up the heat
More than 40 per cent of Origin’s shareholders backed an activist resolution for the company to align its spending strategy with stronger goals to stop global warming.
- by Nick Toscano
Breaking
White collar crime
Court orders arrest warrant for alleged fraudster Bill Papas
- by Charlotte Grieve
Markets
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Markets Live
As it happened: ASX closes at 4 week high, Kogan rebounds
- by Lucy Battersby and Colin Kruger
Updated
World markets
ASX set to jump as Wall Street extends winning streak; $A rises
- by Shreyashi Sanyal
As it happened: ASX closes 0.1% lower as large miners drag
- by Lucy Battersby and Colin Kruger
The economy
Opinion & Perspectives
Cue the fireworks: The casino sector nears its day of reckoning
The clock is ticking for Crown Resorts, as the Victorian state government mulls over the findings of the royal commission. Meanwhile, Star Entertainment’s management can expect a serious public grilling next year.
Elizabeth Knight
Business columnist
A ghost from the 1970s haunts the post-pandemic future
The prospect of stagflation, which plagued the world in the 1970s, is starting to be seriously debated by economists and policymakers.
Stephen Bartholomeusz
Senior business columnist
Problems abound, but we could yet emerge as winners
The keys to making life in Australia better rather than worse are to face up to all the change being forced upon us, and to unite in finding fair solutions.
Ross Gittins
Economics Editor
Banking & finance
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National Australia Bank
NAB targeted by Indigenous group over stake in Canadian pipeline
- by Charlotte Grieve
Opinion
Inside China
China plays down contagion fears as clock ticks on Evergrande
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Entrepreneurship
Elon Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire with SpaceX
Elon Musk has already become the world’s richest person thanks to Tesla. But it will be his space exploration company that lifts him to trillionaire status, Morgan Stanley says.
- by Devon Pendleton
Exclusive
Entrepreneur
Aussie legal tech start-up takes digital courtroom to the US
Disputes mediation platform Immediation is ready to make waves in the US, with Afterpay’s Elana Rubin, business leader, Christine Christian, and former AWS head, Rachael Neumann, to guide the expansion.
- by Tim Biggs
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Start up technology
Financial crime fighter FrankieOne plots global expansion after funding win
- by Charlotte Grieve
