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Yesterday

NAB asked to reveal traders’ salaries in underpayment suit

The interlocutory application will be debated at a confidential hearing.

  • Myriam Robin

This Month

Dominion’s spectacular settlement with Fox News represents a tactical (if humbling) back-down for the Murdochs and Fox News.

As Dominion case settles, Crikey’s solicitor takes a holiday

His out-of-office response informs he is away until July 1, “lounging around Europe and not even pretending to work”.

  • Myriam Robin
Chinese-owned social media app TikTok has been banned from government devices.

TikTok’s lobbyists not getting anywhere fast

TikTok – the social media sensation/Beijing’s data harvesting app of choice – desperately needs a win.

  • Lucas Baird
Qatar Airways in the last few years has gobbled up 25 per cent of British Airline parent IAG

Could Qatar Airways swoop on Virgin?

Qatar Airway’s Ackbar Al Baker world-class display of negging last year hasn’t dissuaded chatter that it is the most logical Middle Eastern investor in Virgin.

  • Lucas Baird
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg announce the Jobkeeper payment on March 30, 2020.

The JobKeeper lessons we refuse to learn

Nobody at the highest levels of public administration in this country is interested in properly accounting for the biggest peacetime spending program in our history.

  • Joe Aston
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Andrew Fox with friend and golfer Greg Norman.

Bizoids bust out the tartan at court of Fox

The trucking tycoon turned 86 on Wednesday, and marked the day as extravagantly as any self-respecting billionaire could be expected to.

  • Myriam Robin
Responsible Wagering Australia chairman (and ex-Liberal senator) Nick Minchin said the body just didn’t have a position yet.

Online gaming lobby sees problems, demurs on solutions

Other industry players are far more open to things like blanket advertising bans, so it’s unsurprising many are blaming Sportsbet for the policy vacuum.

  • Myriam Robin
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price leads one of the groups opposing the Voice.

Jacinta Price takes the Barnaby Joyce route

Well, aren’t things just looking super-promising for the federal opposition?

  • Joe Aston
Lindsay Fox  shakes hands with Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews at the site of what will be the  Paula Fox Melanoma and Cancer Centre.

Visy, Linfox benefiting from cash-strapped Andrews government

Daniel Andrews insists on accepting the hospitality and money of billionaires his government is in the throes of transacting with.

  • Myriam Robin
Trucking magnate Lindsay Fox.

Lindsay Fox’s 86th birthday bash comes with optional kilts

The key question for those on the guest list is how to fit a dress code that specifies ‘kilt or casual’.

  • Michael Bleby
Former Victorian premier Steve Bracks

Steve Bracks-chaired Victory Offices may have traded insolvent

The liquidators for a commercial subleasing company say it may have been insolvent for at least the last 10 months of the former premier’s tenure.

  • Myriam Robin
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce.

Alan Joyce has had enough

The problem for people who surround themselves exclusively with sycophants is that they become ill-equipped to cope with negative feedback.

  • Joe Aston
EML Payments chief executive Emma Shand.

The weird and wonderful world of EML Payments

EML has a piercing migraine’s worth of anti-money laundering compliance issues and a cast from the bar scene in Star Wars.

  • Joe Aston
Tony Ottaviano’s incentive pay is subject to a dizzying array of long-and-short-term vesting conditions. But can vest immediately in a takeover.

Liontown chief has $22.5 million riding on a takeover bid

Any change of control transaction would probably make his 6 million performance rights vest immediately.

  • Myriam Robin
Nathan Tinkler bet big and lost it all in the early 2010s.

Nathan Tinkler’s life coach pursued him for $30k

Billionaire turned ex-bankrupt Nathan Tinkler is no stranger to demands for payment.

  • Myriam Robin
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National Gallery of Australia council member and APY Arts Centre Collective director Sally Scales, who has recused herself from the NGA investigation.

National Gallery has Sue Cato’s APY conflict in hand

The arts community is deeply riven by allegations that white studio managers regularly paint on canvases later sold as Indigenous artworks.

  • Joe Aston
The village of Lue sits opposite the proposed Bowdens Silver mine site.

Miners’ secret weapon in NSW planning approval

Major extractors are seeking out rugby’s agricultural constituency in the communities of their major projects.

  • Joe Aston
Green MP Max Chandler-Mather says Labor’s plan to build a mere 30,000 homes over five years is the equivalent of “taking a bucket of water to a forest fire”.

Greens housing spokesman opposes 1300 new homes

Plans to redevelop an old barracks and an industrial site into ‘luxury’ units and apartments have in both cases met with fierce opposition.

  • Myriam Robin
Fund manager Michael Frazis’ investment style is nothing if not choppy.

Frazis wrong but not out-of-pocket on MilkRun

“Woolworths has a problem, unsure if they know it yet,” the fund manager tweeted in December 2021.

  • Myriam Robin
Luke Bortoli, the new Pilbara Minerals CFO.

Afterpay winner Luke Bortoli turns to lithium mining

The former Afterpay chief financial officer starts on Tuesday at another of the market’s hottest growth stories as it flags plans to lift lithium production.

  • Tom Richardson