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Arafura Resources is aiming to have its Nolans rare earths project in  production before the end of 2025.

Rinehart-backed Arafura gets $840m in taxpayer aid for NT project

An $840 million package of loans and grants is the Albanese government’s biggest deployment of taxpayer funds to the struggling rare earths industry.

  • Jacob Greber and Peter Ker
No new wind turbines were built in the last year.

Investment in renewable energy slumps 80pc as 2030 target fades

The peak body for the renewables industry said the low level of commitments to new projects last year was due to grid bottlenecks and slow planning approvals.

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  • Angela Macdonald-Smith

How Australia can get on with the job of tax reform

A real estate agent would describe our tax systems as ‘a renovator’s delight’.

  • Paul Tilley

February

Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci has been at the helm for eight years.

Woolies CEO says shoppers want ‘value’ not ‘broader conversations’

After a bruising political bunfight over Australia Day merchandise, the Woolworths boss says shoppers want the retail giant to “focus on delivering value”.

  • Carrie LaFrenz and Jemima Whyte
The London Olympic village, long before Grenfell changed the landscape.

Aware Super’s UK property firm fights $35m cladding bill

Build-to-rent developer Get Living will appeal a tribunal’s ruling, warning that the decision could deter investment in the sector.

  • Hans van Leeuwen
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Less that 80 per cent of students finish year 12.

The rate of teens finishing year 12 is falling

The federal government is increasingly picking up the bill for schools as states and territories fail to meet funding agreements.

  • Julie Hare
Deputy chairman of Farmers for Climate Action and Farmer Charlie Prell on his sheep, cattle and wind farm in Crookwell, NSW.

Moneymakers or wildlife killers? Communities at odds over renewables

Many farmers say they can coexist with renewable energy projects but some in rural and coastal communities are ramping up their opposition.

  • Ben Potter and Cindy Yin

January

Pointsbet CEO Sam Swanell said the company was making more money from punters.

PointsBet is pushing out bonus chasers. Early signs show it’s working

The CEO of ASX-listed PointsBet says a dedicated cleanout of punters relying on inducements is improving performance.

  • Zoe Samios
Ivan Vella has spent the past two years running Rio Tinto’s aluminium division from Montreal.

IGO ‘confident’ in new CEO Vella after Rio dismissal

IGO told the market on Monday morning the board had confidence in Ivan Vella after investigating his dismissal for handling confidential information.

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  • Elouise Fowler
Ivan Vella has spent the past two years running Rio Tinto’s aluminium division from Montreal.

Rio Tinto sacks former head of aluminium division

Ivan Vella was sacked with immediate effect on Wednesday due to his “failure” to properly manage confidential information, Rio Tinto says.

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  • Elouise Fowler
The NYC launch team at Kiki, a Blackbird backed start-up. Toby Thomas-Smith is centre, with a pretzel in his mouth.

Male run Blackbird-backed start-up pivots to NYC ‘girl’s club’

Kiki co-founder Toby Thomas-Smith says his new female employee – Caitlin Emiko – has helped him realise some New York women are “living, not thriving”.

  • Jessica Sier and Nick Bonyhady

December 2023

Chalice managing director Alex Dorsch.

Ban short-selling in the ‘national interest’, Chalice boss pleads

Hedge funds targeting pre-revenue companies holds back Australia’s objectives in critical minerals, according to aspirant Chalice.

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  • Peter Ker
The claim follows a wave of redundancies at Macquarie.

Sacked Macquarie staffer alleges colleague touched her inappropriately

A former associate has alleged her colleague “clapped” her bottom at an event held at The Establishment in Sydney, leaving her “uncomfortable and embarrassed”.

  • Lucas Baird

Sacked CEO sues SolGold after boardroom stoush

BHP and Newmont’s struggling Ecuadorian copper play has hit more trouble, with former CEO Darryl Cuzzubbo filing a multimillion-dollar breach of contract claim.

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  • Peter Ker
Craig Wood, CEO of Vast Renewables, at the Noor Energy 1 solar farm just outside Dubai.

Dubai’s mysterious tower powers a city. The idea is coming to Australia

In the desert outside Dubai, there’s a solution to solar’s intermittency. And it’s headed Down Under.

  • Hans van Leeuwen
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Sultan al-Jaber wants you: rich countries are under pressure to contribute cash to the Loss and Damage Fund.

‘Running start’: Rich world stumps up $680m for climate fund

The usually fractious climate summit scored an early success, and put an onus on the absent Albanese government to come up with a contribution.

  • Hans van Leeuwen

November 2023

Under pressure … COP 28 host and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company boss Sultan al-Jaber.

Oil boss lashes reports of side deals at COP28

Sultan al-Jaber angrily denies using diplomatic meetings to push business interests, as no-shows from top world leaders put the climate summit under pressure.

  • Hans van Leeuwen

Brett Blundy defends CEO’s $30m pay as Lovisa gets third strike

The jeweller’s billionaire chairman vowed not to cut the chief executive’s pay. It reported a 6.2 per cent drop in sales in the first 20 weeks of the year.

  • Carrie LaFrenz and Ayesha de Kretser
Nuix chairman Jeff Bleich is one of the defendants in the Nuix trial.

Disappointing Nuix kept quiet after $1.8b float

Nuix has been accused of misleading the market by not divulging a failure to meet financial targets presented during its $1.8 billion IPO.

  • Jessica Sier
The Silver Doughnut, as Macquarie is sometimes known, was a regular fixture at the top end of this year’s Peter Lee results.

The analysts and sales desks investors love – and those they don’t

Some of the biggest Wall Street names slid down the rankings of a widely followed survey of institutional investors conducted by Peter Lee Associates.

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  • Aaron Weinman