Yesterday
- Opinion
- Retail
Why Olivia Wirth’s top Myer role is a governance fail
Myer’s decision to appoint Olivia Wirth as executive chair and CEO has stunned corporate governance experts but has the full support of Solomon Lew.
- Sue Mitchell
This Month
PE firm behind Bonza, Melbourne Victory calls in insolvency experts
The private equity firm called in advisers overnight to assist with “operational challenges”. It is a major shareholder in the A-League club and budget airline.
- Updated
- Ayesha de Kretser
- Exclusive
- Oil
Shell sues ATO over claim it was short-changed $99m in CGT bill
The ATO believes the company should have declared capital gains $330 million higher than first reported for its exit from the old Woodside Petroleum.
- Lucas Baird
Anglo American to sell Queensland coal in big shrink, spurning BHP
Anglo American will sell or shut everything except its copper, iron ore and potash mines as part of a strategy to dodge BHP’s advances.
- Updated
- Peter Ker and Elouise Fowler
April
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Labor green lights toxic bully-boys of the CFMEU
The political protection racket the modern ALP is running for the toxic behaviour of the CFMEU, which would be condemned in any other setting, is disgraceful.
- The AFR View
- Exclusive
- Luxury property
Gutted penthouse in coveted Sydney block goes on sale for $10m
The unrenovated property in Potts Point’s landmark Manar building has DA-approved plans, while a lavish Paddington home inspired by Versailles is on sale again.
- Bonnie Campbell
Can the NRL’s worst team finally turn itself around?
To say the Wests Tigers have underperformed over the past two decades would be an understatement. Shane Richardson has a plan to change the team’s fortunes.
- Updated
- Zoe Samios
Star reveals more losses as it braces for public hearings
Star told investors it was losing large sums of money from customers visiting VIP areas, where trading is down.
- Updated
- Zoe Samios
- Opinion
- Supermarkets
Political brawls sweep the supermarket aisles
Supermarkets are once again an appealing target for politicians wanting to demonstrate their good intentions on helping consumers with cost-of-living pressures.
- Updated
- Jennifer Hewett
Can one of our dirtiest coal plants reap a green bonanza?
Verdant Earth has lofty ambitions to turn the moribund Redbank into a major clean energy precinct using biomass. Environmentalists are still unhappy.
- Ben Potter
Seven paid for Lehrmann’s story. Now it is the story
The television network’s pursuit of an interview with the accused rapist has put its tactics on trial.
- Aaron Patrick
- Updated
- Governance
Age, diversity on company boards plummets, gender stalls
There are more directors with an Anglo-Celtic background than seven years ago on the ASX 300, a new survey has found, and the average age of a director is creeping upwards.
- Hannah Wootton
March
- Exclusive
- Sharemarket
South32 scraps manganese guidance, Groote Eylandt faces power crisis
The future of one of the Northern Territory’s most valuable mining project is in doubt after Cyclone Megan ripped through it and threatened a power crisis.
- Updated
- Tom Richardson
BHP cuts contractors at Kalgoorlie nickel smelter
The miner has stood down contractors on the Kalgoorlie nickel smelter and withdrawn plans to house 1000 workers in the regional city as staff wait to hear whether the 51-year-old asset will be mothballed.
- Peter Ker and Brad Thompson
- Investigation
- Gaming & wagering
Laurence Escalante is living large off controversial gambling billions
At 42, he is one of the country’s youngest billionaires. But Virtual Gaming Worlds investors hoping for a big payday are increasingly concerned it may not come.
- Updated
- Primrose Riordan and Zoe Samios
- Updated
- Retail
Cettire overhauls duties and returns policy to allay wary investors
The company will no longer disclose what customs charges are owed on goods at its online luxury marketplace, and has streamlined other customer features.
- Carrie LaFrenz and Jonathan Shapiro
Mystery lender chases ex-PwC staffer for $30m debt from failed project
Bill Zheng and his Investors Direct Financial group were part of a consortium that proposed to develop the $30 billion Australian Education City near Melbourne.
- Lucas Baird
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
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.
- Updated
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Opinion
- Tax reform
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
