Business
Market movers
Australia’s creaking power grid is thwarting renewables and pushing up prices
Delays in upgrades to the east-coast grid could raise power bills by hundreds of dollars a year in some parts of the country, analysis shows.
- by Nick Toscano
ASX posts another record after US shares surge on rate-cut hopes
- by Millie Muroi and Jessica Yun
Opinion
Wage growth
OECD’s message to our inflation warriors: calm down, she’ll be right
- by Ross Gittins
Currency
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Companies
Giant batteries are getting even bigger in Australia as coal exit nears
Developers of giant batteries designed to smooth the shift from coal to cleaner power are attracting record levels of investment.
- by Nick Toscano
Exclusive
Media & marketing
Lattouf’s ‘modest’ ABC offer: $85,000, replacement shifts and an apology
Antoinette Lattouf’s legal team has proposed a settlement offer in the dispute over her termination.
- by Calum Jaspan
$1 billion wipeout: How a Wall Street giant’s big bet on beauty went so wrong
- by Jordyn Holman and Maureen Farrell
Markets
ASX posts another record after US shares surge on rate-cut hopes
- by Millie Muroi and Jessica Yun
Opinion
US Votes 2024
Trump’s radical policy agenda looms larger after the shooting
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Updated
World markets
ASX hits record high; CBA eclipses BHP as Australia’s biggest company
- by Millie Muroi
The economy
Opinion
Wage growth
OECD’s message to our inflation warriors: calm down, she’ll be right
- by Ross Gittins
Opinion & Perspectives
It’s a union, not a bikie gang: CFMEU needs a serious overhaul, not more of the same
The union’s national body wants policymakers and the public to think it’s taken a strong step. It hasn’t.
Ben Schneiders
Investigative Reporter
See ya, Setka! Why union chief’s departure is good news for women
It took a long time for the CFMEU to be rid of John Setka. Now it finally is.
Jenna Price
Columnist and academic
Old habits are hard to kick for banks. They’re behaving badly – again
Six years after the royal commission, there are signs of a re-emergence of poor behaviour. At the very least this looks like conduct slippage.
Elizabeth Knight
Business columnist
Banking & finance
Opinion
Bank fees
Old habits are hard to kick for banks. They’re behaving badly – again
- by Elizabeth Knight
Small business
Meet Max: She’s the top-selling VR game on Meta, and created in Queensland
Like many great ideas, Max Mustard owes her existence to someone being told not to do something.
- by Nick Dent
Booktopia might be on the brink, but your local bookshop probably isn’t
As Australia’s largest online bookseller struggles to forge a viable business model, many independent booksellers have found ways to thrive.
- by Jessica Yun
Media
Exclusive
Media & marketing
Lattouf’s ‘modest’ ABC offer: $85,000, replacement shifts and an apology
- by Calum Jaspan
Workplace
Analysis
Building Bad
It’s a union, not a bikie gang: CFMEU needs a serious overhaul, not more of the same
- by Ben Schneiders
Opinion
Building Bad
See ya, Setka! Why union chief’s departure is good news for women
- by Jenna Price
Opinion
Workplace culture
Lazy workers are licking their lips as the right-to-disconnect laws loom
- by Paul O'Halloran
Commercial real estate
Mining
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Mining
$3.8m brawl: The fraudster, the mining prospector and the fight over gold
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey