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TLS agreement to sell its Foxtel shareholding

Debt Facility, Asset Acquisition

  • Dec 23, 2024
  • 2 pages

Initial Director's Interest Notice

Initial Director’s Interest Notice

  • Dec 3, 2024
  • 3 pages

Change of Director's Interest Notice

Change of Director’s Interest Notice

  • Nov 6, 2024
  • 4 pages

Notification regarding unquoted securities - TLS

Appendix 3G (Notification of Issue, Conversion or Payment up of Unquoted Equity Securities)

  • Nov 6, 2024
  • 7 pages

Change of Director's Interest Notice

Change of Director’s Interest Notice

  • Nov 1, 2024
  • 3 pages

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Elon Musk, with president-elect Donald Trump, at a rocket launch last year.

Telstra moves to overtake Optus in race to plug into Musk’s Starlink

Telstra is hoping to steal a march on its rival, signing a new deal with SpaceX to connect its mobile customers to the billionaire’s satellite network.

  • Tess Bennett

December 2024

DAZN is backed by British-Ukrainian billionaire Len Blavatnik.

News Corp sells Foxtel to British sports streaming giant in $3.4b deal

The multibillion-dollar deal will dramatically alter the local media landscape and create a rich competitor for sports broadcast deals.

  • Zoe Samios
Robyn Denholm is the Australian who chairs Elon Musk’s Tesla.

Denholm on Musk: He’s entitled to his opinion, I’m entitled to mine

Robyn Denholm rose from obscurity to become the highest-profile Australian in business. But overseeing the world’s richest man as Tesla chair is no easy thing.

  • Paul Smith

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Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.

  • Daniel Arbon
Macquarie’s Shemara Wikramanayake has topped the AFR’s CEO pay ranks for the fourth year running.

Australia’s 50 highest-paid CEOs in 2024 revealed

Macquarie Group’s Shemara Wikramanayake is Australia’s best-paid CEO for the fourth year in a row.

  • Patrick Durkin
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Justine Rowe says Telstra employees take pride in working for a company that prioritises social investment.

Canva, Cotton On and Atlassian among the top 20 corporate givers

The amount of funds donated by the top 50 corporate philanthropists has jumped to $1.7 billion.

  • Sally Patten
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating was the initial funder of Boost Mobile.

Telstra snaps up Boost Mobile, delivering Paul Keating a $40m payday

The telecommunications giant has acquired the specialist pre-paid mobile phone business for $140 million. The former prime minister owns 29 per cent.

  • Jenny Wiggins
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ASX nears record; Northern Star’s $5b deal; Telstra buys Boost Mobile

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

Jason Haynes, CEO of Boost Mobile.

Telstra acquires Boost Mobile in $140m deal

Investor sources told this column that Boost Mobile’s acquisition price was just under $140 million, which did not include a meaningful deferred payment.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

November 2024

Telstra’s chief financial officer Michael Ackland, Mirvac chief financial officer Courtenay Smith and Challenger CEO Nick Hamilton at the AFR’s CFO Live summit on Tuesday.

Business says Trump’s return turns up competition for investment

Executives from Telstra, QBE, Challenger and Mirvac have warned that the US and even Britain risk pulling away from Australia by cutting red tape.

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  • Jonathan Shapiro
Telstra chief financial officer Michael Ackland says businesses are stuck with a difficult dilemma.

This is why Australia is stuck in a rut

Low investment and productivity growth has left the country’s economy in the doldrums. The short-term challenges are large, but we can’t forget the long term.

  • James Thomson
Future Fund chief executive Raphael Arndt is watching the growing US fiscal deficit.

Future Fund bets on US economy, warns of inflation return

CEO Raphael Arndt says the US economy is an attractive investment but Donald Trump’s policies and geopolitical risks could see the return of inflation.

  • Cecile Lefort
Telstra chief Vicki Brady says long term thinking is badly needed in Australian politics.

Why the Telstra CEO is worried about next year’s federal election

Telstra boss Vicki Brady said long-term thinking was needed in Canberra, something that could be difficult if neither party has a majority in parliament.

  • Tom McIlroy and Lucas Baird
Kim Krogh Andersen, Telstra’s product and technology chief, says AI will change how it deals with customers, but humans will still be present.

Telstra and ANZ say human call centres will have AI agents

The way companies deal with their customers is going to change in the AI era, two of Australia’s biggest companies say, but humans will still be involved.

  • Paul Smith
Bran Black CEO, BCA at the Financial Review and Salesforce roundtable on Businesses’ great AI challenge

Should regulators have a light touch with AI rules?

Managing AI risks is all about making the most of the human safety net.

  • Alexandra Cain
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Transurban’s Simon Moorfield says AI is helping keep its roads in better shape, and responsibility for AI is being shared across the company.

Tech chiefs feel the heat of boards’ AI expectations

Fear among board directors and chief executives that they will be left behind in AI use by fleeter footed rivals’ is piling the pressure on tech executives.

  • Paul Smith
Joanne Gorton is the board’s preferred Deloitte Australia CEO nominee.

Deloitte board nominates Joanne Gorton as preferred CEO

The firm’s head of audit has been selected as the preferred candidate to replace chief executive Adam Powick.

  • Edmund Tadros

October 2024

Tech Council chairwoman Robyn Denholm and her fellow board members have been criticised by members for failing to act against Richard White until he chose to resign.

Angry members brand Tech Council a ‘billionaires lunch club’

The industry association for some of the country’s largest technology firms failed to act on allegations against WiseTech founder Richard White, they say.

  • Tess Bennett and Amelia McGuire
Telstra is ploughing 14,000 kilometres of fibre into the earth for a new intercity communications network.

Australia’s fibre backbone race picks up speed

The Vocus Group’s $5 billion purchase of fibre networks reflects the intensifying competition among companies installing the cables that will handle data for the nation’s digital needs.

  • Jenny Wiggins
The government will test whether low orbiting satellite connections can manage to make mobile phones connect in bad weather.

Former PwC consultants test satellite replacements for copper wires

Satellites orbiting close to Earth will be tested by PwC spin-off Scyne Advisory to see if they can handle mobile phone calls in bad weather.

  • Jenny Wiggins

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