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Natalie Culina at Strand Hatters, Sydney: “Most Australians are already familiar with the Akubra brand, but my ambition is to see everyone here own one wherever you live.”

The woman who wants to see every one of us in an Akubra

The Australian hat brand is 149 years old and wants to get back to its city roots.

Billionaire businessman Andrew Forrest has spent years battling Meta over scam Facebook ads.

Court tells Meta to unlock scam data in win for Twiggy on crypto ads

The mining billionaire’s US case against Meta has revealed more than 230,000 social media ads using his likeness were published encouraging Australians to invest in fake cryptocurrency schemes.

Squadron has almost completed construction of an LNG import terminal in Port Kembla, NSW.

Forrest’s Squadron takes swing at APA in secret ministerial submission

In a secret ministerial submission, Squadron complained that APA is creating a false sense of security amid plans for LNG gas to be imported to the south-east.

Cannon Brookes’ new private jet spotted in Essendon.

Cannon-Brookes now travels by private jet

The climate warrior with a jet and an F1 team.

Nicola Forrest has been slowly building out her new family office Coaxial.

Billionaire Nicola Forrest appoints UBank boss to run family office

The country’s second-richest woman has been building up the charitable and investment sides of her family office, Coaxial Foundation and Coaxial Ventures.

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Andy Vesey probably didn’t expect to have to explain Aussie slang in a recent court case.

Lawyers get to the bottom of the Fortescue mob

Who knew a contract law case could get so spicy?

Forrest family powerbroker had alleged role in big Fortescue decisions

Evidence provided by the ASX-listed miner’s executives to a US court suggests John Hartman was deeply involved in plans to move into the US energy market.

Andrew Forrest had a close relationship with then US senator Joe Manchin in 2022.

Forrest allegedly chased coal plant buy to ‘influence’ key US senator

Internal documents suggest Fortescue considered a $200 million deal based on its relationship with a US politician, whose IRA support was crucial to it passing.

The rivalry between Forrest and Rinehart goes way back.

Twiggy takes rivalry with Rinehart to the penthouse

The duo’s Sydney digs are so close they would be able to spot each other across the Sydney skyline.

February

You wouldn’t know the green hydrogen bubble is bursting from Twiggy

Twiggy’s Time Magazine puff piece: a hat-trick of hot air howlers

You wouldn’t know from the puff piece TIME magazine ran on Andrew Forrest that the green hydrogen dream suffered a hat-trick of setbacks last week.

The new Waldorf Astoria hotel at Lendlease’s One Circular Quay development has ‘topped out’.

Welcome to the Waldorf: Forrests’ luxury hotel rises in Circular Quay

In a $520 million deal two years ago, Andrew and Nicola Forrest, now separated, acquired the project, which is set to be finished by the end of next year.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the Whyalla steelworks on Thursday.

Whyalla deal shows the rising price of a future made in Australia

Australia is offering subsidies not just to keep old industries alive but for the future-facing minerals processing that would supply batteries and electric vehicles.

Andrew Forrest is not the only Australian billionaire taking a strategic position in rare earths.

Andrew Forrest takes control of rare earths mine, magnet maker

While his flagship company Fortescue retreats from hydrogen, Andrew Forrest’s private company has taken control of some rare earths mining and processing assets.

Fortescue boss Andrew Forrest has been a vocal proponent of green hydrogen.

Fortescue reconsiders US hydrogen timeline after Trump win

The Andrew Forrest-led mining giant has cut its green energy capex and is considering pausing $1 billion of approved hydrogen projects in Australia and the US.

Former HSBC boss Noel Quinn will join the FMG board as a non-executive director

Fortescue board hires former HSBC boss Noel Quinn

The iron ore miner and hydrogen hopeful has recruited a second British establishment figure by bringing on the former banker as a non-executive director.

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Billionaire Andrew Forrest.

Messages reveal Forrest blasting executives over ‘most stupid’ deal

The communications were released in court proceedings over a failed plan to buy coal plants in Ohio and West Virginia and run them on clean-burning hydrogen.

Andrew Forrest has opened the floor for his “troops” to ask management anything they want.

At Fortescue, you really can ask the boss anything

A permanent ‘Ask-Us-Anything’ portal has prompted staff demands for everything from an office swimming pool to $100,000 cash prizes to more biscuits in kitchenettes.

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BP puts its $600m Perth clean fuel refinery plans on ice

The British petroleum giant had expected to decide on the development later this year, but said on Monday that it would delay work on the project.

Workers drink at the Redcliffe Tavern near the Perth Airport in Western Australia.

Homesick FIFO workers earning $190k stir talk of Pilbara unionisation

Sweeping industrial relations changes have inflamed fears among miners that the Pilbara will revert to its recalcitrant past. Unions want a seat at the table in the resource-rich region.

January

Twiggy’s Minderoo Foundation is sitting on a mountain of cash.

Twiggy and Nicola Forrest’s Minderoo is sitting on billions

If charities are meant to spend their donations, why is Minderoo sitting on such a big pile of cash?

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