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Yesterday

SunCable is proposing to build a massive solar farm in the Northern Territory.

Quinbrook executives quit Mike Cannon-Brookes’ SunCable board

The exit of the two representatives of the infrastructure investor comes as the huge solar project is in the middle of critical fundraising efforts.

Nadia and Russell Fairfax

From sideline to street style: Sports merchandise is changing, fast

The RM Williams collectors’ edition is the latest example of a shift to leisure-like merchandise.

Fortescue founder Andrew Forrest and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

China provides reality check for Forrest’s green iron dream

A domestic green iron industry might mean Australia has to pour in more public funds than the Chinese government, an impossible feat.

This Month

Former 2GB radio presenter Chris O’Keefe is part of a new look Clean Energy Council. 

Gas is in as renewables industry adopts new playbook

In a detailed letter to its members, the Clean Energy Council says it must be realistic about gas and work harder to secure support for regional wind and solar projects.

Iron ore prices have been more resilient than expected.

Big miners fear tax increase from Chalmers’ roundtable

Resources companies are nervous that next month’s meeting with business, unions and policymakers will target mining and energy to pay for cutting other taxes.

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Fortescue near settlement with US tycoon after energy deal bust-up

Andrew Forrest will avoid a seven-hour courtroom deposition by agreeing to settle Fortescue’s dispute with US billionaire Paul Tudor Jones.

Australia’s 50 Richest Bosses revealed

The Chemist Warehouse and Guzman y Gomez floats, as well as a change in intergenerational wealth, are creating a new wave of wealthy leaders.

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Waiting to get rich from biotech? Don’t hold your breath

Regulatory upheaval in the US and a venture capital drought are dampening investor appetites, but there are still diamonds in the rough.

Pro Medicus co-founders Anthony Hall and Sam Hupert.

The 10 wealthiest executives in the ASX 300 revealed

Healthcare and tech company bosses, including the co-founders of the ASX’s newest $30 billion company Pro Medicus, dominate the Rich Bosses list.

Ken Henry at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday – he said an economy-wide carbon tax was needed and may happen eventually.

Henry’s big plan for what comes next

The former Treasury secretary failed to have a previous Labor government implement a resources super profits tax, but he has plenty of big ideas for tax reform.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Premier of the Republic of China Li Qiang with CEOs from Australian and Chinese businesses ahead of the 8th CEO Roundtable.

Selfies, hushed huddles: Inside Albanese’s CEO conclave in China

Many of the Australian executives are old China hands who say they are witnessing a lucrative transformation that their businesses cannot miss out on.

In Pictures: 8th Australia-China CEO Roundtable

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Chinese Premier Li Qiang met with executives from Australian and Chinese businesses in Beijing.

Fortescue founder Andrew Forrest has beef with the Australian Tax Office.

‘Aggressive, unreasonable, not legally robust’: Fortescue lashes ATO

The company says the tax office’s behaviour threatens to derail major investments in renewable or decarbonisation projects and force capital offshore.

Anthony Albanese: “We had a very clear position that we want the [Darwin] port to go into Australian ownership”.

PM stares down China retaliation threat over Darwin Port sale

Anthony Albanese has doubled down on an election promise to force the Chinese owners to sell Darwin Port despite warnings Beijing may hit back.

Chris O’Keefe is the Clean Energy Council’s new spokesman.

Twiggy Forrest and friends cause ruptures at CEC

The Clean Energy Council is Australia’s premier clean energy lobby, and lately, its most interesting.

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Australian miners warn on iron ore oversupply, steel glut

New supply from West Africa, peak steel output and efforts by Beijing to move from coal-fired to electric arc furnaces and hydrogen have put miners on notice.

Andrew Forrest tests a hydrogen-powered car prototype at the company’s facility in Oxford.

Fortescue’s British battery maker slumps to $152m loss

The iron ore miner has now pumped close to $1 billion into the British battery maker that was previously named after Formula 1 legend Sir Frank Williams.

June

Primrose Riordan

Financial Review editor wins SOPA award

Associate editor Primrose Riordan has been recognised for her feature story on Fortescue’s Andrew Forrest.

BHP’s WA iron ore chief Tim Day has doubled down on the miner’s commitment to the Pilbara

Iron ore giants champion Pilbara after Forrest’s ‘wasteland’ warning

BHP says the resource-rich region can adapt to evolving industry trends, with Rio and Hancock Prospecting also hitting back at recent criticism.

Jim Chalmers will have to make several big decisions about takeovers of ASX-listed companies by overseas investors.

Think Santos is a FIRB headache? Austal is another thing altogether

Treasurer Jim Chalmers will have to make some big calls on allowing foreign investors to buy up critical Australian energy and defence assets this year.

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