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The first stage of Mike Cannon-Brookes’ SunCable project has been given environmental approval by the Albanese government.The first stage of Mike Cannon-Brookes’ SunCable project has been given environmental approval by the Albanese government.

Mike Cannon-Brookes needs $157m for SunCable; flyer hits inboxes

Australia-Asia Power Link is SunCable’s flagship project to harness and dispatch solar energy from solar farms in the Northern Territory to Darwin and via a submarine cable to Singapore.

The businessman is best known for his investments in television and newspaper. But a decades-long approach to backing the Asian powerhouse is paying dividends.

Inside the fortune Kerry Stokes (quietly) made in China

The businessman is best known for his investments in television and newspapers. But a decades-long approach to backing the Asian powerhouse is paying dividends.

Andrew Forrest AO speaks during a Leadership Matters breakfast.

‘They have levers to pull’: Forrest backs Beijing to withstand Trump

Iron ore billionaire Andrew Forrest doubts China will change course to respond to Donald Trump’s tariff barrage.

Andrew Forrest speaks at the Perth Leadership Matters breakfast.

Australia’s biggest billionaire feud is over

The pair have been at loggerheads since 2022 over what Andrew Forrest claims was Kerry Stokes’ anger over mining trucks.

Shell’s Queensland Curtis LNG supplies about 65 petajoules or just under 15 per cent of the domestic market.

Australia counts cost of gas manoeuvres

Peter Dutton is the latest political leader with a new plan to lower energy prices. Will his gas policy work any better than all the others?

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March

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg and Careless People author Sarah Wynn-Williams.

Facebook’s biggest enemy was on Twiggy’s payroll

Sarah Wynn-Williams, the author of Careless People, worked for Andrew Forrest’s Minderoo as he sued Meta over 230,000 scam ads.

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.

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.

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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.

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