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Andrew Robb

August 2024

Australia can start marketing wine in China again after tariffs were removed this year.

High-level dialogue shows China chill is ending

The resumed annual face-to-face meeting of government and industry has been crucial to stabilising the relationship.

  • Craig Emerson

May 2024

Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

Bull and the budget: supplicants take over Canberra 

As the treasurer hands down his third budget, hasn’t he aroused a stupendous chorus of critics?

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  • Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano

June 2023

Former federal trade minister Andrew Robb has celebrated China’s opening up but cautioned that its military must not “defensive, not aggressive”.

Robb warns on China military at secretive forum attended by Andrews

Daniel Andrews has been criticised for attending a pro-China forum closed to the media, that former trade minister Andrew Robb and other leaders attended.

  • Gus McCubbing

May 2023

Tony Staley, who played a pivotal role in helping John Howard to power in 1996, died aged 83 earlier this month.

Liberal Party heavyweights gather to farewell Tony Staley

Tony Staley was a kingmaker in conservative Australian politics and a cabinet worth of Liberal Party heavyweights joined his friends and family for his funeral.

  • Gus McCubbing

September 2022

Former Bayside City Council mayor Felicity Frederico is running for the state seat of Brighton against sitting Liberal MP James Newbury.

Why this teal candidate left the Liberal Party after 17 years

Teal candidate Felicity Frederico is now looking to knock off one of their own in the Victorian election. 

  • Gus McCubbing
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June 2022

July 2002, Williams with The Sphere in Battery Park. The sculpture sat between the twin towers and miraculously survived the attacks of 9/11.

‘Bloodhound’ Pam Williams looks to her last deadline

In a career at the Financial Review spanning more than 30 years, with a series of scoops and six Walkley Awards, she has put away her notepad – for now, anyway.

  • Andrew Clark

December 2020

Former ambassador Geoff Raby... surely he could have cleared up Corrs' misunderstanding about the Chinese navy.

Darwin port deal is a nice little earner

Landbridge's finances are hard to understand. And that was just the start of confusion for Corrs Chambers Westgarth.

  • Neil Chenoweth

June 2020

Trade minister Andrew Robb during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday 13 October 2015. Photo: Andrew Meares

Andrew Robb makes pointed exit from Global Brands

Andrew Robb's name was used to drum up capital for the health and beauty company. Now he's slamming its corporate governance.

  • Myriam Robin
Andrew Robb has resigned as the chairman of Global Brands Australia.

Ex-trade minister Andrew Robb departs IPO hopeful Global Brands

There's a vacant chair at the head of Global Brands Australia's board room.

  • Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd

October 2019

Andrew Robb: "I don't  see the commercial relationship having deteriorated in any sense.

Australian business shrugs off China tensions

Peter Dutton's China comments did not spoil the party for an Australian business delegation in Beijing over the weekend.

  • Michael Smith

September 2019

Andrew Robb: now pitching "Sacred Energies" to his rolodex.

Robb's contacts bombarded with investment pitch

Those on the receiving end of Global Brands Australia's increasingly frantic pitches are getting the impression that it's not going very well.

  • Myriam Robin

July 2019

Former Trade Minister Andrew Robb is now chairman of The Robb Group, on the board of cattle enterprise Kidman, Chair of Asialink and non-executive chairman of IPO-hopeful Global Brands Australia, according to a pitch in front of potential investors.

Celebrity Slim shake hopeful fronts funds ahead of mooted IPO

A company chaired by former federal minister Andrew Robb is looking at weight loss shakes maker Celebrity Slim.

  • Sarah Thompson and Anthony Macdonald

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