This Month
Brisbane and Hobart stadium challenges go beyond building it so they can come
The moral of Tasmania’s stadium furore should be that unrestrained government spending ultimately makes it difficult to pay for potentially beneficial public infrastructure.
Brisbane not too small for ‘Australia’s Games’: Liveris
The 2032 Games belong to Queensland and Australia, says Andrew Liveris, president of the Brisbane Organising Committee.
June
Industrial salt the next hot commodity? Kerry Stokes is hoping so
BCI Minerals’ Mardie project in the Pilbara is backed by the billionaire and AustralianSuper and will be country’s first major new salt operation in decades.
May
Building delay warning on Brisbane Games
Queensland has finally settled on its key venues for the 2032 Olympic Games but a crippled construction industry is a concern for the former Dow Chemical boss.
Two things Brisbane Olympic Games boss will not be bringing from Paris
Brisbane 2032 Games boss Andrew Liveris has at least two non-negotiables for the Olympics in seven years’ time.
January
Rich and powerful join Andrew Liveris’ salt mining venture
Some of Australia’s richest families have signed up for shares in the new business as the humble mineral catches the eye of battery makers.
August 2024
Chalmers disputes RBA; Rex sale looms; Why Harris chose Walz
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Andrew Liveris learns how not to run an Olympics
The president of the Brisbane 2032 Organising Committee has had a jam-packed schedule in Paris as part of a contingent learning what to do – and not do – for the Games.
July 2024
‘No time’ to get business case for Brisbane Games stadium
Hours after Brisbane 2032 Games boss Andrew Liveris pleaded with politicians not to make it a political football, they did.
Brisbane Olympics boss: Stop making 2032 Games a ‘political football’
Andrew Liveris claims plans for the Queensland event are running “ahead of schedule”, with cricket remaining a possibility to be added to the roster of sports.
June 2024
Citi wall-crosses investors for Novonix raise; stock in trading halt
Its shares have fallen almost 25 per cent over the past 12 months and were changing hands at 70¢ apiece. They fell further after news of the raise broke.
April 2024
Adelaide LIV goes off with Liveris, Fox and Saudi critic Anika Wells
The federal sports minister once called for a boycott of Saudi Arabia’s sporting endeavours. Now even she’s a guest at the Saudi-funded tournament.
BHP’s Mike Henry breaks bread with Andrew Liveris at Beppi’s
The place was nearly empty, so snippets of Henry and Liveris’ long, relaxed degustation rang through the room of the power diner.
Melbourne print boss offers ‘hardly lived in’ $28m Point Piper pad
Printing heavyweight Wayne Sidwell lists his Point Piper pied-à-terre asking $28m, while the Penn family seek a strong return on their Double Bay investment
October 2023
Andrew Liveris’ guide to making friends and money
The ex-Dow chief sees no point in refusing to associate with those doing the precise opposite of what he says he values. And how else could a self-styled “environmentalist” sit on the board of Saudi Aramco?
The board coup that blindsided Andrew Liveris
In this extract from “Leading through Disruption”, Andrew Liveris reveals how an attempted boardroom coup delivered a hard lesson.
Andrew Liveris hits back at Joe Aston
The former Dow CEO is in charge of Brisbane’s 2032 Olympics, but has found time to write about his life, reflecting on his corporate battles and critics.
‘Toxic’ Teneo sued by recruiter Anna Whitlam
The recruiter sold her business to the New York-based firm in 2021, and according to her statement of claim, rarely slept a full night ever again.
August 2023
This green city is trying a mini nuclear reactor. Why isn’t Australia?
In the first instalment of the Nuclear Option series, a small modular reactor in Canada’s Ontario could power 1.2 million homes by the end of the decade. Now it’s trying to convince Australians to try them too.
July 2023
Kevin Rudd says nice things about News Corp
Launching a new book by the Darwin-born Andrew Liveris, Rudd was driven to muse on the great city’s major media masthead.