This Month
Sydney power restaurant hosts another Rinehart dinner
Australia’s richest resident gathered political and non-political friends at the Blue Angel.
- Mark Di Stefano
Gina Rinehart stages rich private fundraisers for Peter Dutton
It seemed obvious that the federal opposition leader’s grovelling at the feet of the country’s richest person would bear fruit. Now it has.
- Mark Di Stefano
- Exclusive
- Luxury property
Stock picker takes Sunshine Beach spend to $46m
Wilson Asset Management founder Geoff Wilson and his wife, Karen Greer, have expanded their footprint in the area to three oceanfront properties.
- Bonnie Campbell
Liontown’s future tied to Korean battery giant in $379m funding deal
Liontown boss Tony Ottaviano says the company’s flagship Kathleen Valley mine would be in production on-time and on-budget before the end of the month.
- Brad Thompson
June
- Updated
- Gas crisis
Labor delivers all-clear for $1b Rinehart-backed Senex gas project
The decision to grant environmental clearance for the Atlas development brings to an end an approvals process that has lasted almost two years.
- Updated
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Strike unveils gas plant play, urges WA to green-light onshore exports
Strike Energy has announced a plan to build and operate a $160 million gas plant north of Perth.
- Tom Rabe
Mining’s push for gender diversity threatened by ‘Andrew Tate’ effect
A belief that women are being promoted based on gender, not ability, has permeated to middle management and board level, according to some female leaders.
- Harry Dempsey
- Exclusive
- Luxury property
Power couple creates Brisbane’s most expensive family compound
Prominent Brisbane couple Steve and Jane Wilson have bought the property next door to their recently restored landmark home Lamb House.
- Bonnie Campbell
Rinehart-backed Brazilian Rare Earths launches $66m share placement
The offer was priced at $3.30 a share, a 9.6 per cent discount to the last close but more than double the $1.47 mark at which it listed just six months ago.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
CIMIC, Gina Rinehart pile into lithium hopeful Vulcan Energy Resources
The ASX-listed lithium aspirant’s fundraising comes as it works to secure the financing it needs to get its flagship project in Germany off the ground.
- Brad Thompson
May
‘Gina effect’: Gallery got 25pc bump after Rinehart portrait gripe
The fuss about an image of Gina Rinehart being included in a National Gallery exhibition did not register in the artist’s home community of Indulkana, the Senate has been told
- Tom McIlroy
- Exclusive
- Rich List
Australia’s wealthiest 200 now control $625b
Technology is back, resources rode a roller coaster and property growth returned, giving Australia’s Rich Listers an 11pc boost to their total fortune.
- Updated
- Yolanda Redrup and Michael Bailey
Gina Rinehart’s private party with the Ayn Rand intelligentsia
Gina Rinehart has earned the devotion of the global libertarian intelligentsia, who seem to think she’s the second coming of their favourite fictional character.
- Updated
- Mark Di Stefano
The other Gina Rinehart portrait
The mining billionaire’s fondness for the opposition leader has been immortalised in art.
- Mark Di Stefano
- Opinion
- Critical minerals
Critical mineral miners chase China’s tail
The sector has welcomed the 10 per cent production tax credits but the big question is where the additional investment to fund growth will come from.
- Jennifer Hewett
Hancock exec says Cook’s California dream may mean higher emissions
Magnetite projects fit perfectly into Australia’s green future but are hamstrung by insufficient power, water and regulatory fatigue, Sanjiv Manchanda said.
- Vesna Poljak
- Opinion
- Critical minerals
Why WA loves the critical minerals budget boost
Peter Dutton’s refusal to endorse Labor’s plan for production tax credits for critical minerals processing and green hydrogen won’t make him popular in must-win seats in Western Australia.
- Jennifer Hewett
Budget is pure politics
Readers letters on Jim Chalmers’ federal budget; Scott Morrison’s meeting with Donald Trump; and Gina Rinehart’s push against her portrait in The National Gallery of Australia.
AUKUS is ok with Trump, says Morrison
Donald Trump has indicated solid support for the AUKUS submarine deal, according to former prime minister Scott Morrison, who met with the former president at Trump Tower in New York on Wednesday AEST.
- Matthew Cranston
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Chalmers confronts his economic critics
The treasurer insists his budget gets the balance right, even if the economists don’t agree. What will the Reserve Bank and the voters think?
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- Jennifer Hewett