June 2024
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- AI
Aussie brothers’ AI firm worth $120m as big name backers invest
Melbourne-based Affinda has built AI-based software used by numerous big companies around the world, it has doubled its valuation in 18 months with well-known investors.
- Paul Smith
March 2024
Billionaire Paul Little struggles to exit investment in Russian miner
The ASX-listed Siberian coal operation is arguing in the Federal Court that it has not breached sanctions put in place after the invasion of Ukraine.
- Elouise Fowler and Primrose Riordan
December 2023
Paul Little and Jane Hansen open State Library’s Indigenous Gallery
The philanthropic couple have given $1.25 million to establish the library’s new showcase for Indigenous art.
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- Myriam Robin
September 2023
‘Autocratic’ Andrews’ legacy divides business
Business leaders said the Victorian premier’s shock resignation would enable a welcome change of leadership in line with good governance and renewal.
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- Hannah Wootton, Patrick Durkin, Nick Lenaghan and Ben Potter
August 2023
Why this investment banker made a surprising career move
Jane Hansen, philanthropist and half of a high-profile power couple with Paul Little, has plans to win students back to the classroom as Melbourne University’s new chancellor.
- Patrick Durkin
March 2023
Paul Little’s Skalata backs e-scooter software biz Lanterne
Rich Lister Paul Little and entrepreneur Rohan Workman’s Skalata Ventures and Dutch venture capital firm Rockstart have tipped into British startup Lanterne, which sells optimisation software solutions to mobility companies.
- Anthony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood
August 2022
Second act for Victoria’s Portarlington Grand Hotel
A $10 million refresh has restored not only the grandeur of this 1888 building but aims to put its quiet seaside location on the tourist map, too.
- Paul Best
August 2021
Spotlight billionaire Zac Fried buys Gulfstream 650 jet
On June 19, Fried’s new plane landed in Melbourne from Rotterdam via Dubai.
- Joe Aston
July 2021
Melbourne to lose Formula One’s first race
Melbourne has been dealt a multimillion-dollar blow with the Australian Grand Prix being cancelled for the second year in a row.
- Patrick Durkin
April 2021
- Analysis
- Mergers & acquisitions
Nominal Toll sale price demonstrates Japan Post’s disaster
One of the most important transactions of the decade turned out to be a complete failure for the Japanese postal and insurance giant.
- Aaron Patrick
December 2020
There's never been a better time to mine coal in Siberia
As China blacklists coal shipments from Australia, a bunch of Australian millionaires and billionaires are ramping up their Siberian coking coal play.
- Peter Ker
October 2020
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- Crime
The colourful, challenging and paranoid world of Toll's investigators
One worried about hidden cameras in his office. Another had been charged with murder. They struggled against a 'web of corruption'.
- Aaron Patrick
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- Mergers & acquisitions
Could have Japan Post avoided the disastrous Toll purchase?
There were warning signs before Japan Post bought Toll that the company was in trouble.
- Aaron Patrick
- Analysis
- Governance
Paul Little and the rise and fall of Toll
The Melbourne billionaire demonstrated he is one of Australia's great dealmakers by selling his company to the Japanese, which face huge losses.
- Aaron Patrick
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- Crime
Toll accused of sanctions busting in North Korea, Iran, Syria
The Melbourne-based transport company paid about $200 million over allegations by the US Treasury it breached UN sanctions and other matters.
- Aaron Patrick
August 2020
Fintech Credit Clear readies IPO launch
It is learnt the company, backed by Rich Listers Alex Waislitz and Paul Little, has tapped Bell Potter to take it public.
- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd
May 2020
The Rich Lister-backed company winning from growing household debts
A Rich Lister-backed fintech is pushing ahead with plans to list on the sharemarket as the coronavirus pandemic fuels demand for its debt recovery technology.
- Julie-anne Sprague
April 2020
Little doubt where bankers trying to find Toll Holdings buyer
Bankers are scrambling to find a bold and cashed-up buyer for the country's biggest road freight company and integrated logistics bigwig.
- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd
March 2020
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- Coronavirus pandemic
Coronavirus is parking private jets
VIP terminal owner Paul Little says traffic from China-based high-flyers has dropped up to 30 per cent due to the COVID-19 virus strain.
- Michael Bleby
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- Commercial property finance
What Paul Little did next
The Rich List businessman sold his development business, but that doesn't mean he's quit developing new buildings. Not at all.
- Michael Bleby