June
- Exclusive
- Cash
Armaguard secures deal with banks, supermarkets to save cash
Months after a bailout collapsed, the eight largest customers of Linfox’s Armaguard have agreed to a $50 million injection to keep cash circulating.
- James Eyers
- Exclusive
- Cash economy
In the Armaguard deal, keeping cash flowing was about more than money
How the Fox family and Bill Kelty finally got a deal with the banks to secure a viable future for the cash distribution business despite a dramatic fall in the use of cash.
- Jennifer Hewett
Australia Post warns ‘clock is ticking’ on its regional bank services
The government-owned postal service says it wants to strike new, more expensive deals with lenders to prevent Bank@Post falling into financial loss.
- James Eyers
- Sponsored
Our biggest carrier enters next-day delivery race
Australia Post’s new Metro service caters specifically to urban consumers and businesses to meet the growing demand for fast and convenient ecommerce.
Sponsored
by Australia Post
May
‘Paying a pittance’: Australia Post wants banks to boost funding
Ahead of a Senate estimates hearing on Thursday night, Paul Graham says its banking service is heading towards a loss and contracts need to be redrawn.
- James Eyers
Raise bank levy and force AusPost deals, branch closure probe says
The government should build a new publicly owned bank to service regional towns and increase the major bank levy, a Senate inquiry has found.
- Updated
- Lucas Baird
Bank users face extra $370m in fees to keep rural branches open
The costings come as a Senate probe into the impact of branch closures on regional communities prepares to report on Friday.
- Updated
- Lucas Baird
ANZ wants to revisit Bank@Post deal amid scrutiny of branch closures
It is the only major bank not to allow customers to access services through Australia Post. Rural branch closures will be a focus of a Senate report this week.
- James Eyers
Tax Office investigating Lachlan Murdoch’s Nova radio assets
The parent of SmoothFM revealed it is under an ATO microscope, hauling in PwC for tax compliance services.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
April
This CEO didn’t go to uni and never had a career plan
Australia Post chief Paul Graham left school and tried out myriad manual jobs. Now he is responsible for 63,000 employees.
- Sally Patten and Lap Phan
March
In future, banks won’t need to see your licence to give you a loan
Laws allowing people to verify their identity online, rather than handing over documents, are set to win Senate support after Labor agreed to amendments.
- Tom Burton
- Exclusive
- Digital transformation
Why you might be about to see a lot more of this logo
myID, which could become as prominent as Medicare and myGov, will be the online tool Australians use to prove their identity without passports and licences.
- Tom Burton
Australia Post CEO faces political backlash over closures
Chief executive Paul Graham warned that despite the first “green shoots” of last year’s postal shake-up, more branches needed to shut to avoid future losses.
- Patrick Durkin
February
Christine Holgate still gunning for Australia Post
Making Australia Post cheaply distribute its competitors’ parcels would hamper Australia Post’s finances. For Christine Holgate, that might be a bonus.
- Myriam Robin
December 2023
How Australia Post CEO secured letters reprieve where others failed
The understated and straight shooting Paul Graham has pulled off what his “rock star” predecessors, Ahmed Fahour and Christine Holgate, could not.
- Patrick Durkin
How new postie rounds will work when daily letters are dead
The Greens and crossbench senators have reserved their right to force a vote on changes to Australia Post that would end daily letter deliveries.
- Patrick Durkin
Posties back the death of daily letter deliveries to keep jobs
The Communication Workers Union has signalled it will support a shake-up at Australia Post as long as posties keep “meaningful, gainful and secure employment”.
- Patrick Durkin and Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Australia Post’s mail modernisation
Plans for big changes prompt the question of why the government needs to own a postal service in this day and age.
- The AFR View
- Exclusive
- Retail
The six locations where AusPost is testing the end of daily letters
The government is expected to sign off on dropping such deliveries potentially as early as this week, as part of a restructure of Australia Post.
- Patrick Durkin
What AusPost needs to upgrade its banking services
Hot on the heels of Armaguard, Australia Post says it also needs more investment from banks to upgrade its regional outlets to provide cash where branches have left.
- James Eyers