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Chris and Tia Ellison’s Perth mansion is for sale under agent Jody Fewster, daughter of the late Alan Bond.

Chris Ellison’s luxury property on the market

The MinRes founder and wife Tia Ellison have turned to Alan Bond’s daughter to sell one of their Perth mansions.

  • Mark Di Stefano

This Month

Bell Potter’s Richard Coppleson.

Bell Potter’s track record of trades with MinRes

The stockbroker’s Richard Coppleson said the crisis-hit miner was an “absolute screamer”.

  • Mark Di Stefano
Tony Ottaviano is under no illusions that the game has changed for lithium, and Liontown needs to adapt.

Liontown survived the lithium carnage, but can it handle Donald Trump?

After taking a wild ride in lithium over the past year, Liontown Resources thinks it can also adapt to whatever the Trump administration produces.

  • Jennifer Hewett
Former Essendon footballer and Wildcat executive director Matthew Banks.

Mystery ASIC raids on Wildcat Resources

The lithium miner has been the target of a previously unreported investigation by the corporate regulator.

  • Mark Di Stefano
MinRes chief financial officer and company secretary Mark Wilson, and managing director Chris Ellison.

The MinRes CFO is the $10m man

CFO and company secretary Mark Wilson’s 2024 pay package at MinRes made him the second-highest paid executive at the troubled company.

  • Mark Di Stefano
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MinRes chief financial officer and company secretary Mark Wilson, and managing director Chris Ellison.

Ellison’s executives revealed as owners in blockbuster lithium IPO

Mark Wilson was among a group of executives who report to Chris Ellison, who bought into Kali Metals – the miner targeted by Mineral Resources.

  • Mark Di Stefano and Neil Chenoweth
Vikas Rambal is the chairman of Perdaman.

Is it third time lucky for this little-known manufacturing billionaire?

Vikas Rambal is thinking big. After trying his hand at two fertiliser plants in Western Australia, the businessman is plotting his largest project yet.

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  • Jennifer Hewett

October

WA Premier Roger Cook, himself a former Rugby player, is a supporter of an NRL expansion team based in Perth. Negotiations for a cash injection from the WA government are ongoing.

WA knocks back initial NRL funding request

The WA government has set up a taskforce to work directly with the NRL on brokering a deal for an 18th rugby league club.

  • Tom Rabe and Zoe Samios
Mineral Resources managing director Chris Ellison.

Crossings at Bell Potter and Mineral Resources

The broker favoured by Mineral Resources showed up either side of block trades at the debut of Kali Metals.

  • Mark Di Stefano
Alec Dejanovic and James Check from Checkonchain at their Sydney home.

How to make a six-figure salary writing newsletters

Inside the colourful, sometimes niche and wacky world of newsletter publishing. Some, like James Check and Alec Dejanovic, have made a full-time job of it.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones
Mineral Resources chief executive Chris Ellison.

How Chris Ellison’s secrets came to light

Allegations of serial tax evasion have raised questions about how the miner Mineral Resources is being run.

  • Neil Chenoweth
Rethink Group’s Scott O’Neill started in real estate investing, but when he bought his first commercial site, he was hooked.

How Scott O’Neill became the commercial property king

Young Rich Listers Scott and Mina O’Neill have had one of the biggest jumps in net worth of those on the 2024 list, but it all started with a supermarket and a fish and chip shop.

  • Yolanda Redrup

From Trump to Khuda: secrets of Australia’s most-connected director

Mark Barnaba has an uncanny ability to forge close personal relationships that turn into long-term and lucrative business opportunities.

  • Jennifer Hewett
Universities should be places of learning, not corporations.

How do our universities get their social licence back?

There are four issues that universities need to address if they are to revive their troubled reputations in Australian society.

  • Shamit Saggar
Australian Business Growth Fund chief executive Anthony Healy says WA is the most attractive state for investment in the country.

Fund sees riches in the ‘Abu Dhabi of Australia’

Investors searching for “favourable tailwinds” should be looking west, according to Anthony Healy, the chief executive of a $500 million, government-backed fund.

  • Tom Rabe
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September

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‘The kingmaker seat’: The former Uber exec tasked with taking on the teals

Returning to Australia after almost a decade as an executive with Uber in Asia, Liberal candidate for Curtin Tom White says the ride-share giant helped shape his free market approach to politics.

  • Tom Rabe
Moving on. Jose Pineda has been priced out of Kingsford.

Jose was priced out of his inner-city home. So were 16,000 others

KPMG data shows rising costs are squeezing out much-needed workers from Sydney and Melbourne’s most sought-after suburbs.

  • Campbell Kwan
Mineral Resources boss Chris Ellison.

Chris Ellison asks R U OK?

The mining boss at MinRes told workers of sweeping roster changes. At least there could be free ice-cream.

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  • Mark Di Stefano
Mineral Resources founder and managing director Chris Ellison.

Chris Ellison’s private chopper goes dark

Chris Ellison’s getting a lot of unwanted attention at the “shittiest time”.

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  • Mark Di Stefano
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and WA Premier Roger Cook at Mt Lawley Senior High School in Perth on Tuesday.

PM’s secret dinner at mining HQ

Anthony Albanese dined with Chris Ellison and Meg O’Neill on Sunday after the former won a charity prize.

  • Mark Di Stefano

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