October
Pilbara Minerals cuts lithium output, suspends plant
The miner is scaling back to endure the lithium price slump, cutting annual output and icing operations at its Ngungaju facility.
- Elouise Fowler
July
- Exclusive
- Start-ups
Start-up ditches carbon credits supplier after Zimbabwean fiasco
Sendle’s CEO says it has found new suppliers to stay carbon neutral as it faces a wave of discontent from former staff.
- Nick Bonyhady
October 2023
- Opinion
- Carbon pricing
How to sell fake carbon credits: ‘I probably will go to jail’
A scheme to protect trees in Zimbabwe generated big profits but didn’t help global warming,
September 2023
Putin says he won’t renew grain deal until West meets demands
Ukraine and its Western allies have dismissed the Kremlin’s demands as a ploy to advance its own interests.
- Matthew Lee
May 2023
Invictus Energy says it has found oil and gas in Zimbabwe
The ASX-listed company was exploring for resources in the Cabora Bassa basin in Zimbabwe and says it has also discovered helium.
- Farai Mutsaka
April 2023
Chile’s lithium move adds to automaker supply chain uncertainty
While start-ups are working on sodium ion batteries that could eventually provide a cheaper alternative for EVs, the auto industry will be entirely dependent on lithium for its batteries for many years to come.
- Nick Carey
September 2022
Judith Neilson breaks the mould with a bronze-clad beach bunker
People walk past her Freshwater home all the time on their way down to the sea, says the billionaire philanthropist. “They deserve something to look at.”
- Eugenie Kelly
February 2022
Blind Ambition: A film with wine, high spirits and guts at its core
Four Zimbabwean refugees, working as sommeliers in Cape Town, enter a wine-tasting competition in Burgundy.
- Max Allen
December 2021
Australia’s hard borders come down despite omicron fears
Victorian officials put out a surprise announcement scrapping the need for travellers from South Africa, where the variant was first identified, to quarantine.
- Tess Bennett, Jacob Greber and Mark Ludlow
December 2020
- Opinion
- Global economy
Nations are loading up on debt, but how much is too much?
Nobody would be arguing for austerity right now. But public spending cannot be based on magical monetary thinking.
- Raghuram Rajan
July 2020
- Opinion
- Investing
Gold's day will come, but markets are wrong to bet on wild inflation
Inflation expectations are shooting up, but at the same time the Fed is holding down nominal rates by financial repression. Gold will have its day of glory but don't jump the gun.
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
- Opinion
- Ethical investing
Rio Tinto’s Aboriginal desecration shows folly of rote ESG
The mining giant's destruction of two sacred sites could be traced to its downgrading, about 15 years ago, of the importance of its site-level social scientists.
- Glynn Cochrane
May 2020
Beware the second wave of COVID-19
The risk of a deadly resurgence of the coronavirus could change the way we live for years to come.
- Updated
- Laura Spinney
January 2020
Civilian planes shot down: a grim history
Wednesday's apparent downing of a Ukrainian airliner is the latest in a long history of such incidents.
- Ron DePasquale
September 2019
Trophy hunter keen to import parts of rhino he paid $US400,000 to kill
President Trump's government is likely to approve a Michigan man’s application to import the rare black rhino's skin, skull and horns into the United States.
- Mariel Padilla
Zimbabwe's strongman Robert Mugabe dies aged 95
Robert Mugabe, who long railed against the West and brutally hung on to power for 37 years, has died aged 95.
- Farai Mutsaka and Christopher Torchia