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Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes in the company’s new Melbourne office.

Victoria was ranked dead last, yet a $60b tech giant just made Melbourne its fastest-growing hub

The Business Council of Australia has slammed Victoria’s taxes and red tape, but tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes says the criticism doesn’t stack up.

  • David Swan

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Mike Cannon-Brookes led a campaign to scrap the demerger of AGL’s coal assets.

Could tech bros like Mike Cannon-Brookes become the new climate pariahs?

IT giants are betting hundreds of billions of dollars on soaring AI use and the environmental impact promises to be catastrophic.

  • Colin Kruger
Mike Cannon-Brookes led a campaign fast-track the closures of AGL’s polluting coal-fired power stations.

Billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes reignites climate feud with Australia’s biggest emitter

Cannon-Brookes has renewed his push for power giant AGL to do more to combat climate change, rejecting its current plans as dangerously inadequate.

  • Nick Toscano
Tech billionaire Scott Farquhar is married to Kim Jackson, a former Hastings infrastructure dealmaker who has plied some of the family’s wealth into Australian airports.

Australia’s richest families plot country’s tech reboot at private summit

They control billions of dollars in wealth. Now some of the nation’s most powerful families have met in a bid to reshape the economy and debate its future.

  • David Swan
Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes.

Atlassian splashes $1b on AI browser as chief defends redundancy video call

Mike Cannon-Brookes says he’s targeting the billion “laptop warriors” who are drowning in open tabs, and has hit out at reports that his company is in turmoil.

  • David Swan
Software giants Canva and Atlassian have minted a younger generation of entrepreneurs including Mike Cannon-Brookes, who are in lucrative targets for the wealth management giant.

Wall Street giant targets Australia’s richest families

Goldman Sachs is looking to take advantage of a boom in self-made multimillionaires and family wealth looking for global investments.

  • Richard Henderson
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Atlassian co-founders Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes are heavily embracing AI and don’t see it as a major job threat despite significant recent job cuts due to its use at the group.
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Friend or foe? The AI bloodletting has begun in Australia

Recent job cuts at tech giant Atlassian and Commonwealth Bank show AI’s job annihilation is already hitting Australian shores.

  • Colin Kruger
Atlassian co-founders Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon Brookes at the National Press Club on Wednesday.

Billionaire tech chief spruiks AI as company he co-founded cuts 150 jobs

Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar says Australia should seek to host data centres for governments around the world and wants politicians to use AI every day.

  • Millie Muroi, Shane Wright and David Swan
Clive Palmer at a press conference last month.

Billionaires tried to buy this election. At least they’ve provided some much-needed comic relief

Palmer’s logo of a lion with Fabio-style tresses tooting a trumpet encapsulates the incoherent messaging we can expect when a billionaire gets involved in politics.

  • Melanie La'Brooy
Mike Cannon-Brookes, and before and after images of the earthworks at Malemy farm in Kangaloon.

Billionaire’s bid to build a lake in six weeks spirals into 18-month-long headache

Mike Cannon-Brookes wanted a new lake with a wildlife island sanctuary. Instead, the work left his neighbours’ properties with contaminated water supplies.

  • Lucy Macken

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