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Glen NorrisSenior Business Reporter

Glen Norris has worked in London, Hong Kong and Tokyo with stints on The Asian Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and South China Morning Post.

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QLD Business

Porn use has been shown to cause erectile dysfunction

Viagra replacement gets $10.5m funding boost

Brisbane-based LTR Pharma has attracted some big bucks from new investors as it seeks to replace the little blue pill in the bedroom with a simple nasal spray.

QLD Business

Qantas Airways takeoff from Chiangmai airport from Sydney. Aircraft generic.

Super funds back canola to fuel ‘sustainable’ aviation

The country’s biggest industry super funds are betting on Australia’s canola crop to make enough aviation fuel to power a quarter of a million flights from Sydney to Melbourne each year.

Business

For sale sign in front of a property with a sold sticker over the top

Using super for houses ‘would lift prices 9pc’

Coalition plans to allow first-home buyers to use their super for house deposits could cause an almost double-digit spike in property prices and rents, it has been claimed.

City Beat

DEAL-20161021 embargo for DEAL 21 Oct 2016Deborah Coakley Pic : Hollie Adams

QIC appoints new real estate head

QIC says that former Dexus executive Deborah Coakley will replace Michael O’Brien as head of its real estate funds business and multi-billion development pipeline.

City Beat

News/personality 25 /9/1981 --- Founder, John Longhurst in front of paddle wheeler at Dreamworld , Coomera Neg/no 35K3788-2 Picture by Gerry Jasiulek Scanned September/2009 The Courier-Mail Photo Archive

Big dreams: Theme park founder faced different world

The Longhurst clan has been behind some of the Gold Coast’s most successful business ventures, including Dreamworld, Riviera and the Boat Works.

Business

Elderly couple, retirement, retire, holding hands generic pic Picture: Micheile Henderson / Unsplash

Under 40s expect to financially help ageing parents

Half of people aged under 40 expect to financially support their parents as they get older and are not relying on the ‘bank of mum and dad’, new AMP research reveals.

City Beat

Stefan Ackerie with partner Rose, before the QUT QLD Business Leaders Hall of Fame, South Brisbane, on Thursday 25th July - Photo Steve Pohlner

‘It’s surreal’: Qld icon Stefan makes the cut with Hall of Fame honour

Hairdressing legend Stefan Ackerie has been inducted into the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame for his role in building one of the state’s most iconic companies.

Business

Nickel ore for Queensland Nickel's Yabulu refinery is unloaded at the Port of Townsville in 2005. Picture: Unknown

Creditors of Palmer’s Queensland nickel ‘repaid in full’

Creditors of Queensland Nickel, when it was under the control of Clive Palmer, have been repaid every cent owed capping an eight-year chase by its liquidator to recover more than $300m.

City Beat

Brisbane Heat bowler Xavier Bartlett at Lina Rooftop, South Brisbane. Photo - Peter Wallis

Poolwerx draws the Heat in new sponsorship deal

Brisbane Heat chief executive Terry Svenson has lined up another big sponsor in the form of Poolwerx as his home-grown team prepares for the upcoming season.

Business

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 26: A general view of Crown Casino in Southbank on October 26, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia. The final report from the Victorian Royal Commission into Crown Resorts will be tabled in state parliament this morning. The investigation into Crown's suitability to retain its casino license in Melbourne was conducted by Ray Finkelstein QC, following allegations during inquiries in New South Wales and Victoria that Crown facilitated money laundering at its Melbourne and Perth casinos. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)

Crown names new execs as rules tighten

Casino operator Crown Resorts has unveiled its new list of executives as it moves to invest big in new non-gaming attractions.

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