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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

Brisbane City streetscapes and business signage - QIC Queensland Investment Corporation Pictures David Clark Photography

QIC looks closer to home with $700m fund

QIC is looking at infrastructure investments closer to home for its new $700m fund that includes selling some US assets such as university car parks.

Gold Coast

Pubs baron Mathieson rubbishes talk of Star buyout

Despite mounting speculation Bruce Mathieson wants to buy The Star casinos in Sydney and on the Gold Coast, the rich lister publican has ridiculed the idea.

QLD Business

Maha Sinnathamby talks to media at Spring Mountain after the state governments announcement to double the first homeowners grant to $30k. Picture Lachie Millard

Maha’s dream of biotech greatness

Springfield City is rapidly becoming known around the country as a hub for biotech innovation, with high-tech vaccines and cancer treatments all on the cards.

Business

Damage to the wharf supplying fuel to the giant Groote Eylandt magnanese operation

Cyclone temporarily shuts South32 manganese mine

South32 is restoring fuel supplies to its Gulf of Carpentaria manganese operation after Tropical Cyclone Megan damaged key infrastructure.

QLD Business

3d illustration of stacked gold bars or bullion.

Gold rush: bidding war erupts for OreCorp

Takeover suitors circle gold miner OreCorp, with all eyes on its key project in Tanzania, one of the biggest producers of the precious metal in Africa.

QLD Business

03/05/2023: New Hope Group CEO, Rob Bishop, speaks , at the official opening of the New Acland Mine, Stage 3, about 2 hours west of Brisbane. pic Lyndon Mechielsen

New Hope positive on coal despite environmental challenge

New Hope Group believes the outlook for its coal business is positive even though it’s embroiled in an environmental challenge to the expansion of its Queensland operation.

QLD Business

ACT building company collapses owing more than $20m

Administrators have been appointed to a 50-year-old Canberra-based construction firm with creditors owed in excess of $20m on multiple projects.

City Beat

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 16: Kurtley Beale of Randwick in action during the Club Rugby Championship match between Brothers and Randwick at Crosby Park on March 16, 2024 in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Albert Perez/Getty Images)

Brotherly love at Crosby Park

PR supremo and rugby tragic Geoff Rodgers is a happy man after 6000 people rolled up to Crosby Park on the weekend to see home-side Brothers trounce Sydney rugby powerhouse Randwick.

Business

Clockwise from top left: Michael Caton as Darryl Kerrigan in the movie The Castle, a Boral truck and Seven Group CEO Ryan Stokes.

‘They’re dreamin’: Seven Group’s Boral bid called too cheap

Seven Group’s $3.1bn takeover of building giant Boral is “on the cheap” with investors likely to make more money by keeping it independent, says a high profile broker.

QLD Business

On 18 October 2023, Glencore announced significant changes to our Queensland Metals business., , After 60 years of copper mining and a six-year extension beyond its original expected life of mine, the Mount Isa Mines underground copper operations (Enterprise, X41 and Black Rock) and copper concentrator will close in in the second half of 2025. Picture Glencore

‘Big Ben’ takes on Poms over Glencore London listing

Where the bloody hell are youse! Tribeca fund manager Ben Cleary says Glencore needs to forget London and list on the ASX to lift its flagging share price.

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