Mike Cannon-Brookes
A 4300km power line to Asia? Singapore thinks it might just work
A $35 billion mega-project by billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes to export renewable energy to Asia has cleared a significant hurdle.
- Nick Toscano
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The hundreds of millions in tax incentives for Australian start-ups that went south
The R&D tax offset has served as a life raft for some of Australia’s most prominent technology start-ups, though in some cases it wasn’t enough.
- David Swan
Defamation lawyer Rebekah Giles turns journo and asks the ABC the hard questions
A younger Rebekah Giles used to protest ABC funding cuts. Now she finds herself facing them in court - to her distress.
- Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Cannon-Brookes’ record-breaking solar farm plan gets Plibersek’s tick
The project to build Australia’s largest solar farm has been approved after collapsing last year due to a rift between billionaires Mike Cannon-Brookes and Andrew Forrest.
- Mike Foley
AGL coal sites to house green manufacturing, not nuclear
Australia’s largest power supplier is moving ahead with its plans to turn its old coal sites into low-carbon industrial energy hubs, despite Peter Dutton’s push for them to host nuclear.
- Nick Toscano
There is plenty of life in the old cash yet, thank you
Bec Wilson asserts the banks believe cash will disappear in seven years (“Cash is dead. Why are we still pretending it isn’t?“, May 11). She should have written that the banks want cash to disappear in seven years. This is so they can charge retailers more in transaction fees who can then pass it on to consumers.
The green energy ‘big bets’ Australia needs to go after: Sun Cable cofounder
Sun Cable’s cofounder wants Australia to think bigger about the green energy switch, saying the nation should strive to become a renewable energy superpower.
- Nick Toscano
ASIC swoops on Mayfair’s Mawhinney – again
The controversial businessman has appeared in a Melbourne court vowing to fight charges of dishonest conduct.
- Noel Towell and Kishor Napier-Raman
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Labor has a broken energy fix. The Libs don’t have one at all – yet
Australia can bid for solar cell factories, but if we lack the power to run them, the hope is forlorn.
- Peter Hartcher
AGL and Cannon-Brookes want to make solar panels at former coal power station
AGL will partner with a start-up backed by its biggest shareholder, Mike Cannon-Brookes, to assess building a first-of-its-kind solar panel factory in the NSW Upper Hunter region.
- Nick Toscano
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