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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

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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
Billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes

How Atlassian billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes plans to shake up the F1 world

Mike Cannon-Brookes has raised eyebrows with his entry into the world of Formula 1, but he says it doesn’t undermine his credentials as an advocate for clean energy.

  • Supratim Adhikari
Atlassian executive Sonia Parandekar at the firm’s head office in Sydney. Her travel program epitomises the growing links between Australia and south India.

Meet Sonia: The fly-in, fly-out tech exec who travels to Sydney from Asia’s Silicon Valley

Our commercial and cultural links with India’s “dynamic south” are on the up.

  • Matt Wade
Anthony Pratt, Harry Triguboff, Gina Rinehart and Mike Cannon-Brookes.

‘The superstar effect’: Australia’s growing band of billionaires

Twenty Australians hold twice as much wealth as the bottom two million households.

  • Matt Wade
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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Mike Cannon Brookes at Director conference at  AICD Climate Governance Forum, at Sydney Hilton Hotel on Aug 11, 2023. Photo: Flavio Brancaleone / AFR

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
Lawyer Rebekah Giles.

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
The first stage of Mike Cannon-Brookes’ SunCable project has been approved by the Albanese government.

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 is planning to turn the site of its shuttered Liddell coal-fired power station into a low-carbon industrial energy hub.

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

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