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Then-president Donald Trump and Anthony Pratt during the official opening of Pratt Industries’ Wapakoneta recycling and paper plant in Ohio in 2019.

Trump called this Australian billionaire a ‘red-haired weirdo’. Now, they’ve met again

Packaging magnate Anthony Pratt pledged to invest billions in American manufacturing, scoring him an invitation to the White House, where the US president described him as a friend.

  • Michael Koziol

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Coalition Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price poses in a MAGA cap with her husband Colin Lillie in this Yuletide snap taken from her social media page.

Happy snap! Jacinta Price poses in a MAGA cap for family Christmas selfie

A Christmas social media post has brought new tidings of the Liberal senator’s association with Donald Trump’s famous campaign slogan.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Celebrating The Big Group, cabaret-style.

Bruce and Chyka Keebaugh told their guests to arrive by 6pm. Then a spot fire broke out

Melebrities last night celebrated the 35th anniversary of Bruce and Chyka Keebaugh’s The Big Group, but the night was not without some drama.

  • Stephen Brook
Alex Waislitz.

Pratt siblings sue Alex Waislitz over $1m in trust payments

Melbourne billionaire Heloise Pratt has been joined by her wealthy siblings, Anthony Pratt and Fiona Geminder, in a claim to ensure better oversight of future distributions from a trust shared with her former husband.

  • Sarah Danckert
Australian businessman Richard Pratt is moving to the US.

The Aussie billionaire in the box seat in Trump’s America

Anthony Pratt says that being rich is his superpower and his official move to the US may say plenty about the bonanza of a second Republican presidency.

  • Colin Kruger
Anthony Pratt at the 2024 Met Gala in New York.

Aussie billionaire Anthony Pratt makes a permanent move to US

The Australian packaging billionaire’s move will put him closer to his US business interests and to a re-elected Donald Trump.

  • Colin Kruger
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Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek, Nestle Oceania chief executive Sandra Martinez, Visy chief executive Mark De Wit, Merri-bek Mayor Adam Pulford during the 2024 Recycling Roundtable.

Big business calls on government to police tide of plastic packaging

The companies behind Australia’s biggest consumer brands are calling for regulation of recycling and packaging to ensure consistency between the states and territories, and ensure laggards don’t benefit from cheaper costs.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Joe Hockey gives good chat.

Virtually good value: A jolly Joe Hockey gig costs $20,000 a pop

The former treasurer, who once declared an end to the “age of entitlement”, has a big price tag attached to his time.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Anthony Pratt attends The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Box billionaire goes Pratty in pink at the Met Gala

Visy cardboard king Anthony Pratt was one of the brightest figures on the glamour carpet in New York, if not the best dressed.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Donald Trump and Anthony Pratt at Pratt Industries’ box factory in Ohio in 2019.

‘Red flags went up’: Former Mar-a-Lago worker details Pratt’s relationship with Trump

A witness in a criminal trial involving Donald Trump claims the Australian billionaire was told information by the former president that “would more than likely be classified”.

  • Farrah Tomazin

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