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Eric Johnston is an associate editor of The Australian. He has more than 25 years experience as a finance journalist, including a former business editor of The Australian. He has been business editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and financial services editor with The Australian Financial Review. His work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal.

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Sanjeev Gupta poses in his city office on the 10th floor of the EY building in Adelaide Tuesday,October,22,2024.Picture Mark Brake

Gupta ‘stonewalling’ Whyalla steel probe

Administrators will turn their investigation to the ‘complex web’ of deals between the magnate and the collapsed steelmaker.

Eric Johnston and Perry Williams

CommentaryCompanies

ADELAIDE/ KAURNA YARTA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MARCH 9, 2023: The NAB branch on Norwood Parade. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Morgan Sette

Getting the band back together: Behind banking’s extraordinary day

A series of cascading executive moves in one day, including a high-profile defection, are reshaping the top of the nation’s banks.

Eric Johnston

CommentaryEconomics

Robert Spurway, Chief Executive of Graincorp takes part in a forum on 'Navigating the Global Export Market' at The Global Food Forum 2025 in Melbourne on Friday, 14 March 2025.Photo: The Australian/ luis Enrique Ascui

Agribusiness dishes out hard lessons from tariff pain

Throughout the history of food trade, tariffs have followed. That’s why its worth listening to the cooler heads at the farm gate.

Eric Johnston

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National Australia Bank chief executive Andrew Irvine in Newcastle

Tariff trauma’s personal for NAB chief Andrew Irvine

The boss of big-four bank NAB has more skin in the game than most in Donald Trump’s tariff war. There are also lessons for Australia out of this.

Eric Johnston

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An employee in front of a steel furnace at BlueScope Steel Ltd. Port Kembla steelworks in Port Kembla, Australia, on Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. The world's two biggest miners, BHP Group Ltd. and Rio Tinto Group, are teaming up in a bid to develop Australia's first electric-smelting furnace, in what could prove an important step toward slashing emissions in the steel-making process. Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg

BlueScope, Orica seek urgent answers over US tariffs

Australia’s stock market fell sharply for a second day on tariff mayhem as the nation’s biggest steel producer said it was urgently seeking answers through diplomatic and business channels.

Perry Williams, Cameron England and Eric Johnston

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Generic pics of the Queen's Wharf as thousands of Queen's Wharf workers could potentially lose their jobs if The Star can't find more backing, Brisbane City - on Friday 10th January 2025 - Photo Steve Pohlner

Star to forfeit $4.2bn in fees as part of Queen’s Wharf sale

Star Entertainment’s Hong Kong partners are in Brisbane to seal a deal for control of Queen’s Wharf and it’s emerged that the casino operator will forfeit billions of dollars in management fees.

Eric Johnston and Glen Norris

CommentaryMarkets

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 07: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 07, 2025 in New York City. The Dow was mixed in morning trading as confusion over the Trump administration's tariff policy continued to spook investors and global markets. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by SPENCER PLATT / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Cracks starting to appear in Trump’s economy

If the first casualty of trade wars are markets, Donald Trump’s tariffs are a stunning form of economic self-harm.

Eric Johnston

CommentaryEconomics

Uneven fight: Can this green banker win against Trump?

It’s the most uneven match up. Canada is betting it all on a former central banker with almost no political experience to take on Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Eric Johnston

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BRISBANE AUSTRALIA FRIDAY 28TH FEBRUARY 2025 The Star Casino group has halted trading on the Stock Exchange this morning. Generic pictures of The Star at Queens Wharf Brisbane Picture David Clark

Inside the mission to pull Star casino back from the brink

Project Antares was the radical plan CEO Steve McCann had quietly been working on for months. It fell into place just as the casino was about to run out of cash.

Eric Johnston

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Inside Brisbane's Queen's Wharf main casino floor on Friday, January 17. Picture: Supplied

Star strikes a terrible deal for casino’s survival

Star is giving away more than $1bn in value for just spare change, but it removes three immediate threats to the casino’s survival.

Eric Johnston

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