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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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**THE LIST 2024**Richard White, Maree Isaacs, Co-founders, WiseTech Global. Photographed by Nic Walker, Tuesday 17st October.

Richard White must step aside to protect WiseTech

At the very least, the WiseTech boss should take up his board’s suggestion to temporarily vacate his position.

Eric Johnston

ExclusiveBusiness Breaking News

How ‘dumb luck’ launched a $1 trillion opportunity

Stonepeak founder Mike Dorrell was in the right place at the right time. But the highly sought after fund manager is rewriting the rules on infrastructure.

Eric Johnston

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Can Nine really change its shocking ways?

There is little confidence the same board that fundamentally allowed an appalling corporate culture and poor leadership to thrive, can also fix it.

Eric Johnston

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DAILY TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 9, 2021 EMBARGOED FOR THE DAILY TELEGRAPH POWER 100. Embargoed until print date Feb 2022 Do not use unless you speak to the pic desk. Richard White is the suburban billionaire few have ever heard of. He is the founder and major shareholder of Wisetech Global, a logistics software business worth $17bn. Pictured in his Bexley home that he grew up in and has now renovated. Picture: Jonathan Ng

WiseTech’s board confronts tough choices with White

The billionaire founder of WiseTech Global, Richard White, has the backing of his board but there are active discussions about the chief executive taking leave from the tech major.

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Ethernet data cables are seen in a server room in Canberra, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

How Blackstone became an ‘AirTrunk believer’

The New York giant was dabbling with some sheds with ‘some power on the side’ but two lessons paved the way for its bumper acquisition.

Eric Johnston

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Nathan Sheets, chief economist at PGIM Inc. and former U.S. Treasury undersecretary for international affairs, speaks during the IIF Mexico Economic Forum in Mexico City, Mexico, on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018. The event, hosted by Banorte, brings together chief economists, country risk managers, and investors to discuss the prospects in Mexico and Latin America amid a changing political landscape, growing global trade tensions, and the implications for EM of monetary policy normalization in the G-3. Photographer: Alicia Vera/Bloomberg

Oil, debt and China: A trifecta of threats to global recovery

For Citi’s New York-based global economist, Nathan Sheets, the difference between a recovery and global recession are finely balanced.

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Macquarie’s new lighthouse is all about the AI boom

Investment bank Macquarie wants to build another AirTrunk, and the infrastructure supporting the tech revolution sits at the heart of its plans.

Eric Johnston

AnalysisCompanies

Aerial birds eye views of real estate and infrastructure in Sydney Australia of CBD

Inside John Gillam’s renovation rescue at Lendlease

The former hardware boss believes Lendlease can get its glory back. This involves ‘the right kind’ of risk.

Eric Johnston

AnalysisMining & Energy

A battery pack stands on a trolley as Tesla Model X sports utility vehicles (SUV) sit in cradles during assembly for the European market at the Tesla Motors Inc. factory in Tilburg, Netherlands, on Friday, Dec. 9, 2016. A boom in electric vehicles made by the likes of Tesla could erode as much as 10 percent of global gasoline demand by 2035, according to the oil industry consultant Wood Mackenzie Ltd. Photographer: Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg

How Rio’s powerplay is rewriting the rules of lithium

The mining giant’s $10bn bet has electrified the struggling industry. However, Rio will bring a different mindset to lithium.

Eric Johnston

CommentaryEconomics

CANBERRA, Australia - NewsWire Photos - September 30, 2024: Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher hold a press conference about the Final Budget Outcome released today at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

For Chalmers, supermarkets make better politics than policy

It’s pure politics for the Treasurer calling out supermarkets as needing any special treatment over other more concentrated sectors.

Eric Johnston

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