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Hello readers. The peak conservation organisation has unleashed a brutal guerilla attack on business, and how to make a fortune with a little sweat.

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Greenies in guerilla hit on business

The peak conservation organisation has launched a ­brutal, intimidatory campaign against some of our biggest companies.

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The Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg and the Assistant Minister for Treasury and Finance, Zed Seselja, during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

$20bn budget resources boost

A resources-led export surge will help underwrite the federal budget, with forecasts expected to lift total export earnings.

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EMBARGO FOR LIST 30 MARCH 2019NO REUSE WITHOUT PERMISSION FEE APPLIESTobi Pearce and Kayla Itsines - the brains behind popular exercise app 'Sweat'. PIC: Nic Walker for The Australian

Fortune with a little sweat

The wealthiest 20-something entrepreneurs in Australia, Kayla Itsines and Tobi Pearce, could easily become billionaires before they hit 30 if the huge global growth of their Sweat digital fitnes­s platform keeps up its pace. Ms ­Itsines and Mr Pearce are the youngest members of The List – Australia’s Richest 250, to be published in The Weekend Australian tomorrow, and the most comprehensive study of the country’s wealth undertaken.

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27/03/2019. Sydney Institute Dinner guest Tony Abbott . Former Prime Minister John Howard is giving the keynote address. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

Abbott’s cashed up

Tony Abbott’s Warringah campaign team has agreed to spend up to $1 million defending the former PM from Zali Steggall, writes Margin Call.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 21: Rugby Australia CEO Raelene Castle discusses launching the 'Get Into Rugby' program at Lindfield Rugby Club on February 21, 2019 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)

Rugby tent collapsing

Rugby Australia can no longer hide from its appalling indifference to the game’s wellbeing, writes Alan Jones.

“Those who run rugby, at state and national level, have abandoned Penrith and the west of Sydney ... Yet, rugby in Western Sydney is alive at grassroots level.”

Alan Jones

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BERLIN, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 10: Jonah Hill attends the "Mid 90's" press conference during the 69th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin at Grand Hyatt Hotel on February 10, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Matthias Nareyek/Getty Images)

Supergood

Jonah Hill has written and directed one of the best movies of the year, according to the Wall Street Journal. Hill may have launched to fame in 2007 as a smart-arse comic imp in Superbad, but his new film, Mid90s, putatively about a small group of teen skateboarders in Los Angeles, is really an immersive look at male adolescence and all its conflicting joys and toxicities in the pre-social media era.

“Mid90s ripples with hyper­precise period details and cameos that will please the hard-to-impress skate crowd. But what really pops is its cast. Hill turned to real skaters, with limited or no acting backgrounds, and coaxed moving performances from all of them.”

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Kudelka’s view

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