How Miller will make Westpac a business force again
A former Goldman Sachs banker wants to pull Westpac out of its self-imposed wilderness. Is the banking major ready for change?
Technology
Aussies point finger at ‘harmful’ TikTok
No country in the world has successfully mandated age restrictions for social media, but a new survey shows Australians still want the age limit raised.
AirTrunk is classic Blackstone: Go big, go for scale
Three years ago Wall Street giant Blackstone had next to no funds in data centres but today it has more than $186bn. Here’s why.
Push to ban bosses social media trawling
Ever-present surveillance at work has extended too far into ‘social media trawling’ and new laws are needed, a union group says.
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Big investors now control fate of Qantas chair Goyder
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Bowen’s nuclear strike undermines energy future
The Energy Minister has opted for cheap politics by eliminating one potential energy solution while other advanced economies are taking nuclear seriously.
Westpac inches closer to its McFarlane moment
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Lehman’s Mr fix-it sees warning sign
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New Qantas boss haunted by ghost of Alan Joyce
Chief executive Vanessa Hudson can’t blame the airline’s previous management for a legal loss that has now given unions the upper hand.
Stock stars look under the surface
Influential New York-hedge fund manager Ricky Sandler says no one is focused on picking interesting, idiosyncratic stocks.
New Qantas CEO’s problems are bigger than Alan Joyce
The playbook for an outside chief executive with a change mandate is to blame their predecessor for everything. The new Qantas boss can’t do that.
Liontown maps out the peak of lithium boom
It could be a ‘YouTube moment’ for the loyal investor base in the Perth lithium hopeful as an extraordinary ride nears its end.
Why AI could cost businesses billions
Experts warn AI will “rapidly and significantly” disrupt more than $600 billion of economic activity.
The $256bn bet that markets have ‘fundamentally changed’
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