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Qantas rivals offer more long-haul routes as dollar crash looms
Capacity for international travel is rising as airlines experiment with new routes. But the real difference may be felt when Qatar and Virgin’s deal takes effect mid-year.
- by Chris Zappone
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Casinos
Star board backs rescue deal from US ‘vulture’
A $300 million deal with US-based company Bally’s will allow the embattled casino operator to protect 8000 jobs in NSW and Queensland.
- by Colin Kruger and Supratim Adhikari
Woodside firms up US export dream despite oil price plunge
Australia’s biggest energy company is edging closer to approving a huge liquefied gas project in the US, even as Donald Trump’s tariff war sends commodity prices tumbling.
- by Nick Toscano
Mining sector urges Dutton not to class gas a ‘critical mineral’
Classing gas as a “critical mineral” would qualify gas drillers for support from a $4 billion loans facility.
- by Nick Toscano and Simon Johanson
Qantas’ Project Sunrise could take passengers over the Arctic
The extraordinary range of the Airbus A350-1000 ULR – for “ultra-long range” – will give Qantas passengers the ability to skip time-consuming stops and fly direct from Australia to any point on the globe.
- by Chris Zappone
Trumpet of Patriots ad shown 10 million times before Google removal
The ad featured a segment from a two-decade-old documentary that claimed to expose “the truth about climate change”.
- by Calum Jaspan
Forget beef, Nvidia slaughters Aussie investors
James Packer is not the only Australian caught up in the AI wunderkind’s rout; big bets by financial giants such as AustralianSuper mean we’re all exposed.
- by Colin Kruger
Pub veteran Laundy sells $30m proposed hotel site at Cobbity
Arthur Laundy has sold a greenfield development site in Sydney’s south-west that will eventually become the Oxley Ridge Tavern.
- by Carolyn Cummins
Carnage on leafy St Kilda boulevard as property values crash-land
Basketball tsar Larry Kestelman sold a Queens Road tower for $59 million in 2019. Now it’s changed hands for less than half that sum.
- by Nicole Lindsay
Dragons, dynasties and The White Lotus. Inside the HBO hit machine
There are plenty more White Lotus ideas to come, says the boss of award-winning television studio HBO.
- by Calum Jaspan
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‘Game on’: Kim Williams welcomes Dutton’s ABC funding review
Any efficiency audit under a Coalition government would be the 16th since 2001. Its chair tells Peter Dutton to bring it on.
- by Calum Jaspan
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