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  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Katie Martin
    Why Australia may be the canary in the coal mine on interest rates

    A hawkish tone from the country’s central bank — and from New Zealand — signals that movement could still be up not down

    The Reserve Bank of Australia building in Sydney
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Australia to build biggest navy since second world war to meet China threat

    Planned upgrade follows defence review that highlighted Beijing’s military expansion in Pacific

    Sailors from the Royal Australian Navy
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    BHP Group PLC
    BHP says Australian support for nickel miners ‘may not be enough’ to save industry

    Group’s first-half net profit dropped almost 90% after metal’s price collapsed

    BHP’s headquarters in Melbourne
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    Active ETF market share surges as growth accelerates

    Figures point to avenue of growth for mutual fund managers as money flees to lower-cost passive investing

    A currency trader gestures near screens showing the Korea Composite stock Index at a bank in Seoul, South Korea
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Mining
    Australia classifies nickel as a ‘critical’ mineral to protect ailing industry

    Producers of EV battery material fear collapse as supply glut from Indonesia knocks prices

    Employees outside the BHP Kwinana Nickel Refinery in Western Australia
  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
    Accounting & Consulting services
    Australian authorities allege PwC is ‘deliberately hiding’ tax scandal report

    The controversy has increased scrutiny of the Big Four consultants’ power in the country

    A picture of the PwC sign and a group of executives
  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
    News in-depth
    Australian strikes hit 8-year high as unions make up for ‘lost time’

    Number of industrial disputes has jumped since Labor government took office in 2022

    Workers standing on a crane platform inspect a container ship at Port Botany in Sydney
  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Woodside and Santos call off merger talks to create Australian LNG giant

    $52bn deal between country’s two largest oil and gas companies would have created dominant liquefied natural gas provider

    Meg O’Neill
  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    Australia’s central bank cuts growth forecast as consumers tighten belts

    Inflation eases but new-look RBA does not rule out more interest rate rises

    Michele Bullock
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    Chinese politics & policy
    China gives Australian writer Yang Hengjun suspended death sentence

    Democracy advocate has been detained for five years on espionage charges

    Yang Hengjun, left, and his wife Yuan Xiaoliang in an undated photo
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    FT GlobetrotterFT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s on in our cities
    Melbourne in 2024: FT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s happening

    The city’s music, theatre, art and sports highlights of the year

    US singer-songwriter Caroline Polacheck at last year’s Always Live festival in Melbourne
  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    Accolade Wines Australia Ltd
    Bain-led consortium takes over Australian winemaker behind Hardys

    Accolade to be restructured as sector prepares for China trade to reopen

    Grapevines in the Yarra Valley
  • Monday, 22 January, 2024
    News in-depthWoolworths Ltd
    Woolworths’ decision to shun Australia Day inflames culture war

    Country’s largest grocer faces backlash over move to not stock merchandise linked to national holiday

    A barbeque on Australia Day in 2006
  • Monday, 22 January, 2024
    Macquarie Group
    Macquarie raises record €8bn for Europe infrastructure fund

    Australian group’s new vehicle marks latest sign of investor appetite for critical assets

    Virtus data centers
  • Monday, 15 January, 2024
    Santos Ltd
    Australian court allows Santos pipeline to proceed after dismissing Tiwi Islanders’ case

    Argument that oil major’s Barossa project would disturb ancestral beings proves insufficient

    Tiwi Islanders protest against Santos’s Barossa pipeline project
  • Sunday, 7 January, 2024
    Greenwashing
    Australian regulator steps up greenwashing crackdown

    Three funds taken to court over erroneous claims in 2023 with more action to come

    Australian Securities and Investments Commission deputy chair Sarah Court speaking
  • Thursday, 28 December, 2023
    Exchange traded funds
    VanEck forecasts Australia’s ETF market will hit A$180bn in 2024

    Manager’s survey shows 60% of investors aim to boost allocations or make initial investments into ETFs

  • Thursday, 28 December, 2023
    Prime property
    Hot property: five homes for sale in Sydney

    From a semi-rural estate north of the city to an Australian Federation-style house with views of the harbour

    The side of a house with stacked balconies and a pool with trees and a water view in the background
  • Thursday, 28 December, 2023
    Charles Parton
    In the hawk-dove ornithology of China policy, consider the drongo

    We must avoid the lazy classification of attitudes to Beijing as falling either side of two extreme positions

    A drongo sitting on a branch
  • Tuesday, 26 December, 2023
    Inside BusinessNic Fildes
    Varroa mite parasites provide lesson for company directors

    Australian legal opinion cites example of bee hive killer as example of environment risks that boards need to consider

    Varroa mote
  • Friday, 8 December, 2023
    Natural gas
    Woodside and Santos seek global scale in LNG with $52bn merger plan

    Combination would consolidate almost all of Australia’s liquefied natural gas sector

    A liquefied natural gas tanker
  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
    Rio Tinto PLC
    Rio Tinto rosy on China over uptick in manufacturing activity

    Chief executive Jakob Stausholm says steel mills running ‘flat out’ but property slowdown still ‘challenging’

    Visitors to Rio Tinto’s iron ore export port of Dampier
  • Monday, 4 December, 2023
    Origin Energy Ltd
    Brookfield’s $13bn bid for Origin Energy fails on shareholder vote

    Australian investors fight off second major overseas takeover attempt of a local company in two months

    Scott Perkins, right, and Frank Calabria
  • Saturday, 2 December, 2023
    Military technology
    US, UK and Australia move to track ‘emerging threats’ in space

    Aukus security pact formed to counter advances by China will also boost autonomous naval systems

    The leaders of the US, UK and Australia at the Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego, California, in March
  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    Emily Caruso
    View from the deck: rising sea levels up close

    An expedition yacht skipper witnesses the effects of climate change on communities in the Pacific and Arctic

    Boat sailing on the Arctic with icebergs in the background
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