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    • 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
    • Monday, 27 November, 2023
      Lithium
      Mining tycoons battle over lithium’s ‘corridor of power’ in Australia

      Local billionaires disrupt consolidation as industry positions itself for boom in mineral vital to electric cars

      A desert tract near Kalgoorlie, best known for Australia’s largest open-pit gold mine
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd
      ANZ warns of lower bonuses if staff do not come into office

      Australian bank says employees are expected in workplace at least 50% of the time

      A picture of the ANZ logo
    • Sunday, 19 November, 2023
      Cricket
      Australia beats India in Cricket World Cup final

      Visitors win by 6 wickets in game that brought heartbreak to home nation and favourites

      The Australian team celebrates victory in the Cricket World Cup
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      InterviewChevron Corp
      Chevron plots carbon storage future despite Australia plant setbacks

      Oil major’s $54bn Gorgon natural gas project has failed to meet targets for capturing CO₂

      Gorgon liquefied natural gas and carbon capture and storage facility
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      Climate change
      Australia offers Tuvalu residents climate change visas

      Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signs treaty with Pacific island nation affected by global warming

      Australia’s prime minister Anthony Albanese, left, and Tuvalu’s prime minister Kausea Natano at the Pacific Islands Forum in the Cook Islands on Thursday
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      PwC
      PwC Australia cuts more than 300 jobs after tax scandal

      Westpac ends auditing ties after two decades with Big Four firm

      PwC sign
    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      Reserve Bank of Australia
      Australia returns to raising interest rates as inflation persists

      Move puts central bank out of step with most global peers

      Michele Bullock
    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      Qantas Airways Ltd
      Qantas admits ‘loss of trust’ after investor backlash over pay

      Rejection of bonus scheme comes as Australia’s flag carrier is being sued by regulator over ‘ghost flights’ scandal

      Qantas aircraft on the tarmac
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      News in-depthAustralian politics
      Australia seeks reset with Xi while balancing ties with US

      Anthony Albanese makes state visit to China as tensions over trade ease

      Australia’s prime minister Anthony Albanese, left, and China’s president Xi Jinping meet on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia in November
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      Origin Energy Ltd
      Brookfield-led ‘final’ bid for Australian energy giant rebuffed by largest shareholder

      $12.5bn takeover of Origin Energy in balance ahead of vote this month on deal

      Origin logo
    • Monday, 30 October, 2023
      EU trade
      Australia and EU fail to reach free trade deal

      Last-ditch talks on G7 sidelines fall short over market access after five years of negotiations

      Cattle at a farm on Kangaroo Island, Australia
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      Lithium
      Gina Rinehart takes second strategic stake in Australian lithium sector

      Billionaire acquires 18% of Azure Minerals after Chile’s SQM announces planned buyout

      A geologist holds a rock containing spodumene, a lithium raw material
    • Sunday, 22 October, 2023
      Chinese trade
      Beijing reviews wine tariffs ahead of Australian prime minister visit

      Albanese’s November meeting with Xi comes as the two countries work to stabilise relations

      A picture of wine bottles
    • Saturday, 21 October, 2023
      FT MagazineJancis Robinson
      On the hunt for Australia’s bargain bottles

       Australia’s got a wine glut — but it’s not proving easy to take advantage of it

    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      Global InsightNic Fildes
      Why the left stumbled in Australia and New Zealand

      Progressive leaders reel from ballot box defeats after ‘losing touch with core voters’

      Jacinda Ardern and Australia’s prime minister Anthony Albanese
    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      News in-depthGina Rinehart
      Australia’s ‘iron lady’ Gina Rinehart takes a big bet on lithium

      Mining billionaire’s stakebuilding in Liontown has scuppered $4.2bn takeover by Albemarle of the US

      Gina Rinehart
    • Saturday, 14 October, 2023
      Australia votes down ‘The Voice’ in contentious referendum

      Prime minister seeks ‘new way forward’ after nation declines to recognise indigenous population in its constitution

      Anthony Albanese speaking at Parliament House
    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      Australian politics
      Australia’s Voice campaigners make final push ahead of indigenous referendum

      Polling shows historic vote to recognise First Nations people expected to fail amid backlash

      Australia’s prime minister Anthony Albanese attends a ‘yes’ vote campaign event in Adelaide on Friday
    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      Chinese politics & policy
      Australian journalist released from Chinese detention

      CGTN news anchor is reunited with family after three years as tensions ease between Canberra and Beijing

      Australian journalist Cheng Lei upon her arrival at the airport in Melbourne on Wednesday
    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      Frieze Week in London 2023
      Indigenous Australians tell their own stories in the Karrabing Film Collective

      The artworks draw on their ancestors’ deep past and contemporary debates about land ownership and civil rights

      Images of figures in saturated colours are overlaid on a dry natural landscape
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