Lenders told to ‘support customers’ facing hard times
Lenders are being warned they remain in the frame of Australia’s corporate watchdog as the nation heads into uncertain economic times, with households set to face financial hardship. The outgoing…
‘ISIS brides’ face arrest on return to Australia
Women and children linked to Islamic State have been warned they face big hurdles reintegrating into Australian society when they return to the country. The group will arrive in Sydney…
Supermarket brings back soft plastics collection points
Soft plastics recycling collection points are returning to Woolworths stores more than three years after the Australia-wide REDcycle supermarket scheme collapsed. Woolworths says more than 700 of its stores across…
Investors left guessing on corporate climate costs
Two-thirds of Australia’s largest companies are owning up to material climate risk but only a third have put a dollar figure on exposure. The few big firms that have crunched…
BHP denied appeal for judgment over Brazil dam collapse
BHP cannot appeal against a UK ruling that it is liable for the 2015 collapse of a dam in southeastern Brazil, London’s Court of Appeal has ruled. In November, London’s…
CNN founder Ted Turner dies at the age of 87
Ted Turner, the founder of the CNN network, has died at the age of 87, the broadcaster says. The United States-based network said the outspoken and often outrageous television pioneer…
How selling off the port of Darwin led Australia to get Sued | The West Report
We warned about this China deal done by Tony Abbott. Australia’s free trade deal with China was sold as a win for exporters, investors and the national interest. But buried…
How we can fight China rare metal monopoly: mining boss
Australia and its allies may have to embrace market intervention to combat decades of inaction that let China gain a stranglehold on critical raw materials, an outgoing mining boss says.…
Antisemitism. The Royal Conflation Commission is in session
The Bondi Royal Commission started its public hearings this week, and the mainstream media is lapping up the antisemitism narrative while ignoring other Jewish voices. Stephanie Tran reports. The first…
‘A joke’: Fortescue founder takes on diesel tax credit
More Australian miners would be reducing diesel dependency and the budget would be in better shape to support households if the Commonwealth cut back fuel credits, Fortescue chair and found…