Yesterday
AUKUS is ok with Trump, says Morrison
Donald Trump has indicated solid support for the AUKUS submarine deal, according to former prime minister Scott Morrison, who met with the former president at Trump Tower in New York on Wednesday AEST.
- Matthew Cranston
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Chalmers confronts his economic critics
The treasurer insists his budget gets the balance right, even if the economists don’t agree. What will the Reserve Bank and the voters think?
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- Jennifer Hewett
Dutton rejects ‘Rich Lister’ tax cuts
The opposition has blasted $27.8 billion in production credits in the budget as “tax cuts for billionaires”, vowing to repeal them if elected.
- Phillip Coorey and Brad Thompson
Palmer says billionaires like him shouldn’t get a break on bills
The Rich Lister, who is eligible for the power bill rebate on several of his homes, says the money would be better spent on households that desperately need it.
- Campbell Kwan and Bonnie Campbell
Gina Rinehart lobbies NGA to remove Indigenous portrait
The country’s richest resident has made her displeasure privately known about a portrait at the national institution.
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- Mark Di Stefano
This Month
Bull and the budget: supplicants take over Canberra
As the treasurer hands down his third budget, hasn’t he aroused a stupendous chorus of critics.
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- Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
BHP’s Anglo American bid clouds Rinehart-backed potash project
The miner had been in talks about selling a big stake in the fertiliser development amid a plunge in prices linked to higher exports from Russia and Belarus.
- Brad Thompson
This BHP old boy thinks copper and rare earths prices will spike
Arafura Rare Earths boss Darryl Cuzzubbo says higher prices are inevitable for two commodities vital to the energy transition.
- Brad Thompson
April
The rare earths mine becoming a bellwether for US minerals policy
China is home to 70 per cent of rare earths mining and 90 per cent of processing capacity. Tackling this dominance has become one of Washington’s strategic priorities.
- Harry Dempsey
Gina Rinehart goes big on copper with $186m Ecuador play
The deal for the Linderos development takes the iron ore billionaire’s outlay on mining projects in the South American nation to almost $500 million
- Brad Thompson
Rinehart’s presence stokes rethink of foiled $10b Lynas-MP merger
Australian richest person, Gina Rinehart, has emerged as a potential kingmaker in any rare earths mega-merger involving Lynas.
- Brad Thompson and Peter Ker
Rinehart snares big stake in Lynas Rare Earths
The share raid has fuelled speculation that Australia’s richest person may emerge as a kingmaker in any rare earths mega-merger.
- Brad Thompson
FIRB questions linger in Azure Minerals takeover
UBS hedge fund sales trader said delays in takeover receiving necessary Foreign Investment Review Board approvals should give investors cause for concern.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Exclusive
- Rare earths
Gina Rinehart emerges as big investor in California rare earths giant
Disclosures by MP Minerals show the billionaire’s Hancock Prospecting owns some 5 per cent of the company, which had discussed merging with Lynas Rare Earths.
- Jemima Whyte
March
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Soul Patts’ Millner rails against secretive new laws
Two words are frightening senior Australian executives; few are willing to say them publicly. The words are “nature positive”.
- Anthony Macdonald
Nev Power-chaired Future Battery Minerals raising to buy lithium asset
Listed junior explorer, Future Battery Minerals, sent out its broker trio to find equity funding for an acquisition on Monday morning.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Arise the bootfluencer! Gina Rinehart’s new hire
After losing a marketing chief, Gina Rinehart’s fashion portfolio turned to a politically aligned friend.
- Mark Di Stefano
Rinehart boss blasts Labor’s ‘nature-positive’ agenda
Gina Rinehart’s business empire has hit out over what it argues are flawed plans to rewrite national environmental laws.
- Brad Thompson
Rinehart-backed Arafura gets $840m in taxpayer aid for NT project
An $840 million package of loans and grants is the Albanese government’s biggest deployment of taxpayer funds to the struggling rare earths industry.
- Jacob Greber and Peter Ker
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Liontown buys time for lithium resurgence with shrunken debt deal
Less money, fewer banks and a lot less time. Liontown’s new debt deal is very different, but it buys the lithium miner time to start up its new mine and pray for better prices.
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- James Thomson
