This Month
- Opinion
- Critical minerals
Critical minerals plan less work in progress than idea in germination
The Albanese government is keen to promote critical minerals and US cooperation as key to the energy transition and green manufacturing jobs.
- Jennifer Hewett
Kerry Stokes gathers the oligarchs to kiss the ring
The media and mining mogul’s Telethon Ball was held in Perth on Saturday, bringing together the country’s richest mining billionaires for a private get-together.
- Mark Di Stefano and Tom Rabe
ATCO and BOC Linde win $593m SA hydrogen job, Forrest misses out
Fortescue Future Industries will not be part of the construction of the world’s largest hydrogen plant near Whyalla.
- Simon Evans
Forrest reignites media bias row with fellow WA billionaire Stokes
Andrew Forrest and Kerry Stokes were due to come face-to-face at a black tie charity event in Perth on Saturday night.
- Brad Thompson
Forrest foundation donates $10m to aid in Gaza
Minderoo funding will be used to enable the delivery of urgent medical supplies and support, emergency water, nutrition as well as child protection.
- Gus McCubbing
Fortescue ‘on track’ to achieve 2030 decarbonisation target
New board member Larry Marshall says he is convinced the company will achieve its goal, as it seeks to become a major supplier of prototype technology and machinery.
- Brad Thompson
- Opinion
- Political leadership
How big business will handle a backlash over the Voice
Much of corporate Australia strongly backed the Voice. The result means they are reassessing how to address social issues as past of the ESG agenda.
- Jennifer Hewett
Forrest ‘lost and lonely’, but on track for $240m US hydrogen funding
Fortescue’s green hydrogen project proposed for a remediated coal mine in Washington state is in line for huge subsidies from the Biden administration.
- Updated
- Matthew Cranston
AFR journalists are finalists for three Walkley awards
Financial Review journalists are finalists in the 68th Walkley awards for excellence in journalism for their coverage of PwC and Fortescue, two of the biggest business news stories of the year.
Andrew Forrest, motorsports mogul, revs up his British business
The Fortescue boss is using the intense competition of motor-racing to drive technical innovation at his mines. Just don’t expect to see him trackside.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Joe Aston’s farewell column
After 12 years of writing Rear Window, my reward was the belly laughs I got to share with AFR readers as, again and again, we denuded the most fantastic pretenders in the nation.
- Joe Aston
- Exclusive
- Venture capital
Forrest, Denholm families unite to create more female millionaires
Aliavia Ventures co-founder Marisa Warren says women in venture capital are still underrepresented at the general and managing partner level.
- Tess Bennett
The hydrogen market has evolved but customers still rare as ‘unicorns’
Liquid hydrogen is likely to be the “first mover” says Woodside, but customers are “unicorns,” says Peter Colman, the oil and gas major’s former CEO.
- Elouise Fowler and Angela Macdonald-Smith
Squadron Energy to spend $20b on renewables by 2030
Squadron expands to become Australia’s biggest renewables’ player after its $4.2 billion purchase of CWP Renewables late last year.
- Primrose Riordan
Fortescue hunting more green energy after signing 25-year supply deal
The mining giant is a step closer to its Gibson Island green ammonia project after committing to a 25-year renewable energy offtake deal with Genex Power.
- Updated
- Brad Thompson
Squadron in $220m loss as it digests CWP buy
The Forrest family’s energy vehicle purchased the $4.2 billion renewables giant in December. It says it is cash flow positive, and has had one-off deal expenses.
- Primrose Riordan
September
Australia’s 10 most powerful business leaders in 2023
In the ultimate view of the Power panel, the sheer size of Commonwealth Bank’s consumer-facing business lifted Matt Comyn to the top of the list.
- James Thomson
Billionaire Andrew Forrest mourns his father
Andrew Forrest led a horseback guard of honour for his father Don at the family’s cherished Minderoo cattle station in the Pilbara.
- Brad Thompson
- Opinion
- Governance
How Twiggy plans to rewrite the rules of capitalism
Andrew Forrest is overturning conventional ideas that corporations should aim to maximise shareholder returns, and instead sees their social and environmental obligations as paramount.
- Karen Maley
EVs to robots: Hastings rare earths boss eyes lithium’s ascent
Former Mineral Resources lithium boss Paul Brown will take charge at Wyloo-backed Hastings Technology Metals with one eye on the rise of robotics.
- Brad Thompson
