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Beyond the boom
The premier forum to discuss the role of infrastructure in powering Australia’s economic growth and sustainable future.
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Join The Australian Financial Review Infrastructure Summit for a deep dive into how policymakers are rethinking Australia’s infrastructure priorities and what this means for businesses and investors.
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Rising rates won’t hit home building in WA or Victoria, ABN Group says
Perth’s undersupply of housing relative to demand is so great that prices will keep rising “substantially”, the country’s second-largest home builder says.
- Michael Bleby
IFM snares $3b deal for European mega-airport
The Australian investment manager shrugs off Europe’s infrastructure blues, teaming up with France’s Vinci to win a Polish tender worth as much as $3 billion.
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Opinion
- AI
New data centres mean surging power needs
The rush is on build new data centres, but their massive energy requirements are adding to strain on the power grid.
- Jennifer Hewett
Dexus CEO Darren Steinberg to step down
Darren Steinberg’s exit is the latest departure in a generational change sweeping across the top ranks of the property sector.
- Nick Lenaghan
Former JPMorgan banker launches $157m AUKUS fund
Technology start-ups in defence are capitalising on heightened geopolitical tensions, and fund managers are jumping in.
- Matthew Cranston
Yesterday
- Exclusive
- Infrastructure
New road, rail spending slumps as Labor tells premiers to cut back
Just eight new projects valued at $6.6 billion were added in 2022-23, a sharp decline on the 24 projects valued at $25.3 billion added the year prior.
- Ronald Mizen
This Month
Let us land planes more quietly, efficiently: Sydney Airport
The country’s biggest airport has asked the government to match the terms it is offering at Western Sydney to reduce emissions and noise.
- Ayesha de Kretser
As timber buildings go up, emissions come down
The growing use of engineered wood products allows for less embodied carbon in buildings, but that alone won’t make construction clean.
- Michael Bleby
MacCap flies into sell-side lineup at Queensland Airports; 74pc for sale
Potential investors are being told to expect flyers as early as Tuesday.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Rio, BHP and Fortescue at electrification crossroads
Iron ore miners in the Pilbara are under pressure to slash emissions and preparing to fork out billions on emissions-free trucks and renewables.
- Brad Thompson
NSW pumps $128m into community benefits for first green energy zone
Funds will flow early to projects in communities impacted by new transmission and renewable energy projects, in a bid to improve local support.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
‘Land, air and sea’: China’s nuclear arsenal to double by 2030
Beijing has made dramatic advances in the “scale and complexity” of sea, air and land military platforms, the Pentagon says in a new report.
- Cate Cadell
New Transurban boss Michelle Jablko wants to reward drivers
The CEO plans to offer incentives such as car hire and car wash discounts for users of the toll road group’s Linkt accounts to encourage motorists to keep paying for its roads.
- Jenny Wiggins
Former VicTrack boss breached code of conduct: auditor-general
The former head of Victoria’s rail agency, Campbell Rose, suggested that a government joint venture should give him an equity stake.
- Jenny Wiggins and Gus McCubbing
$100m loan makes NSW first recipient of $20b Rewiring the Nation fund
Clean Energy Finance Corporation has allocated a $100 million loan towards NSW’s electricity infrastructure road map to help it deliver 12GW of projects by 2030.
- Mark Ludlow
Telcos battle for internet calling provider
Symbio is the latest business caught up in an acquisition spree as small telecoms companies go after the biggest fish in the pond.
- Jenny Wiggins
Telstra seals $267m Versent deal to boost digital services
Analysts say the deal gives Telstra access to a workforce with expertise in highly sought after areas of cloud, security, digital and data services.
- Jenny Wiggins and Tess Bennett
TPG Telecom’s talks with Vocus over $6b asset sale to continue
TPG’s share price weakens as discussions with suitor Vocus “remain ongoing” over potential sale of $6 billion in fibre assets.
- Jenny Wiggins
Octopus buys Queensland’s largest battery project Blackstone
The 1 gigawatt-hour project is 30 kilometres from Brisbane and will have the ability to power 70,000 homes for 24 hours.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Superloop eyes higher Symbio bid despite declaring ‘best and final’
The telco is reviewing whether to engage in a bidding war with Aussie Broadband after its takeover proposal for the software group was trumped on Friday.
- Jenny Wiggins and Jessica Sier
Worker shortage forces Snowy 2.0 to get creative with recruitment
The massive project needs to fill 300 positions in three months, and another 1500 over its life. That’s creating a boom – and a shortfall – for other employers.
- Jenny Wiggins and Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Exclusive
- Infrastructure
Green energy transition will need ‘mountain of regional relocation’
Worker shortages in regional areas risk delays and budget blowouts in the push to turbocharge green energy projects, according to analysis by Infrastructure Partnerships Australia.
- Ronald Mizen
IFM to take Mexican toll road and airport operator private
The $220 billion fund manager’s global infrastructure fund has acquired the last 14 per cent of Aleatica for $708 million, and intends to delist the company.
- Matthew Cranston
September
‘Completely independent’: flight slots decider denies hoarding claims
Former ACCC chief Rod Sims says it is “outrageous” that Qantas and Virgin have substantial shareholdings in the company that polices which airlines take off and land at Sydney.
- Updated
- Lucas Baird and Jenny Wiggins
Crane counts reach record highs but residential building to slow
Veteran Queensland developer Don O’Rorke says strong demand for infrastructure will take resources away from building high-rise apartments.
- Campbell Kwan
