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With Fortescue’s green spending under renewed scrutiny, analysts are asking whether the company can save the world as well as save shareholder dividends.

The next generation can inherit your super but with it can come a tax slug too. Here’s how to make sure as much money as possible flows to the people and places you want and avoid inheritance tax pitfalls.

It's called bleisure and it's booming because employees travelling for work are increasingly expecting, and demanding, business class tickets.

Perry Williams
Business editor
The markets


Commentary
ACCC emerges triumphant with new merger powers
By JOHN DURIE
Columnist
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has backed big business concerns by significantly increasing mandatory merger notification thresholds, but in draft standards has complicated the final equat...
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Australia’s largest gas heating manufacturer has taken a swipe at “illogical” IR and anti-gas reforms, saying they’ve created huge uncertainty in the market.
By GIUSEPPE TAURIELLO
How Airbus met Qantas’ challenge for Project Sunrise
Tasked with the challenge of creating an aircraft to fly Qantas’ marathon Project Sunrise flights, Airbus took inspiration from the most aerodynamic creatures on the planet.
By ROBYN IRONSIDE
Investors, like US Presidents, need to know when it’s time to quit
The risk that older Australians will blow decades of carefully cultivated wealth by not making proper handover plans is rising. Here’s three ways to make sure the risk doesn’t ruin your wealth.
By JAMES KIRBY
What now for Optus and its ‘corrupt’ star recruit?
Optus hired the former NSW premier after she was targeted by a corruption inquiry. The telco now ‘acknowledges’ the court findings but has said little about the consequences of its failure.
By JARED LYNCH
‘Is this new guy with the funny accent going to hang around?’
When Melbourne-born Steve Hasker became the chief with a funny accent of a 125-year-old Canadian company, there were questions. Four years later, shares have doubled and Thomson Reuters is worth $112bn thanks to some prescient moves he made.
By JARED LYNCH