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The future of ‘uneconomical’ smelters in Hobart and Port Pirie in South Australia’s north are under review by Nyrstar’s Singapore-based parent company, which says there are ‘no sacred cows’.

AustralianSuper has sold its $580m WiseTech stake because it cannot get sufficient comfort around its governance, weeks after billionaire Richard White seized back control of the software company he co-founded.

Elon Musk’s X is seeking to overturn a fine from Australia’s eSafety Commissioner – who he called the country’s ‘censorship commissar’ – over its failure to disclose how it was combating online child abuse.

Vesna Poljak
Business Editor
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