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With an average fleet age of a teenager, Qantas doesn’t get rid of aircraft too often. But when it does, other airlines and lessors take notice. We tracked where some of Qantas’s most beloved but oldest planes have ended up.

Platinum Asset Management’s flagship international fund initiated positions in several pharmaceutical companies in the lead-up to Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ which are deeply in the red as the US administration threatens to heap tariffs on the industry.

But it's better news for Rio Tinto and BHP, with a long-delayed copper project in Arizona fast-tracked by the Trump White House over the weekend as the US and China vie to control the critical minerals used in energy and military projects.

Vesna Poljak
Business editor
The markets


Making news this morning
1
Lendlease whistleblower without a lawyer for June hearing
Lendlease whistleblower Tony Watson needs a lawyer, after the courts knocked back his application for assistance, as he faces down with a high-powered opposition.
2
How minnow WA miner pulled off ‘gold deal of the decade’
ASX-bound Greatland Gold’s $700m-plus deal for gold and copper mines is making its backers, including Andrew Forrest, a lot of money. But it took connections and luck to make it happen.
3
Region Group sells Sydney centre to private investors in $76m deal
Shopping centres are being snapped up by private players with Revelop striking a fresh deal for a complex in Sydney’s western suburbs.
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