This Month
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
World’s biggest IPO has Australian flavour and implications
It might lack burritos, but we’re watching Lineage, a food storage play with Australian assets trying to secure a $30 billion listing.
- Anthony Macdonald
No great leap to self-driving cars, just small steps
The head of Mercedes-Benz’s automation program admits self-driving is lagging, but says the tech is already bringing big gains in safety.
- Tony Davis
- Updated
- Roads
Review finds Transurban should be forced to renegotiate Sydney tolls
The recommendations put the NSW government on a collision course with the ASX-listed motorway giant, which controls 11 of the city’s 13 toll roads.
- Updated
- Jenny Wiggins
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Transurban hijacks NSW toll review, raises social licence stakes
Transurban changed its tune in June, promising to be part of the solution. It has six months to come up with something better for Sydney’s drivers.
- Anthony Macdonald
Elon Musk wants to colonise Mars, seriously
The billionaire has directed SpaceX employees to design a Martian city, which he expects could have a million residents in 20 years.
- Kirsten Grind
Rex faces boardroom coup as Singaporean investors push to oust chair
The largest shareholder of the regional carrier has called for a shareholder vote just a month after he stepped down as the airline’s executive chairman.
- Kylar Loussikian
ASIC queried Qantas’ knowledge of ACCC investigation as shares fell
The regulator wrote to the competition watchdog requesting a “a better understanding” of the probe into ticket sales on cancelled flights, emails reveal.
- Vesna Poljak and Kylar Loussikian
- Logistics Winner
- Sustainability Leaders
Transport needs to avoid becoming the nation’s biggest emitter
Without dramatic changes, this may be the last industry to decarbonise. Aurizon, the winner of the Logistics and Transport category, aims to change that with its electric locomotive.
- Agnes King
RBC hitches a ride on NSW’s toll roads shake-up
In accepting the gig, RBC is also indirectly squaring off against ASX-listed toll roads giant Transurban, which owns stakes in 11 of Sydney’s 13 toll roads.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
June
Joe Aston on Qantas’ nosedive | Star CEO’s danger money | Myer’s makeover
This week, Anthony and special guest Joe Aston get advice on negotiating pay from Star Entertainment’s recruit, look at Qantas’ latest fall from grace and go shopping with Solomon Lew at Myer.
The reason Australians aren’t buying electric cars
The industry can overcome “range anxiety” by building thousands of charging stations across Australia, experts say.
- Aaron Patrick
Will John Mullen’s emotional intelligence work at Qantas?
The business veteran’s decency, toughness and persistence could make him one of the airline’s great chairmen.
- Aaron Patrick
Virgin stake sale to Qatar won’t change focus on profits
Selling part of Virgin Australia to the Middle Eastern airline is unlikely to rattle Qantas’ market dominance, analysts say.
- Jenny Wiggins
- Exclusive
- Aviation
Qatar in talks to take up to 20pc stake in Virgin
The transaction, if successful, would hand the Qatari carrier up to 20 per cent of the private equity-owned airline and comes amid a stalled ASX float process.
- Ayesha de Kretser, Anthony Macdonald and Myriam Robin
Qantas plummets in world airline rankings, again
Fiji Airways beat Qantas and Air New Zealand in the global poll in which the Australian carrier recorded its worst performance for a decade.
- Ayesha de Kretser
Cost of Perth flights to fall 40 per cent during school holidays
Analysis by the Australian Airports Association shows Melbourne to Perth fares will drop to the lowest levels since 2010.
- Ayesha de Kretser
- Analysis
- Aviation
Virgin IPO may not fly for next boss
There are plenty of big questions for the airline’s next chief executive – including what the carrier will look like, and how it will be owned, in the long run.
- Updated
- Ayesha de Kretser
- Opinion
- Electric vehicles
Prepare for yet another big EV adoption hurdle
Apartment owners and strata managers are unprepared for the costs and complications of securing building insurance for blocks with electric vehicle owners and charging facilities.
- Jennifer Hewett
A PE firm, two profit updates, and a $1b deal hanging by a thread
At stake is the future of back-from-the-almost-dead vessels owner MMA Offshore, which is rollicking after a life-saving recapitalisation.
- Anthony Macdonald
Big business’ Voice advocacy backfired: new Qantas chairman
John Mullen said businesses should not be “completely anaesthetised” on social issues, but warned it can be dangerous for firms to back politicised causes.
- Nick Bonyhady
