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Australia’s iconic luxury fashion brand and global print house Camilla is closing its Mosman store.

Camilla’s upmarket Mosman store to close as GWS chair gets $10m windfall

Kaftan queen Camilla will close a high-profile store as GWS deputy chair Adrian Fonseca sells a $9.85 million childcare centre.

  • Carolyn Cummins

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News Corp chairman Lachlan Murdoch and his father Rupert Murdoch were a notable omission from a consortium of investors that bought TikTok’s US operations, after being “involved” in talks late last year.

Lachlan Murdoch lieutenants close ranks on TikTok u-turn

While Donald Trump set off headlines about who was in talks to buy TikTok in the US, it turns out the Murdochs didn’t think it was worth it.

  • John Buckley and Gemma Grant
Andrew Forrest and Fortescue’s Gladstone hydrogen project.

‘Dud project’: How Andrew Forrest’s green dreams cost taxpayers $80m

It vowed it would create a new export industry for Australia, but documents reveal Fortescue’s failed green hydrogen factory cost taxpayers millions while the company spruiked its “successes” overseas.

  • Eryk Bagshaw and Nick Toscano
Green hydrogen and green steel: Australia’s richest man Andrew Forrest wants to net-zero proof his iron ore business.

An Australian powerhouse tried to kill a start-up. It failed

A dirty David and Goliath fight over clean steel is over, with billionaire Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue abandoning a fight that could have been avoided.

  • Elizabeth Knight

Stop the flow of Russian oil now, for Ukraine’s sake

The government should take heed of business leader Andrew Forrest, who warns that loopholes in government sanctions are empowering tyrants and undermining foreign policy.

Vast quantities of Russian-origin oil have entered Australia since the war in Ukraine began and that have provided a crucial source of funding to Vladimir Putin’s war machine.

‘This should ring alarm bells’: Twiggy Forrest demands an end to Russian oil loopholes in Australia

One of the country’s top business leaders says no Australian motorist should have to wonder whether their money is helping bankroll Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukraine.

  • Nick O'Malley and Matthew Knott
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Climate Minister Chris Bowen attended last year’s talks in Baku, but has yet to secure Australia’s hosting rights for 2026.

Australian COP bid on the line as Turkey digs in

Pressure within the United Nations is mounting on Australia and Turkey to resolve the impasse over hosting rights for the event.

  • Nick O'Malley and Mike Foley
Fortescue’s Green Pioneer arrived in New York on Friday, where it will act as a billboard for “real zero” during Climate Week.

‘Gobsmackingly illogical’: Twiggy lashes Trump on climate as Aussies hit New York

As Anthony Albanese and other high-profile Australians arrive for the United Nations summit, the mining billionaire lashed out at the US president over his administration’s opposition to a “carbon tax” for the shipping industry.

  • Michael Koziol
Tech billionaire Scott Farquhar is married to Kim Jackson, a former Hastings infrastructure dealmaker who has plied some of the family’s wealth into Australian airports.

Australia’s richest families plot country’s tech reboot at private summit

They control billions of dollars in wealth. Now some of the nation’s most powerful families have met in a bid to reshape the economy and debate its future.

  • David Swan
Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie in state parliament.

Queensland asks Fortescue to return money for dumped hydrogen project

The deputy premier criticised the former Labor government for pursuing the company’s electrolyser manufacturing facility in Gladstone as a “vanity project”.

  • Matt Dennien