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Maritana’s Minerals’ Phillips Find project, where the pictured dump rehabilitation has been completed, is centred 45km north-northwest of Coolgardie.

Maritana cash soars to $233.5M as Black Swan hub looms near Kalgoorlie

Maritana Minerals’ cash leapt to $120.6M in the March quarter and $233.5M in April after completing its raising, as it advanced early works and engineering at its Black Swan processing hub near Kalgoorlie, WA.

Doug Bright

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Mineral Resources' stake in the Wodgina lithium mine would be reduced to 35 per cent under the POSCO deal.

MiningCommentsPremiumDelays to lithium mine stake sale a win for MinRes

Mineral Resources will ride the full upside of high lithium prices for longer after its finalisation of a sale deal with POSCO was pushed back.

Adrian Rauso

Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder of Atlassian.

BusinessCommentsPremiumInside Atlassian’s ‘kick-ass’ quarter

Atlassian’s stock price has soared after the Australian software giant smashed analyst expectations in its third quarter results, defying fears AI would erode demand for its workplace software.

Ryan Johnson

Aldi has been recognised as Australia’s second most trusted brand. NewsWire / Monique Harmer

SHOPPINGMajor chain crowned ‘best’ Aussie supermarket

A major supermarket chain has claimed the crown for being the “best” supermarket in Australia - for the sixth time in a row.

Ike Morris and Jack Nivison

Woolworths has long been Australia’s biggest supermarket with a store footprint of over 1130, compared with Coles’ 867.

STORE WARSCommentsPremiumColes or Woolies? Who’s winning the supermarket wars?

As cost-crisis weary households keep value front of mind amid higher fuel prices and threats of more interest rate hikes, there’s one supermarket winning shoppers’ dollar.

Cheyanne Enciso

New Woodside Energy chief operating officer for Australia, Breyden Lonnie.

Oil & GasPremiumWoodside sticks with local talent for Australian COO

University of WA graduate Breyden Lonnie has been confirmed in the role, having filled the job in an interim capacity since Ms Westcott took the reins of the group in December.

Sean Smith

Economists warn RBA governor Michele Bullock will have to no choice but to announce an interest rate hike. NewsWire / Gaye Gerard

FINANCEPremium‘No choice’: Experts’ grim RBA rate call

Three-quarters of economists and experts have a grim prediction for households ahead of the RBA’s interest rate meeting.

Cameron Micallef

The ASX is back in positive territory after more than a week of market misery. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

MarketsPremiumStock market rebounds from worst losing streak in years

Oil prices have faded after a dramatic spike on Thursday, but the local bourse remains under pressure as it narrows on a third straight week of losses.

Adrian Black

Previously announced flight changes have been extended to the September quarter.

AviationCommentsPremiumQantas capacity cuts extended to cope with high fuel prices

Qantas and its budget arm Jetstar have extended capacity cuts by a further three months as fuel prices remain stubbornly high due to ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

Rebecca Le May

CITIC's Sino Iron project, which delivers windfall royalties to Clive Palmer each year.

MiningCommentsPremiumSino Iron’s profit falls as Palmer ramps up $6b lawsuit

Profit from China’s biggest mine in Australia has shrunk again while its litigious landlord Clive Palmer advances legal action to squeeze an extra $6 billion from his cash cow.

Adrian Rauso

April has been a barnstormer for Japan's stock market with the Nikkei up 16 per cent for the month. (AP PHOTO)

MarketsPremiumAsian stocks find relief as oil price eases

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan has edged higher off the back of strong tech company earnings.

Staff Writers

88 Energy’s Hickory-1 well pad at their Phoenix project, North Slope, Alaska.

88 Energy reset barrels Alaska engine room towards test phase

88 Energy has reset and is charging towards a test at its Alaska engine room, with Augusta-1 at South Prudhoe and Phoenix closing in on a fully funded flow test backed by strong data and infrastructure access.

Penny Taylor

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Shell’s floating Prelude LNG plant off Broome

EnergyCommentsPremiumShell Australia still paying out, despite lower profit

Shell’s Australian business distributed a reduced $US400 million ($563m) in dividends to London-based Shell for calendar 2025, with a further $US261m declared last month.

Sean Smith

Domestic capacity cuts of 5 per cent will continue until the end of September. Christian Gilles / NewsWire

BUSINESSQantas responds to high fuel costs

Qantas and Jetstar are adjusting their flying plans again as pressures across the aviation industry continue to build.

Andrew Hedgman

ANZ’s new cost-cutting chief executive Nuno Matos has boasted that simplifying its banking business is paying off with a much stronger half-year profit following mass retrenchments during a time of global uncertainty.

BankingCommentsPremiumBig four bank boasts profit boost after slashing 3500 jobs

ANZ’s new cost-cutting chief executive has boasted that simplifying its banking business is paying off with a much stronger half-year profit following mass retrenchments during a time of global uncertainty.

Stephen Johnson

Coles CEO Leah Weckert.

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Coles dives as it warns of supplier pressure to hike prices

Sales growth at Coles has failed to keep pace with its arch rival as the grocery giant warns customers that supplier are pushing for higher prices to offset the ripple effects of the war in the Middle East.

Daniel Newell

Coles says it continues to see value-seeking behaviour from shoppers.

RetailCommentsPremiumThe big changes Coles shoppers are making to cut costs

Coles customers have been forced to make big changes to the way they shop at the grocer as they seek to reduce the financial blows stemming from the war in Iran.

Cheyanne Enciso

Coles posted quarterly sales results to the Australian sharemarket on Friday. NewsWire / Gaye Gerard

UPDATEDPremiumColes’ huge price promise to Aussies

Supermarket giant Coles has delivered its sales results for the March quarter, making a huge promise to Aussies on looming price hikes.

Blair Jackson

Coles was happy with its Easter chocolate sales, but noticed a trend towards smaller items. (Paul Miller/AAP PHOTOS)

BusinessPremiumBig bunnies and grog sales take a wartime shopping hit

Coles shoppers adjusted their spending patterns after the Middle East war began, spending less on liquor and even buying smaller Easter chocolate bunnies.

Derek Rose

Conflict in the Middle East is creating economic uncertainty for customers, ANZ says. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)

BankingPremiumBig four bank says customers have savings buffers

One of the nation's big four banks has lifted its interim earnings while warning that the impact on customers from the Middle East conflict is still to be felt.

Kaaren Morrissey

Apple's ?greater China sales were $US20.5 billion, beating analyst estimates. (AP PHOTO)

BusinessCommentsPremiumApple beats earnings estimates with iPhone momentum

Apple says revenue grew 17 per cent to $US111 billion in the first three months of the year.

Stephen Nellis and Juby Babu

ANZ posted a 9 per cent rise in half-year profits on Friday. NewsWire

UPDATED‘Ahead of us’: Big bank’s dire war warning

ANZ has posted a massive half-year profit, up nine per cent, as it delivers a dire warning to every Australian household.

Blair Jackson and Cameron Micallef

Nuno Matos’ 2030 strategy is removing duplication, reducing costs and prioritising staff time on key projects.

BankingCommentsPremiumANZ’s $3.8b profit tops estimates in win for new CEO

ANZ’s first-half profit surpassed analyst estimates as chief executive Nuno Matos pushes ahead with his overhaul of the big four bank.

Richard Henderson

Elon Musk's lawsuit alleges OpenAI ditched its mission to build AI for the public good. (AP PHOTO)

BusinessCommentsPremiumMusk says he missed 'fine print' about OpenAI

Elon Musk has sparred with a lawyer for OpenAI during his third day of testimony in a trial over the firm's pivot away from its non-profit status.

Staff Writers