11+ hour, 6+ min ago   (97+ words) afr.com Australia’s stock pickers have been told they must adapt or die as superannuation funds allocate more money to cheaper index-tracking quantitative and passive funds, and threaten their rock-star standing in Australia’s $3.3 trillion public equity market. After a shocking…...

15+ hour, 14+ min ago   (79+ words) AFR Former prime minister Scott Morrison has jumped to the defence of his one-time political arch-nemesis Anthony Albanese after his mother’s use of social housing was criticised by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson. An emotional prime minister on Sunday said…...

10+ hour, 16+ min ago   (95+ words) AFR Stock pickers must keep believing that the forces reshaping the ASX and smashing their performance are going to turn, eventually. TV’s most famous coach, Ted Lasso, had a sign that simply said “Believe” in his change rooms. Maybe it’s…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (97+ words) AFR Victorian Labor has suffered a big setback to its plan to enshrine the right to work from home for most employees in law before the next election, after the opposition and crossbench MPs combined to send the legislation to…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (108+ words) AFR Labor’s flagship university funding bill is set to sail through parliament before the end of the sitting fortnight, as the government closes in on a deal with the Greens to curb broad ministerial powers and loosen the hard caps…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (81+ words) afr.com One Nation’s concerted attacks on Liberal MP Andrew Hastie have exposed a split between Pauline Hanson and her star recruit Barnaby Joyce, who has long harboured concerns about his adopted party’s support for alleged war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith....

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (72+ words) AFR Japanese manufacturing giant Sekisui Chemical will expand into Australian home building after striking a deal to acquire a controlling stake in Ausbuild, valuing the Queensland developer at around $670 million. The Tokyo-listed plastics and chemicals maker has considerable expertise in…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (99+ words) afr.com Electricity use by data centres in NSW is expected to expand four times as much in the next 10 years as was expected 12 months ago, underscoring the huge expansion needed in renewables, storage and transmission to meet demand while…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (62+ words) AFR Independent senator Jacqui Lambie says One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is “nothing less than a bloody coward” for her attacks on Liberal MP Andrew Hastie. Lambie, herself a veteran, said during a furious interview on ABC Radio National that…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (86+ words) AFR Westpac chief Anthony Miller says Australia’s housing shortage will cause property prices to start rising again next year, and called on the Albanese government to consider subsidising construction costs rather than focusing on demand stimulus such as first home…...