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Indonesia faces multiple climate change risks, with sea-level rises just one of them, Robert Glasser of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute says.

How lethal humidity threatens to displace millions in our region

Our region’s ground zero is Indonesia, where humidity is already high in wet and dry seasons.

  • Bianca Hall

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Queensland Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie (right) has taken Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue to court to recoup a $66 million grant.

Fortescue claims paying back $66m for failed hydrogen project ‘overreach’

Lawyers for the mining giant owned by the billionaire Andrew Forrest have filed their defence, arguing they too spent money on the nixed project.

  • Julius Dennis
Fortescue executive chairman and founder, Andrew Forrest.

Use it or lose it: ‘Twiggy’ Forrest’s warning to Albanese and Labor on ‘micromanaging’

Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has urged the federal government to use its political capital to accelerate the electrification of the economy.

  • Rob Harris
Queensland Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie (right) has taken Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest’s Fortescue to court to recoup a $66 million grant.

‘Vanity project’: Queensland sues Twiggy Forrest to recoup $66m grant

Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie is taking the mining giant to court to recover taxpayer funds after its Gladstone hydrogen ambitions collapsed.

  • Cameron Atfield
Fortescue is electrifying its operations and wants the government to scrap diesel tax credits, which it labels unfair.

Fortescue launches ad campaign against billion-dollar diesel tax ‘handouts’ to miners

Fortescue is pushing for reform of the country’s diesel tax credits, which it says are an unnecessary “handout” to the mining industry worth billions of dollars.

  • Simon Johanson
Andrew Forrest at Sydney airport in January 2021 boarding the Fortescue Metals private jet to fly back to Perth.

Twiggy Forrest takes his updated private jet for a blast to Africa

The Australian climate change messiah used his Fortescue private jet for a recent trip to Africa after getting the aircraft fitted with a new engine.

  • John Buckley and Fiona Byrne
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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
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