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MoneyHow your spare room could make you money

A Sydney builder has converted the empty rooms of his home into a money spinner to help pay off his mortgage. Here’s how he did it.

Emily Cosenza

BusinessUS airforce bringing in infant formula

Infant formula is being shipped to the US from Europe via military aircraft to relieve a shortage after the closure of a domestic production plant.

ZEKE MILLER (Associated Press)

Housing MarketPremiumHouse flipping enters risky business realm

Once a reliable investment strategy, property flipping in the current climate carries an elevated risk of being left out of pocket, real estate exerts say.

Staff Writers

BusinessElection winner must fix digital economy

The federal election winner will take on a digital economy which is struggling to find adequate staff and a cyber world on alert for a Russian offensive.

Marion Rae

Oil & GasRussia stops Finland gas flow

Finland has been cut off from Russia's natural gas flows for refusing to pay in rubles.

Staff Writers

MarketsPremiumWall Street mixed after punishing week

Concern about surging inflation and rising interest rates has seen major stocks lose ground.

Noel Randewich and Amruta Khandekar

Media legendJournalism giant Caroline Jones dies aged 84

Tributes have flowed for pioneering Australian journalist Caroline Jones who died on Friday aged 84.

Kellie Balaam

BusinessPremiumStar chair O'Neill quits, joins exodus

John O'Neill has quit as executive chairman of Star Entertainment ahead of his appearance at a NSW gaming inquiry into the company's Sydney casino licence.

Staff Writers

Large to-do listPremium‘So much pressure’: Next PM’s economic challenges

Rising interest rates, inflation, skills shortages and trade snarls loom among the biggest challenges for Australia’s next Prime Minister, who economists say will have to get moving on the economy from day one.

Adrian Lowe

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Pressure is onCommentsPremium
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Australia’s next PM faces a big to-do list

Upon emerging from a six-week campaign bemoaned for its small target focus, the leader of the next government must urgently address the economic challenges facing business and households.

Adrian Lowe

Estrella to drive nickel production at WA play

Estrella Resources says an appreciation in nickel prices will see it transition into production at its Spargoville project located about 20km southwest of Kambalda in Western Australia.

Matt Birney

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Traxys to market Mineral Commodities graphite products

Mineral Commodities has signed a graphitic anode sales and marketing Memorandum of Understanding with global commodity trading and logistics company Traxys to market the company’s downstream graphite products.

Matt Birney

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Passion project CommentsPremiumHow a Perth jewellery industry veteran pivoted to wellness

When Synkro wellness centre owner Andrew Ballantyne was in his early 20s, he wasn’t entirely sure what he wanted to do with his life.

Caitlin Paroczai

Herd on the TerraceCommentsPremiumGenesis prophet vanquished amid Nev Power mystery

HOTT: The Bull turned to the gold play’s loyal spin doctor Paul Armstrong this week for an answer to some prickly questions, only to be told his company Read Corporate no longer works for Genesis. But why?

Friendly takeoverPremiumWoolies offers online retailer $243m for 80pc stake

The retail giant sees MyDeal as a way to bolster its digital capacity and offering, and its deal has pushed the smaller company’s share price soaring.

Adrian Lowe

Hot Chili scores another win in South American copper probe

Hot Chili has recorded another batch of significant results from a development drilling study at its Cortadera porphyry discovery, part of its larger Costa Fuego copper development in Chile.

Matt Birney

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Taruga, Peak home in on nickel target

After success in a second phase of air core drilling, explorers Taruga Minerals and Peak Minerals are fast-tracking exploration at the pair’s Meekatharra nickel-copper joint venture in WA’s Murchison region.

Matt Birney

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Big winCommentsPremiumChalice surges on nod for drilling in State Forest

Shares in Chalice Mining jumped nearly 20 per cent after it was given the green light to drill in State Forest as it seeks to expand its famed Gonneville polymetallic discovery near Toodyay.

Daniel Newell

Get serious PremiumWoodside has to prove it’s serious on climate, boss says

A big protest vote against the oil and gas company’s climate report has demonstrated that plenty of shareholders still have concerns about its climate change commitments.

Sean Smith

Image tables monster mineral sands resource

Image Resources has revealed a more than ten-fold increase in its total mineral sand stocks in an updated mineral resource estimate following its acquisition of the McCalls project near Gingin in WA.

Matt Birney

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Global shortagesCommentsSupply chain instability to ‘bounce back’ to Australia

The International Chamber of Commerce says governments must “double down” on the global trade agenda and avoid impulses towards onshoring, as supply chains disruptions continue to roil economies. 

Danielle Le Messurier

Oil & GasQld farmers unprotected from CSG sinking

Queensland's coal seam gas regulator has called for laws to regulate land subsidence caused by fossil fuel extraction and to protect farmers impacted.

Marty Silk

Herd on the TerraceCommentsPremiumLadbrokes parent Entain runs ruler over TAB WA

HOTT: Oh to be a mosquito on the wall at the TAB WA’s Herdsman Lake headquarters as potential buyers check out the State Government-owned betting agency.

Service saviour?CommentsPremium‘Must stay open’: McGowan considers Activ workshop lifeline

The McGowan government may intervene to save Activ workshops from closing, saying the sites employing more than 700 people with disability ‘need to stay open’.

Rebecca Le May and Josh Zimmerman