International features and TV help drive $678m expenditure surge for Australian screen industry

International features and TV help drive $678m expenditure surge for Australian screen industry

Drama production in Australia hit a record $2.7 billion in FY25 thanks to a surge in activity for international high-budget features and projects from subscriptio...

More than half of diners say restaurant cancellation fees are excessive, survey finds

More than half of diners say restaurant cancellation fees are excessive, survey finds

More than half of Australian diners believe restaurant cancellation...

ASIC sues former Keystone Asset Management directors over alleged $305m Shield Master Fund failures

ASIC sues former Keystone Asset Management directors over alleged $305m Shield Master Fund failures

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has fil...

SkyKelpie takes autonomous livestock mustering from simulation to paddock in Queensland trials

SkyKelpie takes autonomous livestock mustering from simulation to paddock in Queensland trials

Cloncurry-founded agtech company SkyKelpie has successfully prototy...

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GetSwift's brief stint as an Aussie tech star ends with liquidation

GetSwift's brief stint as an Aussie tech star ends with liquidation

GetSwift Ltd, a logistics software company that was heralded as one...

Australia’s largest insurance firm to defend class action law suit

Australia’s largest insurance firm to defend class action law suit

Insurance Australia Group (ASX: IAG) says it will defend a cla...

Bendigo Bank's Up challenges BNPL model with launch of ‘Maybuy’

Bendigo Bank's Up challenges BNPL model with launch of ‘Maybuy’

Mobile-only digital bank Up has announced it is launching a savings...

Owner of Katie's, Noni B, expects return to profit in FY23

Owner of Katie's, Noni B, expects return to profit in FY23

Apparel retailer Mosaic Brands (ASX: MOZ), the owner of labels incl...

How Vively founder Tim Veron's technology gave a surprise diagnosis and changed his life

How Vively founder Tim Veron's technology gave a surprise diagnosis and changed his life

Chronic conditions are the leading cause of illness, disability and...

F45 shares in a bloodbath after founder Gilchrist quits as CEO

F45 shares in a bloodbath after founder Gilchrist quits as CEO

A ‘strategic update’ descended into a stock market bloo...

"Alarming": A third of bosses actively discourage staff working from home

"Alarming": A third of bosses actively discourage staff working from home

The insistence of some bosses to keep employees coming into th...

“We’re not resting on our laurels”: Kogan earnings slashed by $42.7 million in FY22

“We’re not resting on our laurels”: Kogan earnings slashed by $42.7 million in FY22

The founder and CEO of Kogan.com (ASX: KGN) has declared the compan...

'One hit after another' leads to liquidation for part of Melbourne’s Caydon Group

'One hit after another' leads to liquidation for part of Melbourne’s Caydon Group

A succession of market hits over the past few years has combined wi...

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Entrepreneurship

From $13,000 to $20 million: how a PCOS diagnosis and a pair of scissors built Xali Organics

From $13,000 to $20 million: how a PCOS diagnosis and a pair of scissors built Xali Organics

Inspired by a medical diagnosis and driven by innovative marketing, Melbourne husband-and-wife team Kasey and Michael Giarratana have bootstrapped beauty brand Xali Organic...

AI-powered biotech startup Gutgutgoose accepted into Silicon Valley's Y Combinator

AI-powered biotech startup Gutgutgoose accepted into Silicon Valley's Y Combinator

Queensland-based biotech startup Gutgutgoose has been accepted into...

Scalare Partners rescues Fishburners from administration, boosting its presence in the startup space

Scalare Partners rescues Fishburners from administration, boosting its presence in the startup space

Sydney-based startup accelerator and investor Scalare Partners...

Sprout Organic's Selasi Berdie secures $8m buyout from NGS to take his infant formula company public

Sprout Organic's Selasi Berdie secures $8m buyout from NGS to take his infant formula company public

Gold Coast-based plant-based infant formula company Sprout Organic ...

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

Fresho snaps up food-tech platform Freshmetrics in its second UK deal this month

Fresho snaps up food-tech platform Freshmetrics in its second UK deal this month

Melbourne-based food wholesale order management platform Fresho has...

Tasmea snaps up energy services provider JPS Group in deal worth up to $75 million

Tasmea snaps up energy services provider JPS Group in deal worth up to $75 million

Industrial services group Tasmea Limited (ASX: TEA) has acquired in...

Lowes Petroleum boosts regional infrastructure arm with buyout of Tamworth engineering firm EMP

Lowes Petroleum boosts regional infrastructure arm with buyout of Tamworth engineering firm EMP

Regional fuel distributor Lowes Petroleum has acquired Tamworth-bas...

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Retail

Baby Bunting cuts profit guidance as rate hikes and softer spending bite in fourth quarter

Baby Bunting cuts profit guidance as rate hikes and softer spending bite in fourth quarter

Baby goods retailer Baby Bunting (ASX: BBN) has downgraded its full...

Accent Group shares shoot past $391m zero-premium takeover bid from UK retail giant Frasers Group

Accent Group shares shoot past $391m zero-premium takeover bid from UK retail giant Frasers Group

Shares in Australian footwear and apparel retailer Accent Grou...

Barbeques Galore closure caps brutal cull of iconic Australian retail brands that stood for decades

Barbeques Galore closure caps brutal cull of iconic Australian retail brands that stood for decades

The move to liquidate Barbeques Galore announced this week marks th...

Super Retail Group sets its sights on 110 new stores as Rebel brand targets regional markets

Super Retail Group sets its sights on 110 new stores as Rebel brand targets regional markets

Super Retail Group (ASX: SUL) has unveiled a five-year strategy to ...

Opinion

The fluency trap: managing the most insidious risk in the AI era

The fluency trap: managing the most insidious risk in the AI era

In July last year, Deloitte Australia handed the federal government...

The lending risk most business owners aren't pricing in

The lending risk most business owners aren't pricing in

If you're planning to borrow in the current market, there's...

Battle of the Claws: the winning move in AI agent war is the one no one is selling

Battle of the Claws: the winning move in AI agent war is the one no one is selling

A Meta safety researcher recently watched her own AI agent delete h...

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CAPITAL RAISING & FINANCE

Medtech startup Oli backs up $6.5m raise with $2m federal grant to build Sydney manufacturing base

Medtech startup Oli backs up $6.5m raise with $2m federal grant to build Sydney manufacturing base

Sydney-based maternal health technology company Oli has secured $2 ...

Women’s health platform Ovum triples valuation to $18m in a year after $4m seed round

Women’s health platform Ovum triples valuation to $18m in a year after $4m seed round

Australian women’s health startup Ovum has backed up a $1.7 m...

SavvyWise valuation hits $27.5m as accountants back AI tax platform’s $1.56m crowdfunding raise

SavvyWise valuation hits $27.5m as accountants back AI tax platform’s $1.56m crowdfunding raise

Perth-based AI tax research platform SavvyWise has closed a $1.56 m...

Clinical-stage biotech Racura Oncology raises $34.3m to fully fund three cancer drug trials

Clinical-stage biotech Racura Oncology raises $34.3m to fully fund three cancer drug trials

Clinical-stage biotechnology company Racura Oncology (ASX: RAC) has...

Leadership

Loam Bio appoints US-based ag-tech veteran Rob Hranac as CEO in global scaling push

Loam Bio appoints US-based ag-tech veteran Rob Hranac as CEO in global scaling push

Orange-based agricultural biotechnology company Loam Bio has appoin...

Former Star Entertainment CEO Matt Bekier hit with six-year ban and $700,000 penalty for breaches

Former Star Entertainment CEO Matt Bekier hit with six-year ban and $700,000 penalty for breaches

The Federal Court has disqualified former Star Entertainment Group ...

ASX taps Euronext veteran Anthony Attia as new CEO after global search

ASX taps Euronext veteran Anthony Attia as new CEO after global search

Australian share market operator ASX Limited (ASX: ASX) has appoint...

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Property

Lendlease to transform former Visy glass site into 4,000-home South Brisbane riverfront precinct

Lendlease to transform former Visy glass site into 4,000-home South Brisbane riverfront precinct

Development giant Lendlease (ASX: LLC) has been handed a major...

NSW cracks down on real estate underquoting with fivefold increase in penalties passed into law

NSW cracks down on real estate underquoting with fivefold increase in penalties passed into law

The NSW Government has passed legislation that increases maximum pe...

Metcash profit dips as resilient food earnings offset by weaker growth in liquor and hardware sales

Metcash profit dips as resilient food earnings offset by weaker growth in liquor and hardware sales

Wholesale distribution and retail group Metcash's (ASX: MT...

Brookfield offloads construction giant Multiplex to Japan's Obayashi for $924m after years of losses

Brookfield offloads construction giant Multiplex to Japan's Obayashi for $924m after years of losses

Canadian investment group Brookfield has agreed to sell Australian-...

Health

Medtech startup Oli backs up $6.5m raise with $2m federal grant to build Sydney manufacturing base

Medtech startup Oli backs up $6.5m raise with $2m federal grant to build Sydney manufacturing base

Sydney-based maternal health technology company Oli has secured $2 ...

Women’s health platform Ovum triples valuation to $18m in a year after $4m seed round

Women’s health platform Ovum triples valuation to $18m in a year after $4m seed round

Australian women’s health startup Ovum has backed up a $1.7 m...

Clinical-stage biotech Racura Oncology raises $34.3m to fully fund three cancer drug trials

Clinical-stage biotech Racura Oncology raises $34.3m to fully fund three cancer drug trials

Clinical-stage biotechnology company Racura Oncology (ASX: RAC) has...

Biotech Memphasys secures supply deal with Monash IVF for Felix sperm selection system

Biotech Memphasys secures supply deal with Monash IVF for Felix sperm selection system

Sydney-based reproductive biotech Memphasys (ASX: MEM) has secured ...

Technology

DorsaVi licenses robotics IP from Singapore's NTU in push beyond wearable sensors

DorsaVi licenses robotics IP from Singapore's NTU in push beyond wearable sensors

Melbourne-based wearable sensing and robotics company DorsaVi Limit...

WA startup Hyperion Systems unveils southern hemisphere's first 3D-printed autonomous vessel

WA startup Hyperion Systems unveils southern hemisphere's first 3D-printed autonomous vessel

Perth-based advanced manufacturing start-up Hyperion Systems has un...

Additive Manufacturing centre greenlights first five research projects unlocking $11m in investment

Additive Manufacturing centre greenlights first five research projects unlocking $11m in investment

The Additive Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (AMCRC), est...

Arkeus closes $25m Series A to scale manufacturing of AI-powered defence sensing technology

Arkeus closes $25m Series A to scale manufacturing of AI-powered defence sensing technology

Melbourne-based technology company Arkeus has closed a $25 mil...

Legal

SkyCity strikes $21m deal with South Australia to settle Adelaide Casino regulatory failings

SkyCity strikes $21m deal with South Australia to settle Adelaide Casino regulatory failings

Auckland-headquartered casino operator SkyCity Entertainment Group ...

ASIC seeks $35m penalty after HSBC admits to systemic scam-protection failures

ASIC seeks $35m penalty after HSBC admits to systemic scam-protection failures

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is seek...

Former Star Entertainment CEO Matt Bekier hit with six-year ban and $700,000 penalty for breaches

Former Star Entertainment CEO Matt Bekier hit with six-year ban and $700,000 penalty for breaches

The Federal Court has disqualified former Star Entertainment Group ...

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