The New Zealand Herald

Offshore wind in free fall as AGL abandons Victorian project ↗

Australian Financial Review
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Victoria gets surprise revenue bump, but has spent most of it ↗

Treasurer Jaclyn Symes on Friday handed down the mid-year budget update, which showed the 2025-26 operating surplus is $710 million.
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AI’s ‘code red’ collides with our data centre coming-of-age ↗

AI has transformed capital markets and the way we think about work, but this is still a tech revolution built on anticipation, rather than reality. And that creates risks.
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Australian Financial Review
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The ChatGPT maker has made its first big commitment to AI infrastructure in Australia with an agreement to occupy the biggest in the southern hemisphere.

OpenAI becomes major tenant in $7b data centre deal ↗

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Records show taxpayers footed the bill for a trip by Communications Minister Anika Wells from Brisbane to Adelaide which included a birthday party.
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Wells billed taxpayers $3681 for trip that included friend’s birthday ↗

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Australian Financial Review
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More Australians are abandoning top-level private health insurance as premiums have doubled since 2008.
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Doctors concerned Australians are dumping gold-tier health policies ↗

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Australian Financial Review
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In his first strategy briefing since taking the helm 102 days ago, chief executive Simon Trott said he wanted Rio to become the world’s “most valued” miner.
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Rio Tinto to sell up to $15b of assets, cut decarbonisation spending ↗

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Rio Tinto to sell up to $15b of assets, cut spending ↗

Chief executive Simon Trott will bolster cash flow by divesting and curbing costs, including on decarbonisation.
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