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Peter Ker

The Australian Financial Review (AFR) •
November 05, 2026 • 06:02:09 PM
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The country’s currency has collapsed into unchartered territory, and while holidays to Bali are getting cheaper, the bigger picture is not good for Australia.

Peter Ker

The country’s currency has collapsed into unchartered territory, and while holidays to Bali are getting cheaper, the bigger picture is not good for Australia.

A new scandium mine approval in NSW means more than $3b of critical minerals projects have gone ahead in Australia this year, and the tally could yet top $4b.

Nicholas Mather’s gerrymander of ASX listed company share registers demands a regulatory response. It’s unclear whether we will get one.

A judge has rejected the big miners’ attempts to strike out sexual harassment claims that form the basis of a giant class action of female employees.

Dodgy explorers scammed $C6 billion out of investors by claiming to have found the world’s biggest gold deposit. But they couldn’t fool Roger Townend.

ASIC will forcibly sell close to 25pc of shares in DGR Global after finding director Nicholas Mather secretly controlled more of the company than he disclosed

If the miner’s finances get much tighter, it might have to cancel those multibillion-dollar orders for Chinese solar panels and battery-powered trucks.

The acquisition of the gold miner will probably get more expensive with every day that passes. The opportunity for a sweetened bid is now.

The mining giant has pledged the first $1.1 billion towards a growth program that could burn through almost $64 billion in the coming decade.

Veteran dealmakers Tony Haggarty and Allan Davies have sold their private NSW miner Malabar to ASX-listed company.

Evy Hambro is one of the world’s most influential investors and has urged big miners to extend infrastructure sales to include their transportation assets.

Gold Fields chief Mike Fraser has spent the week meeting with Northern Star shareholders. Now he wants to meet the board.

The government has accused Beijing of giving its smelters an unfair advantage at the same time as taxpayers give $4.7 billion to local operators.

The judge ruled that the former environment minister used an invalid mechanism to deny construction of a NSW mining dam for Indigenous preservation reasons.

Rio Tinto says rivals with longer shipping routes are curbing production as fuel prices play to Australia’s geographic advantage.

Glencore chief executive Gary Nagle thinks the multinational miner’s arrival on the ASX can help it challenge the industry’s top two biggest players.

Investors and analysts predict that the Swiss-based mining giant’s new Australian securities will be eagerly embraced by local investors this week.

Gary Nagle expects more than $5 billion of Glencore’s new Australian securities to be bought by investors in the first two years, propelling it into the big league.

The iron ore miner says sales volumes have fallen over the past three months because of ongoing tensions with China’s central purchasing agency.

Fortescue Capital was supposed to be an in-house division for sovereign wealth funds investing in the miner’s clean energy projects. It’s now being pruned.

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