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Former Telstra chairman slams Canberra’s ‘self-serving’ outage outrage
15 Jul 2026
Former Telstra chairman John Mullen has delivered a stinging attack on what he calls the self-serving moral outrage of some politicians following last week’s nationwide outage, defending chief executive Vicki Brady as an exceptional leader…
Read moreInvestors pile into income ETFs to shelter from tax changes
15 Jul 2026
Australian investors are on the hunt for income and are piling into exchange-traded funds that are focused on dividends, bonds and cash amid higher interest rates and looming changes to capital gains tax. Money flowing…
Read moreWhat Australian CEOs plan to tell Narendra Modi
Billionaire data centre operator Robin Khuda has called on Australia’s $4.5 trillion superannuation sector to invest in India, arguing the country’s scale and momentum made it a compelling long-term opportunity. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi flew into…
Telstra faces big fines after mobile outage, CEO cuts holiday short
Telstra faces potential penalties in the tens of millions of dollars after a malfunctioning timer in two of its data centre servers triggered a nationwide outage across its mobile and data network, which meant hundreds…
Iran plans ‘massive’ retaliation; Telstra says issues nearly resolved
That’s a wrap! Thanks for following The Australian Financial Review’s live coverage this Thursday, July 9. We’ll be back with more tomorrow. Here are some of the top stories we covered today: 5.42PM – Jul 9, 2026 Allan demands Telstra…
ASX’s biggest float of 2026 to kick-start ‘anaemic’ IPO market
After Elon Musk’s blockbuster SpaceX float injected new life into Wall Street’s IPO market, Australia could be about to follow suit this week as it prepares to welcome the country’s biggest initial public offering of…
1.4m business owners will retire by 2036. 33pc have no succession plan
Taking over their father’s Melbourne construction business was a steep learning curve for brothers Mark and Lee Griffiths. While they had worked with their father Stephen at Griff & Lee Constructions for two decades, and it was…
Australia faces worst growth slump in decades
Australia is facing its longest stretch of weak economic growth since the early 1990s recession, but stubborn inflation pressures are still expected to force the Reserve Bank to raise interest rates again, according to a…
ASX’s first AI-powered stock picking ETF puts quant funds on notice
Fund managers using advanced artificial intelligence models to gain an edge over the market have been put on notice following the launch of the first Australian exchange-traded fund that will also use the technology to…
Health stocks (and WiseTech) are on a tear in buy-the-dip frenzy
A wave of buy-the-dip momentum has gripped Australia’s sharemarket, particularly among retail traders, giving a much-needed shot in the arm to some of the most heavily sold-down stocks on the domestic bourse. One of the…
RBA flags data centre boom as new threat in inflation fight
The Reserve Bank is concerned that the recent explosion in data centre investment could compete with Australian businesses for workers and resources, making its fight against inflation harder and contributing to interest rates staying higher…
‘They’re trying to shut us down’: Beach CEO slams gas reserve
The Albanese government’s plan to reserve gas for domestic buyers on the east coast would cost about $2.9 billion a year in forgone revenue and infrastructure losses and could bring forward energy shortages in Australia’s…