Chris Bourke

Staff at billionaire Chris Ellison’s mining company have already been banned from working from home. Stepping outside for a coffee could well be the next endangered perk.

Good morning all, it’s Chris here in Melbourne with the biggest stories to start your Friday. We’re gearing up for Jerome Powell’s speech at the Jackson Hole confab later tonight, but first...Today’s must-reads:• Sydney’s new landmark• Wildfire fears• Harris’s moment

Pinnacle Investment Management Group will create a new affiliate that will house former members of Royal London Asset Management’s global equities team, including Peter Rutter, in the next leg of the Australian firm’s international expansion.

Hundreds of people have been urged to evacuate rural towns in Australia’s Victoria state as a massive grassland bushfire threatens their homes.

The crippling tariffs that China’s government imposed on Australian wine exports almost three years ago could be lifted shortly, Australia’s trade minister Don Farrell said on Sunday.

Australia expanded its list of critical minerals deemed crucial to its energy transition and national security needs as the country boosts the strategically and economically important sector.

Origin Energy Ltd.’s largest shareholder AustralianSuper said it will vote against the revised A$19.1 billion ($12.5 billion) offer for the utility by a Brookfield Asset Management Ltd.-led consortium.

Australian health care giant CSL Ltd. appointed Paul McKenzie as its new chief executive officer as Paul Perreault prepares to retire after a decade at the helm.

Anger is mounting about plans to strip an Australian hospital of its Indigenous title and rename it after the late Queen Elizabeth II as the nation continues to grapple with the divisive legacy of its colonial past.

Australia’s cultural capital is trying different ways to lure workers and visitors back downtown following one of the world’s toughest lockdowns.