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‘Maybe we can use Zeppelins’: Australia’s missing infrastructure links
Solar panels and wind turbines crucial to Australia’s energy transition are piling up at a key port because the nation does not have the infrastructure to move them.
- Jenny Wiggins
Nuclear ban holds Australia back from data centre opportunity
Craig Scroggie says without a ‘logical conversation’ on nuclear, Australia may miss an opportunity to grab an outsized chunk of the booming data centre industry.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
‘We didn’t set the tolls’: Transurban pitches new pricing plan
Company boss Michelle Jablko says NSW can’t afford to build roads without private money and is looking at charging corridors according to congestion levels.
- Jenny Wiggins
Trump win could be good news for Australian energy transition
Investment bankers hope an expected pullback in Inflation Reduction Act support for green investments under the new Trump administration could help Australia.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Di Pilla’s bolt from the blue snatches biggest IPO of the year
Six months ago, no one saw this float coming. But at $1.65 billion, it is the largest raising for a new Australian company since 2018.
- Anthony Macdonald
November
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Inflation shadow falls over privatised infrastructure model
The political fallout from privatisation colliding with a temporary cost of living crisis could end up gumming up the pipeline of public works in the longer run.
- The AFR View
Qantas claims network advantage will outgun bulked up Qatar
Qantas international boss Cam Wallace says the wet leasing arrangement that facilitates the partnership between Virgin and Qatar cannot be indefinite.
- Ayesha de Kretser and Jenny Wiggins
Australian Retirement Trust eyes stake in $16b CDC Data Centres
It comes two months after ART sold its 7 per cent stake in AirTrunk into the Blackstone bid, booking a $1 billion exit off a $300 million investment.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Public support for migration has ‘snapped’: Coalition
The cost-of-living crisis and the post-pandemic surge in arrivals has broken the social compact on migration, says Coalition frontbencher Bridget McKenzie.
- Phillip Coorey and Rohan Sullivan
- Opinion
- Opinion
Transurban tolls hit NSW roadblock
Transurban and the NSW government are at loggerheads over how to reduce the long-term costs to taxpayers and motorists from Sydney’s sprawling toll road network.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
How toll road ‘beeps’ became Australian infrastructure’s hottest issue
Politics and business are colliding in Australian infrastructure. Do we really believe in miracle “win-win” scenarios?
- Anthony Macdonald
Road toll fight shows risk of contract changes a reality for investors
The threat of changes by the NSW government to toll-road concessions is a “reality” for asset owners, but it may erode confidence in Australian assets.
- Jonathan Shapiro
- Exclusive
- Transurban
One business is paying $7.4m in Sydney road tolls
Data compiled by the NSW government shows the high cost of tolls for companies as the state pushes ahead with new laws to monitor the prices motorists are being charged.
- Jenny Wiggins
Port of Newcastle’s container terminal pitch tempts foreign investors
The world’s biggest coal export hub has been approached by big investors who want to help fund an expansion that is expected to cost well above $2.5 billion.
- Jenny Wiggins
Sydney Metro’s boss learnt from London’s ‘failed experiment’
Peter Regan found out the hard way how to strike a good public-private partnership for transport.
- Jenny Wiggins
The property giant that will soon build more data centres than sheds
The launch of a number big turnkey data centre projects next year – including in Sydney and Paris – will ramp up the value of Goodman’s global workbook.
- Larry Schlesinger
Future Fund questions MinRes’ handling of Ellison claims
The comments from the sovereign wealth fund came after influential proxy advisers said directors needed to be more accountable for the governance failure.
- Updated
- Peter Ker
Eyes on Anglo American’s Moranbah mine after $1.6b Jellinbah sale
Should Nippon Steel try to pry Moranbah North from Anglo American – and it’s a big if at this stage – it would be another blow to the bidders who vying for what started as a $US5 billion portfolio.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
October
Exec pay at IFM Investors jumps 48pc despite profit fall
The infrastructure powerhouse also recorded broadly flat revenue last financial year, but its key management personnel salary bill still soared.
- Hannah Wootton
Suburban Rail Loop’s 100 executives paid an average $332,000 a year
Victorian Opposition Leader John Pesutto has described the Surburban Rail Loop as a “gravy train” after its annual report revealed the salaries bill.
- Gus McCubbing
Irish giant CRH to buy CPE Capital-backed concrete infrastructure biz
Civilmart is the country’s No.2 manufacturer of concrete pipes and precast products, backed by John Haddock’s buyout firm CPE Capital.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Exclusive
- Funding
PE giant buys in as Aussie AI infrastructure start-up raises $45m
Swedish private equity giant EQT is one of the lead investors in a $45 million funding round at Australian AI infrastructure start-up Neara.
- Paul Smith
Brisbane’s nation-leading construction inflation an Olympic hurdle
Cost escalation has come off its extreme highs of two years ago. But Queensland leads the national league table and that’s a problem for the new government.
- Michael Bleby
Crisafulli presses Albanese on funding share, Olympics
Incoming Queensland premier David Crisafulli will be officially sworn in on Monday, triggering a shift in policies and a new wave of cabinet ministers.
- James Hall
David Di Pilla plots AirTrunk-sized data centre play
The dealmaking king has already lined up $4b of data centre assets, but has much bigger plans for alternative asset manager HMC Capital’s new investment push.
- Larry Schlesinger
