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BHP will pay $110 million to aggrieved Australian investors who bought shares in the Big Australian just before the deadly Samarco dam collapse in Brazil.

Australia’s two biggest supermarket chains — Woolworths and Coles — face combined costs of as much as $780 million following years of underpayments to staff.

Germany’s growing appetite for fried chicken is boosting sales at Collins Foods, Australia’s biggest KFC operator, sending its share price sharply higher.

Wesfarmers’ boss has singled out one State for a ‘disproportionate’ amount of theft by organised crime gangs and has blamed its ‘very draconian lockdown’ for leaving ‘mental and economic scars’.

A sharp rebound of inflation will ‘unsettle’ the Reserve Bank and dampen any hopes of a September rate cut, even as Treasurer Jim Chalmers paints a rosy outlook.

The unprecedented move constitutes a sharp escalation in the US President’s battle to exert greater control over what has long been considered an institution independent from day-to-day politics.

Up’s customer numbers leapt 29 per cent to 1.2 million in the 2025 financial year, fuelling an 11 per cent jump across the Bendigo group to 2.9 million customers.

Politicians, particularly in Europe, are in a terrible bind.

Guzman y Gomez investors have deserted the Mexican-themed restaurant chain even after it declared a maiden dividend and cracked $1 billion in sales for its nachos, burritos and tacos for the first time.

Investors' eyes will be on the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium, where Fed Chair Jerome Powell is scheduled to speak on Friday.