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Jayne Hrdlicka has earned an eye-watering payday after leading the airline from a pandemic wipe-out to a profitable share market listing.

EXCLUSIVE: Forty-eight of Australia’s top investors were involved in Rodney Forrest’s stock-picking competition when he illegally bought $2.6 million worth of shares in Platinum Asset Management.

With about 5000 jobs already cut by ANZ and National Australia Bank this week, the union said Bendigo was slashing 145 jobs from its technology division while eliminating another 13 in mortgage help.

The CEO of Melbourne biotech 4DMedical gambled his home on lung imaging, but just won big as shares raced 380 per cent higher in just over a week.

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.