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UniSuper helps raise $30m for PlasmaLeap

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2026
... technology. PlasmaLeap's patented reactor technology produces ammonia and nitrate using only air, water and renewable electricity, Byrne said. "The technology has the potential to improve national food security, reduce exposure to international price ...

Financial services' gender pay gap improves at 21.4%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2026
... Gender Pay Gaps Report, financial services top the industries with massive pay gaps alongside construction, mining and electricity, and gas, water and waste services, which tend to be male-dominated industries. At a granular level, WGEA highlighted organisations ...

Inflation rises 3.8%, rate rise 'firmly in play'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2026
... will persist for longer than necessary," Smith said. "While the government deserves credit for not continuing the electricity subsidies beyond December, today's spike in headline CPI was always going to be the political payback of a populist policy. ...

QIC partners with Wollemi Capital in new $80m investment

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2026
... by Queensland vegetable growers Kalfresh and aims to transform locally produced food and farm waste into renewable electricity and natural gas. Based in Scenic Rim, an agricultural region in southern Queensland, the facility will produce power which ...

RBA overlooked government spending in rate hike: Hearing

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2026
... public demand - that obscures the fact that government expenditure, which is in public demand and private demand, with electricity rebates, with all these other things that don't show up public demand..." "And what [Chalmers] said here is, if you ...

Macquarie AM to acquire Last Mile Infrastructure and Energy Assets Group

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2026
... investment officer Mark Chladek said: "Since Infracapital first invested in 2018, Last Mile has grown from a regional electricity and gas connections provider into a UK-wide multi-utility business, quadrupling its live connections base." "We are proud ...

Future Fund adds $30bn to FUM in 2025

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2026
... data centres and supported a capital raising for their expansion programme, acquired a stake in the nation's biggest electricity transmission business, Transgrid, and supported the development of other national capabilities through our investment programme ...

Inflation 'uncomfortably high' as it rises to 3.8%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2026
... possibly even at next week's RBA meeting," he said. "A number of factors are continuing to put upward pressure on prices. Electricity costs remain elevated, new dwelling construction costs are proving slow to unwind, and higher global tariffs are beginning ...

Global X reveals 2025 top performing ETF asset classes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2026
... efficiency and connectivity will define the next phase of AI investment. AI-related data centre growth is already straining electricity grids and resource supply, creating a structural demand tailwind for nuclear energy, grid technology and critical ...

Productivity Commission makes 47 recommendations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 22 DEC 2025
... cleaner energy and the net zero transformation included introducing a national emissions-reduction policy for the electricity sector. It said taking a technology- and jurisdiction-neutral approach to the location of new generation and storage infrastructure ...