Rio Tinto has become the first Australian company to support activist resolutions filed against it, urging investors to back calls for stronger climate action.

The future of Victoria’s Portland aluminium smelter and the jobs of hundreds of its staff appear safer after Alcoa secured a power deal and further subsidies.

Administrators told the first meeting of creditors that no ‘rescue package’ or deed of company arrangement had been put forward to save the group from liquidation.

More than 500 Alcoa workers have been granted a reprieve as the Prime Minister announced a five-year rescue package, but 42 workers at a nearby wind tower company have lost their jobs.

Google will spend billions this year on new offices, planning for a return to in-person work as other companies consider a future where working from home is the norm.

First-year bankers at Goldman Sachs are forced to work 100-hour weeks and face workplace abuse, a staff analysis at the Wall Street giant has revealed.

Tech darling Nuix’s investors may be on the hook for up to $250 million in shares and damages as part of a lawsuit brought by the company’s former boss. 

The grocery chain has followed its rivals Woolworths and Aldi in stepping up its emissions targets as it unveiled its newest upmarket supermarket offering and a swathe of new sustainability initiatives.

The breathtaking money outflows from the eurozone may turn into outright capital flight as Europe is threatening to take control of AstraZeneca’s vaccine plants, stoking concerns the continent it is no longer a safe place to invest.

Amazon has registered Australian trademarks for the on-demand healthcare service it plans to launch across the US this year, but says it has no immediate plans to launch the business locally.

The fortunes of Australia’s struggling department store duo Myer and David Jones may be set to rebound in the new year after an apparent recovery in sales over Christmas.

Rupert Murdoch took issue with the silencing of debate on social media, saying censorship had hobbled discourse with “awful woke orthodoxy”.

The private equity firm has found that Apollo’s chief executive and chairman, Leon Black, had paid $US150 million ($195 million) to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Hackers accessed a server which held credit applications and potentially confidential documents filed by financial institutions.

Corporate governance experts are urging more big companies to repay funds received through JobKeeper, warning taxpayers will bear the cost for decades.