Primrose Riordan
@primroseriordan.bsky.social
Journalist @FinancialReview covering wealthy families & their businesses. Fmr China correspondent and foreign affairs reporter [email protected].
My Signal: https://tinyurl.com/PrimroseSignal
My latest: https://tinyurl.com/PowerOfOneInvestigation
My Signal: https://tinyurl.com/PrimroseSignal
My latest: https://tinyurl.com/PowerOfOneInvestigation
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Inside the ‘unending chaos’ at Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue
After a frenetic world tour, the billionaire had to wind back his hydrogen plans. A Financial Review investigation looks at what led to an exodus of executives.
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Exclusive: Inside the ‘unending chaos’ at Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue
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US enters war with Iran, bombing sites Trump says www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
Live Updates: U.S. Enters War With Iran, Striking Key Nuclear Sites
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June 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
US enters war with Iran, bombing sites Trump says www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
It Was Just An Accident: an amazing balance of light and shade, demonstrating how not to labour a point while making one precisely, and such a chilling soundscape…cool as well to see how the city turned out in droves for Sydney Film Fest 🎬
June 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
It Was Just An Accident: an amazing balance of light and shade, demonstrating how not to labour a point while making one precisely, and such a chilling soundscape…cool as well to see how the city turned out in droves for Sydney Film Fest 🎬
The Metro is great but just makes it more obvious how unreliable some of the other Sydney train lines are, and how incomprehensible it is that so much of those lines have no mobile internet 🤪🤯
April 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The Metro is great but just makes it more obvious how unreliable some of the other Sydney train lines are, and how incomprehensible it is that so much of those lines have no mobile internet 🤪🤯
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PUNCHBOWL: “.. The shopping site will display how much of an item’s cost is derived from tariffs – right next to the product’s total listed price.”
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April 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
PUNCHBOWL: “.. The shopping site will display how much of an item’s cost is derived from tariffs – right next to the product’s total listed price.”
$AMZN
punchbowl.news/archive/4292...
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On the thin, and often non-existent, margins for small+independent hospitality businesses under higher rates www.afr.com/politics/fed...
Cafe owners find Albanese’s ‘no weekend extras’ line hard to swallow
Coffee shop and food outlet operators in Anthony Albanese’s inner west Sydney electorate say weekend and holiday surcharges are the only way they can stay open.
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April 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
On the thin, and often non-existent, margins for small+independent hospitality businesses under higher rates www.afr.com/politics/fed...
The US letting go of leadership on press freedom would be a terrible outcome for the world, interesting to see who is enabling that… www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...
Top Producer of ‘60 Minutes’ Quits, Citing a Loss of Independence
The news program has faced mounting pressure from both President Trump and its corporate ownership at Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.
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April 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The US letting go of leadership on press freedom would be a terrible outcome for the world, interesting to see who is enabling that… www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...
Stunning and shocking account of Ethiopia's Tigray war which possibly left over 600,000 dead in 2020-22 and hardly registered in the west: magazine.atavist.com/there-will-b...
"There Will Be No Mercy": On the Frontlines of War in Ethiopia
When Ethiopia’s government launched a brutal two-year war in Tigray, the region’s largest hospital was overrun with victims. The medical staff risked everything to treat the wounded—and believe the wo...
magazine.atavist.com
April 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Stunning and shocking account of Ethiopia's Tigray war which possibly left over 600,000 dead in 2020-22 and hardly registered in the west: magazine.atavist.com/there-will-b...
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WARNER: Can you explain how it helps natl security or our trade balance - I loved your fancy Greek formula which was bad math on steroids - how with a trade surplus Australia got hit with a 10% tariff as well?
GREER: Australia has the lowest rate available
WARNER: We have a trade surplus!
GREER: Australia has the lowest rate available
WARNER: We have a trade surplus!
April 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
WARNER: Can you explain how it helps natl security or our trade balance - I loved your fancy Greek formula which was bad math on steroids - how with a trade surplus Australia got hit with a 10% tariff as well?
GREER: Australia has the lowest rate available
WARNER: We have a trade surplus!
GREER: Australia has the lowest rate available
WARNER: We have a trade surplus!
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Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...
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April 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
When an actually good musician’s only Sydney show is at Qudos Bank Arena.
April 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
When an actually good musician’s only Sydney show is at Qudos Bank Arena.
Australia’s major security and economic partner has fundamentally changed course and yet all we’re talking about is the port of Darwin. Ok.
April 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Australia’s major security and economic partner has fundamentally changed course and yet all we’re talking about is the port of Darwin. Ok.
There are few things a certain type of Australian loves more than telling people off in public
March 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
There are few things a certain type of Australian loves more than telling people off in public
So good how Bluesky just takes you straight to the linked website instead of trapping you in its platform
March 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
So good how Bluesky just takes you straight to the linked website instead of trapping you in its platform
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A theory for their cause of death was that a tap from a water tank to a trough was accidentally off. The deaths have horrified people in the agriculture industry, and marks more turmoil at AACo.
Cattle herd owned by luxury beef giant AACo died of apparent thirst
A theory for their cause of death was that a tap from a water tank to a trough was accidentally off. The deaths have horrified people in the agriculture industry, and marks more turmoil at AACo.
www.abc.net.au
March 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A theory for their cause of death was that a tap from a water tank to a trough was accidentally off. The deaths have horrified people in the agriculture industry, and marks more turmoil at AACo.
Why warming oceans are a big problem for Australia www.afr.com/policy/energ...
Don’t want another Cyclone Alfred? This data says one’s coming
Hot temperatures in the world’s oceans are making storms and cyclones more destructive. Australia is uniquely vulnerable.
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March 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Why warming oceans are a big problem for Australia www.afr.com/policy/energ...
Interesting...China's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office posted a commentary in state media criticising the company's recent port sale as a betrayal of China www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
China Amplifies Rebuke of Li Ka-shing’s Panama Port Deal With BlackRock
CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. shares plunged Friday after China’s top office on Hong Kong affairs reposted a sharp attack on the conglomerate’s decision to appease President Donald Trump by selling its s...
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March 14, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Interesting...China's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office posted a commentary in state media criticising the company's recent port sale as a betrayal of China www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"The SEC raised concerns about the fund's liquidity and State Street's ability to comply with SEC valuation rules"
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US regulators, in unusual move, raise concerns about new private credit ETF
The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission sounded the alarm about aspects of the first broad private credit market exchange-traded fund, in a letter posted on its website on Thursday, hours after the ETF began trading.
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March 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
"The SEC raised concerns about the fund's liquidity and State Street's ability to comply with SEC valuation rules"
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Australia is home to 76 per cent of the world’s non-gaming venue poker machines, and 93 per cent of these machines are in pubs and clubs.
So why are they regulated differently to casinos? www.afr.com/chanticleer/...
So why are they regulated differently to casinos? www.afr.com/chanticleer/...
Crown and Star’s next big problem? Pubs and clubs
Just like stricken casino group Star, Crown Resorts says it is battling an uneven regulatory playing field with pubs and clubs. It’s gently pushing back.
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March 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Australia is home to 76 per cent of the world’s non-gaming venue poker machines, and 93 per cent of these machines are in pubs and clubs.
So why are they regulated differently to casinos? www.afr.com/chanticleer/...
So why are they regulated differently to casinos? www.afr.com/chanticleer/...
new Jason Isbell is sounding really beautiful
March 9, 2025 at 4:45 AM
new Jason Isbell is sounding really beautiful
Always interesting which billionaires and business people pump $$ into shifting critical news articles about them onto the 2nd page of Google 😂
March 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Always interesting which billionaires and business people pump $$ into shifting critical news articles about them onto the 2nd page of Google 😂
Expired licences, unrealistic valuations to pump fees🤑, writing loans just to find someone “dumber” to refinance them...
“It’s the Wild West”: our deep dive out today on the turmoil in private credit and why it’s in the headlights of regulators👇
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“It’s the Wild West”: our deep dive out today on the turmoil in private credit and why it’s in the headlights of regulators👇
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‘It’s the Wild West’: Why ASIC is worried about private credit
Private credit firms are scrambling to manage problem loans, as the regulator sets its sights on lax governance.
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February 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Expired licences, unrealistic valuations to pump fees🤑, writing loans just to find someone “dumber” to refinance them...
“It’s the Wild West”: our deep dive out today on the turmoil in private credit and why it’s in the headlights of regulators👇
www.afr.com/property/com...
“It’s the Wild West”: our deep dive out today on the turmoil in private credit and why it’s in the headlights of regulators👇
www.afr.com/property/com...
The secretive billionaire who has had Wisetech's Richard White’s back for 20 years
www.afr.com/technology/t... $WTC
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The secretive billionaire who has had Richard White’s back for 20 years
WiseTech director and major shareholder Charles Gibbon has always been known as the master of the exit. How will he navigate WiseTech’s latest governance saga?
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February 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The secretive billionaire who has had Wisetech's Richard White’s back for 20 years
www.afr.com/technology/t... $WTC
www.afr.com/technology/t... $WTC
Seems pretty significant for Australia www.ft.com/content/2dfa...
White House official pushes to axe Canada from Five Eyes intelligence group
Peter Navarro wants to increase pressure on country that Donald Trump has threatened to annex
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February 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Seems pretty significant for Australia www.ft.com/content/2dfa...
Interesting development: billionaire Ed Craven's gambling company Stake, the key sponsor of English Premier League football club Everton, to exit the UK over social media videos by an adult content creator www.afr.com/companies/ga...
Stake.com to quit Britain after Bonnie Blue video controversy
The Melbourne-run, Caribbean-registered online casino giant is the main sponsor of English Premier League club Everton but will leave the country next month.
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February 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Interesting development: billionaire Ed Craven's gambling company Stake, the key sponsor of English Premier League football club Everton, to exit the UK over social media videos by an adult content creator www.afr.com/companies/ga...
The way the nyt audio app has recordings of long reads from a variety of magazines is really useful, audio is a great format for those pieces
February 17, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The way the nyt audio app has recordings of long reads from a variety of magazines is really useful, audio is a great format for those pieces