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AU Financial Review
2 days ago
- Politics
- AU Financial Review
Iran's envoy warns Australia to stay out of Middle East war
Iran's top local diplomat has warned against Australia supporting any US escalation of air strikes against his country's nuclear program, saying American intervention would widen the war and threaten commercial shipping in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, two major arteries for the world's oil supply. In an interview with AFR Weekend, ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi said any attempt to assassinate Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as Israel's defence minister has suggested, would also be met with a fierce response.
AU Financial Review
2 days ago
- Politics
- AU Financial Review
Whatever happens, the Middle East has been remade
During the past week, Sharren Haskel has established a new bedtime routine with her three young daughters at her home, waiting for the inevitable air raid siren as Iranian missiles and drones rain over Israel. 'In the beginning, we would run into the [bomb] shelter, but now I set all my three little babies to sleep in our little shelter,' Haskel, who is Israel's deputy foreign minister, tells AFR Weekend.
AU Financial Review
31-05-2025
- Business
- AU Financial Review
More directors are pushing back on shareholder critics, TCorp says
Powerful chief executives of major ASX-listed companies are strong-arming their boards into opposing shareholders who highlight issues around a firm's governance or even potential conflicts of interests, according to NSW's $120 billion sovereign wealth fund TCorp. An increasing number of directors were comfortable saying that 'they think shareholders have got it wrong' when challenged, TCorp's head of investment stewardship Alexis Cheang told AFR Weekend.
AU Financial Review
23-05-2025
- Politics
- AU Financial Review
Aussies in turmoil as Trump bans overseas students from Harvard
Nobel laureate and Harvard alumnus Brian Schmidt says Donald Trump's move to ban the world's best university from enrolling students from overseas is a 'profound escalation' of the president's culture wars that will trigger a global response. 'This is a major escalation that is absolutely violating the autonomy of Harvard and presumably other universities across the United States, and I suspect it will create a major backlash, both legally and within the higher education community of the United States and globally,' Schmidt told AFR Weekend.
