ASX Announcements
Annual Report, Top 20 shareholders, Full Year Accounts, Full Year Audit Review, Full Year Directors' Statement, Full Year Directors' Report, Corporate Governance
- Sep 13, 2024
- 133 pages
Notification of cessation of securities - MPL
Appendix 3H (Notification of cessation of securities)
- Sep 6, 2024
- 4 pages
This Month
- Exclusive
- Cyber Summit
ASIC pursues board directors over cyber breaches
ASIC says more investigations are underway, scrutinising how boards and directors have responded to cyberattacks.
- Tess Bennett
Insurers deny caving in to Healthscope demands
“Out-of-contract payments have not occurred in response to Brookfield and Healthscope’s heavy-handed US-style campaign,” says lobby group.
- Michael Smith
- Exclusive
- Health insurance
Healthscope forces big insurers to cough up to repair its profits
Medibank Private, NIB and HCF have agreed to out-of-cycle funding payments in the “tens of millions of dollars” for the Brookfield-owned hospital group.
- Michael Smith
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
ASX investors are stuck between a rock, CBA at $143, and a hard place
CBA shares above $140 and China’s wobbles have sent investors heading towards the ASX’s third bucket: industrials. That puts their management teams under pressure.
- Anthony Macdonald
August
- Opinion
- Health insurance
Health insurance shouldn’t be private hospitals’ field of dreams
Instead of protecting private hospitals from predatory insurers, an obsolete contract framework protects operators from full accountability for inefficiencies and misjudgments.
- Terry Barnes
Private health cover could become unaffordable, Medibank warns
The insurer says foreign student policyholders have surged, but fewer permanent Australian residents signed up for private health insurance than expected.
- Michael Smith
- Opinion
- Health insurance
Five reasons health funds shouldn’t bail out private hospitals
The short-sighted arguments of vested interests would increase the cost of insurance for Australians contributing to their own healthcare.
- Rachel David
- Exclusive
- Health insurance
Pressure for health premium overhaul in election headache for Albanese
The influential medical lobby is demanding an independent umpire to determine how high insurance premiums can rise as negotiations over the next increase begin.
- Michael Smith
Companies to face fines for failing to disclose cyber ransom payments
Legislation due to be introduced to federal parliament within weeks will require businesses with a turnover of $3 million or more to report payments to hackers.
- Tom McIlroy
- Exclusive
- Healthcare
Hospitals seek right to boycott big insurers from funding talks
Catholic-operated private hospitals want a major shake-up of the way they negotiate funding deals with health insurers, in an escalation of tensions between the two sides.
- Michael Smith
July
Inside the stoush between private hospitals and health insurers
As finances deteriorate, insurers and providers are slugging it out over how to overhaul a healthcare system which has not seen serious reform in decades.
- Michael Smith
What businesses are doing right for this group of workers
Not only did it mean Shelley could work in a step-free environment catered to her needs, but it also meant she didn’t have to ask for special treatment.
- Euan Black
June
Economy grows by 0.1pc | RBA to ignore energy rebate | Medibank faces $21.5 trillion fine
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Medibank faces maximum $21.5 trillion fine in new cyber hack case
The privacy watchdog alleges the private health insurer failed to protect the details of 9.7 million customers, under a law that provides for a penalty of $2.2 million for each breach.
- Paul Smith
May
- Exclusive
- Workplace
Grant Thornton adopts nine-day fortnight, but staff have to earn it
The accounting firm’s year-long trial coincided with record productivity, employee retention and profits.
- Euan Black
- Exclusive
- Cybersecurity
This industry needs 5000 new workers every year just to keep up
Australian cybersecurity workers warn the domestic industry is not competitive with foreign rivals.
- Andrew Tillett
April
Finance’s ‘basic’ spreadsheet error triggers reform calls
The federal Finance department failed to remove hidden tabs in a master spreadsheet, exposing confidential pricing data, a review has found.
- Tom Burton
March
- Exclusive
- Cyber warfare
Leaked documents reveal Australia targeted by Chinese hackers
The revelations come as the UK sanctions a Chinese state-affiliated group that hacked into its Electoral Commission systems.
- Max Mason and Andrew Tillett
‘Tip of the iceberg’: new cyber tsar issues warning on attacks
The emergence of new technology such as AI will worsen the risks from cyberattacks, Lieutenant General Michelle McGuinness says.
- Andrew Tillett
February
Medibank shares fall on disappointing policy growth guidance
Citi analyst Nigel Pittaway said the result was a “slight disappointment” as growth rates moderate across private health.
- Lucas Baird
