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European agricultural commodities giant Louis Dreyfus raises bid for Australian ginning group Namoi Cotton, now valuing the processor at $125m.

Matthew Tripp, the veteran bookmaker, and his co-investors will become the controlling shareholders of the combined group amid broader industry consolidation.

The pro-Palestine protest by STC actors following a performance of The Seagull symbolises the deep rifts in Australian arts and culture.

A family feud threatened to break their hold on the entertainment industry. But the Kirbys are staging an unlikely comeback, albeit with a smaller piece of their empire.

“We do not create our art merely for entertainment or for profit. We create because it is a human imperative in the same way that speaking out against war crimes is a moral imperative.”

Mass resignations, boardroom turmoil and angry donors are some of the ways the Israel-Hamas war is filtering down into Australia’s high-powered arts world.

Jacinta Allan told a committee on June 13 that the event was making “tremendous progress”, but says she wasn’t surprised when she found out on June 14 that lawyers were being called for advice on how to abandon the event.

It’s clear from the words on the cover of Megan Davis and Pat Anderson's newly published insider account of the road to the Voice referendum-- The authorised story of the community campaign that changed Australia -- that their book was conceived in happier times for the ‘Yes’ campaign. That would be before it became expedient to pretend the Uluru Statement is but a single page

Things aren’t quite the same these days at Arnold Bloch Leibler.

Mark Leibler, who oversaw Noel Pearson as an articled clerk, says Indigenous Australians share the Jewish community’s battle against dispossession, disrespect and racism.