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Female start-up founders fume at Porter’s email stuff-up Save Share Embattled Industry, Science and Technology Minister Christian Porter’s office has been left scrambling to smooth over a funding bungle that left thousands of Australian female entrepreneurs disappointed when they were told they had successfully applied for government grants, only to receive an email hours later retracting the money. About 1800 business owners were sent a correction email by the Department of Industry, saying their expression of interest application to the Boosting Female Founders Initiative grant wa...

Mouse plague: Bromadiolone will obliterate mice, but it'll poison eagles, snakes and owls, too 1:46pm May 21, 2021 By Robert Davis, Bill Bateman, Damian Lettoof, Maggie J Watson and Michael Lohr It's the smell that hits you first. The scent of urine and decomposing bodies. Then you notice other signs: scuttles and squeaks, small dead bodies leaking blood, tails sticking out of hubcaps. If you've lived through a mouse plague, you've seen this, and smelled the stench of mice dying of poison baits. READ MORE: Masked owls could die from eating poisoned mice.(David Milledge) As a desperate measure...

Probe into share crunch after $800m Reddit-led rally May 21, 2021 – 4.50pm Save Share The corporate watchdog and the sharemarket operator will probe potential stock manipulation in ASX minnow Credit Intelligence after the company found a potential campaign to suppress the stock a month after a Reddit-fuelled $800 million “pump and dump” rally. The Perth-based debt restructuring business on Friday referred “irregular trading behaviour” in its own shares to the Australian Securities Exchange and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. “The company has...

NAB, Nomura, PEP help Calibre refi Greensill debt Share Engineering and contracting company Calibre Group has waved goodbye to collapsed financier Greensill, as part of a new funding package arranged by National Australia Bank. Engineering and contracting company Calibre Group reported $486.2 million revenue and a $10.8 million profit in the 2020 financial year.  Ryan Stuart Street Talk understands Calibre has signed off on a $90 million refinancing, securing finance from NAB, Nomura, Pacific Equity Partners’ new Capital Solutions strategy and debt investors Wingate and Longreach Credit In...

Deja vu for Joe Longo’s war on cyber scams The incoming chairman of ASIC warned 23 years ago of the internet’s role in the manipulation financial assets, a threat he is faced with once again. May 10, 2021 – 10.07am Save Share Plus ça change. In April, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission was getting in touch with moderators of Facebook sharemarket forums, seeking to arrange meetings to discuss the pages and how content is managed. That was six months after ASIC warned in an unpublished communication that “social influencers and social trading are contrib...