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Top executive Ani Satchcroft has revealed where the $743 billion asset manager is investing to reap the benefits of digital infrastructure rollout.
Despite an underlying loss of more than $100 million and warnings from credit agencies, the service has handed its outgoing boss a $1.36 million pay bump.
The board faced shareholder questions on the Triple Zero outage and threat posed by the potential expansion of Elon Musk’s Starlink mobile network.
Institutional investors have been urged to vote against the re-election of the influential businesswoman over her role in the airline’s governance failings.
As the new space race seeks to industrialise the cosmos, an Australian astrophotographer asks who really owns the night sky.
The telco started legal action against John Ieraci in the Federal Court of Australia on September 30, the day before he was due to start at the rival provider.
Steven Worrall joined Telstra to lead its huge fibre and subsea cable network a year ago, and says big new contracts will start lifting the telco’s revenue.
The merger will expand the nuclear medicine giant’s footprint to distribute radioisotopes used to target and fight cancer.
A year-long inquiry into Triple Zero has recommended widespread changes for Telstra, Optus and TPG Telecom after a series of disastrous outages.
An external review of the massive network failure that knocked out Triple Zero and trains blamed “budgetary prioritisation” and a lack of engineering expertise.
A little over a year into a $700 million AI deal with Accenture, Telstra has pegged its executive bonuses to delivering returns on AI investment.
Telstra’s executive team lost $1.9 million as a result of last month’s nationwide outage, while the company has issued $1 million in credits to customers.
Ten years ago, the watchdog ruled forcing telcos to share their mobile networks wouldn’t improve outcomes for Australians. It wants to take another look.
The deal means the Gigacomm, backed by Macquarie Capital and Palisade Impact, will take ownership of its rival’s retail brand Pineapple Net and gain a foothold in Victoria.
The Singaporean-owned telco group is being sued in the Federal Court by the regulator over its fatal outage in September 2025.
The Wellington-based infrastructure investor has secured a seven-week exclusivity period to finalise a proposal to acquire more than 30 per cent of the telco.
The continual mis-naming of senior Telstra executives is starting to look deliberate.
Over 2.5 hours of questioning before senators on Friday, Telstra revealed critical holes in its systems and records that caused last week’s nationwide outage.
Not even a senate hearing is enough to scare the sector off a political roasting.
Vicki Brady and her team are trading award night bubbles for Senate preparation.
Catherine Livingstone, who has chaired both Telstra and Commonwealth Bank, says Canberra should avoid shouting at one company and improve national resilience.
Mobile phone outages like the Telstra crash that halted trains and hit the Triple Zero service are expected to reoccur as telco networks become more complex.
Chief executive Vicki Brady flew back into Sydney on Friday and immediately fronted a barrage of questions about the outage. She is set to face many more.
Police have confirmed they are looking into a death at a regional hospital on Wednesday. The family believes it is linked to Telstra’s outage.
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