Ampol profit up 376pc as import fuel prices surge
Ampol's replacement cost profit rose 376 per cent to $857.2 million as the Middle East conflict lifted imported fuel costs. Shareholders get $441 million.
Business
Coles profit up, $235m set aside for underpaid staff
Coles booked a $235 million charge for underpaying its own store managers and still reported underlying profit of $1.26 billion, up 13.7 per cent, with the dividend lifted 13 per cent.
GYG books a $26.7m loss and calls FY26 a record
Guzman y Gomez lost $26.7 million on a statutory basis after quitting the United States, and is returning about $200 million to shareholders.
TPG lifts dividend as 41,000 NBN customers leave
TPG Telecom raised its interim dividend to 10 cents as mobile revenue grew 3.1 per cent. Its NBN base fell by 41,000 and broadband revenue went backwards.
Super penalties up twentyfold after $1b collapses
Maximum civil penalties for core trustee breaches go from 2,400 penalty units to 50,000. Self-managed funds will help pay for failures elsewhere.
JB Hi-Fi lifts dividend 22.5% as profit rises 6%
Group sales hit $11.06 billion and net profit $489.9 million. The payout to shareholders grew almost four times as fast as the profit behind it.
Daintree still on diesel four years after grant
About 700 Daintree residents run generators on diesel above $3 a litre. An $18.75 million microgrid was funded in 2022. Only $1.55 million was paid.
Mastercard payments restored after global outage
Mastercard card payments failed across Australian retail on Saturday. Tyro logged the fault at 3.03pm AEST and declared the network normal at 4.10pm.
US travel down 37pc as Japan trips more than double
Australians took 12.7 million trips overseas in 2025-26. Trips to the United States were 37 per cent below 2018-19. Japan was up 105 per cent.
Investor home lending falls 10.2pc in June quarter
New investor loans fell more than five times faster than owner-occupier loans in the June quarter, ABS figures show. The average new loan is $731,000.
Average weekly earnings growth weakest since 2022
Full-time earnings rose 3.7 per cent in the year to May, the smallest annual increase since 2022 and slower than the pace of consumer prices.
Governments commit $2.5b to Tomago aluminium smelter
The Commonwealth and NSW will put $2.5 billion into the Rio Tinto-led smelter, Australia's single largest electricity user, to keep it running past 2028.
