According to The Australian Financial Review, farmers battling falling agribusiness returns from the severe drought are turning to the renewable energy market as a way to earn additional income and future-proof their enterprises against climate change.
"More and more farmers are coming to the realisation that they need a survival strategy that takes into account not just normal seasonal weather patterns or even `normal' droughts, but the extraordinary weather that climate change is now delivering," said Angus Shaw, a rural manager at valuers Herron Todd White.
"The clean energy option offers farmers both a regular, dependable, income and a means of reducing the often debilitating mental and physical stresses that can accompany the no-income years."
Depending on the number of wind towers or solar panels, a renewable energy income contract can net an individual farmer as much as $100,000 per year or more with long-term leases up to 30 years.

https://www.afr.com/real-estate/commercial/droughtstricken-farmers-earning-extra-income-from-renewable-energy-contracts-20181116-h17z92

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According to The Australian Financial Review, within five years, Melburnians or Sydneysiders could look out of their office windows and see flying ride-sharing vehicles transporting workers between the central business district and regional centres or airports,  because Uber has entered discussions with local and federal governments.
The company first indicated Melbourne and Sydney as possible trial locations for its UberAIR service last year and last week Uber's global head of aviation, Eric Allison, was in the country meeting with politicians, policymakers and Civil Aviation and Safety Authority (CASA) representatives.

https://www.afr.com/technology/flying-uberair-trials-set-to-for-lift-off-in-australia-with-government-support-20181106-h17lna

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According to The Australian Financial Review, an Australian start-up that seeks to keep elderly people out of hospital and in their homes living independently for longer by monitoring them remotely has raised $5 million from one of South Australia's largest aged care service providers.
Billy uses a series of discrete sensors placed around the home to build a picture of daily activities for family of the elderly residents in their own home or in an assisted-living environment. Activity information can be shared with the family via a smartphone app and can be alerted if there is a change in pattern.
It gives data in real time and looks for changes in behavioural patterns, such as skipping medication or going to the toilet more than normal patterns, which could indicate another health problem.
That technology piqued the interest of Enabling Confidence at Home (ECH), one of the largest integrated providers of retirement village accommodation in SA. The non-profits chief executive David Panter said it also had the potential to be used globally.

https://www.afr.com/business/health/billy-a-health-tech-startup-keeping-the-elderly-out-of-aged-care-raises-5m-20181102-h17fua

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According to The Australian Financial Review, BioCurate, a joint venture of Monash and Melbourne universities for early stage commercialisation of pharmaceutical research, has struck an agreement with global pharmaceuticals giant Novartis to share research and accelerate discoveries of new drugs.
Glenn Begley, chief executive of BioCurate, said the memorandum of understanding would cover a full range of research from the two universities, which snare more than 40 per cent of federal biomedical research grants between them, with an emphasis on areas of special interest to Novartis, such as oncology drugs.
Dr Begley, who started at BioCurate in January after 20 years in the US, said the deal was not exclusive and BioCurate would be free to strike similar arrangements with other pharma giants who are approaching the organisation.
"One of the things that's been really exciting about BioCurate is the interest that has come from international pharmaceutical companies and VC firms around the world," he told The Australian Financial Review.

https://www.afr.com/news/biocurate-strikes-mou-with-novartis-eyes-more-big-pharma-deals-20181031-h17cjk

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According to The Australian Financial Review, the Queensland government release an extra 6600 square kilometres of land for gas exploration, including more than 900 square kilometres reserved for the domestic market, in a bid to help ease the east coast gas shortage.
In the past year, more than 18,000 square kilometres have been released for gas exploration, with more than a third of it for the domestic market only.
The new tenements being offered for exploration are south-west of Chinchilla in the Bowen and Surat Basins, both which are already key gas-producing regions supported by extensive pipeline and transport infrastructure.

https://www.afr.com/news/politics/queensland-government-releases-more-land-for-domestic-gas-exploration-20181101-h17e0m

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According to The Australian Financial Review, Commonwealth Bank of Australia will sell its global asset management arm to Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group for $4.1 billion in a deal.
CBA confirmed on Wednesday media reports out of Japan it had agreed to sell its global asset management business Colonial First State Global Asset Management.
The deal, one of the biggest overseas asset management buyouts ever by a Japanese financial group, is scheduled to close in mid 2019.

https://www.afr.com/business/banking-and-finance/mitsubishi-ufj-financial-to-buy-cbas-asset-management-operations-nikkei-20181030-h17bb4

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According to The Australian Financial Review, Melbourne-based Cancer Therapeutics Co-operative Research Centre has struck a blockbuster research partnership with global pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer that could eventually be worth as much as $US460 million ($650 million).
Cancer Therapeutics Co-operative Research Centre (CTx CRC) will earn an upfront fee of $US14 million for granting Pfizer rights to develop and exploit two pre-clinical cancer programs initiated at the Parkville based CRC, which focuses on small molecule drug discovery and works with a host of blue-chip research partners.
If the two programs – which target proteins that drive the development of solid and blood-borne cancers – hit development and sales goals CTx will earn up to $US460 million in milestone payments, as well as royalties on any commercial sales.

https://www.afr.com/news/cancer-therapeutics-crc-in-blockbuster-pfizer-deal-20181024-h17255

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According to The Australian Financial Review, the $US40 billion Ichthys LNG venture, the biggest foreign investment ever made by Japan, has marked a milestone with the departure of its first LNG cargo overnight after six-and-a-half years of construction work.
While the start-up has been delayed several times, the venture, majority owned by Inpex Corporation, is now hoping for a smooth ramp-up of production, said spokesman Bill Townsend from Tokyo.

https://www.afr.com/business/energy/gas/ichthys-gas-venture-ships-first-lng-from-us40b-project-20181023-h16zf2

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According to The Australian Financial Review, Australia has overtaken Switzerland to record the highest median wealth in the world, driven by high property prices and large superannuation balances.
For Aussies battling high petrol, energy and other living costs it may not feel like it but on average we are also the second wealthiest nation on the planet, according to Credit Suisse's annual Global Wealth Report.
The report shows average wealth per adult in Australia sits the second highest in the world after Switzerland. The Swiss sit on balances of $US530,240, while Australians average $US411,060 per adult while in the US average wealth is $US403,970.
"Australia continues to be among the wealthiest countries in the world due to our superannuation system, an unprecedented 26 years of continuous economic growth, high real estate prices, the strength of the Australian dollar, and plentiful natural resources," said Michael Marr, head of the private bank at Credit Suisse Australia, said.

https://www.afr.com/business/banking-and-finance/australia-is-one-of-the-worlds-wealthiest-nations-credit-suisse-20181018-h16u1y

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The Australian Financial Review, farm gate output is continuing to grow despite the agriculture sector being hit by drought across large parts of Australia's east coast, according to the National Farmers' Federation.
Total farm gate output was about $63 billion in 2016-17 and is projected to hit $84 billion by 2030, but NFF president Fiona Simson says the sector wants to beat that projection and exceed $100 billion over the same time frame.
"Even though we've had this devastating drought, other industries have stepped up," Ms Simson said, noting that horticulture, in particular, had experienced double-digit growth in recent years driven by increased access to overseas markets.
"We're becoming a more diverse and sustainable country," she said. "Drought is one of the challenges, but there are opportunities."

https://www.afr.com/business/agriculture/agriculture-targets-100b-farm-gate-output-by-2030-despite-headwinds-20181016-h16pgy

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