Analysts are already estimating synergies of up to $5 billion from a BHP-Rio merger and plenty of those would come from closing Rio Tinto’s extravagant London head office and running the entire $500 billion empire out of BHP-Billiton’s Lonsdale Street head office in Melbourne, writes Stephen Mayne.
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NRL future looks bright after Kangaroos win
The long 2007 rugby league season is finally over. And it ended as it began – with overwhelming evidence that the rising talent in the NRL premiership gives it an assured future, writes Jeff Wall.
Rugby World Cup: Hard heads thwart divine destiny
So much for destiny, the world order and all the scripts that had been written for this Rugby World Cup, writes Michael Pascoe.
Australians get ugly over the Rugby World Cup
When the history of Australian sporting journalism comes to be written many years from now, one piece will surely be dusted off and held up as perhaps the finest example of its type. Few articles can have been so wide of the mark. Charles Happpell reports.
Rugby: Time to believe in gold
“Believe in Gold” is not the International Gold Council’s motto, but the ARU’s Rugby World Cup tag line. And it’s time to do just that, writes Michael Pascoe.
Triumph of the underdogs… and now the Wallabies’ World Cup begins
Fiji v Wales was worth the price of the big screen TV for the Rugby World Cup even if nothing much else happens. And certainly not much was happening for the Wallabies over the weekend, writes Michael Pascoe.
Rugby: Non-English world turns Tongan, Australia fields its B backs
The rugby fraternity appreciates an underdog more than most and for the French crowd, well, Tonga is playing England after all writes Michael Pascoe.
Rugby World Cup – partial answers this weekend for three big questions
As good as the Rugby World Cup’s first two weekends have been, this one is of a suitably higher level of importance as the event builds towards the knock-out stage. It’s weekend that promises to at least partially answer some major questions.
Rugby World Cup: Key suspensions make it even more interesting
Yes, the RWC citing system is serious and it’s adding another dimension to a Rugby World Cup that is already off to a better start than anyone might have hoped.
Rugby World Cup: a feast for the bleary eyed
Like the Tour de France and Wimbledon, the Rugby World Cup is set to make lunchtime power-napping a necessity over the next few weeks. Michael Pascoe outlines the games that matter.
The Rugby Union world cup: Who will bring home Bill?
With the World Cup opener less than 48 hours away, questions and more will be scrutinised, analysed, chewed over and debated in bars all over the rugby-playing world in the coming seven weeks, and finally answered in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis on October 21.
Warriors boost NRL stocks in NZ
NZ’s participation in the NRL is looking healthier and healthier, with the Warriors now shaping up as serious finals contenders, writes Jeff Wall.
Talking up the Australian Rugby Championship
How do you talk up a new rugby competition in which there’s not much interest? Talk about new rules instead.
