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US property conglomerate CoStar offered $4.20 a share, valuing the Domain business at $2.7bn – but sometimes silence speaks louder than wordsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhen Nine’s acting chief executive, Matt Stanton, presented the company’s financial results to analysts on Tuesday, he made it clear he didn’t want to speak about the very thing they wanted to.The broadcaster and publisher delivered its half-year results just days after US property conglomerate CoStar made an unsolicited approach to buy Domain, the real estate portal that Nine controls through

In this adapted extract from What’s the Big Idea? Louise Adler looks at the failure of Australian cultural leaders shying from risk and artistic vision – and letting the tail wag the dogGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAll around the world, a succession of arts organisations across all sectors have come under pressure from artists – surely their first and most important stakeholders – to “take a stand” on a range of topical issues from the climate crisis to Israel’s war on Gaza. If artists engage with the issues of the day, what is the appropriate response of the

New high tempered by dip in number of female CEOs at 100 biggest listed firms to fewer than 10 last yearWomen occupy more than two in five seats on the boards of Britain’s biggest listed companies after further progress was made last year, but the number of female FTSE 100 chief executives dipped for a time to fewer than 10, according to a report.The proportion of board positions held by women at FTSE 350 companies rose to a new all-time high of 43.4% last year, up from 42.1% in 2023, according to the government-backed annual FTSE Women Leaders Review. Among