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Primrose Riordan

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Journalist @FinancialReview covering wealthy families & their businesses. Fmr China correspondent and foreign affairs reporter primrose.riordan@afr.com. My Signal: tinyurl.com/PrimroseSignal My latest: tinyurl.com/PowerOfOneInvestigation

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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
US enters war with Iran, bombing sites Trump says www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
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Live Updates: U.S. Enters War With Iran, Striking Key Nuclear Sites
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
It Was Just An Accident: an amazing balance of light and shade, demonstrating how not to labour a point while making one precisely, and such a chilling soundscape…cool as well to see how the city turned out in droves for Sydney Film Fest 🎬
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The Metro is great but just makes it more obvious how unreliable some of the other Sydney train lines are, and how incomprehensible it is that so much of those lines have no mobile internet 🤪🤯
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
PUNCHBOWL: “.. The shopping site will display how much of an item’s cost is derived from tariffs – right next to the product’s total listed price.” $AMZN punchbowl.news/archive/4292...
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
On the thin, and often non-existent, margins for small+independent hospitality businesses under higher rates www.afr.com/politics/fed...
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Cafe owners find Albanese’s ‘no weekend extras’ line hard to swallow
Coffee shop and food outlet operators in Anthony Albanese’s inner west Sydney electorate say weekend and holiday surcharges are the only way they can stay open.
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The US letting go of leadership on press freedom would be a terrible outcome for the world, interesting to see who is enabling that… www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...
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Top Producer of ‘60 Minutes’ Quits, Citing a Loss of Independence
The news program has faced mounting pressure from both President Trump and its corporate ownership at Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Stunning and shocking account of Ethiopia's Tigray war which possibly left over 600,000 dead in 2020-22 and hardly registered in the west: magazine.atavist.com/there-will-b...
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"There Will Be No Mercy": On the Frontlines of War in Ethiopia
When Ethiopia’s government launched a brutal two-year war in Tigray, the region’s largest hospital was overrun with victims. The medical staff risked everything to treat the wounded—and believe the wo...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/04/2025
WARNER: Can you explain how it helps natl security or our trade balance - I loved your fancy Greek formula which was bad math on steroids - how with a trade surplus Australia got hit with a 10% tariff as well? GREER: Australia has the lowest rate available WARNER: We have a trade surplus!
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Christoph Koettl @ckoettl.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
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Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
When an actually good musician’s only Sydney show is at Qudos Bank Arena.
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Australia’s major security and economic partner has fundamentally changed course and yet all we’re talking about is the port of Darwin. Ok.
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
There are few things a certain type of Australian loves more than telling people off in public
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
So good how Bluesky just takes you straight to the linked website instead of trapping you in its platform
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
A theory for their cause of death was that a tap from a water tank to a trough was accidentally off. The deaths have horrified people in the agriculture industry, and marks more turmoil at AACo.
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Cattle herd owned by luxury beef giant AACo died of apparent thirst
A theory for their cause of death was that a tap from a water tank to a trough was accidentally off. The deaths have horrified people in the agriculture industry, and marks more turmoil at AACo.
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Why warming oceans are a big problem for Australia www.afr.com/policy/energ...
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Don’t want another Cyclone Alfred? This data says one’s coming
Hot temperatures in the world’s oceans are making storms and cyclones more destructive. Australia is uniquely vulnerable.
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Interesting...China's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office posted a commentary in state media criticising the company's recent port sale as a betrayal of China www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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China Amplifies Rebuke of Li Ka-shing’s Panama Port Deal With BlackRock
CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. shares plunged Friday after China’s top office on Hong Kong affairs reposted a sharp attack on the conglomerate’s decision to appease President Donald Trump by selling its s...
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
"The SEC raised concerns about the fund's liquidity and State Street's ability to comply with SEC valuation rules" www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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US regulators, in unusual move, raise concerns about new private credit ETF
The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission sounded the alarm about aspects of the first broad private credit market exchange-traded fund, in a letter posted on its website on Thursday, hours after the ETF began trading.
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Australia is home to 76 per cent of the world’s non-gaming venue poker machines, and 93 per cent of these machines are in pubs and clubs. So why are they regulated differently to casinos? www.afr.com/chanticleer/...
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Crown and Star’s next big problem? Pubs and clubs
Just like stricken casino group Star, Crown Resorts says it is battling an uneven regulatory playing field with pubs and clubs. It’s gently pushing back.
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
new Jason Isbell is sounding really beautiful
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Always interesting which billionaires and business people pump $$ into shifting critical news articles about them onto the 2nd page of Google 😂
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Expired licences, unrealistic valuations to pump fees🤑, writing loans just to find someone “dumber” to refinance them... “It’s the Wild West”: our deep dive out today on the turmoil in private credit and why it’s in the headlights of regulators👇 www.afr.com/property/com...
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‘It’s the Wild West’: Why ASIC is worried about private credit
Private credit firms are scrambling to manage problem loans, as the regulator sets its sights on lax governance.
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The secretive billionaire who has had Wisetech's Richard White’s back for 20 years www.afr.com/technology/t... $WTC
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The secretive billionaire who has had Richard White’s back for 20 years
WiseTech director and major shareholder Charles Gibbon has always been known as the master of the exit. How will he navigate WiseTech’s latest governance saga?
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Seems pretty significant for Australia www.ft.com/content/2dfa...
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White House official pushes to axe Canada from Five Eyes intelligence group
Peter Navarro wants to increase pressure on country that Donald Trump has threatened to annex
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Interesting development: billionaire Ed Craven's gambling company Stake, the key sponsor of English Premier League football club Everton, to exit the UK over social media videos by an adult content creator www.afr.com/companies/ga...
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Stake.com to quit Britain after Bonnie Blue video controversy
The Melbourne-run, Caribbean-registered online casino giant is the main sponsor of English Premier League club Everton but will leave the country next month.
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The way the nyt audio app has recordings of long reads from a variety of magazines is really useful, audio is a great format for those pieces
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I was ready not to like A Complete Unknown, but is there a film more perfectly cast?
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Jon Adgemis - whose companies were refinanced by Deutsche Bank - fails in his attempt to conceal a bankruptcy notice just as another pops up. Also administrators have submitted a report about him to ASIC over possible corporate law breaches www.afr.com/companies/fi...
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Jon Adgemis fails in bid to conceal bankruptcy pursuit over $26m debt
The former KPMG dealmaker turned publican had argued that revealing details of the dispute could cause the collapse of his troubled hospitality empire.
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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is very sad. David Webb’s collection of data has been a treasure trove for journalists and HongKongers alike. Thank you, Mr Webb, for all your hard work. Godspeed! webb-site.com/articles/shu...?
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Webb-site Reports
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Messages reveal Andrew Forrest blasting his own executives over a ‘most stupid’ deal: www.afr.com/companies/mi...
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The Federal Court has secretly suppressed Channel Seven’s workplace dirty laundry as it makes it increasingly difficult for major news outlets to report on matters before the court: www.afr.com/companies/me...
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Federal Court secretly suppresses Seven’s workplace dirty laundry
The judge did not alert news outlets until after the decision to withhold the claims had been made, despite previous attempts to oppose the move.
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Great interview but so interesting and alarming to see the rising levels of self-censorship now seem as necessary to protect one’s organisation/business etc etc open.spotify.com/episode/4rbV...
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Bill Gates on His New Memoir and Dining with Trump at Mar-a-Lago
The New Yorker Radio Hour · Episode
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is such a big story. One take on its ultimate meaning:
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Bloomberg’s John Micklethwait on AI and journalism making some interesting points about how it will impact editing and expand the possibilities of research as opposed to underming the value of reporting: pressgazette.co.uk/media_busine...
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'Paywalls safest way to guarantee journalistic jobs' says Bloomberg editor in chief
Bloomberg editor John Micklethwait has called paywalls “the safest way to guarantee journalistic jobs” in a speech about journalism and AI.
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Tis the time for searching out more non-US global media outlets, podcasts and magazines...
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This is an interesting listen but closer to the end where they discuss the dilemma for journalists in covering the Trump years vs getting caught in the Trump attention vortex, I feel there is no good answers to that question yet open.spotify.com/episode/3kD2...
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Democrats are Losing the War for Attention. Badly.
The Ezra Klein Show · Episode
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Someone needs to invent a seamless way to go between audiobooks and kindle 🙏
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Interesting to see some reflection here on what work takes away from us. But it does feel like it also speaks to the market's current relationship with reality/critical thinking www.afr.com/markets/equi...
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Hindenburg Research: Nathan Anderson, short-seller behind Block, Adani attacks, closes up shop
US activist investor Nate Anderson is disbanding his firm after eight years of “shaking up empires”.
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
This seems like the most under emphasised point in this anti-DEI debate that zuck has made himself the poster boy of so far -> “many of the policy reversals seemed to be aimed at alleviating political scrutiny rather than substantive policy changes” www.ft.com/content/cf87...
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Is corporate America going Maga?
Donald Trump’s election has accelerated a cultural shift in the nation’s boardrooms
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Also Linkedin needs a auto-delete function for visibility-seekers who comment "great insight" or "thanks for sharing"☠️
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Interesting how FinTwit is stuck to X still...
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Magellan co-founder Chris Mackay has attacked the fast-growing private credit sector, saying regulatory failures and unfettered investor euphoria have allowed such markets to thrive outside the scrutiny of public markets www.afr.com/markets/equi...
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Magellan co-founder Chris Mackay lambasts private credit in tirade
The fund manager behind MFF Capital has taken aim at the “story tellers” spruiking high returns and low risks outside the scrutiny of public markets.
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
More reporting on the costs of Saudi’s development boom:
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Climate crisis ‘wreaking havoc’ on Earth’s water cycle, report finds - Global heating is supercharging storms, floods and droughts, affecting entire ecosystems and billions of people #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Climate crisis ‘wreaking havoc’ on Earth’s water cycle, report finds
Global heating is supercharging storms, floods and droughts, affecting entire ecosystems and billions of people
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
"Essential to that power, too, is what women – what all of us – are expected to ignore?" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial
Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Ann Telnaes, who has worked at The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon criticizing billions currying favor with Trump was spiked — and now she has quit the paper
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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Such a wild situation going on it South Korea right now www.smh.com.au/world/asia/s...
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South Korea’s impeached president defies arrest in hours-long standoff
Investigators have left the official residence of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after the presidential security service prevented his arrest.
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
A country which knows how to frozen meal
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Exclusive: Apollo-backed private credit firm MaxCap warns of return slump and asset fire sales in real estate fund🏘️ as deals go sour🏗️⛈️ www.afr.com/companies/fi...
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MaxCap warns of private credit return slump and asset fire sales
The private credit firm has told investors that an “extended period of high market volatility” had hurt the viability of some of its real estate investments.
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Primrose Riordan @primroseriordan.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
John Howard can't remember if he or other cabinet ministers discussed the spying operation on Timor-Leste “I can’t remember the detail of the discussions … I would have to have a look at the papers again. I have a good memory but not that good"🤔 www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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He crushed Latham in 2004, but unlocked cabinet papers reveal the problems Howard could not fix
John Howard’s victory at the 2004 election remains one of federal politics’ most remarkable achievements. But cabinet papers from that year show it was the start of the end.
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
The director of the hospital alleges IDF troops have been burning operating theatres in the facility, which Israel says is a 'Hamas terrorist stronghold'.
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IDF forces raid one of the last hospitals functioning in northern Gaza
The director of the hospital alleges IDF troops have been burning operating theatres in the facility, which Israel says is a 'Hamas terrorist stronghold'.
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