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Chinese rare earths investors blocked

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Original article by Peter Ker
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 15 : 15-Jul-26

Northern Minerals’ executive chairman Adam Handley has welcomed the federal government’s latest move aimed at getting shareholders with Chinese links to divest their holdings. Treasurer Jim Chalmers has told the rare earths producer to disregard all votes cast by the three shareholders in question at any of the company’s meetings. It follows a recent warning from Northern Minerals that the three investors had failed to comply with an order to divest their holdings by 2 July. Northern Minerals’ undeveloped Browns Range deposit in Western Australia includes terbium and dysprosium; China accounts for 99 per cent of global supply of these heavy rare earths.

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NORTHERN MINERALS LIMITED – ASX NTU, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE TREASURY

Foxtel goes global to fund record NRL deal

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Original article by Sam Buckingham-Jones, Zoe Samios
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 15 : 8-Jul-26

The Australian Rugby League Commission’s chairman Peter V’landys says the National Rugby League’s new seven-year broadcasting rights deal will "future proof" the game. He adds that the record $5.3bn deal will allow the NRL to grow both in Australia and internationally. Incumbent broadcasters Foxtel and Nine Entertainment have retained the rights; every match in the regular season and the finals will be televised by Foxtel and its Kayo Sports streaming service, while Nine will show three matches per week and have exclusive rights to the NRL grand final and the State of Origin series. New Zealand pay-TV network Sky is also included in the deal. The NRL and Foxtel owner DAZN will establish a revenue-sharing deal which is aimed at launching the league in new markets.

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NATIONAL RUGBY LEAGUE, AUSTRALIAN RUGBY LEAGUE COMMISSION LIMITED, FOXTEL MANAGEMENT PTY LTD, KAYO SPORTS, NINE ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY HOLDINGS LIMITED – ASX NEC, SKY NETWORK TELEVISION LIMITED – ASX SKT, DAZN

China-linked rare earths investors flout Chalmers’ sale edict

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Original article by Mark Wembridge
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 16 : 8-Jul-26

Northern Minerals has confirmed that six companies with links to China still hold a combined stake of about 17.6 per cent in the criticial minerals producer. Treasurer Jim Chalmers had directed the six companies to divest their stakes in Northern Minerals by 2 July. He had previously attempted in 2024 to compel China-linked investors to divest their stakes in Northern Minerals, citing national security concerns. Northern Minerals’ Browns Range rare earths project in Western Australia is considered to be of strategic importance in reducing China’s dominance of critical minerals supply.

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NORTHERN MINERALS LIMITED – ASX NTU, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE TREASURY

Lynas in magnets deal with Malaysia

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Original article by Brad Thompson
The Australian – Page: 15 : 8-Jul-26

Lynas Rare Earths has signed a partnership agreement with South Korea-based JS Link, which will build a rare earths permanent magnet plant in Malaysia. Lynas will acquire a $50m equity stake in JS Link as part of the deal, and this investment will help support construction of the magnets plant near Lynas’s rare earths processing hub in Malaysia. Lynas will also supply rare earths materials to the new plant, as well as JS Link’s magnet factory in South Korea. Lynas has yet to appoint a permanent successor to former CEO Amanda Lacaze, who stepped down at the end of June after 12 years at the helm.

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LYNAS RARE EARTHS LIMITED – ASX LYC, JS LINK INCORPORATED

NRL rights tiebreaker looms as Nine plots eleventh-hour pitch to V’landys

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Original article by Steve Jackson, James Madden
The Australian – Page: 13 & 19 : 1-Jul-26

Recent media reports indicated that the National Rugby League is poised to finalise a new seven-year rights deal with its current broadcast partners, Nine Entertainment and Foxtel. However, Nine CEO Mike Stanton is believed to be planning to hold further talks with the Australian Rugby League Commission’s chairman Peter V’landys in London, with a view to securing exclusive linear TV and streaming rights. Stanton is expected to argue that splitting the rights will limit the NRL’s growth.

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NATIONAL RUGBY LEAGUE, AUSTRALIAN RUGBY LEAGUE COMMISSION LIMITED, NINE ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY HOLDINGS LIMITED – ASX NEC, FOXTEL MANAGEMENT PTY LTD

NRL’s V’landys nears record NZ broadcast deal

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Original article by Sam Buckingham-Jones, Zoe Samios
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 13 : 24-Jun-26

Sky Network Television has held the New Zealand broadcasting rights to National Rugby League matches for the last three decades. The Australian Rugby League Commission’s chairman Peter V’landys and NRL CEO Andrew Abdo recently held talks with Sky executives, and sources have indicated that the pay-TV group is close to securing a new five-year deal. However, free-to-air rival TVNZ is also believed to have submitted a bid for the NRL rights. Meanwhile, V’landys met with Nine Entertainment chairman Peter Tonagh yesterday, as the ARLC seeks to finalise the new NRL rights deal in Australia; Nine and Foxtel are the current NRL broadcasters.

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SKY NETWORK TELEVISION LIMITED – ASX SKT, NATIONAL RUGBY LEAGUE, AUSTRALIAN RUGBY LEAGUE COMMISSION LIMITED, TELEVISION NEW ZEALAND LIMITED, NINE ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY HOLDINGS LIMITED – ASX NEC, FOXTEL MANAGEMENT PTY LTD

ARN to pay $15m to sacked shock jock

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Original article by Steve Jackson
The Australian – Page: 2 : 17-Jun-26

ARN Media has struck a deal with Kyle Sandilands to settle legal action over the termination of his contract to co-host the breakfast show on KIIS FM. The listed company has agreed to pay him $5m per annum over three years; he had been seeking $85m in compensation from ARN for ending his 10-year contract to jointly host the ‘Kyle and Jackie O’ show after not much more than a year. Sandilands had been sacked earlier in 2026 over an on-air falling-out with long-running co-host Jackie Henderson, who is in turn seeking $82m in compensation for the loss of her own contract.

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ARN MEDIA LIMITED – ASX A1N, KIIS1065

Southern Cross Media to cut at least 200 jobs

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Original article by Angelica Snowden, John Stensholt
The Australian – Page: 2 : 11-Jun-26

Sources have indicated that proposd job cuts at Southern Cross Media Group could generate cost savings of about $25m. The media company is believed to have commenced a consultation process with its staff, and the Seven West Media division – which includes the Seven Network and The West Australian – is expected to bear the brunt of the job losses. Cassie Derrick from the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance says the mooted loss of about 200 jobs highlights the growing instability facing workers in Australia’s media sector. Southern Cross CEO Rohan Lund recently identified investment in news and sport as a priority for the group.

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SOUTHERN CROSS MEDIA GROUP LIMITED – ASX SXL, SEVEN WEST MEDIA LIMITED, SEVEN NETWORK LIMITED, WEST AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPERS HOLDINGS LIMITED, MEDIA, ENTERTAINMENT AND ARTS ALLIANCE

V’landys lures NRL bids from Amazon, Seven

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Original article by Sam Buckingham-Jones
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 17 : 3-Jun-26

The Australian Rugby League Commission’s chairman Peter V’landys has previously stated that he wants the National Rugby League’s next broadcasting rights deal to be finalised by 15 July. The ARLC has confirmed that Amazon Prime Video and the Seven Network’s parent Southern Cross Media Group have submitted bids for the five-year broadcasting rights deal from 2028. Sources have indicated that both groups are seeking the rights to one match per week, while Southern Cross will also seek the State of Origin rights. Current NRL broadcasters Nine Entertainment and Foxtel will seek the rights to all matches, although anti-siphoning laws would require Foxtel to on-sell some matches to a free-to-air network.

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NATIONAL RUGBY LEAGUE, AUSTRALIAN RUGBY LEAGUE COMMISSION LIMITED, AMAZON PRIME VIDEO, SEVEN NETWORK LIMITED, SOUTHERN CROSS MEDIA GROUP LIMITED – ASX SXL, NINE NETWORK AUSTRALIA LIMITED, NINE ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY HOLDINGS LIMITED – ASX NEC, FOXTEL MANAGEMENT PTY LTD

China attacks Chalmers’ Northern Minerals ownership order

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Original article by Jessica Sier
The Australian Financial Review – Page: Online : 28-May-26

China has used an editorial in the state-backed Global Times to criticise the federal government over its decision to order Chinese-linked investors to divest their stakes in rare earths firm Northern Minerals. The editorial claimed that Australia continues to restrict Chinese investment in areas such as critical minerals and technology, while at the same time expecting China to buy its iron ore, agricultural products and natural gas. The project that Northern Minerals is behind is viewed as essential to Australia’s efforts in helping the Trump administration with its goal of trying to reduce China’s global dominance of rare earths

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NORTHERN MINERALS LIMITED – ASX NTU

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