Helen Trinca

Managing Editor at The Australian

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Innovators list 2024: Brian Schmidt predicts energy, agriculture and mining to drive innovation

Oct 13, 2024 | theaustralian.com.au | Helen Trinca

Brian Schmidt has a Nobel prize in Physics and an outstanding CV, including eight years as vice-chancellor of the Australian National University. Here are his predictions for the next big ideas and also about what is holding us back. This is an article from The List: Innovators 2024, which is announced in full on October 18. We are innovative to a point. We suffer from a very poor ecosystem that supports innovation.
It’s his ABC: niche in, mainstream out at Williams’ Aunty

Sep 26, 2024 | archive.md | Helen Trinca

“I think,” says the chair of the national broadcaster, “there is always room for significant improvement, right?” In the week his appointment was announced in January, Williams put the ABC’s responsibilities for arts and culture high on his agenda, and he hasn’t really stopped, using speeches, and this exclusive interview, to let us know he wants the broadcaster to “rediscover” its role in building the intellectual and creative life of the nation.
The Ethical Investor: Energy transition ‘as big as industrial or digital revolutions’

Jan 21, 2024 | theaustralian.com.au | Eddy Sunarto |Noah Yim |Helen Trinca |Joe Kelly

John Kerry, the US Special Presidential Envoy on Climate, has described the world’s energy transition as the greatest economic opportunity since the Industrial Revolution. “The decisions of some of the largest financial institutions in the world are being driven by ESG factors, and trillions of dollars are going to be invested in this new sector to avoid sheer catastrophe.
Football news: Mystery around Matilda’s Kyah Simon’s injury, FIFA World Cup & A-League absence

Jan 3, 2024 | theaustralian.com.au | Erin Smith |Helen Trinca |Julian Linden

The mystery surrounding Kyah Simon’s FIFA Women’s World Cup woes and absence from the A-League this season has been solved – with the club confirming their star striker is battling a calf injury. Simon, 32, was controversially named in the Matildas’ World Cup squad despite having not played since tearing her ACL in October 2022. Matildas coach Tony Gustavsson stood by his decision to name the injured forward, even though she never took to the field.
Bureau of Statistics reveal migration intake surges to 518,000, highest level ever recorded

Dec 14, 2023 | theaustralian.com.au | Jack Quail |Stephen Lunn |Helen Trinca |David Rogers

Migration numbers will be in Australia’s ‘national economic interest’: Treasurer Video paused due to user inactivityContinue watching? Australia’s annual migration intake has rocketed to its highest level ever, with a “big catch-up” of foreign students and backpackers arriving in droves after Covid-era border closures were scrapped.
Convicted drug kingpin Laureano Oubina sues Netflix for portrayal in Cocaine Coast TV series

Nov 23, 2023 | theaustralian.com.au | Isambard Wilkinson |Ellen Gamerman |Helen Trinca |Sophie Elsworth

A convicted “narco” godfather from the drug-smuggling clans of Spain’s northwest coast is suing Netflix for $2.5 million for portraying him as an impotent and violent cocaine trafficker. Laureano Oubina, 77, who was released in 2017 after serving 22 years in prison for trafficking hashish, claims that the television series Cocaine Coast (Farina) caused him “moral damage”.
Victims of pedo priest Thomas Grealy urged to come forward

Nov 22, 2023 | theaustralian.com.au | Elizabeth Pike |John Ferguson |Helen Trinca

A Sydney law firm has urged witnesses and survivors to come forward amid reports of alleged historical child sexual abuse against a former school principal. Slater and Gordon Lawyers have begun an investigation into the alleged sexual abuse of children by Brothers at the Patrician Brothers’ High School, now known as Delany College, in Sydney during the 1970s.
Pope calls Gaza daily but ‘very aware’ of pockets of anti-Semitism

Nov 13, 2023 | catholicoutlook.org | Helen Trinca

Pope Francis has called for a ceasefire in Gaza but he and other Vatican officials are “very aware” of the rising anti-Semitism in far right and far left pockets of the Catholic Church, according to visiting American journalist Christopher White. In Sydney on Thursday, the Vatican correspondent for the US-based National Catholic Reporter said the Pope’s language had shifted since the Hamas murders on October 7. “In his initial comments, he effectively just, condemned the violence,” White said.
Barron’s Top 100 Financial Advisers List winners

Sep 20, 2023 | theaustralian.com.au | Helen Trinca

The leading wealth management firms, Morgan Stanley, Pitcher Partners and Macquarie Private Bank, have scooped the pool in Barron’s 2023 list of Australia’s 100 Top Financial Advisers, taking six of the 10 top rankings. Garth Hu, an executive director at Morgan Stanley’s Melbourne practice, was rated in the top position – the fourth year in a row that he has topped the list.
Top 100 Financial Advisers: Adam Stanley, Pitcher Partners

Sep 20, 2023 | theaustralian.com.au | Helen Trinca

Adam Stanley is based in Melbourne and is partner in charge of investment advisory practice of Pitcher Partners. What is the biggest challenge at the moment for financial advisers? Intergenerational wealth transfer, I believe, provides a big challenge and also a great opportunity for financial advisers.