Hanson cooks dinner for Joyce in her office after Senate suspension for burqa stunt; Major Australian super fund investigating Russian Blood Oil links
One of the country’s largest pension funds He is urgently investigating whether he profited from Russian oil tradeThe Albanian government faces growing domestic calls for more Australian aid to Ukraine as the war against Vladimir Putin’s occupying forces reaches a critical stage.
American, Ukrainian and European Union officials are holding frantic meetings in Geneva ahead of a deadline set by US President Donald Trump on Thursday to rewrite a draft US peace proposal that has been widely criticized as too friendly to Moscow’s interests.
This comes after it was revealed as part of this imprint announced last week. Blood Oil seriesHE An estimated 1 million tons of Russian oil have been unloaded in the last two years at a shipping terminal in Malaysia co-owned by a company in a portfolio of investment vehicles controlled by a consortium of Australian industrial super funds.
IFM Investors, a Melbourne-based fund owned by 15 Australian industry super funds and a British pension fund, controls 45 per cent of global energy storage company Vitol Tank Terminals International. This company owns the ATB oil terminal in southwestern Johor, Malaysia.
CareSuper acting chief executive Ningning Lyons said in a letter to Liberal senator Andrew Bragg that it “takes its management responsibilities and compliance with Australian sanctions very seriously”.
Read the whole story By foreign affairs and national security correspondent Matthew Knott.
