The bosses at two of Australia's biggest companies, Telstra and Macquarie, are pushing back on the Donald Trump-led anti-woke movement that threatens to spill into other Western democracies. They have called for greater diversity in workplaces as Australians prepare to head to the polls.

The 2025 federal election is an invaluable opportunity to lift the economy out of its productivity slump and win votes with sensible policies aimed at growth and arresting a decade of fiscal deficits, business leaders say.

How the younger brother of Afterpay founder Nick Molnar built a retail start-up that nabbed R.M. Williams as a customer and just raised around $US3.8m ($5.9m) to expand into the US with Target and Walmart in its sights.