| Good afternoon, Despite its outage costing businesses billions of dollars, CrowdStrike’s contracts make it tough to extract compensation from the Texas-based company, with its Aussie clients forced to agree to international arbitration. Woodside Energy has agreed to purchase US LNG company Tellurian in a deal worth $1.79bn, which catapults the Australian energy company into a global giant. Virgin Australia will scrap a government-subsidised route to Tokyo, due to weak demand from Japanese travellers. | 