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Major green energy projects face ongoing delays thanks to a shortage of skilled workers and Australia will need to train tens of thousands of tradespeople to prevent even more setbacks, industry figures say.

Meanwhile, Westpac’s incoming boss, Anthony Miller, vows a shift of the retail bank’s focus beyond mortgages, as he doubles down on business lending, the institutional unit and steering a technology transformation. 

And the collapse of would-be cattle baron Sam Mitchell’s agricultural empire has embroiled his wife, Andrea Miller, as liquidators say a company she controlled owes millions of dollars in unpaid taxes.