Nadia Budihardjo
Nadia Budihardjo is a journalist at Business News who covers local government and general news with a clear emphasis on the financial dimensions of business and policy. Her work joins straight reporting on lawsuits, contracts and capital investments with conversational pieces on leadership, succession and philanthropy. Across formats, she shows how money, governance and strategy intersect in the organisations and institutions she follows.
Business disputes and tax advice
Budihardjo’s finance coverage includes legal action by prominent business figures, such as the lawsuit brought by homebuilding entrepreneurs Dale Alcock and Garry Brown-Neaves against advisory firm HLB Mann Judd over tax advice.
In disputes like this, she treats litigation as a business event, focusing on who is involved, the advisory relationships at stake and the financial decisions behind the conflict. Her framing keeps attention on exposure, governance and the way contested advice can flow through to future investment, reputation and strategy.
Corporate expansion and major projects
Budihardjo regularly reports on capital expenditure and project delivery, foregrounding contract values and investment figures. Her coverage of premium beef wholesaler V&V Walsh, the sole Australian beef exporter to China, centres on its plan to expand its Bunbury abattoir with a cold store warehouse valued at $36 million, treating the expansion as both an operational and financial milestone for the business. In construction, she has reported on Geraldton-based Crothers Construction winning a $30 million contract for work on Ashdale Secondary College in Darch, highlighting the company’s role and the scale of spending on education infrastructure. She also picks up emerging niches, including a company looking to branch out into building nuclear-capable professional emergency response teams, positioning these efforts within a wider market for specialised risk management and emergency services. Taken together, these stories show her pattern of tying project news to the capital commitments and strategic bets behind them.
Succession, leadership and philanthropy
On the At Close of Business podcast, Budihardjo frequently takes a conversational approach to leadership and succession stories.
She has discussed the succession plan at interior design firm MKDC, using the transition to examine how ownership changes are structured and communicated over time. In another episode, she has spoken about Subiaco-based developer Hesperia and its future plans, using the company’s development pipeline to explore how growth ambitions, risk and financing align. Her coverage of the career of marketer-turned social media influencer Kym Illman and of Chevron Australia boss Balaji Krishnamurthy treats individual trajectories as a way into understanding brand strategy, corporate culture and executive decision-making. With philanthropy, she has examined how the Minderoo Foundation is redefining the future of giving, linking philanthropic ambitions to governance frameworks and funding models that support long-term impact.
This body of work shows her interest in the people making financial decisions and how their choices play out across organisations and markets.
Institutions, policy and reporting
Budihardjo’s beat also takes in institutions and policy, often through the lens of formal reporting and accountability.
She has covered how an annual report reveals the work done behind the scenes to revive the high school curriculum, drawing attention to the administrative structures and financial commitments that underpin policy change. Her discussion of major industrial players calling on politicians shows how corporate stakeholders use lobbying to influence regulatory settings and long-term investment decisions.
Combined with her coverage of local government and general news, this strand of her work gives her a vantage point on how public-sector decision-making interacts with private capital and operating budgets. The result is finance reporting that treats institutions not as backdrops but as actors whose reports, policies and negotiations have direct consequences for business.
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