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- A deal would ramp up the restructuring taking place at the big end of Australias electricity and gas sector;
- Origin is the subject of an $18.4b takeover bid from North American suitors led by Brookfield;
- AGL is regrouping after a failed demerger plan and an overhaul of the board forced by tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes.
Macquarie has emerged as the front-runner to buy a stake of up to 50 per cent in EnergyAustralia, the countrys third-biggest electricity and gas supplier, in what would be a multibillion-dollar deal that would ramp up the structural upheaval taking place across the under-pressure sector.
EnergyAustralias parent, H…
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