The Australian sharemarket has hit another record on Thursday, buoyed by gains in the healthcare and finance sectors.

Australia’s top climate legal service will pay $9 million to gas giant Santos after a court rejected its bid to block a pipeline near the Tiwi Islands.

Gold Fields, financial institutions and Great Southern Mining directors have piled into a $2.35m capital raising to boost WA gold exploration efforts.

ClearVue will acquire an Israeli developed “temperature optimization and irrigation by condensation” agricultural technology that it says will enhance its greenhouse solar glass product.

Latitude 66’s Kuusamo Schist Belt gold-cobalt project in Finland will participate in a EUR €5 million (A$8 million) EU-funded geophysics research scheme.