October 2024
Chanticleer’s 10 legends of marvellous Melbourne
Melbourne has always been Chanticleer’s spiritual home. As part of the column’s 50-year celebrations, we name 10 big characters from the past five decades.
June 2024
‘Stories were dropping out of trees’: The roaring ’90s
The choice of a new Chanticleer columnist is a tricky task, writes former Financial Review editor Colleen Ryan.
October 2023
James Mawhinney makes ‘fighting misinformation’ his next big thing
The Mayfair 101 founder is dealing with a lot, but is nothing if not incorrigible.
February 2022
‘Don’t have state banks’, says man who witnessed black day for SA
John Malouf, chief executive of the finance company arm of the State Bank of South Australia, had a ringside seat at its $3.1 billion collapse in 1992.
December 2020
A look back at Australia’s most fabulous parties
With big parties yet to make a comeback from COVID, AFR Magazine remembers the greatest events of all time – including the night Grace Jones turned up.
October 2020
Sydney home of international fugitive hits market for $9m
Michael Menghong Gu fled his Mosman residence just weeks after his property empire, iProsperity, collapsed with debts mounting to as much as $350 million.
August 2020
John Price's ASIC departure less than total
Price is already working as a consultant to the regulator he just left.
January 2020
When another Asian nation's investments ruffled feathers
Angst about Chinese investment makes headlines now, but declassified Cabinet documents show a time when Japan was unnerving locals.
December 2019
'I'm no Skase': Inside Mayfair's investment pitch
Low interest rates and mistrust of the banking sector is allowing new operators like Mayfair 101 to cheaply fund speculative investments.