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Fan to put Bradman’s baggy green on the market

The cap worn by The Don during the 1947-48 home Test series against India is expected to fetch up to $400,000 at auction.

  • Elizabeth Fortescue

June 2023

Sydney stockbroker David Constable, who died in January, 2023, aged 90.

Successful and content: a stockbroker’s rich life

University dropout David Constable found success in finance when practical experience and good instincts were valued over advanced degrees.

  • Aaron Patrick

May 2023

Rugby Australia chair Hamish McLennan said the Board’s position was unanimous.

Rugby Australia joins push to endorse Voice

Australia’s major football codes are putting rivalry aside to endorse the creation of the Voice to parliament.

  • Zoe Samios

February 2023

Argo Investments managing director Jason Beddow.

Argo boss says big bank dividends safe even in a downturn

The managing director of the $7 billion investment group says CBA deserves its hero status and if conditions sour, ANZ, NAB and Westpac will still be OK.

  • Simon Evans

January 2023

Ukraine: stalemate seems to be the most likely outcome this year.

After the storms of 2022, we should expect a calmer 2023

Our politics would work much better if abusive partisanship was finally dumped from the public debate.

  • Alexander Downer
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August 2022

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Big banks will struggle as house prices fall, says Argo

Tracking house prices is a ‘national sport’ and sentiment is poor, which doesn’t augur well for holders of ANZ, CBA, NAB and Westpac.

  • Simon Evans

March 2022

Shane Warne: greatness always has to be seen in context.

Shane Warne and a place in history

How good Shane Warne really was should be left to history to decide. Let time and distance intervene.

  • Rodney Cavalier

February 2022

Lithium miners are benefiting from a surge in demand for electric vehicles and Argo Investments says there’s a robust pipeline of demand for years to come.

Argo says CSL, Macquarie, BHP are winners as inflation rises

The boss of the $7 billion investment company says quality lithium and battery minerals stocks should also do well because demand is high.

  • Simon Evans

December 2021

Joe Root: “We have to absolutely believe.”

Two Tests, two losses: Not much is going right for England

Only one team has ever come from 2-0 down to win an Ashes series: Don Bradman’s Australians in 1936-37.

January 2020

Shane Warne and his cap.

Commonwealth Bank buys Shane Warne's baggy green for $1m

The bank intends to send the famous cap on a national tour and then donate it to the Bradman museum in Bowral.

  • Greg Stutchbury

November 2019

Microsoft boss Satya Nadella

No regrets for Nadella over heading for the cloud

With cloud revenues on the increase and mobile phone revenues on the decline, Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella's decision to choose the cloud over the phone is paying off.

  • John Davidson

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