This Month
Silicon Valley’s lurch to the right catches the eye of local VCs
Some 15,000 kilometres away from Washington DC, where tech is cosying up to Donald Trump, local start-ups are pondering whether to ride the anti-DEI wave.
- Paul Smith
December 2024
‘She transcended age and time’: fashion icon remembered
Trailblazing model and designer Maggie Tabberer, who was known for her distinctive style and inclusive sense of fashion, has died at 87.
- Lauren Sams
October 2024
Packer in $120m payday as big bets on Nvidia, Meta pay off
The billionaire’s private investment vehicle Consolidated Press Holdings recorded a profit of more than $590 million last year, new accounts show.
- Primrose Riordan
April 2024
Ashok Jacob’s son gets the Ellerston Capital tick of approval
Few investors could understand the suffocating weight of expectation that comes with having a larger-than-life father like Ashok Jacob.
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- Mark Di Stefano
March 2024
Vale Charles Williams, corporate poacher turned gatekeeper
The influential regulator was born, raised and worked in the heart of the Melbourne business establishment but became a key oversight figure.
- Andrew Clark
February 2024
Ad man Harold Mitchell was living large to the end
Harold Mitchell helped reinvent how advertising is bought and sold in Australia. Giants of Australian industry shared their thoughts after his surprise passing.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
July 2023
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James Packer returns to media, backing Alan Jones
James Packer has returned to the world of media, emerging as a key, multimillion-dollar investor in Alan Jones’ Australian Digital Holdings, now said to be valued at more than $20 million.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones and Mark Di Stefano
June 2023
Veteran bookmaker and luxury property mogul Bob Blann dies at 85
Intensely private Robert ‘Bob’ Blann was once a bookie for Kerry Packer. He died in Sydney on June 23.
- Zoe Samios
Singleton’s surprising return to radio started in his Gosford pub
The maverick Central Coast former adman, who professes an undying love of radio, has become the patron of his local community station.
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- Sam Buckingham-Jones
May 2023
The biggest hits (and misses) from 40 years of the Rich List
Corporate raiders, post-war migrants, tech booms and busts – the annual scorecard of our most wealthy charts the ups and downs of Australian entrepreneurialism.
- James Thomson
March 2022
Rob Priestley puts best foot forward for Royal Sydney
For those willing to brave the fiendishness of getting accepted, membership grants entry into one of Sydney’s most exquisite networking opportunities.
- Myriam Robin
February 2022
The death threats and secret meetings behind battle to control Fairfax
The media landscape was transformed in the 1990s as moguls reigned supreme and a nasty takeover battle for Fairfax played out.
- Andrew Clark
January 2022
The 1980s: ‘When things actually happened’
It was the transformative decade: radical economic reform, takeover splurges, spectacular busts, the rapid acceleration of Australia’s Asian engagement, and emergence of more companies ready to take on the world.
- Andrew Clark
Economist Woody Brock on why Kerry Packer was lucky
The eccentric polymath, who has advised many high-profile Aussies, can play a Bach toccata just as well as he can pose an economic theorem or a dirty joke.
- Matthew Cranston
November 2021
Larger than life media figure Trevor Kennedy dies
He was a commanding presence, with disarming charm, shrewd judgment, personal generosity, earthy wit, and a rare capacity to get to the nub of complex issues
- Andrew Clark
- Decade Series - The 70s
- Platinum Year
When Sydney overtook Melbourne as Australia’s financial centre
Melbourne dominated Australian business and politics for more than a century, but during the 1970s power shifted to the Emerald City.
- Andrew Clark
Kerry Packer’s aborted role in LTCM saga
The Australian mogul’s little-known role in the hedge fund’s story was recently aired in a podcast.
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- Myriam Robin
Giovanna Toppi, matron of Sydney power dining, dies at 85
The Naples-born matriarch pioneered power dining at Ristorante Machiavelli, where she and her daughters made an indelible impression on the Sydney scene.
- Myriam Robin
August 2021
Film star Rachel Griffiths buys $2m designer terrace
The last time the Oscar-nominated actor was named on Sydney title records was 2014, when she sold her holiday home in Palm Beach for $2.25 million.
- Lucy Macken
July 2021
‘A ripper’: Hogan, Packer sideman Cornell dies
The public knew him as TV’s beer-drinking mumbler Strop, but behind the scenes John Cornell produced Crocodile Dundee and was central to Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket revolution.
- Miranda Ward