November 2024
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
November 2023
For Domino’s CEO, pepperoni and a Tarantino movie hard to beat
Domino’s CEO Don Meij says investors expect perfection from large ASX companies, as he regroups and avoids becoming ‘lost in the past’.
- Simon Evans
July 2023
High stakes at rain-soaked Old Trafford
As Australia and England prepare for the fourth Test in Manchester, no one can recall a series that has attracted as much interest or spite in recent Ashes history.
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- Andrew Clark
June 2023
- Exclusive
- Luxury property
Cricketing great Ricky Ponting sells $16m Brighton home
Ponting and wife Rianna have sold their Brighton home and are moving to Toorak, while McKinsey’s Angus Dawson has reset the Randwick record in Sydney.
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- Bonnie Campbell
December 2022
The daily habit Aussies embraced in 2022, according to Google
This year Aussies wanted to know, when will the rain stop, and why is everything so expensive?
- Tess Bennett
June 2022
Queen’s Birthday honours for impact investing pioneer
Impact investor Andrew Kuper and corporate veteran Leigh Clifford, along with pandemic leaders, scientists and politicians, were recognised for their work in the Queen’s Birthday awards.
- Edmund Tadros and Tom McIlroy
NSW could face power supply shortage tomorrow
A NSW power shortfall is forecast for 7pm on Tuesday; NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet wants to get rid of stamp duty; Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles heads to Japan. How the day unfolded.
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- Georgie Moore and Campbell Kwan
COVID heroes, business figures lead Queen’s Birthday honours
Former Qantas chairman and Rio Tinto chief executive Leigh Clifford, former deputy prime minister John Anderson and Queensland Governor Jeannette Young each received Australia’s highest civilian honour.
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- Tom McIlroy
March 2022
‘Man, he sucked the marrow out of life’: Shane Warne’s star-studded memorial underway
Watch live as celebrities and cricket fans share emotional stories at the legendary cricketer’s state memorial service. Follow updates here.
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- Georgie Moore and Tom Burton
- Opinion
- Federal budget
Another attack on PM’s character by one of his own, at the worst time
Scott Morrison dismisses criticism from his colleagues, saying leaders can’t be thin-skinned. He wants voters to focus on criticisms of Labor’s record while he sells the budget as an election launch pad.
- Jennifer Hewett
A billion people expected to watch Warne memorial
As many as a billion people are expected to watch the memorial for the late, great Shane Warne in one what could be one of the world’s most watched televised events.
- Patrick Durkin
Back to office fizzer after a million Aussies isolated
The retail and hospitality sectors are calling on the national cabinet to ease close contact rules, as climbing COVID-19 cases and chronic staff shortages hit business and snuff out a return to the office.
- Patrick Durkin
- Opinion
- Vale
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
- Exclusive
- Federal election
Warnie’s memorial service delivers a budget googly
The government is rethinking its budget strategy amid concerns the document will be overshadowed by Shane Warne’s memorial service.
- Phillip Coorey
Why Australia is heading to a khaki election
With the Prime Minister under water with voters, the Coalition is turning to national security and the economy to win back support.
- Phillip Coorey
Labor senator Kimberley Kitching dead aged 52
Politicians from across the spectrum have paid tribute to the Victorian Labor senator, who has died of a suspected heart attack.
- Phillip Coorey
Vale Shane Warne, the prolific property flipper
The late cricket legend had a keen interest in collecting and trading prestige Australian real estate – and one of his homes was so nice he owned it twice.
- Elizabeth Redman
Warne’s body expected to leave Thailand today
Thai police issued a death certificate on Monday evening confirming the cricketing great died of natural causes.
- Emma Connors and Veena Thoopkrajae
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Warne turned unfashionable leg-spin into a magical art
Shane Warne entered the pantheon of Wisden immortals by mid-career as he left batter after batter stunned.
- The AFR View
Avoid ‘savage’ dieting, cautions top doctor over Warne’s death
Liquid-only diets, the unsupervised use of diuretics, and other extreme weight-loss measures can be a recipe for disaster says Professor Gordian Fulde.
- Fiona Carruthers