This Month
Eight of the best luxury Australian holiday homes for sale
AFR Weekend rounds up the most luxurious holiday properties on the prestige market – and their high-profile owners.
- Bonnie Campbell
June 2024
Portrait of ‘reluctant sitter’ Tim Winton wins Archibald Prize
Sydney artist Laura Jones has won the $100,000 award for her painting of the writer, who says he looks like he has “the weight of the world on his shoulders”.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
September 2023
How Facebook allegedly ripped this beloved author’s books for AI
When John Marsden found out his books might be being used to train AI models, his first concern wasn’t about getting paid.
- John Davidson
October 2022
Woodside won’t commit to sponsoring Fremantle Dockers beyond 2023
The CEO of Woodside Energy would not commit to extending the company’s sponsorship of the club beyond the 2023 season amid a bruising public relations battle.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith and Edmund Tadros
April 2021
Sister act for Gleeson’s High Court portrait
The family touch for High Court portrait, an agreeable welcome for new judges and peace at the Victoria Bar. It’s all Hearsay.
- Michael Pelly
March 2020
Prize-winning portrait celebrates Australian dance's 'high priestess'
Griffith artist Anthea da Silva is the inaugural winner of the new Darling Portrait Prize.
- Tom McIlroy
April 2019
One stage, 102 scenes, two decades: the feat of staging Cloudstreet
Tim Winton's fantastical family saga forced set designer Zoë Atkinson to dream big, writes Stephen Todd.
- Stephen Todd