This Month
Sydney records lowest clearance rate of 2024 on final auction weekend
Clearance rates have slumped as the Sydney and Melbourne property markets limp across the finish line, while Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth remain strong.
- Bonnie Campbell
Pimm’s to rival Wimbledon: Why Adelaide is the new hot cricket ticket
On the Australian cricket calendar, one Test match stands out as the destination event that interstate fans and business executives flock to.
- James Hall and Simon Evans
November
How to build a $9m business from your bedroom
Sam Morton’s company supplies graphics kits for motorcycle owners – and had a big win when iconic British brand Triumph signed him up.
- Simon Evans
Sohn’s stock picks; Trump’s ‘frightening’ choice; Donation caps row
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Billionaires gather in Adelaide for Sohn big bash
The major stock picking conference is on tour for the third time in its nine-year history – as the supercar championships also come to the city of churches.
- James Thomson and Jonathan Shapiro
The surprising sales helping Coopers defy a struggling beer market
A jump in home brewing kit sales and a new Australian lager from Australia’s largest family-owned beer company meant profits still rose as drinkers cut back.
- Simon Evans
October
The town bearing the brunt of Sanjeev Gupta’s financial nightmare
The British industrialist’s steelworks looms over Whyalla, population 21,900. There’s plenty at stake if things go south.
- Simon Evans
- Opinion
- Universities in crisis
How do our universities get their social licence back?
There are four issues that universities need to address if they are to revive their troubled reputations in Australian society.
- Shamit Saggar
September
Dutton to bring ex-minister back from consulting land
Former senior PwC partner and Liberal minister Jamie Briggs is returning to politics after he leaves his role as corporate affairs leader at professional services start-up Scyne Advisory.
- Edmund Tadros and Myriam Robin
August
- Opinion
- Rear Window
Andrew Pridham finds SA uni merger too gamey to chew
The veteran dealmaker lasted only three months on the Adelaide University Transition Council.
- Myriam Robin
- Opinion
- China relations
High-level dialogue shows China chill is ending
The resumed annual face-to-face meeting of government and industry has been crucial to stabilising the relationship.
- Craig Emerson
July
Rich Lister’s $6b plan for 10,000 homes at master-planned city
The Costa Family Office is the majority investor in a 909ha site near Murray Bridge that will be developed into a $6 billion project with almost 10,000 homes.
- Larry Schlesinger
- Opinion
- AUKUS
AUKUS critics fail to match their speculation with substance
There is a long list of loud objections to the project. But how many of them really stand up to scrutiny?
- Ross Babbage
SA’s new mega university starts recruiting overseas students
The new Adelaide University is due to launch with 70,000 students in early 2026, even as migration reforms bite hard on the education sector.
- Julie Hare
‘Like Vivid without the crowds’: seeing Adelaide’s Illuminate Festival
Adelaide’s compact nature makes visiting its annual winter festival of light, technology and art a pleasurable experience.
- Michael Bailey
June
- Opinion
- China relations
Why Dutton is flying in the face of the China hawks
As the opposition leader’s rhetoric softens dramatically, the days of turning China into an election wedge appear to be over.
- James Laurenceson
Aviation exec to sell Provence-style vineyard in the Adelaide Hills
A $7 million luxury vineyard escape has joined the Adelaide Hills market complete with ornamental lake and Provence-style homestead.
- Bonnie Campbell
Winners and losers in South Australia’s budget
About one in four households will share in a $51.5 million one-off cash payment over the next three weeks, with low-income households getting the $243.90 bonus.
- Simon Evans
May
- Exclusive
- Defence
Questions surface over fast-tracked $10b warships
Shipbuilders have been given just three weeks to outline their opening pitch to build new frigates for the navy.
- Andrew Tillett
Why this Sydney investor bought property in Brisbane
Investors from Sydney and Melbourne are increasingly looking further afield in the hunt for value. But how do you go about buying in an unfamiliar market?
- Michelle Bowes