November
Australian expats mull leaving UK over game-changer tax rules
The new government’s first budget has changed the equation for many long-term Australian expatriates. They have until April 6 to escape the inheritance tax net.
- Hans van Leeuwen
July
Aussies in Lebanon told: ‘get out while you can’
The government has plans to extract as many as 15,000 citizens from Lebanon using ferries if need be, but is urging them to leave now as there can be no guarantees.
- Phillip Coorey
March
Returning to live in London after 20 years, here’s what I learnt
After two decades away, this journalist discovers a city that still has an undeniable buzz – yet in other ways it’s grinding to a halt.
- Mark Ludlow
November 2023
How Aussies with a party bus turned Top Deck into a 50-year business
Flight Centre boss “Skroo” Turner was in London for the half-century birthday bash of his coach-tour company. A new film breathes life into its origin story.
- Hans van Leeuwen
July 2023
Big super’s move overseas sparks hiring blitz
The funds hope their London and NYC offices will cut expensive external management fees and access lucrative private equity and infrastructure deals earlier.
- Hannah Wootton
August 2022
The executives working for their Australian employers from Europe
As a dreary winter draws to an end, many workers are dreaming of a European summer. But what if you could mix work and play? Several companies are trialling it.
- Lucy Dean
September 2021
One family’s 18-month battle to get home
Australians abroad are in great emotional pain, separated from their loved ones and longing to return home amid tight pandemic travel rules.
- Ian Cross
August 2021
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
From overseas, Australia’s pandemic strategy looks desperate
After the freedoms of the rest of the world, being marched from the airport baggage carousel to a quarantine hotel for an enforced two-week stay, for which I have to pay, is simply not something I will do.
- Updated
- Ian Cross
Repatriation flight from Bali brings joy – and despair
About 200 passengers are on the Qantas flight, the first and so far the only government-assisted flight to return Australians from Indonesia.
- Emma Connors
January 2021
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
How the pandemic set Australian expats adrift
We may choose to live outside Australia, but the sealed border can still cut us like a knife.
- Hans van Leeuwen
August 2020
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
Locked out expats yearn for the lucky country
After cancelling his trip home due to COVID-19, The Australian Financial Review's London correspondent Hans van Leeuwen craves direct conversation, droll humour and big waves.
- Hans van Leeuwen
February 2020
New York residents are kicked out of Global Entry program
The New York action appears to be one of the Trump administration's most significant retaliatory moves against "sanctuary" cities.
- Abigail Hauslohner and Nick Miroff
October 2019
Paul Hogan on Donald Trump, travelling and turning 80
Hoges has been selling Australia since he first slipped “a shrimp on the barbie” in 1984, but the 80-year-old calls Los Angeles home – for now.
- Fiona Carruthers