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October 2024

LinkedIn has pushed for more engaging content for years, luring influencer-types while encouraging people to post more often.

Reddit’s ‘LinkedIn Lunatics’ shames the platform’s creepiest posts

On the subreddit, 670,000 members lament the rise of “insufferable” content on the Microsoft-owned professional networking site.

  • Alicia Tang

September 2024

Jodie Haydon and Anthony Albanese take pride of place next to Andrew Dillon at the commissioner’s lunch in the Olympic Room at the MCG on Saturday.

Albo keeps it in the family at the AFL commissioner’s lunch

You can’t buy a ticket to Aussie rules’ most exclusive grand final function, so there are few better tests of relevance than trying to score an invitation.

  • Myriam Robin

August 2024

Making a place: The Pillars cofounders (excluding Jonathan Lui), from left Bradley Delamare, Cherryl Mack, Matthew Browne, Emma Bloomfield, and Steve Grace.

The faces behind Sydney’s new $10m members’ club

For $20,000 a year, members of Australia’s new tech and funding community club can take an ice bath, or breastfeed, in a space of their own.

  • Michael Bleby

July 2024

Paris is ready for the Olympics.

‘Bleisure’ travel boom gives these fans the best of both worlds

Corporate travel spending is tightening up, but the Olympics is one invitation people won’t say ‘no’ to.

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  • Michael Bleby

February 2024

Inside the London premises of 67 Pall Mall.

How this banker supersized his wine-bar dream

There’s a new club in town. 67 Pall Mall started in London, went to Switzerland and Singapore and is about to cut concrete in Melbourne.

  • Michael Bleby
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January 2024

The only groups that are acceptable are the ones that exist purely for filthy, appalling and frankly unacceptable jokes.

There’s only one thing worse than WhatsApp – and that’s a WhatsApp group

Instant messaging services have now made the very idea of just calling someone unacceptable.

  • William Sitwell

December 2023

Seen here in Singapore, now coming to Melbourne: 67 Pall Mall Club is a private members’ club for wine lovers.

Australia’s first venue for exclusive London wine club’s about to open

Developer Ross Pelligra is counting on the country’s inaugural 67 Pall Mall to invigorate his closed 85 Spring Street office building in Melbourne’s CBD.

  • Michael Bleby

Soho House is coming: here’s the type of member they have in mind

Markus Anderson is a master connector with friends in high places and is helping to bring the elite members-only club for creatives to Australia.

  • Matthew Drummond

November 2023

Walker Wayland, the previous auditors, told the board in March they should seek “safe-harbour” provisions

Exclusive Sydney car club faces collapse as it posts $770,000 loss

The warning comes after eight directors resigned this year from the Royal Automobile Club of Australia and its prior auditors, Walker Wayland, quit.

  • Lucas Baird

August 2023

How to get onto an elite arts or sports board, the ultimate power move

It’s the golden ticket to the in-crowd. But joining the decision-making team of a top-tier not-for-profit isn’t easy. Here’s the way to jump the queue.

  • Myriam Robin

August 2022

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This simple trick will make networking less stressful

Hate that feeling of walking into a large conference hall and seeing a sea of people you don’t know? Here are two strategies to help you to start networking.

  • Amantha Imber

July 2022

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Hacks to make your LinkedIn profile safe

LinkedIn has dozens of data, privacy and advertising settings you can control. Where to start? This guide takes you through the most important ones.

  • Geoffrey A. Fowler

June 2022

Mark Bouris, Daniel Hakim and Kirsten Carriol at a new club which welcomes women - Club of United Business (CUB) - which has opened a new Sydney venue above Louis Vuitton in the CBD

Mark Bouris’ new venture aims to kill off the old boys’ clubs

Yellow Brick Road’s executive chairman Mark Bouris has acquired a major stake in the Club of United Business as it takes advantage of the demise of male-only clubs.

  • Patrick Durkin

March 2022

Royal Sydney Golf Course has announced plans to modify its proposal to remove 569 trees.

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

June 2021

CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin: “I thought I had turned off the Zoom call.”

Chief legal analyst returns to CNN after Zoom masturbation incident

Jeffrey Toobin apologised for his ‘moronic’ behaviour seven months after exposing himself to his former New Yorker colleagues.

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May 2021

Tim Fung, the CEO of Airtasker,  has breakfast with Sally Patten at Bowery Lane in Sydney.

At Airtasker, the coffee is on CEO Tim Fung

The company has set up tabs at nearby cafes to encourage staff to collaborate and network over a beverage.

  • Sally Patten

March 2021

Tigerhall’s mentoring app has just launched in Australia.

Need a career mentor? There’s an app for that

There’s a new online start-up connecting workers with business leaders and sports stars, one aimed at capitalising on remote employees’ growing demand for coaching.

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  • Natasha Boddy
How do you go about changing careers in a pandemic?

How to change jobs in a pandemic

Job seekers have been forced to get creative and experts agree there are opportunities out there for those prepared to go to market. Here are their top five tips on changing careers in a pandemic.

  • Natasha Boddy

February 2021

Professional networking has gone virtual in the COVID-19 era.

How to network in the age of social distancing

COVID-19 may have forced professionals to hunker down at home, but the opportunity to expand your professional network has never been greater. Here’s why.

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  • Natasha Boddy

January 2021

Slack use has surged during the pandemic.

Slack goes down on first workday of 2021

According to website Downdetector, which displays outage reports, the disruption affected users throughout the US, UK, Brazil, France, Japan and beyond.

  • Hamza Shaban and Rachel Lerman

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