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Robin Khuda arrived in Australia as an 18-year-old from Bangladesh, and is now at the centre of the year’s biggest deal.

Robin Khuda is the ringleader of this year’s biggest M&A deal

The founder of AirTrunk has cashed in on the inexorable rise in demand for processing power and built a vast fortune on the rise of cloud computing.

  • Paul Smith and Tess Bennett
David Dicker arrives in Liege.

David Dicker’s private jet life among F1 elite

The founder of Dicker Data might not have his team on the F1 grid, but he’s gotten onto the tarmac.

  • Mark Di Stefano

August

The 33rd Summer Olympics is crawling with cameras transmitting thousands of hours of coverage to an audience of more than 3 billion.

How young sports fans are changing the game

Thanks to social media, team loyalty is being replaced by devotion to individual athletes.

  • The Economist

June

Students need more than a few months to prepare for stays of three to four years.

Let’s wait before we make rash decisions on foreign students

Universities are being asked to fix a housing problem they did not create, and the government’s haste will massively disrupt thousands of students’ lives.

  • Mark Scott
Airbus representative Stephen Forshaw at the Summit.

Keep food scraps onshore for future aircraft fuel: industry

Singapore is quickly developing the capacity to convert waste into aviation fuel.

  • Peter Ker
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May

Laurence Escalante on one of his boats in Perth.

Gambling mogul lists superyacht at $10m, starts retailing supercars

A spokesman for Laurence Escalante’s private office said the sales were part of a new business venture.

  • Primrose Riordan

March

Alva Beach. The Great Barrier Reef has had five mass coral bleaching events in the past eight years.

How the McLaren F1 team is helping save the Great Barrier Reef

British Formula One race team McLaren deployed engineers to help the Great Barrier Reef Foundation speed up its coral spawning program.

  • Mark Ludlow
Australian actor Eric Bana.

Ferrari upsets as who’s who flock to the Australian Grand Prix

Ferrari clinched first and second as a bevy of business leaders, billionaires and celebrities watched Australian rookie Oscar Piastri finish fourth.

  • Tom Burton and Patrick Durkin
Charles Leclerc showers F1 winner Carlos Sainz in champagne.

Sainz wins drama-filled F1 as Ferrari storm podium

Carlos Sainz won his first Australian Grand Prix after Max Verstappen suffered a dramatic car fire early in the race.

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  • Oliver Caffrey
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen led the field at the start of the Australian Grand Prix. Though not for long.

The bizoids learning to rev at the Grand Prix

Corporate types flocked bright and early to Albert Park’s Paddock Club, which by 2pm on Sunday was full to heaving for Melbourne’s Grand Prix.

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  • Myriam Robin

Why Formula 1’s fuel is going green

Pat Symonds wrote the rules that will compel Formula 1 cars to run on carbon-neutral fuel from 2026. Big oil companies are now racing to find solutions.

  • Peter Ker
David Dicker is a permanent resident of Dubai’s Kempinski Hotel.

David Dicker now claiming his ex-wife’s shares

David Dicker still owns most of Dicker Data. Or does he?

  • Myriam Robin
Netflix star Valterri Bottas races under the Kick logo at the Melbourne Grand Prix in 2023.

Crypto casino Stake.com denies trademark claims

A cryptocurrency gambling company with the same name as a share trading platform says it rebranded the F1 team it sponsors at the Melbourne Grand Prix to avoid confusion.

  • Nick Bonyhady

February

Oscar Piastri

Meet Oscar Piastri, the calmest driver in Formula 1

On the eve of his second F1 season driving for McLaren, the 22-year-old Melburnian talks about luck, fear and “being good at chilling out”.

  • Tony Davis
Lewis Hamilton is moving from Mercedes to rival Ferrari.

Lewis Hamilton shocks F1 with jump to rivals Ferrari

The superstar British driver said he is moving from Mercedes to Ferrari in 2025, a shift that surprised many in the elite motoring sport.

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  • Jerome Pugmire
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January

Daniel Ricciardo’s Scuderia AlphaTauri hurtles around the track in Mexico City last year. This year, his car will be rebranded.

Formula 1 new team name mocked as the worst in series history

Red Bull’s junior team, known as AlphaTauri for the past four years, is being renamed Visa Cash App RB F1 – to the derision of fans and commentators.

  • Jenna Fryer
Former transport minister S. Iswaran leaves the Singapore State Courts on Thursday.

‘Kinky Boots’ and soccer: Singapore’s growing graft scandal

The transport minister, who was arrested in July, resigned over the corruption scandal that has challenged Singapore’s reputation for clean governance.

  • Low De Wei, Faris Mokhtar and Philip Heijmans
Girl power: Taylor Swift on stage in Argentina, now heading for Singapore.

Does Singapore finally have global cool? Ask Taylor Swift

Singapore’s reputation is for supreme investment efficiency, not excitement. But a well-oiled government campaign can soon fix that.

  • Karishma Vaswani

December 2023

Ed Craven (left) and Bijan Tehrani  are quietly building a stake in ASX-listed PointsBet.

Stake.com billionaires build secret position in local bookie PointsBet

Ed Craven and his business partner, Bijan Tehrani, have spent weeks buying shares in the ASX-listed group as they establish a foothold in the local market.

  • Zoe Samios
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a home run for the Los Angeles Angels against the New York Yankees.

This Japanese baseballer could be more valuable than Taylor Swift

Japanese star Shohei Ohtani has signed a ten-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, believed to be the largest individual sports deal in the world.

  • David Brandt

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