This Month
Alibaba’s Australian office changes hands for $30m
In the Melbourne CBD market hit hard by the pandemic, some office vendors hope high replacement costs make their existing buildings more attractive.
- Michael Bleby
September
Dan Murphy’s parent Endeavour rocked by CEO exit
Over three decades Steve Donohue rose from the Dan Murphy’s shop floor to the top job. On Friday, he shocked the market with his departure.
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- Carrie LaFrenz
Qantas says it won’t drop the ball as engineers strike
The airline says plans are in place to keep people moving over the AFL Grand Final weekend.
- Rachael Ward
Infection super agency to lead future pandemic response
A new Australian Centre for Disease Control will get powers to manage any future pandemic, under the national COVID-19 review due to be handed to government.
- Tom Burton
Jose was priced out of his inner-city home. So were 16,000 others
KPMG data shows rising costs are squeezing out much-needed workers from Sydney and Melbourne’s most sought-after suburbs.
- Campbell Kwan
MP v SC: Pesutto spars with Deeming’s barrister in defamation trial
Moira Deeming’s barrister Sue Chrysanthou, SC, has attacked Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto’s 2018 remarks about “African gangs”.
- Gus McCubbing
‘Pay to stay’: Average Sydney hotel room rate to hit $426 by 2033
Sydney will be the standout hotel market over the next decade as occupancy rises to 86pc and few new hotels are completed to keep up with demand.
- Larry Schlesinger
- Opinion
- Liberal Party
Liberals desperately need to end the Pesutto-Deeming drama
A climb down by both sides in this libel case would better for the Victorian Liberals than a damning Federal Court judgment.
- Terry Barnes
Neo-Nazis boasted of protecting rally Deeming helped plan, court told
Social media posts made by a neo-Nazi leader have been read out to a court during MP Moira Deeming’s defamation trial against Liberal leader John Pesutto.
- Gus McCubbing and Patrick Durkin
‘Beautiful chaos’: Iconic Melbourne power diner owner calls time
Simon Hartley has hosted every prime minister since Gough Whitlam at his CBD restaurant Becco. But on Friday, he held the last supper.
- Gus McCubbing
Dozens arrested after anti-war protest turns violent
Protesters flooded Melbourne’s CBD to take action against a defence expo and the federal government’s stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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- Gus McCubbing
- Exclusive
- Earnings season
Country Road goes cheaper at Mimco, Politix in brand ‘reset’
The high-profile retailer will also launch its first fragrance as part of the overhaul, part of a bid to arrest a slide in sales after a difficult year.
- Carrie LaFrenz
CEO who said TV host needed an ‘uppercut’ lands at Franchise Council
Go figure: saying a TV host needed a “firm uppercut or a slap across the face” isn’t career suicide.
- Myriam Robin
Spring selling season starts slowly as vendors take wait-and-see approach
Auction volumes held steady during the first week of spring as vendors bet on strong initial results to help bolster prices.
- Campbell Kwan
Brookfield’s Healthscope deal leaves a sick feeling
A weakened Healthscope is the face of the backlash agitating for more funding from the private health insurers.
- Jemima Whyte
- Opinion
- Culture wars
The MSO brought this row on itself
Young self-absorbed artists and old complacent arts organisations like the MSO don’t understand that great art is powerful because it transcends politics.
- John Roskam
- Opinion
- Japan
Japan and Australia face a turning point in world history
Tokyo and Canberra back a free and open international order against unilateral attempts to coerce, says a contender in Japan’s prime ministerial race.
- Yoko Kamikawa
AirTrunk’s $23.5b AI pay day
Blackstone emerged as the winning bidder in the year’s biggest merger and acquisition deal, netting its founder Robin Khuda a $1 billion-plus payday.
- Paul Smith and Anthony Macdonald
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
Feuding Melbourne Symphony players choose their fighters
While we doubt much of this will end up in court, everyone is getting the very best legal advice. If only for leverage.
- Myriam Robin