This Month
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Brisbane should learn lessons of Australian Open’s success
It’s always tough for governments to justify spending money on sporting venues. Yet, long-term thinking and the best option for leaving a legacy should be factored into the plans for Brisbane’s Olympic stadium.
- The AFR View
The $30k luxury lounge for top tier fans at the Australian Open
Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has bought tickets to the Australian Open’s newly minted Club 1905, a premium offering for tennis fanatics.
- Gus McCubbing and Zoe Samios
Hyrox is sexy, loud and coming to a sports arena near you
The functional fitness brand is surging in popularity as regular gym-goers embrace a new way to test their overall fitness.
- Euan Black
De Minaur demolished by Sinner in quarter-final
The Australian was attempting to reach his first grand slam semi-final, but his hopes were dashed by world No.1.
- Anna Harrington
- Opinion
- The AFR View
States must step up the antisemitism fight
The antisemitic attacks on Jewish Australians are a national scandal. It’s up to state governments and police to protect all citizens equally.
- The AFR View
Why co-working operators love the weak office market
US real estate firm Pembroke is opening its first co-working hub and others are expanding, tapping demand from tenants reticent to sign long-term leases.
- Larry Schlesinger
Why a 1.4pc return is great news for the office market
Mirvac Wholesale Office Fund, which owns Quay Quarter Tower and the former AMP building, delivered positive returns for the final quarter of 2024.
- Updated
- Campbell Kwan
‘We are Aussies’: Adass Israel community hopes for peace at home
Benjamin Klein, a board member at the synagogue that was burned down by arsonists, says Melbourne has become a very different place for the Jewish community.
- Gus McCubbing
Luxury home taken off market after catastrophic landslide
A local agent has been forced to pull a luxury home on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula from the market after it was damaged by a house that collapsed in a landslide.
- Larry Schlesinger and Patrick Durkin
The post-Barty generation of Australian players has arrived
Maya Joint, 18, is ready to lead a new and exciting crop of young Australian female players including Emerson Jones ahead of her Melbourne Park debut.
- Gus McCubbing
Tennis braces for first Alcaraz-Sinner showdown at Open
Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner have never played in a Grand Slam final despite collecting six out of the last nine major titles. That might be about to change.
- Gus McCubbing
- Exclusive
- Australian Open
‘Our competition is the couch’: Why Tiley is serious about pickleball
Pickleball is not a rival to tennis but instead is helping promote racket sports collectively to young people, says Australian Open boss Craig Tiley.
- Gus McCubbing
- Exclusive
- Luxury property
Noosa record set as Metricon family buys designer hinterland home
Metricon’s Ross Palazzesi and his wife Jennifer have reset Noosa’s hinterland record, paying $11.2 million for a designer mansion in Doonan.
- Bonnie Campbell
Graffiti attack on synagogue ‘monstrous, appalling’
Nazi swastikas have been scrawled across a Sydney synagogue in another episode of antisemitism that NSW Premier Chris Minns described as monstrous.
- Luke Costin
Djokovic says he was ‘poisoned’ during 2022 Melbourne detention
“I was fed with some food that poisoned me,” said the Serbian 24-times major winner, who is known to monitor his diet strictly.
- Reuters
- Exclusive
- Luxury property
Porter Davis co-founder sells lavish $19m Armadale home
David Shergold, who co-founded home builder Porter Davis in 1999 but sold out of the business in 2007, has sold his Armadale mansion for about $19 million.
- Bonnie Campbell
Ice hockey tournament cancelled due to anti-Israel ‘security concerns’
The international event set to be held in Melbourne this year has been pulled over what organisers said were security fears due to anti-Israel protests in Victoria.
- Gus McCubbing
Eight of the best luxury Australian holiday homes for sale
AFR Weekend rounds up the most luxurious holiday properties on the prestige market – and their high-profile owners.
- Bonnie Campbell
Why Sydney’s NYE fireworks were notably different this time
They dazzled the harbour from both the east and west sides of the famous bridge, which has not happened before. The rest of the nation also celebrated in style.
- William Ton, Neve Brissenden and Laine Clark
December 2024
ASX slips; Gold miners’ silver lining; China’s new stealth aircraft
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.