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January

After 3½ years of bickering, it’s crunch time for Brisbane Olympics

Amid competing plans and multibillion-dollar price tags, the premier will now decide on the Olympic stadium – with implications for cricket, the AFL and beyond.

The Australian Open 2025.

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.

Ireland’s Kellie Harrington celebrates after winning a match in Paris. Boxing has long been a key sport at the modern Olympics but its future is in doubt.

How boxing’s ‘Mr Kremlin’ controls the sport

The IBA failed in its bid to upset competition in Paris, but its president, Russian power broker Umar Kremlev, has Olympic insiders worried about the future of the sport.

December 2024

Rugby Australia CEO Phil Waugh.

Bledisloe win every two years: Waugh’s lofty plan for Rugby Australia

The governing body wants to win the British and Irish Lions tour, Olympic medals and the Bledisloe Cup every two years under an ambitious new four-year strategy.

November 2024

Queensland Premier David Crisafulli speaks to media after being sworn in.

Queensland LNP puts heat on Albanese before federal election

In just three weeks of being in government, the LNP’s first taste of power in the state in nearly a decade has been frenetic, with clear signals to Canberra.

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Eddie McGuire.

Eddie McGuire to Seven? You wouldn’t believe it

In six months in the role, Seven news and current affairs boss Anthony De Ceglie has cut a swathe through that organisation’s sacred cows.

October 2024

Shane Britten, founder of SocialProtect, in Canberra this week.

First, kidnapping the Wallabies; now tackling online bullying

The debate about stopping cyberbullying has so far centred around bans and age limits. This former spy has a different solution.

Premier-elect David Crisafulli addressing the media on Sunday morning, alongside his deputy Jarrod Bleijie.

Crisafulli presses Albanese on funding share, Olympics

Incoming Queensland premier David Crisafulli will be officially sworn in on Monday, triggering a shift in policies and a new wave of cabinet ministers.

Bernard Arnault

LVMH tycoon doubles down on sport after Olympics triumph

Bernard Arnault, the richest man in Europe and sometimes the world, is following the zeitgeist – and perhaps ironing out a few family issues as well.

Premier Steven Miles has asked Queensland voters to give Labor four more years in power.

‘$2b for burgers at schools’: Labor’s free lunch plan panned

The Queensland leaders have traded barbs in a head-to-head debate just 10 days out from polls closing. But voters were left with more questions than answers.

September 2024

Grace Brown

Amazing Grace Brown won’t ride back on retirement call

The Olympic champion became the first woman to win both the Olympic Games and world time trial titles in the same year

Hotel mogul Jerry Schwartz at his Sofitel Sydney Darling Harbour hotel.

‘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.

Financial Review About Time watch event.

The About Time Watch Weekend winds down

For two consecutive weekends, more than 1000 AFR subscribers and readers attended hourly appointments with 15 of the world’s finest watchmakers.

Rowing Australia CEO Sarah Cook is currently running a review into what happened at the Olympic Games in Paris.

What happened to rowing in Paris?

The Australian Olympic rowing team came home with just one bronze medal – its weakest performance since 1988. CEO Sarah Cook is already making changes.

The Patrouille de France, an aerobatics demonstration unit of the French Air Force, trail smoke as they fly over Paris during a parade for French athletes who participated in the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics,

Paris throws a final Olympics bash

It was a day of summer revelry before the autumn doldrums set in, the end of an Olympic bubble that enchanted France and allowed it to forget, for a time, its problems.

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Gina Cass-Gottlieb heads an ACCC that lacks the resources to handle large numbers of merger proposals.

Raising the bar against mergers will rob everyone of benefits

Why clamp down on mergers with less than maximum benefits when the public would still gain from seeing them go through?

August 2024

Tom Gallagher won Australia’s first gold medal of the Paralympics on Thursday in Paris.

Comeback kid wins swimming gold on day one

Swimmer Tom Gallagher has delivered the first gold medal of his career and Australia’s first of the 2024 Paris Paralympics.

The concept design for the Neville Bonner Bridge from Queen’s Wharf to South Brisbane.

How the ‘buzz’ in Brisbane is bucking a national trend

As office vacancy rates creep higher in capital cities such as Melbourne, investors are flocking to Brisbane where the market is thriving.

A total ban on gambling advertising seems a distant prospect.

Labor backing a loser with its gambling ads bet

Readers’ letters on gambling ads; the hidden value of private health insurance; rare earths mining; a fix for education; and bidding au revoir to the Paris Olympics.

The closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics 2024.

How the French really feel about the Paris Olympics

The Games’ problems – food, air-con, ticket prices – seem prosaic, whereas memories are written in poetry.

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