This Month
- Top 50 Hotlist
- Life & Leisure
10 getaways to satisfy your adrenalin-rush needs in 2025
Check out these action-packed adventures for thrill-seekers, snow-chasers and space enthusiasts.
- Kirstie Clements and Charis Perkins
September
- Drinks With Max Allen
- Life & Leisure
Heading to Hokkaido? The Nikka distillery is a must
When Masataka Taketsuru returned to Japan from Scotland a century ago he brought the expertise to make great whisky, a love of all things Caledonian and a wife.
- Max Allen
ASX breaks record; Pager bombs ‘were Mossad’; Macquarie’s big bets
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Scottish city takes Victoria’s discarded 2026 Games (and money)
Glasgow, which was the 2014 host, will run a slim version of the beleaguered event, bankrolled by cancellation fees from Australia.
- Updated
- Hans van Leeuwen
July
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Keir Starmer can drive Britain to reform-led growth
Britain’s new PM must lock in growth quickly if he is to secure Labour’s huge win. With a planning system from hell and a 17,000-page tax code, there is plenty of scope for reform.
- The AFR View
May
- Opinion
- Trump's America
Trump shows the cost of pettiness among the powerful
Donald Trump’s vendetta against wind turbines is not unusual among plutocrats and tech lords who believe they should have more say.
- Paul Krugman
April
Scotland leader quits after coalition power play backfires
Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf had pulled out of coalition with the Greens - a move that has triggered political chaos.
- Alastair Reed
Scotland in minority government after Green coalition collapses
The Scottish National Party will run the country as a minority government after its coalition with the Green party fell through over climate policy.
- Reuters
February
Forget the 5am club; this famous author is up at 3am – even on Sundays
Edinburgh-based Sir Alexander McCall Smith writes in the wee hours, and then goes back to bed and starts the weekends again later, with fried eggs and bacon.
- Fiona Carruthers
January
How this quiet number cruncher became BP’s new boss
After the sudden departure of the former CEO, Murray Auchincloss is emerging from the shadows to help the oil major win over sceptical investors.
- Tom Wilson
Walking, riding, sailing to CEOs’ favourite holiday spots
Leading chief executives worked hard in 2023, but they also discovered some places off the beaten track to get away from it all.
- Sally Patten and Euan Black
November 2023
Hedge fund veteran talks lowest moment in Toscafund’s 23-year run
Before he reveals his next stock pick at the Sohn Hearts & Minds event in Sydney, Toscafund founder Martin Hughes discusses the struggles of running the fund.
- Joshua Peach
Huge pro-Palestinian march in London
The large protest supporting the Palestinian cause coincided with Armistice Day, when Britain commemorates those who fought in World War I and subsequent conflicts.
- Megan Specia, Stephen Castle and Esther Bintliff
Here’s how Glenglassaugh makes the ultimate coastal whisky
The distillery has just launched three new whiskies in Australia that were distilled on a beach in chilly north-east Scotland.
- Max Allen
October 2023
All Blacks resist Ireland fightbacks to win epic Rugby quarter-final
Ireland goes home after falling short again with an eighth Rugby World Cup quarter-final defeat.
- Updated
- Jerome Pugmire
How golf got its swing back
The sport is attracting whole new categories of players to a growing number of variants of the game.
- Richard Allen
September 2023
‘As bad as it gets’: Trump’s business empire imperilled by fraud ruling
A technical reading of this week’s court ruling implies that various Trump entities would have to surrender to the court, or be placed in receivership.
- Joe Miller and Joshua Chaffin
Ruthless Welsh deliver disastrous day for Australian rugby
Australia’s record loss to Wales is a disaster for Australian Rugby and Eddie Jones could very well resign.
- Simon Poidevin
The four weekend matches that will help decide the Rugby World Cup
Results in the opening games will play a big part in deciding who qualifies and in what order from all four groups.
- Simon Poidevin
July 2023
- Exclusive
- Commonwealth Games
Tally puts Games payout at $500m as legal Mr Fix-It heads home
The team negotiating Victoria’s Commonwealth Games payout has headed home from London unable to strike a deal, as talks over the multimillion-dollar payout go online.
- Patrick Durkin