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Master Lock Comanche

Reigning overall winner Alive retires from Sydney to Hobart

The 66-footer retired off Wollongong with engine issues around 4pm on the first day of racing, with Master Lock Comanche in a comfortable lead.

  • Jasper Bruce

This Month

The start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race in 2023.

‘Worst forecast ever’: Sydney-Hobart set for broken boats, fast time

Reigning line honours skipper Christian Beck says “the odds of boat damage are very high” in this year’s blue water classic.

  • Jasper Bruce
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IMF warns Australia; Rich Lister charged; Families sell $180m hotel

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

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ASX falls 1pc; More Liberal chaos; Good, bad, ugly of corporate Oz

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

135 King Street is a 29-storey office that is adjacent to Pitt Street Mall.

The $4b rebound in office tower trades in the heart of Sydney

A $600 million office tower in the heart of Sydney is on track to change hands, capping off a remarkable resurgence for the battered sector.

  • Campbell Kwan
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The gaming floor at Crown Resorts’ Sydney casino. The company is now allowed to operate poker machines, however.

Crown Resorts wants to add pokies to the mix at its Sydney casino

The Blackstone-owned hospitality and gambling giant has been prohibited from installing gaming machines under terms struck when it secured its NSW licence.

  • Zoe Samios
There’s not a lot of new supply coming on in Sydney, so occupancy rates and room rates will keep rising.

5 opportunities for commercial property investing in 2025

Sydney hotels, data centres and regional shopping centres are among the segments tipped to grow next year.

  • Sam Tamblyn
David Thompson is a celebrated chef who specialises in Thai food. He opened his restaurant Long Chim in Sydney in 2016.

David Thompson’s Long Chim closure blamed on rents and poor business

The high-profile Thai restaurant is the latest major restaurant to close. It blamed high rents, but administrators says staff costs were too high.

  • Campbell Kwan
Novonix CEO Chris Burns: “If you step away from the noise, we continue to see that the battery and critical minerals sectors will be supported.”

US backs Oz firm’s graphite factory to loosen China’s EV grip

The energy department has offered Novonix a $1.2 billion loan to underwrite construction of the first large-scale synthetic graphite facility in North America when complete.

  • Nic Fildes and Harry Dempsey
Rockpool Bar & Grill in Melbourne.

Hospitality empire behind Rockpool reports $288 million loss

The restaurant group, now called Pacific Hunter, grew out of celebrity chef Neil Perry’s high-profile Sydney steak restaurant.

  • Primrose Riordan
Chris O’Keefe took the helm of 2GB drive in early 2023.

Drive show host Chris O’Keefe leaves 2GB

Nine’s Sydney talkback radio station is searching for more talent after its drive show host called it quits.

  • Zoe Samios
Jon Adgemis has been under pressure to refinance his pub empire.

The mystery twist in Adgemis’ fight with Gazal

A long list of Sydneysiders and Melburnians would be keen for the details of the stoush.

  • Max Mason and Primrose Riordan
The eye-catching 1 Hotel Melbourne will open on the northern banks of the Yarra River in May.

The 16,000-room hotel boom that is yet to slow

The burst of development over the past four years has two more years to run before it slows, a new forecast shows.

  • Larry Schlesinger
Managing director of Firetrail Patrick Hodgens.

Four exit Pinnacle-backed fundie Firetrail

Street Talk understands global equities portfolio manager Oscar Hutchinson and head of investment strategy Anthony Doyle have left the firm.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Ray Hadley as he announces his resignation from 2GB.

Exits, cuts and Smooth FM: Nine mulls future of 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR

While it has shelved plans to replace its Perth radio station with a music feed from Nova, there are plenty of challenges at the company’s radio division.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones
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‘No taxi driver likes Uber much’: Uneasy truce in cabs trial

Uber users in Sydney and Melbourne can now get regular taxis on the app. Cabbies see the benefit, but it is an uneasy truce between the transport arch enemies.

  • Tess Bennett
Founder and CEO of Clutch Glue Annabel Hay, whose company has had one of the largest pre-seed rounds globally.

The ill-fitting nightclub top behind a multimillion-dollar business

When Annabel Hay’s fashion tape let her down on a nightclub dance floor, her wardrobe malfunction became a fast-growing company selling modesty-saving glue.

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  • Amelia McGuire

November

Woollahra was targeted with a string of anti-semetic vandalism overnight including defacing restaurants, cars, and properties.

Jews fear for safety after anti-Israel graffiti rampage

Police are looking for two people who were caught running away from the scene of an anti-Israel graffiti spree in the heart of Sydney’s Jewish community.

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  • Andrew Tillett
Directors & designers at Macgraw, Beth MacGraw (left) and Tessa MacGraw (right) in their Darlinghurst studio.

Is Australian fashion really as dire as it seems?

Some Australian designers are looking to keep their fashion production home-grown but are finding it may be a dying craft.

  • Lauren Sams
AirTree Ventures partners Jackie Vullinghs, John Henderson, Helen Norton, James Cameron, Craig Blair and Elicia McDonald will have  $650 million more to deploy.

Airtree raises $650m for new start-up investment funds

The money for the high-profile venture capital firm’s two new vehicles came from institutional investors in the US and from three Australian super funds.

  • Paul Smith

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