Yesterday
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
‘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
IMF warns Australia; Rich Lister charged; Families sell $180m hotel
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
ASX falls 1pc; More Liberal chaos; Good, bad, ugly of corporate Oz
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
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
- Exclusive
- Casinos
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
- Opinion
- Commercial real estate
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’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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
‘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
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.
- Updated
- Amelia McGuire
November
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.
- Updated
- Andrew Tillett
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 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