Frank Lowy
Pure Gold Coast Clive Palmer buys childhood Melbourne home
The Queensland-based billionaire mining magnate bought the suburban house where he once lived as a child. We didn’t take him for a Victorian either.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
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Opinion
Shopping centres
Joyful, comforting and air-conditioned: The shopping centre is a gift to us all
The humble shopping centre - once a meeting point for everyone from horny teenagers to exhausted parents - is battling a decline in relevance. But it means more to us than we realise.
- by Thomas Mitchell
Why Premier Investments break-up won’t be Solly Lew’s last deal
It’s a weakness for retail billionaire Solly Lew, one which he identified in himself: the desire always for one more deal.
- by Anne Hyland
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FIFA Women's World Cup
The untold story of how Australia won hosting rights to the Women’s World Cup
After blowing $46m in 2010 on a failed bid for the men’s tournament, the federal government needed convincing to stump up again. The decision has delivered in spades.
- by Andrew Webster
The little-known billionaire steering the car sector and the Roosters
In this episode, we delve into the life and times of Nick Politis, the 80-year-old powerbroker who shows no signs of slowing down.
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Title Deeds
Ros Kelly, David Morgan trade in Vaucluse trophy home to buy $35m digs
Former Labor MP Ros Kelly and her husband, former Westpac chief David Morgan, sold their $25 million Vaucluse home last weekend.
- by Lucy Macken
How a cast of business moguls shaped Sydney
Stories of businesspeople bold, colourful, generous and ruthless have appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald for 190 years. They’re moguls who would shape the city’s history and, indeed, the history of the Herald itself.
- by Anne Hyland
The true heart of Westfield: Shirley Lowy dies aged 86
The widely respected and loved wife of Frank Lowy has passed away surrounded by her family in Israel.
- by Sarah Danckert
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Research
'Making the radical seem reasonable': what is a think tank?
There were 8248 think tanks in the world last year, including 42 in Australia. What do they do? How? And for whom?
- by Nick O'Malley
Lowy family severs all ties with Australian retail sector
Sir Frank Lowy has severed all ties with the retail behemoth he created more than 50 years ago with the sale of his remaining stake in the Scentre Group.
- by Carolyn Cummins
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Infrastructure
'We all know what needs to be done': Frank Lowy on keeping Australia 'at the top end of the ladder'
If Sir Frank had his way, he would be re-designing the nation’s accounts so that there were, in effect, two budgets.
- by Deborah Snow
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