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Twigger’s Tales takes a step back in time to some of WA’s most notorious business days.

A “wunch of bankers”

Twigger’s Tales regales readers with fond memories of the tsunami of foreign and other banks that fell victim to the Bell/Bond debacle of the 80s and 90s.

  • Liam Twigger

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Historic win: a jubilant John Bertrand and Alan Bond wrest the America's Cup from the New York Yacht Club in 1983.

Bondy the bum: Why the crew of Australia II missed out on going to the White House

It’s been 40 years since Australia snatched the America’s Cup, but for the water-logged warriors who stuck it up the New York Yacht Club toffs, the events are so vivid it could have been yesterday.

  • Mark Naglazas
Ferrier Hodgson’s Garry Trevor was paid $5 million in the liquidation of the European bonds arm of Bell Group.

Millionaire Bell Group liquidator faces wind-up order of his own

The accountant who pocketed millions in fees over the liquidation of Alan Bond’s billion-dollar Bell Group has found his company on the other end of a wind-up order.

  • Jesinta Burton
Samuel Terry, John Fairfax, Rupert Murdoch, Kerry Packer

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.

  • Anne Hyland
Host of Bandstand, and later the network's legendary newsreader, Brian Henderson 1958.

Good evening. Goodbye to Willoughby.

The closure of Nine's TCN studio in Willoughby marks the end of an era in Australian television.

  • Michael Idato
'No Australian judge before or since could have handled the case better': Former WA Supreme Court Justice Neville Owen.

'Amen': Supreme Court pens ode to 'driving a stake' into Bond's zombie Bell corporation

In a rare flourish for one of the highest courts in the state, a Supreme Court master has filed a requiem to the 'bare-knuckled' litigation it took to finally kill the late Alan Bond’s defunct Bell Group.

  • Aja Styles
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Alan Bond in his 1988-boardroom, across from Westpac Bank which would later pay out $1.7 billion to Bond's Bell Group liquidators in a landmark settlement relating to the corporate collapse.

WA Inc saga finally draws to a close with $1.9 billion payout over Bond's defunct Bell Group

The collapse of the late Alan Bond’s Bell Group during the notorious WA Inc era can finally be swept into history after the most expensive and longest-running set of civil litigation in the state’s history.

  • Aja Styles
Kerri-Anne Kennerley.

Australia Day honours are 'not the Logies', says Kennerley

On Tuesday a bipartisan senate motion was passed condemning comments made by honours recipient Bettina Arndt as having “the potential to bring the Order of Australia, instituted by the Queen, into disrepute”.

  • Jacqueline Maley
Alan Bond.

Bond's failed Bell Group litigation closer to an end

The two-decade-long windup of Alan Bond's failed Bell Group is closer to an end with a proposed settlement agreement to allow $1.9 billion to be distributed among creditors.

  • AAP
David Crawford's time at the top is business is drawing to a close.

The Big Interview: Full transcript of interview with David Crawford

What legendary businessman thinks of Christopher Skase, Alan Bond, Marius Kloppers and the trouble with modern day boards.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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