Opinion
Trends
It’s ‘the beautiful game’, so why shouldn’t its players glam up?
It was ever thus: people telling girls and women how they should or shouldn’t look. Female stars of the Women’s World Cup are rightly rejecting such gratuitous advice.
- by Anne Hyland
Latest
Game on: How Mike Baird, Australia’s new cricket boss, is stepping up to the crease
The former NSW premier will need all his leadership skills to confront the sport’s challenges.
- by Anne Hyland
Analysis
Investing
Love him or loathe him, Qantas CEO Alan Joyce always did it his way
As Alan Joyce flies out, the shareholders will miss him – but not so much the customers.
- by Anne Hyland
Opinion
Media & marketing
Rupert Murdoch and the ‘most precious asset’ of his media empire
Fifteen years ago, the world’s most powerful media tycoon laid out the three most important values to a media audience. Now they are causing him trouble.
- by Anne Hyland
Opinion
Cost of living
How the cost of living crisis has changed middle-class BBQ chat
Adult kids moving home - and choosing to entertain at home - is indicative of the belt-tightening that continues.
- by Anne Hyland
China needs ‘clear signals’ with investment in Australia at near record lows
Relations between China and Australia have improved in the past month, with senior politicians and business people from both countries seeking to repair the trade and investment partnerships. But more remediation is needed.
- by Anne Hyland
Exclusive
Mining
Meet the Australian shaking up the global diamond industry
In the past two decades, mining executive Michael O’Keeffe has built coal and iron ore companies from almost nothing into multibillion-dollar companies. Now he’s taken a shine to diamonds
- by Anne Hyland
Scandals put Downer EDI at risk of break-up
The sharp fall in the market valuation of services business Downer EDI means it could be worth more broken up, and speculation is that suitors are circling.
- by Anne Hyland
Pokie billionaire Len Ainsworth has given millions to Sydney institutions. Now questions are being asked
Poker machines have been attacked for causing social harm. Now critics are going after the father of Australia’s poker machine industry and his family’s philanthropy.
- by Anne Hyland
Opinion
NSW Votes
Chris Minns’ plan to cut the public service doesn’t add up
The NSW government’s responsibility to voters is to deliver the best public services. But is shedding senior bureaucrats the answer?
- by Anne Hyland
Business titans get behind an Indigenous Voice to parliament
The bid to change Australia’s constitution to recognise Indigenous Australians has united powerful allies across the political spectrum.
- by Anne Hyland