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- Driving With Tony Davis
Mercedes-Benz’s GLC300 is a classy family car. But is it exciting?
The Mercedes-Benz GLC300 is a worthy update of its luxury medium-sized SUV. Here’s why it’s a dependable choice while waiting for the next EV.
- 40 mins ago
- Tony Davis
How the discovery of old photos exposed an ancestor’s hidden talent
A young woman’s record of rural life in Australia in the late 1800s is finally getting its day in the sun after her great-granddaughter found her work in a Sydney attic.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
Menzies Indigenous collection goes for knockdown prices
Paintings from Rodney Menzies’ estate sold at big discounts to previous prices as buyers prove hard to please in early season art sales.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
- Opinion
- Highflyer
I just flew from Istanbul to Melbourne with Turkish Airlines
Fares from Melbourne to Istanbul come with free nights in five- and four-star hotels.
- Ayesha de Kretser
![Espagnole (Buste) [The Spanish Woman], 1922, by Henri Matisse. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Julian and Josie Robertson.](http://web.archive.org./web/20240306184010im_/https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.3682%2C$multiply_3%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_121/t_crop_custom/c_scale%2Cw_440%2Cq_52%2Cf_auto/5ad35ebc1f92f38ae36e52b88d39e125016ba8bc)
How Auckland Art Gallery suddenly scored 15 modern masterpieces
One of America’s wealthiest investors has left $167m worth of famous artworks to Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. The question on everyone’s lips: why New Zealand?
- Elizabeth Fortescue
Lunch with the AFR
AFL inclusion boss says Paul Keating was wrong on the Voice
Eight years into her role, and still recovering from the amputation of her lower right leg last year, Tanya Hosch keeps pushing on in a job where there is no finish line.
- Simon Evans
Peter Bol doesn’t want revenge for false drug test. He wants to win
“I figured out, the angrier that I got, the more destruction it did to me,” Bol says. “So I found I just let it go.”
- Euan Black
Why CFMEU boss Zach Smith thinks it’s OK to break the law sometimes
The union’s national construction division secretary, Zach Smith, hasn’t been in the role long but is already making a splash in Canberra’s corridors of power.
- Ronald Mizen
Yesterday
Hiking is great for strategising about work, says this founder
Sydney-based ethical clothing brand founder Sophie Taylor loves hiking – in the Blue Mountains, New Zealand or on a high-altitude trek in Peru. But there’s one place on her ultimate wish list.
- Life & Leisure
2-for-1 tickets to the Emily Kam Kngwarray Exhibition
2-for-1 tickets* to the Emily Kam Kngwarray exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia.
This genius drummer puts on a show - with no drum solos
Yussef Dayes is a virtuoso with the sticks, but at this Sydney show he preferred to blend in with the band on his progressive jazz jams.
- Michael Bailey
This Month
The battle over the trillion-dollar weight-loss bonanza
Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are making blockbuster drugs. Can they maintain their lead?
- The Economist
Returning to live in London after 20 years. Here’s what I learnt
After two decades away, this journalist discovers a city that still has an undeniable buzz – yet in other ways it’s grinding to a halt.
- Mark Ludlow
- Drinks With Max Allen
- Wine & spirits
The innovator defying ‘doom and gloom’ in a struggling wine region
Riverland growers are in crisis. But Ashley Ratcliff of Ricca Terra Wines is buoyed by the region’s potential.
- Max Allen
‘A Mars bar in a yellow skin’: the truth about bananas
Is the popular fruit really such a health saviour? Here are the pros and cons of making bananas one of your five a day.
- Susanna Galton
The Paris powerhouse backing Sydney Biennale’s First Nations artists
The handspun work of Peruvian artist Cristina Flores Pescorán couldn’t be further from the world of high jewellery and watches. But that’s exactly why the Fondation Cartier loves it.
- Stephen Todd
‘We don’t do curry’: this chef wants to change our idea of Indian food
Is progressive Indian food anything like the stereotype? What actually is Filipino cuisine? All will be revealed at the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.
- Necia Wilden
- Driving With Tony Davis
- Motoring
BYD’s fast new EV sedan is hot on Tesla’s tail
The Chinese makers of the BYD Seal Performance Sedan are so proud of its acceleration they’ve put a badge on the boot boasting of the rate. But this fast EV has other surprises, too.
- Tony Davis
This play about the Lehman Brothers disaster is three hours long. It’s riveting
Masterfully acted and brilliantly staged, The Lehman Trilogy is as much the story of capitalist America as it is of the doomed bank.
- Michael Bailey
Style guru and self-described ‘geriatric starlet’ dies aged 102
Iris Apfel, the interior designer, who has died aged 102, worked for nine US presidents, but was more remarkable for emerging as a fashion icon in her mid-80s.
I have anorexia: this is what it’s like
To have a meaningful conversation about eating disorders, we need to first strip away the myths.
- Pia Curran
AFL inclusion boss says Paul Keating was wrong on the Voice
Eight years into her role, and still recovering from the amputation of her lower right leg last year, Tanya Hosch keeps pushing on in a job where there is no finish line.
- Simon Evans
Is smartphone addiction dooming a generation of girls?
Parents and grandparents have always fretted about the state of today’s youth. But this time, the research points to good reasons for concern.
- Julie Hare
Want to add $20m to the value of a painting? Say it’s by Rembrandt
When it comes to predicting what an artwork might be worth, attribution trumps aethestics – and the considered opinion of the art connoisseur is all powerful.
- Colin Moynihan
Why death metal is feel-good music
Can some forms of music actually be bad you? That’s what Plato thought in 4th-century BC, and it has been a cause for moral panic ever since.
- Adriana Barton
Hitchcockian Iranian thriller works wonders within strictures
‘Subtraction’ is a thriller, a mystery, a low-level horror movie quite unlike anything else from this nation of talented filmmakers.
- John McDonald
Think you know this week’s news? Answer these 10 questions
Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.
- Ingrid Fuary-Wagner and Daniel Arbon
Surrealist arm candy and Lululemon trainers: What to buy this week
Whether it’s fitness, glamour or time out you’re after, we have inspired suggestions for you.
- Eugenie Kelly
