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April

If “real life” means finding love face-to-face, rather than through a screen, you can’t blame people for wanting to return to it.

Is it possible to find love without an app?

Online-dating fatigue is creating pressure for innovations to help humans discover love in real life, but hitting on strangers isn’t easy.

  • Faith Hill
Election bunfight at The Australian Club in Melbourne.

Australian Club showdown gives members indigestion

You know what totally ruins the vibe? Democracy. Of which members of Melbourne’s prestigious Australian Club have had a gutful.

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  • Myriam Robin
Minderoo Foundation chief executive John Hartman.

Forrest-backed Minderoo to become bigger philanthropic force

The financial endowment behind Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s philanthropic Minderoo Foundation is expected to grow towards $40 billion by the end of the decade.

  • Brad Thompson

Philanthropy 50: Which Australians gave away the most in 2023? 

Donations from Australia’s biggest private givers have jumped to a record $1.25 billion.

  • Lisa Murray

The homeschooled billionaire who built a fortune before turning 40

Shaun Bonett was the country’s richest person under 40 in 2007. Now a billionaire, he shares his story, including a humiliating $25 million mistake.

  • Julie-anne Sprague
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Minderoo Foundation chief executive John Hartman has swung the axe.

Forrests’ $10b philanthropic foundation to cut 100 jobs

Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation will shed about a third of its workforce in an overhaul aimed at making better use of its iron ore endowment.

  • Brad Thompson
The Australian Club made a $1.2m loss in 2022.

Leaked letter lashes Australian Club’s ‘ungentlemanly’ gossiping

Smoking pipes indoors? Gossiping about one’s fellow members? Things are turning decidedly spicy at Melbourne’s Australian Club.

  • Myriam Robin
Sam Altman has joined Forbes’ rich list.

A new class system is emerging even within the world’s 1pc

The Forbes’ rich list has gained $US2 trillion as Taylor Swift and Sam Altman have become billionaires, but 14 people at the top belong in a new category.

  • Lucy Burton

March

Allan Myers has quit the Melbourne Club, and not gone quietly.

Allan Myers quits Melbourne Club over racism claim

Despite so much in common, Allan Myers and the Melbourne Club have parted ways. And not amicably.

  • Myriam Robin
Amy Patrick: “Asking for help is not a sign of weakness.”

Finance wanted me to be macho. I preferred honesty

A fund manager describes how she learnt that humility could make her a successful investor and manager.

  • Amy Xie Patrick

Australia’s 75 richest women now control more than $151b

The wealth of Australia’s richest 75 women soared by 30 per cent over the past year, as entrepreneurs in resources, tech, property and fashion enjoyed the fruits of a resurgent market.

  • Michael Bailey and Yolanda Redrup
Gina Rinehart says the 22 per cent gender pay gap at her Hancock Prospecting is the temporary result of helping women enter the mining industry.

Rinehart blames Hancock pay gap on ‘helping women’ into mining

A 22 per cent gender pay gap at Hancock, versus a 15 per cent for all miners, is the temporary result of getting more women into the industry, Gina Rinehart says.

  • Michael Bailey and Yolanda Redrup