Featured
Why pouring your own water might save your favourite restaurant
Amid a stream of high-profile restaurant closures, leading industry figures have been forced to adopt minor service changes to control price increases.
- James Hall
The butler’s role has changed – and seasoned ones can make $190K a year
Buttling has become a career that involves not only polishing silver and folding napkins but also lifestyle management.
- Plum Sykes
Why voice notes are having a moment
They convey more nuance than text but they can be daunting to listen to if they’re too long.
- Tatum Hunter
- Opinion
- MeToo movement
The uncancelling of Kevin Spacey, MeToo’s greatest casualty
It is the cruel catch-22 of cancel culture that being innocent may afford no protection against being treated as guilty.
- Allison Pearson
An easy pasta with flavour-bomb of XO sauce that many don’t know about
Ellie Bouhadana, formerly head chef at Melbourne’s Hope St Radio, shares her secret sauce for pasta.
- Jill Dupleix
Lunch with the AFR
‘China is run by engineers, US by political lawyers’: Tech pioneer’s warning
As senior exec at AOL and Sun, William Raduchel spent 60 years at the forefront of the tech revolution - and once dated Janet Yellen. Here’s what he’s learnt.
- Nick Bonyhady
‘We don’t know the truth’, says senior CIA officer
Beth Sanner was Donald Trump’s daily intelligence briefer for two years. Few people know the boundaries between secrecy and democracy so well.
- Kevin Chinnery
The world’s wiliest climate warrior? It’s not who you think
International Energy Agency boss Fatih Birol, a lifelong bureaucrat with roots in the oil industry, has made the net zero transition a personal mission.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Yesterday
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.
- Daniel Arbon
On your next cruise, try a magical night onshore you won’t forget
Thanks to the growing popularity of cruising, luxury lines are coming up with ever-more exotic excursions on land – especially after sundown.
- Jeff Allan and Fiona Carruthers
Movie review: Furiosa – drives hard but takes too many wrong turns
George Miller’s latest Mad Max film is bogged down by the gruesome particulars of his post-apocalyptic world – and Chris Hemsworth’s wooden acting.
- John McDonald
Is this the cutest restaurant on water? Sea foodies seem to think so
An energetic and animated chef keeps fine dining lively on the ocean.
- Fiona Carruthers
Max Allen reviews three top drops from a shiraz-obsessed former chef
Syrahmi winemaker Adam Foster has launched the first release from his own close-planted vineyard in Heathcote.
- Max Allen
How my cynicism gave way to tears of relief in Antarctica
It seems the Great White Continent has the power to “break open” even the toughest corporate warrior.
- Alana Piper
- Driving With Tony Davis
- Motoring
What it’s like to drive an $11.5m hypercar in the hills of Emilia-Romagna
It pays not to think of the cost of Pagani’s Huayra Codalunga when dodging mad Italian motorists on winding roads: it performs like a full-on race car.
- Tony Davis
Six ways to stay entertained for those staying home this winter
Not everyone is travelling abroad for the northern hemisphere summer. Cosy up in Australia on a rail trip with Journey Beyond, or indulge at The Victoria & Albert Guesthouse in the Blue Mountains.
- Fiona Carruthers
This Month
How Reese Witherspoon built a multimillion-dollar empire on books
The businesswoman’s book club may not make money from sales, but it offers an opportunity to option stories that can be turned into TV shows by her production company.
- Elisabeth Egan
Why you might want to skip the morning workout
A new study appears to show that people who exercise in the evening are 28 per cent less likely to die than morning fitness people. But experts are still divided.
- Alexander Nazaryan
How belly fat can predict our future - and longevity
We need to be less obsessed with our outward appearance and treat our inner self with the respect it needs and deserves.
- Tim Spector
A Michelin-star chef and pickleball - after 184 years, Cunard pivots
Queen Anne is a litany of firsts for Cunard, including its first designated outdoor yoga space, along with mini golf, a pickleball court and an archery area.
- Fiona Carruthers
Tag Heuer relaunches the ’80s watches that made it famous
Has the brand hit on a winning collaboration with streetwear brand Kith or will the pricing favour flippers rather than fans?
- Bani McSpedden
Fashion insiders reveal what they wear for a long-haul flight
Flying can be stressful, but you don’t have to look like a white-hot mess. From a chic silk blazer to merino-wool leggings, here are some handy go-to labels.
- Lauren Sams
At $74,760 per runner, is this the world’s most expensive marathon?
You have to watch out for ice cracks and polar bears, and many run in life vests. But so far, 534 people have completed this mind-boggling race.
- Chris Wright
How this geologist got hooked on cycling later in life
“Join a club!” enthuses Delta Lithium’s Charles Hughes. Then, practise a lot before undertaking an 800-kilometre charity ride.
- Life & Leisure
Why you might want to hold on to your ’90s designer furniture
The work of design pioneer Gaetano Pesce is striking a chord with collectors.
- Stephen Todd
Are these contemporary artists the future of the market?
This annual auction of contemporary art presents living artists at relatively affordable prices, but this year bargain hunters proved harder to find.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
Fans of the BBBE diet claim it’s the key to wellbeing
TikTok and Instagram are full of videos of men wolfing down steak, ground beef, burger patties and slabs of butter who claim the diet is the key to mental and physical wellbeing.
- Steven Kurutz
‘I’ll stay where she’s staying’: Insiders give their top Paris tips
It took some arm twisting, but these four leading Australian hoteliers have revealed where they love to bed down when in the city of light.
- Fiona Carruthers
