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CBD feels the love at the Midwinter Ball
Business leaders, lobbyists, media executives and actors have descended on Canberra for a night of shameless networking … sorry, raising money for charity.
- by Stephen Brook
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Gina Rinehart receives Cambodia’s highest honour from country’s king
The billionaire mining magnate has won a new foreign admirer in the South-East Asian nation’s monarch, Norodom Sihamoni.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Justin Hemmes takes over Sydney’s most exclusive sports club
The Merivale magnate has skipped the $20,000 membership fee and set up shop inside the exclusive Sporting Club of Sydney.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Queen of Aussie fiction shuts newspaper, goes after local council
Di Morrissey has sold more than 3 million books but local journalism was her passion project.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Sky’s exclusive Rupert Murdoch interview suffers a confusing fate
Was footage of the Murdoch family patriarch lost on the cutting-room floor?
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Christopher Pyne takes on London
The former Liberal minister has made a killing under Labor governments at home. Now he’s hoping for a repeat in the UK.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and David Estcourt
The politicians who skipped question time to fawn over Tucker Carlson
The conspiracy-peddling favourite of the global Trumpian right visited Australia’s corridors of power. But tour promoter Clive Palmer was nowhere to be seen.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
The one thing ABC chair Kim Williams admits he isn’t on top of
The media maestro is never out of his depth. But then he was appointed chair of the national broadcaster, and the deluge started.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
John Howard and a patriotic dessert menu: The Liberal Party turns 80
Ahead of Peter Dutton’s savage speech at the Liberals’ 80th federal council, the party’s top figures gathered in Sydney for an evening of factional festivities.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman
Controversial neurosurgeon Charlie ‘Tofu’ Teo embraces vegan activism
Charlie Teo, who is effectively banned from operating in Australia, now has time to pursue causes close to his heart: animal rights.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
Vaucluse lawyer’s home renovation plans horrify high-flying neighbours
John Landerer wants to rebuild his $18 million former Fairfax mansion – but his neighbours including NRL legend Anthony Minichiello – have opposed his DA.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell