A prominent businessman from the southern tablelands, who claimed to offer "white-collar…logistics advice" and "board" experience in a major international drug trafficking operation, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to import the second largest cocaine seizure in Australian history. Rohan Peter Arnold, 44, was apprehended during a dramatic gunpoint arrest in a Serbian hotel in January…
James Murdoch has signalled plans to have "precisely zero" involvement in his family's remaining businesses following the sales of 21st Century Fox and Sky, in a historic split of the world's best-known media dynasty. Click Here: The comments to friends inform a new book, The Battle for Sky, which chronicles the rise of Britain's dominant…
Australia Post chief executive Christine Holgate has some unconventional advice for businesses looking to export products to China. "Go see a fortune teller, get yourself a photo with the president and you’ve nailed it," Ms Holgate told an audience of small businesses at Australia Post's Crossborder Ecommerce Expo last week. That advice stems from Ms…
The weather at Randwick on Saturday had a touch of spring about and so did racing as a number of handy gallopers made a quiet May meeting into one to be remembered regarding form. From the first race when Prince Fawaz beat favourite Reloaded, to Deprive’s remarkable response to a daring Rachel King ride to…
Offering a unique co-operative take on the genre alongside a great story-led Adventure mode, Team Sonic Racing is a fast, fun and fully-featured mascot racer; even it isn't always the smoothest ride. This is Sumo Digital's third Sega-themed racer, following Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing in 2010 and the multi-vehicular Transformed in 2012. But this…
Retour Sur Terre (Back To Earth) was the headline on the Roland Garros program. It saluted Roger Federer's first appearance on the French Open's crushed brick, known to the locals as terre battue, since he lost to Stan Wawrinka here in the 2015 quarter-final. To watch Federer, though, was to acknowledge that his extra-terrestrial gifts…
That a man has been charged so quickly for allegedly bashing 25-year-old Courtney Herron to death in what police describe as a "horrendous" act of extreme violence is some, small comfort in a city in which so many women have fallen victim to violence – so much so that both the lord mayor and the…
If ever there was a quintessentially English band it's gotta be the Cure, right? Arriving around the time of New Wave back in 1979, the Cure were never about anarchy or unemployment or all that other new-wavy stuff; rather, they were about the ever-ongoing dislocation of an English childhood. There's a lot of Narnia and…
Vocus Group has opened its books to Swedish private equity group EQT Infrastructure after the telco received a $3.3 billion indicative offer. In a statement to the ASX on Monday, Vocus it had received a confidential, non-binding indicative proposal at $5.25 a share, subject to due diligence. Vocus shares closed on Friday at $3.89. The…
The tension is rippling through the room; you can almost see it shimmer as more than 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples pause for a heavy, silent moment. Professor Megan Davis, an indomitable Cobble Cobble woman, pro-vice chancellor at the University of NSW and member of the Referendum Council, has just spoken into life…