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Fiona Byrne

Fiona Byrne

Fiona Byrne is the CBD columnist for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Perri Cutten was an Australian fashion legend.

Will fight over $23m estate of fashion great Perri Cutten

The celebrated designer’s longtime partner has launched court action claiming he was not adequately provided for in Cutten’s will.

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Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy.

Labor offers corporates access to Senator McCarthy for $4000 a head

The afternoon tea with Malarndirri McCarthy at the Labor Business Forum is the latest attempt by the ALP to raise funds.

  • John Buckley and Fiona Byrne
Michele Bullock and Yamba.

RBA governor spent $2m on coastal home – on same day as rate rise

Michele Bullock settled on a new four-bedroom home on the north coast of NSW on March 17, the day the Reserve Bank lifted the official cash rate.

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Mario Terzini has started hosting dinners for $130 per person (plus drinks) at a homeless shelter in Rushcutters Bay.

Icebergs founder Maurice Terzini cooks up his salvation tour

It was only last year that the Icebergs founder was forced out of his own restaurant. Now it looks like he has booked the first stop on his redemption voyage.

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Head of federal Liberals Andrew Hirst.

Life after Dr Mike: Liberals size up new pollster after election debacle

The Liberal Party is said to have sounded out Leanne White, who runs market research firm Insightfully, as it prepares to launch a process to find a new pollster.

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US star Alan Ritchson as recruit 81 in War Machine, filmed in Victoria.

Made in Victoria, this sci-fi movie just topped Netflix film charts

The story of an angry giant alien machine intent on wiping out army recruits was shot in five locations across Victoria.

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Brethren members join the Liberal campaign in Kooyong.

Plymouth Brethren barely rate a mention in Liberal Party review

The Brethren mounted an extraordinary campaign for the Liberals at the last election. But apparently not extraordinary enough to prompt any serious introspection in the Liberal Party.

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What is proposed for the site.

Mosman developer spotted in angry crowd fighting $50m multi-storey plan

About 60 people descended on the site of a controversial north shore development – including the man behind the proposal, Tim Foote.

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A screen grab from a video posted to Sam Newman’s YouTube channel on 8th March.

Footy great left slurring his words after suffering two ‘mini strokes’

Geelong legend and TV personality Sam Newman is recovering after 10 days in hospital and an operation to widen an artery in his neck.

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NSW premier Premier Dominic Perrottet along with his wife Helen Perrottet and daughter Celeste, at Beecroft public school during New South Wales state election day, in Sydney, Saturday, 25 March 2023.

Dominic Perrottet and wife Helen are expecting their eighth baby

The Perrottets are expecting their eighth child, a boy, in May.

  • John Buckley and Fiona Byrne