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Peter Jopling at Di Stasio Citta.

Top silk Peter Jopling on the thrill of the chase and ending a ‘ridiculous’ ban

The King’s Counsel and arts stalwart wants to throw open the Australia Club’s doors to women, and get people appreciating (and buying) art.

  • Cara Waters

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Adam Schwab is building a travel empire.

The fast talker building a luxury travel empire

From subletting apartments to backpackers to launching an innovative luxury travel platform, Adam Schwab is the consummate entrepreneur.

  • Trudi Jenkins
From left: Lady Sonia McMahon, Eileen “Red” Bond, Susan Renouf made up Flemington’s “Holy Trinity”.

The real housewives of Australia: How ‘Red’ Bond led the way

Eileen Bond’s death marks the end of Australia’s socially connected, cashed-up and indomitable women.

  • Andrew Hornery
Alan and Eileen Bond at their daughter Jody’s wedding in 1993.

Bond matriarch Eileen dies in Perth aged 87

The socialite passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, in Perth on Wednesday after suffering a stroke on Sunday. 

  • Heather McNeill
Twigger’s Tales takes a step back in time to some of WA’s most notorious business days.

A “wunch of bankers”

Twigger’s Tales regales readers with fond memories of the tsunami of foreign and other banks that fell victim to the Bell/Bond debacle of the 80s and 90s.

  • Liam Twigger
Historic win: a jubilant John Bertrand and Alan Bond wrest the America's Cup from the New York Yacht Club in 1983.

Bondy the bum: Why the crew of Australia II missed out on going to the White House

It’s been 40 years since Australia snatched the America’s Cup, but for the water-logged warriors who stuck it up the New York Yacht Club toffs, the events are so vivid it could have been yesterday.

  • Mark Naglazas
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Ferrier Hodgson’s Garry Trevor was paid $5 million in the liquidation of the European bonds arm of Bell Group.

Millionaire Bell Group liquidator faces wind-up order of his own

The accountant who pocketed millions in fees over the liquidation of Alan Bond’s billion-dollar Bell Group has found his company on the other end of a wind-up order.

  • Jesinta Burton
In the Herald

In the Herald: September 20, 1977

Mrs Barbara Mackay, wife of missing Griffith businessman Donald Mackay, was yesterday named Mother of the Year.

  • Harry Hollinsworth
Samuel Terry, John Fairfax, Rupert Murdoch, Kerry Packer

How a cast of business moguls shaped Sydney

Stories of businesspeople bold, colourful, generous and ruthless have appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald for 190 years. They’re moguls who would shape the city’s history and, indeed, the history of the Herald itself.

  • Anne Hyland
Host of Bandstand, and later the network's legendary newsreader, Brian Henderson 1958.

Good evening. Goodbye to Willoughby.

The closure of Nine's TCN studio in Willoughby marks the end of an era in Australian television.

  • Michael Idato