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Made in Australia – a showstopping watch for $530,000
After decades of making high jewellery, Stefano Canturi decided it was time to design and craft a watch.
- Bani McSpedden
How to make Supernormal’s famous lobster roll
Let the good times roll as Andrew McConnell shares one of his restaurant’s most popular menu items.
- Jill Dupleix
This Australian winemaker has just won a global award for his sparkling
Ed Carr is more than happy to pick up the international awards and bring them home to a smaller, local wine company.
- Max Allen
Here’s what happened at the Financial Review’s prestige watch weekends
For attendees at our About Time Watch Weekend, the watch has morphed from humble tool to prized attraction.
- Bani McSpedden
Outback-inspired pieces set to go on show at Design Miami fair
Trent Jansen explores Australia’s cross-cultural history through his furniture collaborations with Indigenous artisans.
- Stephen Todd
This Month
- Opinion
- Style
The Australian fashion staple you won’t see on the streets of Paris
You’ll see a lot of different styles in the couture capital, but activewear outside the gym? Quelle horreur.
- Lauren Sams
Who’s up and down in this year’s Power List – and who wanted to get out
This week on The Fin podcast, political editor Phillip Coorey and AFR Magazine editor Matthew Drummond take us behind the scenes of the 2024 Power Issue.
September
How we got Australia’s most powerful to step into David Rowe’s world
We thought our Power listers might be reluctant to participate. Turns out, they loved it – more or less.
- Matthew Drummond
Australia’s 10 most powerful people in 2024
There are three new faces on the Power list – plus some big swings in the ranking.
- Tom McIlroy
The forces that shaped 2024’s list of Australia’s most powerful people
Someone wasn’t happy to be on this year’s Power list. But even Power listers have no say in the process.
- Phillip Coorey
The 10 most covertly powerful people in Australia in 2024
Those who wield the most clout behind the scenes in the nation’s business and politics.
- Tom McIlroy
Australia’s ‘brain boxes’ are a growing source of covert power
These research and advocacy institutes are on the rise. But to get the funding, they need to be seen.
- Emma Connors
Australia’s five most powerful people in education in 2024
As we hurtle to the end of the year, there are a lot of balls still up in the air for the sector. The question is, how many have landed?
- Julie Hare
Power list reveals diminished influence of Australia’s corporate sector
This year’s list reflects the fading voice of CEOs and the growing size, scale and power of the superannuation sector.
- James Thomson
Australia’s 10 most powerful business leaders in 2024
The strongest voices for corporate Australia in a year when cost-of-living pressures have ripped through the most vulnerable parts of the economy.
- James Thomson
Australia’s top five powerbrokers in the law for 2024
It was a momentous year for the High Court, the competition regulator and outspoken judges. Here are the people setting the agenda in legal circles.
- Michael Pelly
The five most powerful Australian tech leaders in 2024
The biggest deal of the year, the end of an era at Atlassian and the rising influence of super funds helped to shape the list of technology’s most powerful in 2024.
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- Paul Smith
The 10 most culturally powerful people in Australia in 2024
What does it mean to be Australian right now? These 10 people made the biggest mark on our national culture this year.
- Michael Bailey
Australia’s most powerful people in property for 2024
Interest rates and construction costs are wreaking havoc and creating new winners and losers. Perhaps the biggest power shift is the fading influence of the CFMEU.
- Nick Lenaghan
The Gaza conflict ripped through the arts and ripped it apart
The conflict in Gaza hangs heavily over theatres and galleries, as animosities lead to a wave of resignations, donor withdrawals and boycotts.
- Matthew Drummond
Australia’s most powerful deal makers in 2024
If investors step up and hit the bid on those valuations, the market will see real momentum. If not, it will be the same painful conversation about dry powder next year.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
The most powerful people in the consulting sector in 2024
As the fallout from the PwC scandal still looms large, smaller operations are moving in on the big four’s turf.
- Edmund Tadros
Trying to make sense of the US election? Spare a thought for our diplomats
Australian policymakers have an apprehensive wait to see whether they will be dealing with a Trump or Harris administration.
- James Curran
Former Young Rich Lister’s surprise return to the business she left behind
Erin Deering is about to launch her new fashion brand, and says it’s surreal to be back in the game after nearly 10 years away.
- Lauren Sams
August
Rodd & Gunn’s winning formula: Make him a little younger, still rugged
Having successfully expanded in the US, the Queenstown-based menswear brand expects to double revenues in a year.
- Brook Turner
