14+ hour, 59+ min ago   (114+ words) AFR After a visit Down Under two years ago, the director of Art Paris is on a mission to showcase Australia’s pioneering practices in Europe. There’s never been a better time for it. Visitors attend Art Capital 2026 at the Grand…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (69+ words) AFR In today’s news, lenders start selling Bathla properties, Luke Sayers sends a lawyer to apologise after settling a dispute with his estranged wife, and it looks like housing won’t go back to “normal”. Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (62+ words) AFR The reverberations from the collapse of the Gold Coast-based mini-conglomerate behind marketplace Local Expert and consumer finance plays such as WalletPay, are continuing, with Sydney private credit firm Rixon Capital telling investors it had written a $15 million loan down…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (76+ words) A painting by a mostly forgotten artist who stopped selling because it wasn’t the done thing is among the highlights in the 10th annual Women Artists auction. Leonard Joel’s 10th annual Women Artists auction takes place on Monday night in Melbourne, with…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (126+ words) AFR We can’t trust a government whose decision-making is like an underground stream – we know it’s there because of the outcome, but damned if we know its course. Over the last decade in Victoria, it seems that the ends really…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (138+ words) AFR There’s little doubt that National Australia Bank hoped to get away with a sweeping restructure of its core corporate and institutional division – home to its biggest-ticket clients – with little fanfare. But dislocating a string of senior bankers is unlikely…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (90+ words) AFR The former head of Victoria’s anti-corruption commission has urged the Carroll government to explicitly allow the watchdog to investigate all referrals it receives from the royal commission into the state’s infrastructure program amid concern that promised integrity reforms do…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (53+ words) AFR The vast majority of processing in the data centres being rolled out around the country will be for American technology giants, forcing cloud computing and digital infrastructure developers to defend the construction of the assets as something that will…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (72+ words) AFR Stamp duty revenue in NSW plunged 20 per cent in July as the national property slump threatened to blow a hole in state government budgets, adding to credit downgrade risks in both NSW and Queensland. NSW collected $739.2 million in stamp…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (88+ words) AFR A former investment banker in Sydney who once held a senior role at Merrill Lynch Australia is caught up in the collapse of an $833 million offshore hedge fund. Ashish “Hash” Patel, 53, who spent several years with Merrill Lynch’s investment…...