This Month
Brack bolts, Whiteley sinks on a tough night for art sales
A John Brack with a fabulous backstory was a rare highlight at Bonhams, as Leonard Joel wheels out the big contemporary names for its Centum sale.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
December 2023
‘May our gladioli bloom in celebration’: Barry Humphries farewelled
King Charles, Rupert Murdoch, Elton John and Andrew Lloyd Webber led tributes at a state memorial at Sydney’s Opera House for the man who ‘invented a language’ for Australia and took it to the world.
- Samantha Hutchinson
October 2023
Savage Club coup elevates pedigreed artist
David McCubbin’s election at the Bank Place institution has caused all manner of tut-tutting among more respectable parts of the membership.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
June 2023
Nine times that fashion changed Australian history
From scandalous pants to the sunglasses that lit up a nation, Australia’s political history is littered with fashionable missteps.
- Sue Williams
Business leaders take out King’s Birthday honours
Entertainer Barry Humphries, long-time Labor MP Jenny Macklin and medical researchers Caroline Bower and Glenda Halliday topped the awards.
- Tom McIlroy
May 2023
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
Capital opportunity to make up for cancelled Quad
We will never know what the government had planned for the cancelled meeting at the Sydney Opera House. But it reeked of cultural cringe, and successive governments continuing to diminish the nation’s capital.
- Phillip Coorey
April 2023
- Opinion
- Satire
The Barrys got cancelled, but there is plenty left to laugh at
A comedy festival that takes itself very seriously has lots of options for a new award.
- Rowan Dean
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Australia’s greatest entertainer
That Barry Humphries managed to offend the old and the new establishments is probably the highest honour any satirist could hope for.
- The AFR View
Tributes flow for ‘god of comedy’, ‘brightest star’
The legendary comedian kept his “brilliant mind, his unique wit and generosity of spirit” until the very end, his family said following his death on Saturday.
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- Michael Bailey
‘The greatest comedian since Charlie Chaplin’
Through a career spanning seven decades, Barry Humphries emerged as a creative genius and one of the world’s greatest comics.
- Andrew Clark
February 2022
Leon Pratt’s bar mitzvah draws power crowd
Two hundred of Melbourne’s most influential people gathered at Raheen Estate on Saturday afternoon.
- Myriam Robin
- Analysis
- UK leadership
Dame Edna was wise to the risks of Boris’ maverick ways years ago
After two months of ‘partygate’, why hasn’t the Conservative Party toppled its leader? There’s an Australian who can help answer that question.
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- Hans van Leeuwen
September 2021
Stockbroker sells $45m Sydney trophy home
Villa Florida, the seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom Rose Bay mansion belonging to Brent Potts and his wife, has sold almost a year after it hit the market.
- Kate Burke
September 2020
Cate Blanchett's $12m Sydney apartment sold
The largest apartment in historic 1923-built landmark building The Astor was bought from Wizard Home Loans founder Mark Bouris five years ago for $8 million.
- Lucy Macken
February 2020
Battle of the banks at Open final
Who sat with who at Sunday night's Australian Open 2020 men's final?
- Myriam Robin
November 2019
- Opinion
- Vale
Clive of Australia
Clive James thrived in Britain because he remained very Australian.
- The AFR View
Clive James had a complex relationship with Australia
Part of a quartet of famous Australians who fled the monocultural tedium of the country in the early 1960s, the writer had a complex relationship with the land of his birth.
- Andrew Clark
