September 2023
Tabcorp enters its late-tobacco era
The ASX-listed wagering giant has been calling for bans on TV ads. Now, Tabcorp has launched a new national TV campaign.
- Mark Di Stefano
October 2022
- Analysis
- Travel
Can Rose Byrne trump Roger Federer in sales?
Forget palm trees and dolphins, Hollywood celebrities are being enlisted to sell holidays, especially with global travel back to 60 per cent of pre-COVID levels.
- Fiona Carruthers
Comedians to push fastest-growing beer in eight years into the UK
A zero carb beer brand with big shareholders including The Inspired Unemployed comedians, wants to channel Paul Hogan in a UK drive.
- Simon Evans
January 2022
Why Australia’s best companies were built in the 1980s
Some mark the ’80s as the era of the corporate cowboys, but it also heralded the arrival of Australia’s most successful global finance house, major hi-tech success stories, and ‘ocker’ advertising.
- Andrew Clark
July 2021
‘A ripper’: Hogan, Packer sideman Cornell dies
The public knew him as TV’s beer-drinking mumbler Strop, but behind the scenes John Cornell produced Crocodile Dundee and was central to Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket revolution.
- Miranda Ward
September 2020
'Super Tuesday' as publishers unleash hundreds of new books
New titles by Trent Dalton, Craig Silvey, Jessica Townsend and Jimmy Barnes are among post-COVID releases set to enthral book-lovers.
- Tom McIlroy
January 2020
Australia's climate change approach won't hinder tourism revival
Tourism heavyweights say the Morrison government is not doing enough to change perceptions Australia is lagging on climate change.
- Mark Ludlow and Fiona Carruthers
- Analysis
- Political leadership
Why the PM must stare down the deniers
Will Scott Morrison defy a decade long factional split in the Coalition and address climate change, or stay in the thrall of climate deniers?
- Andrew Clark
December 2019
The best of Sophisticated Traveller 2019: Exploring the world in style
From polar bear-spotting in the Arctic to taking a spin in a Maserati through the winding roads of north-eastern Italy, the top trips of Sophisticated Traveller magazine retold.
- Liz Main
October 2019
Paul Hogan on Donald Trump, travelling and turning 80
Hoges has been selling Australia since he first slipped “a shrimp on the barbie” in 1984, but the 80-year-old calls Los Angeles home – for now.
- Fiona Carruthers
May 2019
Paul Hogan, king of larrikins, still selling Australia to the world
Paul Hogan is still going strong when it comes to selling Australia to the world. And outgoing Tourism Australia CEO John O'Sullivan is among his biggest fans.
- Fiona Carruthers
