This Month
Meet the Liberal who swears she can win back Wentworth
Ro Knox was a firsthand witness to the defining event of the 21st century, and it has shaped her campaign for the seat where antisemitism is a major issue.
- Jemima Whyte
November
‘India, not China, is the historic centre of the Asian world’
Scottish author William Dalrymple argues in his new book that Indian thinkers like Aryabhata and Brahmagupta should be as familiar to the West as Archimedes and Galileo.
- Michael Bleby
‘Sounds like a comedy sketch, lunch with a person on Ozempic’
After a lifetime of being overweight, best-selling author Johann Hari lost 20 kilograms on Ozempic, but he says it’s much more than a weight-loss drug.
- Fiona Buffini
The woman defending the industry everyone loves to hate
Private health insurers are being derided all around, but their chief lobbyist, Rachel David, insists they make our medical system the envy of the Americans and British.
- Michael Smith
Sydney Metro’s boss learnt from London’s ‘failed experiment’
Peter Regan found out the hard way how to strike a good public-private partnership for transport.
- Jenny Wiggins
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Robert Kaplan reveals how to think strategically if Trump is elected
The celebrated author and strategic thinker says the US fall will only accelerate under Donald Trump, but “wise leaders” can still keep relative global peace.
- James Curran
October
The Dublin slum dweller who became Ireland’s global intellectual
‘Buffoonery as tyranny’ is Fintan O’Toole’s phrase for Donald Trump, and growing up in Catholic Ireland, tyranny is a concept the writer knows something about.
- Julie Hare
Meet the gelato king who won’t melt for private equity
The man who’s come up with most of Gelato Messina’s 5000 limited-edition specials – if not the biggest-selling flavour – is in no hurry to cede control.
- Michael Bailey
Why Monika Tu almost quit real estate after selling a $40m mansion
The agent behind Sydney’s most expensive house sales turned up to lunch in a $150,000 outfit, and doesn’t “give a shit” about the haters.
- Bonnie Campbell
Meet the farmer billionaire who wants you to do nothing about climate
Johnny Kahlbetzer knows humans won’t change anything just for the planet’s sake, so he’s obsessed with backing technology that’s not only greener, but better and cheaper.
- Michael Bailey
September
Meet the AC/DC-loving chief doctor who eats by example
Outgoing Australian Medical Association president Steve Robson says prevention is the only cure for Australia’s sick health system.
- Michael Smith
How Donna Hay changed the way we eat
Watching the cook perform her signature pasta twirl up close, one appreciates the elegantly simple approach to cooking which made her a household name.
- Lauren Sams
The Sydney-born astronaut who learnt Russian in eight weeks
Katherine Bennell-Pegg is the first person to train and qualify as an international astronaut under the Australian flag. She’s doing it all for her late mum.
- Simon Evans
Meet the Indigenous psychologist changing Aboriginal mental health
Dr Tracy Westerman’s Jilya Institute in Perth is shaking up the hitherto white world of mental health treatment.
- Jemima Whyte
August
Meet the bobsledding chief justice shaking up the courts
Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia head Will Alstergren might have had a very different career if his sporting ambitions had been fulfilled.
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- Michael Pelly
Meet the man fighting for our miners
Minerals Council CEO Stephen Galilee is in a unique position of running a major lobby group as a long-time former Liberal Party staffer in a Labor state.
- Kylar Loussikian
How Labor’s Peter Khalil got caught in the crossfire
The government’s new special envoy for social cohesion is the target of pro-Palestine protesters and the Greens.
- Myriam Robin
No such thing as work-life balance, says Airwallex’s Lucy Liu
The co-founder of the payment platform says she would plan her whole year in advance if it was possible.
- Jessica Sier
‘You don’t embarrass the New Yorker in Trump’ says military adviser
Chris Miller, a former acting secretary of defence and Project 2025 contributor, says the AUKUS military alliance will be fine if Donald Trump wins the election, but Vladimir Putin could be in a jam.
- Kevin Chinnery
July
What it’s really like when you write a bestseller
Bonnie Garmus’ late literary success has been welcome but not as she imagined.
- Theo Chapman
