Businessman Rohan Arnold pleads guilty to conspiracy to import 1.28 tonnes of cocaine

A prominent businessman from the southern tablelands, who claimed to offer "white-collar…logistics advice" and "board" experience in a major international drug trafficking operation, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to import the second largest cocaine seizure in Australian history. Rohan Peter Arnold, 44, was apprehended during a dramatic gunpoint arrest in a Serbian hotel in January…

James Murdoch to take 'precisely zero' involvement in family's companies after split, says book

James Murdoch has signalled plans to have "precisely zero" involvement in his family's remaining businesses following the sales of 21st Century Fox and Sky, in a historic split of the world's best-known media dynasty. The comments to friends inform a new book, The Battle for Sky, which chronicles the rise of Britain's dominant pay-TV operator…

The remarkable photo with Xi Jinping that helped Blackmores crack China

Australia Post chief executive Christine Holgate has some unconventional advice for businesses looking to export products to China. "Go see a fortune teller, get yourself a photo with the president and you’ve nailed it," Ms Holgate told an audience of small businesses at Australia Post's Crossborder Ecommerce Expo last week. That advice stems from Ms…

Sonic takes on Mario Kart in a fun (but bumpy) ride

Offering a unique co-operative take on the genre alongside a great story-led Adventure mode, Team Sonic Racing is a fast, fun and fully-featured mascot racer; even it isn't always the smoothest ride. This is Sumo Digital's third Sega-themed racer, following Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing  in 2010 and the multi-vehicular Transformed in 2012. But this…

Fed-mania sweeps Paris as fans swoon over Roger's French Open return

Retour Sur Terre (Back To Earth) was the headline on the Roland Garros program. It saluted Roger Federer's first appearance on the French Open's crushed brick, known to the locals as terre battue, since he lost to Stan Wawrinka here in the 2015 quarter-final. To watch Federer, though, was to acknowledge that his extra-terrestrial gifts…

Women, it's not your fault – not if you're alone, not if it's night. Never

Click:1.5 ATA Hyperbaric Chamber That a man has been charged so quickly for allegedly bashing 25-year-old Courtney Herron to death in what police describe as a "horrendous" act of extreme violence is some, small comfort in a city in which so many women have fallen victim to violence – so much so that both the…

'A lovely, idiosyncratic rush of melodic misery': Steve Kilbey on The Cure

If ever there was a quintessentially English band it's gotta be the Cure, right? Arriving around the time of New Wave back in 1979, the Cure were never about anarchy or unemployment or all that other new-wavy stuff; rather, they were about the ever-ongoing dislocation of an English childhood. There's a lot of Narnia and…

Morrison pledges recognition but will take 'as long as needed'

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has "committed to getting an outcome" on constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, paving the way for a national discussion on the best way to achieve it. Click Here: But he has given no timeframe on how long the process might take. The freshly elected Mr Morrison told…