Australian casino tycoon offloads colossal Sydney mansion for $70 million
James Packer, the colorful Australian casino tycoon, has set a national property price record with the $70 million sale of a colossal six-storey mansion. The sprawling home was built for himself and More...
Why ASIC’s Greg Medcraft backs BlackRock’s Larry Fink over Carl Icahn
One morning almost two weeks ago, securities regulator Greg Medcraft awoke in Sydney to an extraordinary news story about American hedge fund tsar Carl Icahn accusing the world’s biggest investment More...
Establishing Jewish identity in the Ukraine
Last weekend an office for Jewish ancestry clarification purposes was inaugurated in the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk. The new office was opened as part of a co-operation between the Triguboff Institute established More...
Get A Kosher Dildo
– – Are you an orthodox Jew looking to have more fun in bed? Well a new company called Better2gether may have the answer for you, including “kosher” dildos. That’s right, kosher dildos. More...
Doctor Testifies Female Executive Was Raped by Uber Driver
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Australians More Likely to Perish in Freezing Winters than Squelching Summers
Australians are more likely to die during unseasonably cold winters than hotter than average summers, QUT research has found. Across the country severe winters that are colder and drier than normal are More...
Oil prices climb on Libya supply worries
– Oil prices rose on Monday, after dropping for the past two sessions, as escalating clashes in Libya stoked worries about supply from the OPEC member. A fire caused by fighting at one of Libya’s More...
Uber Wants to Patent Surge Pricing
Uber wants to patent its surge-pricing feature. It is one of 13 items that the company has filed with the U.S. Patent Office and 24 that it has applied for globally. The service allows drivers to set rates based More...
Chairman of Football Federation Australia to be Succeeded by Son
With about a year remaining in Frank Lowy’s tenure as chairman of Football Federation Australia, there is increasing debate over whether he will or should be succeeded by his youngest son, the Sydney Morning More...
When you lose weight, where does the fat go?
– Sydney: Despite a worldwide obsession with diets and fitness regimes, many health professionals cannot correctly answer the question of where body fat goes when people lose weight, a UNSW More...