10 long reads for the weekend

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Welcome to the weekend. To start off your day, we’ve curated 10 great reads to enjoy.

Developments this week raise more questions than answers about how the firm’s tax division was allowed to spin out of control.

Consulting firms caught promoting tax exploitation schemes will be fined up to $780 million, a 100-fold increase, under the Albanese government’s sweeping response to the PwC tax leaks scandal. Luis Ascui

Hostplus and Aware Super got a payday when Blackbird cashed in some of its share of Canva. But venture capital faces a fight to keep super money flowing.

The property developer had global ambitions before a disagreement tore it asunder.

There’s much at stake if one company can steal a march over the other in winning access to projects, taxpayer funded grants or shaping policy to their whim.

Richard Joffe built and successfully sold two start-ups in the US, and is now building well-backed Honey Insurance from Sydney, he says some things are much easier here.

The ability to carve time out from work is shaping up as another front in the post-pandemic fight over how, and where, we do our jobs.

Family offices – secretive companies set up to manage the wealth of the uber rich – are looking further afield for staff.

Ozempic and Wegovy could save the 60-year-old business – if they don’t kill it first.

A Kennedy is once more running for the White House, and though unlikely to make it, could cause trouble for President Joe Biden.

They can score you access to off-market properties and even do the bidding for you, but they cost a pretty penny. Are they worth it?