10 long reads for the weekend
afr.comWelcome to the weekend. To start off your day, we’ve curated 10 great reads to enjoy.
It took six months to buy Daou Vineyards. Shareholders will judge the wine CEO’s tenure by how well he can turn the business into a brand like Penfolds.
Treasury Wine chief executive Tim Ford was “understatedly impressive” in his sporting days. Elke Meitzel
The billionaire and fund manager have common interests in business and philanthropy. In the Financial Review’s new column, they talk about their friendship.
Anthony Albanese flies to Asia this weekend, but he will be careful not to signal any return to the sunlit uplands of engagement with Beijing.
His defence lawyer said the government tried to show the jury “the movie of Sam the villain.” He might have been ahead of his time.
Public opinion has turned against Israel as the number of civilian Palestinian casualties mount from retaliatory airstrikes.
The corporate world thought the head of the competition regulator would be on its side but that’s not how it’s turning out.
Verbal agreements around the kitchen table – such as those cited in the case of pop star Vanessa Amorosi – are just some of the triggers. This is how to avoid them.
To the unenlightened, the site outside the Canadian city of Saskatoon may not look like much. But buried below the surface is bountiful proof it’s been an important gathering place for 6400 years.
The show shaped a global sense of humour with the late Matthew Perry’s Chandler, who turned sarcasm into the default mode of speech.
Fans love to argue about the evolution of the game, and whether it was easier in the past. Now science has an answer.
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