dentsu Queensland and Tourism and Events Queensland (TEQ) have partnered with Nine to hero the diversity of experiences across Queensland’s regions in a special 16-page Traveller liftout in The Sun Herald and The Sunday Age newspapers.
The liftout ran on June 22 and June 29 across print and digital.
The Age launches new subscription licence for Swinburne University students and campus staff
The independent and award-winning journalism in The Age will be made available to students and staff at one of Australia’s most renowned universities, in a new premium subscription licensing deal announced by Nine and Swinburne University of Technology today.
Campus Access allows students and staff at Swinburne to have complete access to a premium digital subscription to the wide range of journalism in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald from today.
With plans to make the licensing deal available to universities around Australia, Swinburne is the first Victorian university to enter into the arrangement, following a University of Sydney partnership announced earlier this year.
The Campus Access partnership will allow students and staff to access a complimentary subscription to The Age with their Swinburne email. With personalised subscription access, students and staff can download the Good Food and news apps, enjoy puzzles, browse Today’s Paper and stay informed with independent coverage of news, politics, business, world, food, travel and culture.
More than a subscription, Campus Access is a strategic partnership fostering collaboration and innovation for both The Age and Swinburne. By offering independent journalism, bespoke events, and direct engagement opportunities, this initiative aims to build a more informed and engaged community, enriching learning and stimulating critical thinking.
The initiative is the latest strategic move to engage audiences with quality, objective journalism.
Patrick Elligett, editor of The Age, said: “This is more than a subscription deal. It is an exciting partnership that will set Swinburne’s students on a path to a better informed future with The Age’s brand of rigorous and fearless independent journalism.”
Agos Garola, Director of Corporate Subscriptions & Licensing for Nine Publishing, said: “We are delighted to partner with Swinburne University of Technology, an institution that clearly shares our passion for ensuring its students and staff have access to quality journalism. This collaboration reinforces our commitment to making trusted news accessible to the next generation. We look forward to a strong and growing partnership.”
Professor Pascale Quester, President and Vice-Chancellor of Swinburne University of Technology, said: “We are thrilled to be partnering with The Age to keep our community informed on the news shaping their world and their studies. Information is power, and this partnership will further help our students become job-ready graduates. This is just one way we’re bringing people and technology together to create a better world.”
Matt Macklin, Director of Communications and Media at Swinburne University of Technology, said: “With misinformation more common than ever, it’s crucial that our students and staff have easy access to verified and comprehensive news sources. This partnership empowers the Swinburne community to understand the world around them and gather balanced and expert commentary on the news that impacts them.”
A celebration dinner was held at the Sydney Opera House this week.
AFR Magazine Celebrates 30 Years of Prestige With a 120-Page Gold-Foiled Special Edition And Watch Supplement
The Australian Financial Review Magazine has marked its 30 year anniversary with a 120-page special edition featuring an exclusive cover story with OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, an in-depth look at the vision for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games and a revealing feature on Monica Lewinsky on how the world has changed from when she worked in the Oval Office 30 years ago.
“When AFR Magazine launched in 1995, it effectively created a new format for insert magazines in Australia utilising the highest quality paper and bigger, more luxurious pages,” said AFR Magazine editor Matthew Drummond. “After three decades of sitting down with prime ministers, blue-chip corporate leaders, creative trailblazers and the entrepreneurs of sport, it’s still in a league of its own. It’s the home of the Rich List, the Young Rich List and the Power list. AFR Magazine enjoys great support from advertisers, and its articles are among the most-read stories on . According to Roy Morgan its print readership is over three times larger than that of our main competitor.”
The exclusive profile interview with Altman was written by the Financial Review’s technology editor, Paul Smith, who travelled to the company’s office in San Francisco. Altman discusses his brief sacking as CEO of OpenAI, the advent of general artificial intelligence when machines can out-think humans and the future of work. In his extensively researched 5800-word feature, Smith explores how Altman is simultaneously viewed in tech circles as a flawed leader who tells different things to different people, and also as a visionary who is building the most consequential technology since the advent of the internet.
Matthew Drummond takes an indepth look at the vision for the Brisbane 2032 Olympics and Paralympics with a host of Queensland leaders including organising committee president Andrew Liveris, Olympics powerbroker John Coates, Queensland Premier David Crisafulli and Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner. Drummond’s piece looks at how Brisbane – the smallest city to be awarded the Olympics since Helsinki in 1952 – is going through monumental change to become a global city and how it will progress to host the world’s largest sporting event.
The edition also features Monica Lewisky, who talks to the Financial Review’s US correspondent Jessica Gardner about how she took back control of the story of what happened in the Oval Office in 1995. Lewinksy discusses surviving shame and how she’s built a career in media production, including the launch of her new podcast series, Reclaiming.
“The calibre of the people who want to sit down with AFR Magazine is proof that even in the digitally-fuelled AI era, a printed magazine sets the standard for journalism, for storytelling, for creative inspiration and enjoyment,” said Drummond.
After three decades of shaping and reflecting Australia’s cultural and business successes, the edition is a highlight of Nine’s commitment to creating impactful, best-in-class prestige partnerships in the luxury sector.
The 30th anniversary issue features a gold-foiled cover with gatefold partner Rolex as well as special execution by Range Rover. It contains advertisements from a slew of luxury brands as well as a 44-page Watch supplement created by the Financial Review’s watch editor Bani McSpedden and watch writer Luke Benedictus. The Watch supplement marks the official launch of the Financial Review’s About Time Watch Weekend involving 12 prestige brands. Now in its 3rd year, the event is now exclusive to Financial Review subscribers because of strong demand for bookings.
“For 30 years, local and international advertising partners have recognised and aligned themselves with the balance of substance and style brought to life in AFR Magazine,” said Chloe Moo, Nine Publishing’s client director of luxury. “The size and strength of our 30th anniversary edition is testament to our enduring partnerships with leading luxury brands.”
The issue was launched at a 30th anniversary celebration dinner held at Bennelong at Sydney Opera House on July 22 and co-hosted with Range Rover, which was among the first luxury brands to advertise in AFR Magazine. Among the 100 guests were members of the Rich List, Young Rich List, Power List and leaders from across business, finance, design, hospitality, the arts and sport as well as senior Nine executives.
Select guests were driven to and from the event in Range Rovers. Bennelong was the venue partner and House of Arras was the beverage partner. During the dinner Drummond hosted a talk with Andrew Liveris AO about his vision for the Brisbane Olympics and Paralympics.
2024 full year results
Revenue for the publishing division, which includes The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian Financial Review, fell by six per cent to $526 million.
This was partially caused by the end of a commercial deal with Meta, and a weak digital and print advertising market, though digital subscription revenues offset print advertising declines, Nine said.
Around 63 per cent of all publishing revenue is now digital, with paying subscribers growing 5 per cent to 510,000 across the three mastheads. Despite revenue declines, earnings were flat for publishing, totalling $152.8 million, having taken $33 million in costs out.
From SMH article
1 Like
LABOR DOMINATES AFR MAGAZINE’S POWER LIST; NO OPPOSITION FIGURES MAKE THE LIST FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 25 YEARS
LABOR PARTY NATIONAL SECRETARY PAUL ERICKSON MOVES TO TOP OF THE COVERT POWER LIST; NAGI MAEHASHI OF RECIPETIN EATS TOPS CULTURE LIST
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has once again been named as Australia’s most powerful person on The Australian Financial Review Magazine’s Power List, which features no members of the federal opposition for the first time in 25 years.
While five members of Albanese’s government made the Overt Power list, Coalition leader Sussan Ley didn’t make the top 10 in the view of the Power panel. There is no one from the Coalition, Greens, Teals or crossbenchers on any of the three main Power lists; overt, covert and cultural.
“The power of Albanese in 2025 is as close to absolute as is feasible under Australia’s constitution,” said AFR Magazine editor Matthew Drummond. “In the view of several members of the Power panel, he’s the most powerful prime minister since John Howard. That said, there’s a brittleness beneath this power base with Labor’s share of the primary vote at record lows and wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and an unpredictable United States, destabilising the government.”
The gatefold cover of the magazine features the Prime Minister in the Government Party Room in Parliament House with all 28 newly elected Labor MPs and Senators, a visual depiction of the Labor’s landslide election win in May.
The Power List consists of three main categories – Overt, Covert and Cultural – which are debated at length by two separate panels of well-connected insiders drawn from Australia’s political, business and cultural spheres.
RBA governor Michele Bullock moved down to fifth place on the Overt List, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has moved to second, while ACTU National Secretary Sally McManus has moved up the list to fourth given the union movement’s influence on Labor. McManus is the most powerful non-government figure in Australia.
Commonwealth Bank CEO Matt Comyn is a new addition to the overt Power List - and the only business leader featured - taking out eighth position thanks to his visibility in Canberra. He was regarded by several panelists as the most persuasive voice of business.
The inclusion of Podcast Influencers at 10th place on the Overt List signifies generational change in how politicians reach younger audiences. The Prime Minister has this year appeared twice on the Happy Hour with Lucy & Nikki, whose hosts were photographed for the issue (and who shot to fame when Albanese agreed to their challenge to use the words “delulu with no solulu” in Parliament). The Power panel also discussed the influence of Abbie Chatfield, Konrad Benjamin, Jordan van den Lamb and the Betoota Advocate.
Labor Party National Secretary Paul Erickson tops the list of Covert power players for the first time, moving up from fifth place and replacing Labor powerbroker Don Farrell. With the superannuation sector owning almost half the ASX value, the man in charge of the country’s largest fund, AustralianSuper, Paul Schroder makes the covert power list for the first time.
Leading the Cultural Power list is the founder of RecipeTin Eats and cookbook phenomenon Nagi Maehashi, thanks to her budget-friendly recipes and mastery of what people are searching for on Google. She is followed by current world No.1 Formula One driver Oscar Piastri, with eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, Nicole Kidman, Mecca founder Jo Horgan, Gout Gout, Peter V’landys, Dom Dolla, theatre director Kip Williams and artists Khaled Sabsabi & Michael Dagostino featured in the Top 10.
The issue also features a deep dive into the NSW electorate of Bradfield, a once safe blue-ribbon seat that is now held by a Teal independent, and an examination of how Australia came to be the first place in the world to force social media giants to set a minimum age of 16. The story includes interviews with key campaigners Michael ‘Wippa’ Wipfli, MP Anika Wells, and Inman Grant among others. Writer Sam Buckingham-Jones reveals the prime minister was initially unconvinced of the idea of a ban, but changed his mind in the midst of a powerful lobbying campaign by 36 Months, a group established to push for the change.
The Australian Financial Review Magazine **Power Issue is available nationally on Friday, September 26 and on www.afr.com
OVERT LIST
- Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese
- Federal Treasurer, Jim Chalmers
- Foreign Minister, Penny Wong
- ACTU Secretary, Sally McManus
- Reserve Bank Governor, Michele Bullock
- Defence Minister, Richard Marles
- Health and Disability Minister, Mark Butler
- Commonwealth Bank CEO, Matt Comyn
- Western Australia Premier, Roger Cook
- The Podcast Influencers
COVERT LIST
- ALP National Secretary, Paul Erickson
- Trade and Tourism Minister, Don Farrell
- Finance Minister, Katy Gallagher
- Home Affairs Minister, Tony Burke
- Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff, Tim Gartrell
- Department of the PM and Cabinet, Steven Kennedy
- Chairman of the Future Fund, Greg Combet
- Policy Head, Prime Minister’s Office, Sam Trobe
- Chief Executive AustralianSuper, Paul Schroder
- Treasury Secretary, Jenny Wilkinson
CULTURAL LIST
- Founder of RecipeTin Eats, Nagi Maehashi
- Formula One Driver, Oscar Piastri
- eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant
- Actor and Producer, Nicole Kidman
- Artist and Curator, Khaled Sabsabi & Michael Dagostino
- Theatre Director, Kip Williams
- Founder of Mecca, Jo Horgan
- Music Producer & DJ, Dom Dolla
- CEO Racing NSW, Chairman of Australian Rugby League Commission, Peter V’landys
- Athlete, Gout Gout
I wonder how PVL will take only being #9 on this list…
Although I guess he’ll celebrate the fact that he’s there but no AFL figures are 
PVL is there because Nine wants NRL rights. Gotta grease those wheels.
1 Like
1 Like
SMH culture reporter Thomas Mitchell has announced he is leaving the paper after four years, thus ending his weekly column.
1 Like
UPDATE: Nick McKenzie appeared on Today this morning, saying that he has “strong suspicions” of who was responsible, and that it was a clear intimidation attempt.
‘Designed to intimidate’: Police investigate targeting of journalist Nick McKenzie’s house
1 Like
Tom Decent is the new chief sports writer of The Sydney Morning Herald.
https://x.com/tomdecent/status/1981514780335886656?t=s3tyoOdOOXxOy9UWv7eqKQ&s=19
CANVA’S MELANIE PERKINS & CLIFF OBRECHT’S WEALTH SURGES BY $4.5 BILLION IN ONE YEAR, WHILE OSCAR PIASTRI DEBUTS ON THE FINANCIAL REVIEW YOUNG RICH LIST
- Canva co-founders Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht rank #1 on the Young Rich List for the sixth year worth a combined $18.5 billion, up from $14 billion.
- Margot Robbie is Australia’s richest entertainer under 40, worth $193 million.
- F1 driver Oscar Piastri debuts on the List with an estimated wealth of $122 million, while Daniel Ricciardo has increased his wealth despite no longer racing by $7 million to $194 million. But, basketball is still the biggest creation of sport wealth, with six basketballers on the Young Rich List.
- There are 21 Young Rich Listers who have made their wealth through retail, contributing $4.5 billion to the total wealth of the top 100 in 2025.
Canva co-founders Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht have topped the Financial Review 2025 Young Rich List for the sixth year in a row, growing their estimated net worth by $4.5 billion in just one year to $18.5 billion.
The couple, aged 38 and 39 respectively, have a $13.9 billion lead on the next Young Rich Lister, Ed Craven, the co-founder of online cryptocurrency casino site stake.com who has an estimated wealth of $4.6 billion.
The full Financial Review Young Rich List will be available tomorrow, Friday, October 31 on afr.com and in a special edition of The Australian Financial Review Magazine.
In third spot are Immutable brothers Robbie and James Ferguson with $1.7 billion combined, while controversial Melbourne billionaire Adrian Portelli has increased his wealth to land fourth with $1.4 billion. Airwallex co-founder Jack Zhang rounds out the top five, with an estimated wealth of $1.3 billion.
Combined, the fortunes of the top 10 hit $31.7 billion, up 9.7 per cent from $28.9 billion in 2024.
Oliver Curtis - who as Roxy Jacenko’s husband is a regular fixture in tabloid stories - debuts at #12 on the List with an estimated net worth of $444 million thanks to his AI infrastructure company Firmus.
Margot Robbie maintains her role as Australia’s richest entertainer under 40, with a wealth pile of $193 million, to come in at #36.
Australia’s wealthiest Young Rich sport star is once again basketball star Ben Simmons, worth $260 million (#20) followed by F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo, who despite retiring from the sport, managed to increase his wealth by $7 million to $194 million (#35). Golfers Cameron Smith and Jason Day (#41 and #42) are worth $176 million and $167 million respectively. Meanwhile, Oscar Piastri debuts on the List at #56 worth $122 million.
There are 22 people making their Young Rich debut in 2025 – the most since 2022 – and they are collectively worth $4 billion. Among them are AI entrepreneurs, a former Macquarie banker, The Block judge Marty Fox and a couple behind a collagen beauty brand.
Ukrainian immigrant Anna Podolsky, 34, the founder of pet food company Lyka comes in at #30 on the list, worth $220 million.
To qualify for the Young Rich List in 2025, you need a fortune of at least $44 million, up from $38 million in 2024. The tech sector’s dominance continues, contributing more than $28 billion, or 62 per cent, of the total net worth of the list in 2025.
“It’s been another record-breaking year for the wealthiest Australians aged 40 and under, whose collective fortunes have risen 1700 per cent in the 22 years since the first Young Rich List was published by BRW. When the list launched in 2003, the total net worth of the 62 people featured was only $2.5 billion,” Rich List editor Yolanda Redrup said.
"The list has charted the spectacular rise, and fall, of some of the country’s most notable business identities. Through its history it’s detailed the journeys of the founders behind Atlassian, SEEK and MYOB, but also the collapse of the empires of entrepreneurs including Eddy Groves, Craig Gore and Zhenya Tsvetnenko.
“Their stories highlight the dedication and sacrifice needed to build your own business, and the sometimes fleeting nature of wealth when it is still primarily tied to equity.”
The Financial Review Young Rich List 2025 Highlights
TOP 10 (worth a collective $31.7 billion, using exact wealth figures)
1 Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht, 38 & 39, $18.5 billion – Canva
2 Ed Craven, 30, $4.6 billion - Stake.com
3 Robbie and James Ferguson, 33 & 28, $1.7 billion - Immutable
4 Adrian Portelli, 36, $1.4 billion - LMCT+
5 Jack Zhang, 40, $1.3 billion - Airwallex
6 Nick Molnar, 35, $1.1 billion – Block
7 Andrew Tulloch, 35, $953 million - Thinking Machine Labs, Meta
8 Paul Stovell, 39, $637 million - Octopus Deploy
9 Jessica Sepel and Dean Steingold, 36 & 40, $486 million - JSHealth
10 Nik Mirkovic and Alex Tomic, 30 & 32, $470 million each - Hismile
**The Financial Review Young Rich List is available on www.afr.com and in a special edition of AFR Magazine this Friday, October 31.