This Month
Donald Sutherland, shape-shifting movie star, dies at 88
Sutherland’s chameleonlike ability to be endearing in one role, menacing in another and just plain odd in yet a third appealed to directors.
- Clyde Haberman
- Opinion
- Regulation
The man who made economic rationalism popular
Working out how to lower his household water bill set Professor Tom Parry on the road to lowering prices for electricity, water and transport in NSW.
- Michael Easson
May
Morgan Spurlock, ‘Super Size Me’ documentary director, dies at 53
The filmmaker’s career imploded after he acknowledged past incidents of sexual assault and harassment. The cause of his death was cancer.
- Brian Murphy
Ivan Boesky, convicted of 1980s insider trading scandals, dies
The rogue trader was believed to have inspired the character of Gordon Gekko, the rapacious villain played by Michael Douglas in the 1987 film Wall Street.
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- Greg Farrell
- Opinion
- Ireland
The day I predicted the downfall of Tony O’Reilly
Regarded for much of his life as the most successful Irishman in modern history, the industrialist’s charm wasn’t enough to save his business empire.
- Aaron Patrick
Sir Tony O’Reilly, the tycoon who fell into bankruptcy
He was an Irish rugby international and British Lion, the creator of Kerrygold butter, and a charismatic international business leader and newspaper tycoon.
- The Telegraph
April
Henri Aram: the 101-year-old market gadfly
A reforming pioneer in the investment advice industry, Henri Aram was also outspoken about the operation of finance markets and the behaviour of big corporates.
- Andrew Clark
OJ Simpson, ‘trial of the century’ defendant, dies
The former American football star was the murder accused in one of the most notorious court cases in 20th-century America.
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- Ken Ritter
- Opinion
- Opinion
The man who discovered people hate losing more than they like winning
Daniel Kahneman was one of the few psychologists to win the Nobel Prize for economics.
- Andrew Leigh
March
Author Daniel Kahneman, who exposed investors’ irrationality, dies
The psychologist’s work casting doubt on the logic of decision-making helped spawn the field of behavioral economics and won him a Nobel Prize.
- Stephen Miller
Vale Charles Williams, corporate poacher turned gatekeeper
The influential regulator was born, raised and worked in the heart of the Melbourne business establishment but became a key oversight figure.
- Andrew Clark
From housing commission flats to law firm CEO
Long-term head of HWL Ebsworth Juan Martinez built the nation’s largest legal partnership on the back of hard lessons from a harsh childhood.
- Michael Pelly
Dick Humphry, inventor of shareholder democracy, dies at 85
A man whose habits and approach were set in the “old school”, Richard Humphry nevertheless led a technology-driven revolution in Australia’s financial markets.
- Andrew Clark
February
The judge who made business better
When the economy opened up in the 1980s, Andrew Rogers helped Australia become a more commercially sophisticated country, NSW’s chief justice writes.
- Andrew Bell
- Opinion
- Arts
‘The last cheque that I write bounces’: vale Harold Mitchell
The advertising pioneer, who died last week aged 81, struggled with personal challenges, including alcoholism, weight and marriage failure.
- Aaron Patrick
The pioneering judge who revolutionised Australia’s courts
Andrew Rogers fundamentally changed the way commercial disputes were handled when he was on the NSW Supreme Court in the late 1980s.
- Michael Pelly
Lowitja O’Donoghue, ‘the greatest Aboriginal leader’
Indigenous trailblazer Lowitja O’Donoghue is being celebrated as a giant of modern Australia after her death at the weekend.
- Michael Pelly
January
Lang Walker, the developer with a touch for timing
The Rich Lister who died over the weekend aged 78 spotted change before most people and enjoyed the freedom of a private company to move quickly to tap it.
- Michael Bleby
John Pilger, controversial campaigning journalist, dead at 84
John Pilger, who has died aged 84, was a journalist and documentary maker for whom the word uncompromising might have been invented.
- Telegraph Obituaries
December 2023
Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on US Supreme Court, is dead
The rancher’s daughter wielded great power over American law from her seat at the centre of the court’s ideological spectrum. She was 93.
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- Linda Greenhouse
