In a sorry end to a glittering career, Australian cardboard-box king Richard Pratt was caught price-fixing
Humbled but not off the Flight Path
A failed $9 billion takeover bid in May by a private-equity group for Australian flag carrier Qantas— which would have been the biggest deal in aviation history—seems to have humbled the airline’s pugnacious CEO, Geoff Dixon
Ferry expensive journey
Kangaroo Island is in the thrall of an overpriced monopoly ferry service to and
from the South Australian mainland
Eric Ellis suggests potential slogans and policy statements from new Labor leader and former Australian diplomat to Beijing, Kevin Rudd
One man’s extraordinary journey from middle Australia into the heart of Indonesia’s Islamic world. Or was it into the heart of darkness?
Its a good thing Sol Trujillo secured one of Australia's highest executive pay packages--about $8 million--when he signed on last year as CEO of its biggest company, Telstra. At least he's being handsomely compensated for the personal attacks he has weathered since joining the government-controlled telephone company
The US fears a P&O terror takeover, but Middle East petrodollars are welcome in Australia
The Americans have put the mess back into Mesopotamia, says an Iraqi-Australian economist after trying to help the reconstruction of his birthplace
After 15 years on the lam, with $1.5bn missing and facing 18 charges from one of the biggest corporate scandals in Australian history, Abraham Goldberg finally wants to come home
Wizards of Oz, a bank in Australia makes a bid for London’s stock exchange
Eric Ellis on the background to the hanging in Singapore last week of an Australian drug-dealer
If nothing else, the hanging of Nguyen Tuong Van has shown up the Singapore government for its hypocrisy and barbarism
Hang Democracy, Let's Trade
Singaporeans don't like to be reminded they do business with Burmese narco-traffickers,
and admit they don't mind punishing the innocent to preserve law and order
Singapore seems determined to hang Melbourne man Nguyen Tuong Van as an act of defiance in the face of international criticism
On the run
Abe Goldberg has gone to ground since last week's
astonishing expose. Now Polish authorities are determined to see that justice is
done
The one that got away: When Melbourne rag trade magnate Abraham Goldberg disappeared, $1.5bn went missing with him. How we tracked down Australia's biggest corporate fugitive
Eric Ellis on the weeping, xenophobic hysteria in Australia over the conviction of Schapelle Corby for smuggling drugs into Indonesia
The Bali expats and intelligentsia are disgusted by Australia’s racist reaction. The other 230 million Indonesians ask, “Schapelle who?”
Foster's may be Australian for beer, as the ads would have it, but CEO Trevor O’Hoy is intent on making the company Australian for wine
The trials of Schapelle
There are braying reporters, dozing judiciary members, colourful lawyers and
assorted hangers-on basking in the limelight and baking in the Indonesian heat.
Centre stage, an Australian woman's life is at stake
The rise of the tribute band has closely followed John Howard's conservative ascent. What price Kissteria's Gene Simmons clone as next PM?
The hopes of a generation of Indonesians were destroyed in the rubble of the Sari Club
This weekend's Bali bombing commemoration has upset the island's Hindu elders, who say the gods will not be pleased
A son combs five continents to find the father he never knew. The journey ends in heartbreak and happiness. Our correspondent Eric Ellis is that son
Secret agent plan
Bob Lowry knows his way around Indonesia
Conoco Timor - A battle in East Timor
East Timor, a nation that depends on foreign aid to fill its coffers, is about to become a country that relies on one company to fuel its economy
As the do-gooders move on, carpetbaggers and corrupt locals are left to count the loot. Eric Ellis discovers that most East Timorese are wondering what went wrong a year after independence
THE BALI BOMBINGS - October 12, 2002
Allah's Assassins *nominated for 2003 Walkley Award, Asia-Pacific reporting
The Bali bombers were rootless young men recruited from the dusty poverty of a village in West Java - their overseer a worldly West Javanese, burning with Islamic zeal and with the contacts to organise and bankroll their jihad. Eric Ellis retraces their steps as they moved from village to town meeting the fixers, financiers and bombmakers, and finally assembling and detonating the devices that would kill and maim so many in a Kuta Beach tourist precinct.
Indonesian forces have historically sought ties with Islamic groups only to suit their purposes, as Eric Ellis reveals
The determination of authorities in Indonesia to execute any convicted Bali bombers raises many questions about Australia's role in the investigation, writes Eric Ellis in Jakarta
An elaborate purification ritual may have exorcised some of Bali's demons, but the killers still to face justice there are monsters on the loose. In Kuta, ERIC ELLIS talks to the policeman heading the investigation and examines the secretive world of 'Indonesia's Arabs."
As well as the lives of many, the nightclub bombs destroyed any lingering illusions that Bali was a tranquil haven somehow isolated from Indonesia's current malaise. Eric Ellis reports from Kuta Beach.
As dawn broke on the chaos that was Kuta Beach, Eric Ellis searched for survivors of Australia's worst terrorist outrage
Indonesia detains two over Bali terror attack
Cleansing of foreign evils a `good thing'
Critic Robert Hughes is due to face court again over his near-fatal car crash in Western Australia. In the strange mix of culture and chaos that is Broome, Eric Ellis gauges the mood of the town
Just another bloody car crash, mate
There are three certainties to life Down Under: The beers will be cold, the beaches will be golden, and people will grumble about air travel.
Singapore Telecommunications CEO Lee Hsien Yang isn't a natural gambler.
But in one of the biggest bets of his career-a $7 billion bid for Aussie telephone company Optus-Lee has a lot staked on the outcome: his job, Singapore's prestige, even an exacting father's approval.
What's Separating SingTel and Optus? Canberra.
Australia's government has to O.K. the $8 billion telecom takeover. Despite many objections, chances are it will get the nod
A Way to Stop the Aussie Dollar's Slide?
One prominent businessman's bold proposition: Ditch the native currency and adopt America's greenback
Who's
Gonna Gulp Down Foster's?
Since the Aussie brewer nabbed U.S. wine maker Beringer, it's in the takeover
crosshairs of any number of possible buyers