Collapse of $61m pub deal casts fresh gloom over Oxford Street
The two pubs were sold last year with grand plans to create an Ivy-style mega-complex on Taylor Square. Those prospects appear to be dashed.
- by Michael Koziol, Carolyn Cummins and Ben Grubb
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Crime
Intent to murder charges for 79-year-old after daylight city shooting
The elderly man wielding a semi-automatic pistol allegedly shot a solicitor, 77, at the office building on Castlereagh Street in Sydney’s CBD.
- by Perry Duffin, Jessica McSweeney and Ben Grubb
Happy young men loving life: Friends pay tribute to Jesse Baird and Luke Davies
Jesse Baird and Luke Davies had the world at their feet. “It’s hard to put words to our devastation,” said a friend of Jesse’s after police confirmed the pair’s death.
- by Ben Cubby, Andrew Hornery, Michael Koziol and Ben Grubb
Fred’s empire is worth ‘almost a bil’ but he hasn’t changed his penny-pinching ways. Here’s why
Australian tech entrepreneur Fred Schebesta’s main company was last valued at $650 million, but he still uses two-ply toilet paper and his go-to shoes are six years old.
- by Ben Grubb
Optus Senate inquiry as it happened: Kelly Bayer Rosmarin admits telco’s performance during outage was ‘not acceptable’
Optus chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin is defending her leadership publicly this morning after two high-profile disasters within 13 months.
- by David Swan, Sumeyya Ilanbey and Ben Grubb
How Optus customers are securing sizeable discounts following outage
The telco is in damage-control mode after its 16-hour meltdown last week, despite boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin ruling out discounts in recent comments.
- by Ben Grubb and David Swan
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Network outage
Identity of ‘third party’ that brought down Optus network revealed
An executive from the company that contributed to the Optus outage left a Canadian telco less than two weeks after it suffered an almost identical outage last year.
- by David Swan and Ben Grubb
Optus reveals cause of mass outage ahead of CEO’s Senate grilling
The telco is preparing to front a fiery Senate inquiry into last week’s network failure that affected 10 million customers.
- by David Swan and Ben Grubb
Analysis
Network outage
Signal failure: Inside Optus’ day from hell
The nation’s second-largest telco suffered the worst outage in recent memory, affecting millions of customers. Here’s the inside story of what happened.
- by David Swan and Ben Grubb
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Network outage
What caused the Optus outage?
The network went dark at 4am this morning, cutting off millions and throwing hospitals and rail networks into chaos. Here’s what we know.
- by David Swan and Ben Grubb
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NRL 2023
The CCTV video that cleared Latrell Mitchell and Jack Wighton
The senior arresting officer claimed he witnessed Wighton with clenched fists, anger in his face and holding a man by the shirt. This video proved otherwise.
- by Adrian Proszenko and Ben Grubb