This Month
Sydney brewery raises capital, inks deal with finals favourite Swans
Charge your glass for White Bay Brewery! It’s got private equity, it’s got Merivale, and now it’s got AFL finals favourite Sydney Swans drinking from its taps.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
October 2023
How Sydney Swans boss Tom Harley makes the right decisions
Getting your priorities in order is critical when it comes to making decisions. Sydney Swans chief executive Tom Harley’s key priority is his family.
- Sally Patten and Euan Black
September 2023
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- Saleroom
Mystery of what happened to Andrew Pridham’s $2.5m ‘Whiteley’ solved
The investment banker and Sydney Swans chairman speaks for the first time about being duped in Australia’s biggest alleged art fraud.
- Gabriella Coslovich
August 2023
Gil McLachlan wins some. You lose more
The AFL CEO knows there are concerns about gambling advertising. But still, the sport pushes dreadful bets to lure in fans.
- Mark Di Stefano
Star Swans player’s gambling podcast sparks watchdog scrutiny
Tom Papley’s betting podcast comes only months after the club signed onto a major anti-gambling initiative.
- Mark Di Stefano
Sydney Swans ‘no d*ckheads’ policy stretches thin
The Swans have taken a strong anti-gambling stance. Shame that no one seems to have told the club’s star forward.
- Mark Di Stefano
The Buddy effect: How Lance Franklin changed Sydney
Buddy Franklin’s $10 million move to Sydney was controversial to say the least. A record-breaking decade later, few could argue it wasn’t worth the risk.
- Zoe Samios and Samantha Hutchinson
July 2023
Take your kids to work ... at MA Financial
The ASX-listed asset manager has been giving jobs to the children of the board.
- Mark Di Stefano
Lance Franklin calls time on glittering AFL career
Legendary Sydney and Hawthorn key forward Lance Franklin, one of the AFL’s greatest players, has retired after injuring his calf in Saturday night’s win over Essendon.
- Roger Vaughan
May 2023
Carlton’s Board Blues: Craig Mathieson quits amid rift with Luke Sayers
His uncle, pubs baron Bruce Mathieson, earlier this month said the ex-PwC chief should take responsibility for the AFL team’s poor performance.
- Zoe Samios
March 2023
Sydney Swans CEO only has gears one and four when he exercises
Tom Harley is used to having a strict routine: up at 4.40am, gym, a bowl of granola, making school lunches, three coffees a day, work and in bed by 9.30pm.
- Sally Patten
February 2023
Veteran investment banker scores near $30m for Bellevue Hill home
Newly appointed Westpac board member and former chairman of investment banking at Goldman Sachs Australia Tim Burroughs has sold his Sydney home for around $30 million.
- Lucy Macken
November 2022
Lance Franklin helps kick Swisse sales higher
Shoppers are buying vitamins to bolster their immune systems and have also been inspired by the Sydney Swans star and wife Jesinta.
- Simon Evans
September 2022
AFL grand final a ratings bomb for Channel 7
900,000 fewer fans tuned into Geelong’s thrashing of Sydney than 2021’s grand final, renewing calls from the broadcaster for the AFL to shift the match to a twilight timeslot.
- Hannah Wootton
Geelong thrash Sydney by 81 points to claim AFL premiership
Geelong have emphatically silenced critics who doubted their ageing list would win a premiership, thrashing Sydney by 81 points in the AFL grand final.
- Shayne Hope
Geelong clinch AFL premiership with 81-point win over Swans
Geelong Cats and Sydney Swans are facing off at the MCG in the 2022 AFL Grand Final.
- Alana Christensen
Bloods brothers: Swans legends kick on to finance after footy
Grand final wins and losses forged lessons for later careers in stockbroking and funds management for All Australian defenders Leo Barry and Ted Richards.
- James Eyers
The Swans’ secret sauce: youth developed through its academy
Callum Mills, Isaac Heeney, Nick Blakey and Errol Gulden are all products of the Swans Academy, which remains controversial among some Melburnians.
- James Eyers
Swans fly – and drive – south, hopeful of AFL grand final win
Days out from the 2022 AFL grand final, the phone of Swans president Andrew Pridham won’t stop ringing.
- Samantha Hutchinson
‘It’s winner takes all’: Geelong president Drummond eyes a win
Geelong president and corporate leader Craig Drummond says that the commercial spoils of the AFL grand final are the same as the silverware - it’s winner takes all.
- Gus McCubbing