Australia's most expensive steak

At $875, is this Australia’s most expensive steak?

If you are on the prowl for a deluxe piece of beef, here’s some places to hunt down. This gold-leaf encrusted wagyu tomahawk from Sydney’s Botswana Butchery was Australia’s most expensive steak, according to a Forbes Australia investigation into the top end of the local beef market.   The 1.6kg bone-in ribeye comes from an animal […]

EMVision brain scanning device

$2.5m grant backs a stroke of genius

EMVision awarded $2.5 million grant for stroke detection device study. Ron Weinberger’s dream is to have a helmet-sized brain scanning device in every ambulance, on every flying doctor aircraft, by hospital beds around the world and, one day, maybe even on the sideline of every football game.   That dream came a little closer on […]

Would you pay $265 for an Aussie Sparkling?

A 21-year-old Australian sparkling wine has been named the world champion “Library Vintage” sparkling wine for 2022. It was never too hard for Ed Carr to get the suits and the bean counters along to meetings to discuss his plans to extend the aging process of his top-end sparkling wine. Not only would he have […]

Is this Australia’s best place to work?

This company pays you to work from a tropical island in Queensland, or the ski fields in New Zealand … or Hobart. In its bid to be the best place to work in Australia, Mantel Group was deciding where to locate its next “destination” work hub. Four candidates were discussed: Byron Bay, Margaret River, Hobart […]