Oscar Piastri’s most important hometown pit stop before the Australian Grand Prix

The Melbourne-born McLaren star talks exclusively to Forbes Australia about preparing for the 2025 F1 season-opener in the city where his motorsport career began, and getting home for lunch with mum. In person, Oscar Piastri is just as cool, calm, and collected as he appears to be on television. The 23-year-old is poised and polite […]

F1 Australia boss Travis Auld on the evolution of Albert Park’s Grand Prix

The Australian Grand Prix is known as the Formula 1 ‘festival in the park,’ Auld says. Here’s how he is growing further attendance and engagement at Melbourne’s blockbuster motorsport festival. The countdown is on until Sunday’s 2025 Formula 1 season kick-off in Melbourne. It will be Lewis Hamilton’s first race with new team Ferrari, Australian […]

No more smashed avo: The Aussie robot fixing farming’s delicate problem

Dr Nicole Robinson and Dr Jürgen Leitner founded LYRO Robotics to solve an interesting agricultural robotics challenge – delicately yet firmly grasping and packing avocados. This story featured in Issue 15 of Forbes Australia. Tap here to secure your copy. When Dr Nicole Robinson was growing up in Melbourne in the early 2000s, she was fascinated by technology, robotics, […]

PropHero propelled by $25m Series A

Founded in 2021, PropHero manages more than $1.2 billion in real estate assets between Australia, Spain, Ireland and the Indonesian property markets, and serves 8,000 users in 40 countries