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 […]

The million-dollar-plus dress closing the Melbourne Fashion Festival runway

Weighing 150 kg and featuring 96,762 Swarovski crystals, Alin Le’ Kal’s creation was valued at $1 million in 2019. Like everything else in this inflationary environment, the price has since gone up, he tells Forbes Australia. It took nine months for Alin Le’ Kal and his Parisian team to complete the exquisite gown closing the […]

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