Twigger’s Tales regales readers with fond memories of the tsunami of foreign and other banks that fell victim to the Bell/Bond debacle of the 80s and 90s.
It’s been 40 years since Australia snatched the America’s Cup,but for the water-logged warriors who stuck it up the New York Yacht Club toffs,the events are so vivid it could have been yesterday.
The accountant who pocketed millions in fees over the liquidation of Alan Bond’s billion-dollar Bell Group has found his company on the other end of a wind-up order.
Mrs Barbara Mackay,wife of missing Griffith businessman Donald Mackay,was yesterday named Mother of the Year.
Stories of businesspeople bold,colourful,generous and ruthless have appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald for 190 years. They’re moguls who would shape the city’s history and,indeed,the history of the Herald itself.
The closure of Nine's TCN studio in Willoughby marks the end of an era in Australian television.
In a rare flourish for one of the highest courts in the state,a Supreme Court master has filed a requiem to the 'bare-knuckled' litigation it took to finally kill the late Alan Bond’s defunct Bell Group.
The collapse of the late Alan Bond’s Bell Group during the notorious WA Inc era can finally be swept into history after the most expensive and longest-running set of civil litigation in the state’s history.
On Tuesday a bipartisan senate motion was passed condemning comments made by honours recipient Bettina Arndt as having “the potential to bring the Order of Australia,instituted by the Queen,into disrepute”.
The two-decade-long windup of Alan Bond's failed Bell Group is closer to an end with a proposed settlement agreement to allow $1.9 billion to be distributed among creditors.