Sydney Observer

Jay Houhlias

“Hey pal.”

“Whatcha doing over there?”

“Smells good in here, doesn’t it?”

“It’s warm in here, isn’t it?”

“Your paw is on the door now, are you knocking? You have some good manners, you do.”<...

In May, the headlines promised a crash. The settled records have now caught up with the period since Budget night. They tell a quieter, more useful story. The last in a series of three, Mike Kaye, co-founder and director at Sarah Kaye & Co Buyers Agents, gives the verdict.

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Catherine in the Antarctic

Looking at Catherine DeVrye’s photos, they seem unreal. Almost like someone photoshopped her into these extraordinary places. Far from the far-flung countries chronicled in her newly released book, Beyond Timbuktu: Journeys of Hope and Humanity, we caught up with the best-selling author, twice-awarded Au...

By Jay Houhlias

Jane Caro has worked across just about every conceivable information medium. If it’s done with words, it’s been done by Caro. She began her career as an advertising copywriter, but since then, she has been working her way through the job titles, all the job titles. Speaker, columnist, author, novelist, essayist, copywriter, activist, soci...

The headlines have moved on to falling prices. Mike Kaye, co-founder and director at Sarah Kaye & Co Buyers Agents, says the honest picture is a calmer market on both sides and an undetermined price story.

When we wrote here last month, the May Budget was barely a week old, and most of the coverage treated it as the on...