FAR Ltd MD Cath Norman described the cash offer as “opportunistic” given the company’s cash and an expected future payment from Woodside’s Senegal oil project.
How a cast of business moguls shaped Sydney
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How a cast of business moguls shaped Sydney
Stories of businesspeople bold, colourful, generous and ruthless have appeared in the Herald for 190 years. Theyâre moguls who would shape the cityâs history and, indeed, the history of the paper itself.
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Wâhen businessman Samuel Terry died in 1838, a military regiment marched through the streets of central Sydney, playing Handelâs
Dead March in Saul. The procession along dusty streets was possibly the most splendid funeral that Sydney, a city of 25,000 people, had seen. Reports in London about the funeral, however, prompted outrage. Imagine, seethed a writer in
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