In Australia, politics is as dynastic as it is democratic.
Once Australia's most powerful pastoral family, the Macarthur dynasty now clings to its ancestral home, Camden Park — on the outskirts of Sydney, passed down over seven generations — as its final link to a glorious past.
Following in a great woman's footsteps isn't easy.
It is claimed that Myers is Melbourne and today the Myers sit in the front row of Melbourne society
The Duracks were among the first of Australia's great cattle kings.
The De Bortoli dynasty owes much of its success to its Italian heritage, but for how much longer can it stay true to its down-to-earth roots?
Rupert Murdoch is one of the most powerful men on earth. His global information empire, News Corporation, reaches two-thirds of the world's population.
Our greatest colonial dynasty was founded by 'the bastard son of a highway robber by a convict whore': WC Wentworth, the father of colonial self-government and an explorer of the Blue Mountains.
A working class sporting dynasty, built on the foundations of small town values and the Collingwood Football Club.
Arthur Boyd was a painter from a family of painters, potters, architects, writers and sculptors — but his fame eclipsed them all.
The Aboriginal dynasty that gave Australia the closest thing to a Magna Carta and made the custodianship of land and culture its greatest strength.
Australia's cattle king, Sir Sidney Kidman, built a massive empire that covered 3½ percent of the continent.
Coming to Australia in the early '50s, Franco Belgiorno-Nettis, the poor son of a southern Italian family, quickly became one of our most successful industrialists and art patrons, founding the Sydney Biennale.
How much does a father owe his family? Sir Reginald Ansett was the son and grandson of Victorian transport pioneers. With extraordinary leadership he built Ansett Airlines into one of Australia's leading companies. But this man, who commanded the unswerving loyalty of his workers and family, left his own children with comparatively little. Today, the airline he built is only a memory. And the fortune he created has been placed outside his descendents' reach. This is the remarkable story of Australia's last great aviation baron, an extraordinary legacy and the family he left behind
This is the tale of how a poor family of Hunter Valley wine labourers became Australia’s third largest wine company. It is the story of great success and personal tragedy. Brian and Fay McGuigan devoted their lives to building Wyndham Estate into one of the world’s most recognisable wine businesses. Then, in 1990, the unthinkable happened. Their 21-year-old daughter died of cancer and, in a hostile takeover, they lost their company. Out of despair, the McGuigans fought back. Once again, hard work came to the rescue – and together the family built a new multi-million dollar wine empire. But today the McGuigans must face a new truth: that work can no longer be the family’s salvation.
In the 1930s, nineteen year-old Dan Leahy and his brother became the first white men to walk into the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Their arrival in search of gold brought cataclysmic change. Before long, the Leahy's gold mine had become the centre of a new outpost in the Australian colony. But unlike other colonialists, Dan Leahy openly embraced local custom. Uncaring of scandal, he raised a family of ten children from three village wives. Today, thirty years after Australia gave Papua New Guinea its independence, his descendents still call the Highlands their home. This is the story of a unique colonial legacy and a family that must still bridge the divide between two very different worlds.
