The image is seared into Australian lore: Under a hot desert sun, a mounted soldier pours the last of his water into his slouch hat to share with his best friend, his horse. For countless Australians ...

After 147 years in the same family, iconic Australian hat brand Akubra has been snapped up by billionaire business tycoons Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest and his ex-wife Nicola. Few had any inkling about the ...

Australian teen Amy Jayne Everett, known as Dolly — seen here at a younger age — killed herself on Jan. 3 “to escape the evil in this world,” her father says. He has invited the people who bullied her ...

Past chief executive officers of Akubra had three things in common: they were men, they were members of the Keir family and they loved hats. The company’s new chief executive Natalie Culina, a hat ...

Outgoing Akubra chairman Stephen Keir and Nicola Forrest, with her dad’s old Akubra at the Akubra factory in Kempsey. Picture: Jeremy Piper Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest mustering on his property in an ...