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Nick Bonyhady

Nick Bonyhady

Nick Bonyhady is the business editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. He is a former deputy federal editor, technology editor and industrial relations reporter.

ACCC chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb speaks directly in public, but shows no love of the limelight.

First Qantas, now Coles: the star corporate lawyer beating her one-time clients

Kevin Rudd implied that Gina Cass-Gottlieb would be a patsy for the corporate world she had represented as a lawyer when she came to the ACCC. The accusation hasn’t held up.

  • Nick Bonyhady

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Spirit flew its last flights this month after pioneering the ultra-low cost airline model decades before.
  • Analysis
  • AI

A nickel and dime pioneer went broke. That’s not good news

Artificial intelligence was meant to end the “rip-off economy”, but it could also supercharge a pricing strategy that has gone so mainstream it killed one of its pioneers.

  • Nick Bonyhady
Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes giving a speech at the Nasdaq on Wednesday, 11 December 2025.

A 40-year-old storage company just beat Mike Cannon-Brookes’ Atlassian

Atlassian posted its strongest quarter ever, then got kicked out of the Nasdaq 100. The market has stopped rewarding software and started paying for storage.

  • David Swan and Nick Bonyhady
Very cheap Ozempic is coming, allowing people to use it lifelong.

Ultra-cheap Ozempic is coming. That’s a mixed blessing for Australians

Generic versions of the drug can cost as little as $20 a month overseas, in a glimpse of the future for Australia.

  • Nick Bonyhady
Crafton chief executive Kim Chang-han relied on an AI tool that led him into a legal disaster.
  • Analysis
  • AI

How one CEO’s chatbot could cost his company $355 million

After a takeover soured, the boss turned not to his lawyers but to his chatbot, creating a new dynamic in business.

  • Nick Bonyhady
Cryptocurrency has been mined in many strange places: a school district, a professional e-sports team, but this week it appeared ina new and troubling place.
  • Analysis
  • AI

The curious case of the AI bot that went rogue and started mining crypto

Cryptocurrency has been mined in many strange places, like a school district and professional e-sports team. Now it’s appeared in a new, troubling place.

  • Nick Bonyhady
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The Guardian Australia’s editor, Lenore Taylor, is one of the last of the original crew.

Lenore Taylor, Australia’s longest-serving editor, resigns from The Guardian

The Walkley-award winning former political correspondent was one of the founding staff at the publication and the longest-serving top editor in the country.

  • Calum Jaspan and Nick Bonyhady
As of 2025, about 2 per cent of Australians were taking Ozempic or similar drugs.

It created Ozempic. Now this company has run into major problems

The maker of Ozempic is facing stiff competition from rival obesity drug companies, as well as unproven knock-offs from China.

  • Colin Kruger and Nick Bonyhady
The iPhone X, which has been affected by the issue, was released in 2017.

Apple issues fix after update cut older iPhones from Telstra network

An Apple software update introduced to fix a Triple Zero network issue left some older iPhones unable to receive or make calls on the country’s largest network.

  • Elias Visontay, Tim Biggs and Nick Bonyhady
Airwallex was on a path towards a multibillion-dollar public listing. That has become much more complex.

This Australian start-up moves $1bn daily. Authorities fear it is being used by child predators

Airwallex is a major bet for the nation’s biggest technology investors, but its path to the public markets has been beset by controversy.

  • John Buckley and Nick Bonyhady