It doesn’t get much more Australiana than the classic Akubra hat, does it? A mainstay in Australian fashion since the 1870s, the brand Akubra might be responsible for the name we give to these outback ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...