Let’s get one thing straight: the Akubra isn’t a costume piece. It’s a piece of Australian heritage that’s ended up on the ...

The famous Australian hat maker, Akubra, will now only use European rabbits to make its popular broad-rimmed hat. Loading... It has been using a mix of local and imported skins in recent years, but is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For 130 years, Akubra has been making iconic Australian fur felt hats. But up until the last 18 months, the company was stuck in ...

It is an Australian fashion staple famously donned by celebrities and prime ministers, and the new owners of Akubra hats, hand-made in Australia for almost 150 years, intend to keep it that way.

KEMPSEY, Australia (AP) — 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.

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 ...

Rain permitting, they might fling the hat in the nearest puddle. This rural ritual isn’t a sign of disrespect, but the opposite. A quintessential symbol of Australian working life, the Akubra has to ...

Iron-ore billionaire Andrew Forrest’s family office has struck a deal to buy Australian hat maker Akubra Hats Pty Ltd., deepening the Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. founder’s ownership of local apparel ...

Walking on to the floor of the Akubra hat factory in the town of Kempsey in New South Wales is like stepping back in time. The heavy machines whirring and buzzing look like they should be in a museum ...

For 130 years, Akubra has been making iconic Australian fur felt hats. But up until the last 18 months, the company was stuck in the '80s, operating on a DOS-based system. The DOS system was made up ...