The 100 women on the list are women who are building billion-dollar brands, calling the shots in the financial markets, crisscrossing the globe to broker international agreements, and provide aid to those in need. Their accomplishments are formidable on their own, and even more so given how difficult it can be to establish inroads into…
Billion Dollars Has Been Raised For Notre Dame Cathedral But We Can’t Fix The Planet Historical landmarks like the Cathedral of Notre-Dame are significant symbols of culture, so naturally, people will identify emotionally with these symbols just as they do with their culture. However, let’s face it, the cathedral is just a building, and portions…
Developer Poly Australia has secured its first acquisition in Queensland, a 6.2-hectare corner site in Ascot, Brisbane for $36.5 million. The project will be Poly Australia’s first development outside of NSW and Victoria since the international developer arrived in Australia in early 2015. Since launching in Australia four years ago, Poly has built up a…
At least 18 building companies with an annual revenue of more than $30 million are not meeting the minimum financial requirements to operate in Queensland, the state regulator has found. The Queensland Building and Construction Commission has demanded urgent answers from companies that appear to be operating with “inadequate financial assets” — issuing 18 show-cause…
What Happens When Women Stop Leading Like Men Jacinda Ardern, Nancy Pelosi and the power of female grace. It has been another bad inning for male leadership. Besides the hourly flatulence of Trumpian twitterings and the addition of Brazil’s Bolsonaro to the Confederacy of bullyboy power, we have been treated to a second wave of…
Exceed Capital pays $21.5m for Brisbane Homemaker Centre Fund manager Exceed Capital has bought a homemaker centre in Stockland’s North Lakes community in Brisbane’s northern suburbs for $21.5 million. The deal to acquire the 8000-square-metre Style Centre on a 1.83-hectare site at 4-6 Burke Crescent was struck on a relatively high yield of 8.15…
Melbourne leads the charge with growth in office property values Melbourne has led the charge to record the strongest growth in capital values across Australia’s A-grade office market, surging by 13 per cent in the 12 months to March. Canberra’s office assets grew in value by 7.4 per cent, followed by Brisbane CBD with an…
$1.7 billion recommitted for affordable housing but few new measures The federal government has recommitted to previous pledges on affordable housing, setting aside more than $1.7 billion towards state projects in this year’s budget. But despite Treasurer Josh Frydenberg declaring that “affordable housing is a priority for this government”, the budget papers contain limited new…
How many women do you know like this? As the cost of living rises … vulnerability does too! But how many women do we know who are in this position? Tolerating not just a lesser life, but dealing with emotional and physical abuse in their living situations just to have a roof over their head?…
How many of us are dancing around an EGO? We should be all about upskilling everyone within our organisations. We should be all about productivity & logic to further advance not only our people but the people they serve aka – your customers! But how often does the three letter word creep in and slam…