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After a staff revolt exposed deep cultural flaws, Sam Kennard transformed a modest family storage business into a $4.5 billion property powerhouse built on growth and reinvention. This story features in Issue 24 – out now. Tap here to secure your copy. Sam Kennard opens his emails one morning early in his life as a CEO […]
Cory Doctorow – the writer who coined the word ‘enshittification’ to describe how tech platforms put profits before users – believes Australia could lead the world in turning things around. Cory Doctorow is sympathetic to the aims of the Australian government – and that of his native Canada – in attempting to take on social […]
The Lebanese migrant and former building manager knocked on hundreds of doors before landing his first customer. Eleven years later, Mybos is taking on the world. Armed with only printed screenshots of what his dream would look like, Sam Khalef would use his spare time from being an apartment complex caretaker to nip out and […]
Brisbane-founded radiopharmaceutical company AdvanCell has raised an oversubscribed $450 million Series D round as it prepares to take its experimental prostate cancer treatment into Phase-3 clinical trials and expand manufacturing in the United States. Key Takeaways Key background AdvanCell has emerged as one of Australia’s most closely watched radiopharmaceutical companies – a form of precision […]
After surviving non-Hodgkin lymphoma in their 30s, Trent Scanlen and Dr Harry Weisinger turbo-charged a herbal medicine into a global brand … just don’t call it a cancer cure. Trent Scanlen and Dr Harry Weisinger have vowed to party on Ibiza for Trent’s 100th birthday in October 2076. It’s what you’d expect the founders of […]
After years working in the shadow of her fashion icon mother, Carla Zampatti, and with sister Allegra making waves in Canberra, Bianca Spender is finally seeing her own vision take shape – and learning that success sometimes means stepping back. This story features in Issue 23 – out now. Tap here to secure your copy. When […]
Initially doubtful, Sue Williams is won over by Explora I’s understated luxury, ocean-focused design and effortless indulgence on a relaxed Mediterranean voyage. This story features in Issue 23 – out now. Tap here to secure your copy. I’m sceptical. A new luxury cruise ship that aims to put its passengers into an ‘ocean state of mind’, billed as the ultimate relaxation […]
The global mining and metals industry has pivoted from a volume-driven commodity rush to a strategic chess game, increasingly influenced by a paradigm shift in the geopolitical order. Resources are mined once, but value is added many times. Data journalist Juliette O’Brien examines where Australia captures value in its key minerals – and where it leaves […]
The backstroker traded dreams of Olympic gold for iconic pubs in priceless locations. And his starting capital was a $10,000 swimming scholarship. Glenn Piper’s first investment kitty came courtesy of Swimming Australia. The 17-year-old backstroker had broken national age-group records and the $10,000 was meant to support his training. But he’d read Robert Kiyosaki and […]
Munro equity partner and portfolio manager Qiao Ma is bullish despite the current global turmoil. She talks to Stewart Hawkins about the paradigm shift that is AI, why small-and mid-cap stocks can be like picking up billion-dollar bills off the pavement, and tells the tale of the two “great beasts wrestling each other” to shift […]