On Monday, ASIO issued a warning to the ABC about Four Corners running its second episode on the Bondi massacre. ABC ran it anyway. What did ASIO fear, Al the Writer asks? When an intelligence agency threatens a broadcaster with legal action before a program airs, something is wrong. Either
Mainstream media sets the tone, controls the narrative and decides who gets scrutiny and who gets soft focus. It records without bearing witness to the obvious. Andrew Brown. A fracture has opened in Australian media, and it is no longer subtle. On one side sits what people see every day
If you want to know what the focus will be this year for the many – and may we say, growing number – of businesses engaged in creating a more sustainable built environment, it’s hard to go past the Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council which is one of Australia’s few (or only?) umbrella group that brings together a united voice across all ...
Poor and slow community engagement is causing local resistance and the collapse of social licence, putting renewable energy transition at risk of bottlenecks – especially in regional and rural communities.
Last year, Rok Solid, a renewable land brokerage firm, said smaller renewable energy developers are taking on the heavy lifting by getting ...
Even after David Chandler (former building commissioner) tried to tame the wild wild west of the construction industry, it seems like cowboys continue to run amok.
This time, the poor buggers in the Somerset apartment complex in NSW’s Carlingford are paying about $800,000 out of pocket, thanks infamous developer-gone-bankrupt Dyldam, leaving the ...
Lombardo leaves Lendlease, EY, Mecone, Le Mottee Group, PIA and loads of council and government jobs
JOBS OLD, NEW AND UPCOMING: In breaking news on Thursday. Tony Lombardo stepped down as chief executive of Lendlease after a tumultuous period for the company. The resignation will take effect in August and comes after five years in the top job and 18 years with the company.
The Australian Financial Review on Thursday said Lombardo, as recently as ...
It took two Labor leaders to help produce Monday night’s violence in Sydney, proving Labor is not immune to a touch of the Trumps, writes Michael Pascoe. NSW Premier Chris Minns would have you believe he doesn’t know one end of Sydney from the other. The protesters wanted to march
Today is D-Day for the kaleidoscopically colourful entrepreneur Giuseppe Porcelli. Will he fulfil his dreams and make it to the ASX? Michael West reports. To the best of my knowledge, there is no documented instance of a leopard ever changing its spots. A leopard’s spots are a result of genetics,
There are so many opportunities for investing in nature-positive solutions for the climate, but instead, money keeps pouring into the investments that destroy it.
Banks and investors seem to be stuck on the notion that investing in nature means “bees, trees and farmers”, when in fact there is an expanding world of opportunities from food systems to ...
As many Firstlinks’ readers are aware James Gruber departed for a new opportunity at CommSec. I’m extremely grateful for everything James has done and his stewardship of Firstlinks.
It is never easy to follow a founder and I’m proud of how James continued and expanded upon Graham’s legacy. That legacy is front of mind for me as the temporary custodian ...
Monday’s police actions against anti-genocide protestors in Sydney represent a significant escalation of unwarranted violence. Stephanie Tran and V Y Franco-Klothos report. NSW Police are on the defensive. Following the spate of attacks on pro-Palestine protestors on Monday night, and amid rising criticism of their brutality, the Police are refusing
One of the more controversial parts of our tax system – the capital gains tax discount – is currently under review in Canberra as part of a Greens-run Senate inquiry. The discount means that taxpayers who hold an asset for more than one year pay tax on only half of their gains.
Most submissions to the Senate inquiry have focused on the level of the ...
On Monday, ASIO issued a warning to the ABC about Four Corners running its second episode on the Bondi massacre. ABC ran it anyway. What did ASIO fear, Al the Writer asks? When an intelligence agency threatens a broadcaster with legal action before a program airs, something is wrong. Either
Mainstream media sets the tone, controls the narrative and decides who gets scrutiny and who gets soft focus. It records without bearing witness to the obvious. Andrew Brown. A fracture has opened in Australian media, and it is no longer subtle. On one side sits what people see every day
If you want to know what the focus will be this year for the many – and may we say, growing number – of businesses engaged in creating a more sustainable built environment, it’s hard to go past the Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council which is one of Australia’s few (or only?) umbrella group that brings together a united voice across all ...
Poor and slow community engagement is causing local resistance and the collapse of social licence, putting renewable energy transition at risk of bottlenecks – especially in regional and rural communities.
Last year, Rok Solid, a renewable land brokerage firm, said smaller renewable energy developers are taking on the heavy lifting by getting ...
Even after David Chandler (former building commissioner) tried to tame the wild wild west of the construction industry, it seems like cowboys continue to run amok.
This time, the poor buggers in the Somerset apartment complex in NSW’s Carlingford are paying about $800,000 out of pocket, thanks infamous developer-gone-bankrupt Dyldam, leaving the ...
Lombardo leaves Lendlease, EY, Mecone, Le Mottee Group, PIA and loads of council and government jobs
JOBS OLD, NEW AND UPCOMING: In breaking news on Thursday. Tony Lombardo stepped down as chief executive of Lendlease after a tumultuous period for the company. The resignation will take effect in August and comes after five years in the top job and 18 years with the company.
The Australian Financial Review on Thursday said Lombardo, as recently as ...
It took two Labor leaders to help produce Monday night’s violence in Sydney, proving Labor is not immune to a touch of the Trumps, writes Michael Pascoe. NSW Premier Chris Minns would have you believe he doesn’t know one end of Sydney from the other. The protesters wanted to march
Today is D-Day for the kaleidoscopically colourful entrepreneur Giuseppe Porcelli. Will he fulfil his dreams and make it to the ASX? Michael West reports. To the best of my knowledge, there is no documented instance of a leopard ever changing its spots. A leopard’s spots are a result of genetics,
There are so many opportunities for investing in nature-positive solutions for the climate, but instead, money keeps pouring into the investments that destroy it.
Banks and investors seem to be stuck on the notion that investing in nature means “bees, trees and farmers”, when in fact there is an expanding world of opportunities from food systems to ...
As many Firstlinks’ readers are aware James Gruber departed for a new opportunity at CommSec. I’m extremely grateful for everything James has done and his stewardship of Firstlinks.
It is never easy to follow a founder and I’m proud of how James continued and expanded upon Graham’s legacy. That legacy is front of mind for me as the temporary custodian ...
Monday’s police actions against anti-genocide protestors in Sydney represent a significant escalation of unwarranted violence. Stephanie Tran and V Y Franco-Klothos report. NSW Police are on the defensive. Following the spate of attacks on pro-Palestine protestors on Monday night, and amid rising criticism of their brutality, the Police are refusing
One of the more controversial parts of our tax system – the capital gains tax discount – is currently under review in Canberra as part of a Greens-run Senate inquiry. The discount means that taxpayers who hold an asset for more than one year pay tax on only half of their gains.
Most submissions to the Senate inquiry have focused on the level of the ...