Four billion eyeballs: Inside Australia’s enormous World Cup plans

The Women’s Football World Cup, kicking off in Australia and New Zealand in July, is challenging the Winter Olympics to be the third most watched sporting event in the world. FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 CEO David Beeche forecast 2 billion viewers would watch the tournament – a 90 per cent increase in eyeballs on […]

‘That’s the difference’: Aston Martin’s secret F1 weapon

Global digital engineering giant Cognizant has teamed up with Formula 1’s 2023 surprise packets.  One of the things about Formula 1 racing that’s a “little bit bonkers”, says Cognizant’s Rob Walker, is the rule limiting how much testing a team can do on the track before a race.  “Can you imagine any other sport, where […]

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F45 gets a high-intensity financial and legal workout

The woes of troubled Australian gym franchise F45 continue to mount as lawyers and liquidators circle. Forty-eight Australian F45 gyms – about one in ten – are reportedly on the market. Since July, nine F45 gyms have gone into liquidation. By comparison, only one other gym had suffered the same fate, according to the public registry, […]

‘One minute can destroy your whole career’: Christine Holgate reveals how she overcame her darkest hour

Team Global Express CEO Christine Holgate has revealed how the words of renowned fashion designer Carla Zampatti helped her through her darkest hours. Missed out on seeing her at the Women’s Summit? Christine Holgate will speak live again at the Forbes Australia Business Summit. You can secure your ticket here. Holgate had been suffering suicidal […]

The $37 million wave: Inside wild Aussie surf park

A radical Aussie surf-park design promises a new wave of cheaper rides and higher real estate values. Aaron Trevis was messing around with the kids, skimming stones in a lake back of Brisbane in 2006, when he started showing off, lobbing ever larger boulders for the splash. Trevis, a mining engineer and surfer who’d found […]