Tennis Australia has revealed its AO Startups incubator has accepted its mid-year intake. Among the seven global start-ups accepted into the program is one Australian business, digital wayfinder PAM. Forbes Australia meets the founder. Tennis Australia’s start-up incubator, AO StartUps, has announced its mid-year intake, with the start-ups accepted set to pilot their technologies during […]
Lidia Morawska is a Distinguished Professor at Queensland University of Technology, a TIME 100 Most Influential Person and now a L’Oréal – UNESCO For Women In Science Laureate. She speaks to Forbes Australia about her life’s mission to improve indoor and ambient air quality – a problem that costs the global economy trillions of dollars. […]
Kym O’Leary founded her business, COgear, a decade ago after working nearly the same time in the mining industry and watching her female colleagues wear men’s gear. There was no alternative, so she created it. Kym O’Leary was in a meeting with her then manager at Anglo American, who was heavily pregnant, and seven other […]
How a bunch of school friends built a $3-billion company in Brisbane’s Logan district. Andrew Barnes and Vu Tran were in high school and needed a job. They could have stacked shelves at Coles for $15 an hour. Instead, they started a software business and “made a dollar an hour”. Watching on in the year […]
Four years before Elon Musk launched Neuralink, NICK OPIE and TOM OXLEY launched a start-up in Melbourne attempting to insert electrodes into human brains so people could control computers with their thoughts. It’s been a rough ride, even as their tech has led the world, but last year, a call from the world’s richest man […]
For the first time in Australian history, expenditure on scripted screen productions has exceeded $2 billion. However, ongoing skills and capacity challenges remain, and some question whether chasing the dream of ‘Aussiewood’ is misguided. Issue six of Forbes Australia is out now. Tap here to secure your copy and become a premium member. Numbers at […]
A CSIRO report examining the geography of digital businesses has revealed 96 tech clusters spread across the country – in sometimes surprising places. Key Takeaways Eight Mile Plains in Brisbane’s south came up bright red when CSIRO principal research consultant Stefan Hajkowicz plugged in the numbers for the concentration of tech jobs in Australia, trying […]
Palmer Luckey sold his first business to Facebook for US$2 billion when he was 21. At 30, he’s bringing his defence disruptor to Australia to build submarines and much more. Palmer Luckey loves Australia. The proud American patriot, famous for Hawaiian shirts and libertarian views, also has a great fondness for Australia’s bureaucrats. “Try spending […]
Lisa Nguyen has been called everything from a drug dealer to a “crazy woman” since launching the country’s first female-led medicinal cannabis business. The skepticism has been worth it as the industry grows and more patients have legal access to medicinal, doctor-prescribed cannabis, she says. Issue Five of Forbes Australia is out now. Tap here for […]
In 2022, millions of Australians had their data accessed by hackers via two major cyber-attacks: Optus in September and Medibank in October. The havoc continued when 14 million personal customer records were stolen from Latitude Financial. Since then, the Australian government has announced changes to beef up Australia’s cyber security. “Sorry too 10.200 Australians whose […]