Amanda Healy closing the gap

There’s no bank of mum and dad for First Nations kids  

Amanda Healy is an indigenous woman who employs 850 people at her engineering business. And she’s bent on straightening out what’s crooked in the land of opportunity. Amanda Healy was working up near the Arctic Circle, doing human resources for BHP as they built Canada’s first diamond mine when she faced a problem no male […]

The trillion-dollar problem – and the woman with the solution

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.   […]

The Brisbane schoolmates who built a $3 billion edtech juggernaut

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 […]

How this Byron Bay local launched one of the world’s hottest water toys

Chances are you’ve seen a surfer down at the local beach flying over the water’s surface on what looks like a hoverboard. The electric foil, jokingly dubbed the “jet-ski killer” by David Trewern, CEO and founder of Fliteboard, started as a passion project – now it’s on nearly every superyacht in the world. Six years ago, […]

Meet Australia’s female VC leaders – changing the world of funding

The level of venture capital funding allocated to women-founded and led businesses has halved since 2020 to just 3%. But a growing number of female venture capital fund managers with connections to some of the country’s most influential, wealthiest families, are attempting to provide greater opportunities for women, investors and the economy.  Australia’s female VC […]