Digging hard, not smart: Is Australia leaving billions on the table?

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 […]

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Where I’m putting the money: Qiao Ma

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 […]

Inside this $2 billion founder’s bid to reinvent advertising with AI

After selling A Cloud Guru for $2 billion, Sam Kroonenburg briefly stepped away from start-up life. Then came the AI boom – and with advertising start-up Cuttable, he’s already built another $100 million company. This story features in Issue 23 of Forbes Australia. Tap here to secure your copy. Fresh off the sale of A Cloud […]

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Sole Beneficiary: Footwear to step back to work in

Duelling takes — fashionable or perennially favoured — on the all-important office shoe. This story features in Issue 23 of Forbes Australia. Tap here to secure your copy. ‘The Bear Option’: Velasca Milano Questurin Goodyear oxfords Don’t let fashion pundits fool you: reports of the leather dress shoe’s demise are grossly exaggerated. In fact, circa 2026, […]

Quick Takes: Three entrepreneurs we’re watching right now – Issue 23

Forbes Australia picks out three Australian entrepreneurs who are making waves in the startup space right now. This story features in Issue 23 of Forbes Australia. Tap here to secure your copy. ProcurePro When COVID-19 brought the commercial real estate industry to a standstill, Alastair Blenkin and the team behind property software start-up Hyra iQ began […]

A word from our Editor-in-Chief: Issue 23

When a recent graduation speaker at the University of Central Florida said that we are living in a time of profound change and that “the rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution”, a video of her speech quickly went viral.  This story features on the cover of Forbes Australia: Issue 23 . Tap here to secure […]

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Swipe right: How Katrina Leslie is challenging how the world gets hired

The Queensland cattle farmer’s daughter behind Swipejobs spent 30 years studying how people get hired. Now she is eyeing a multi-billion dollar IPO. This story features on the cover of Forbes Australia: Issue 23 . Tap here to secure your copy. Jane Hussey remembers meeting Katrina Leslie in 1994 – two women in their 20s, […]

The Australian medtech rebuilding the aortic valve from scratch

Anteris Technologies was founded in Australia and operates internationally across the US and Geneva. The company is now listed on both the NASDAQ and the ASX. CEO Wayne Paterson explains the company’s heart valve technology. The accent is the first tell. Paterson has spent the past two decades offshore – China, Korea, Europe, and the […]