From Nicole Kidman to Russell Crowe: Designing homes for the rich and famous

Blainey North has designed interiors and furniture for everyone from Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe, to the Packer family, the Pratts and Kerry Stokes. She even did the mirror over Shane Warne’s bed. Here she riffs on the special relationships required to bring out the best in her and her clients. Subscribe to Forbes Australia […]

Luxury on ice: The ultimate Antarctica bucket-list adventure

A once-in-a-lifetime expedition reserved for the adventurous elite, the Silversea Endeavour feels like a floating six-star hotel that can take you to a part of the world very few have explored. Forbes Australia editor-in-chief SARAH O’CARROLL reports. “GOOD MORNING, Ms Sarah. It’s Francis, your butler.”   It’s breakfast time. I open the suite door to Francis, […]

From flashpacker to ASX-listed CEO with a $350 million market cap

Software company ReadyTech was bootstrapped for its first five years by backpacker co-founder, Marc Washbourne. Today, the ASX-listed company with a market cap of $350 million employs 500 people around the globe. Washbourne explains how those tough early years primed the business for success. Marc Washbourne was a twenty-something history graduate and self-taught software developer […]

Forrests back First Nations venture capital fund

Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation and the US State Department are backing a syndicate of indigenous Australian venture capital investors aiming to focus on seeding First Nations startups. The launch of Blak Angels by Minderoo comes hot on the heels of the announcement last week that the Forrests had donated a further $5 billion […]

Meet the change makers in Australia’s booming multi-million-dollar medicinal cannabis industry

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. Subscribe to Forbes Australia for full access to this and […]

‘Mission critical’: Aussie start-ups fighting the $8 trillion cyber-war

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.  Subscribe to Forbes Australia for […]

Who is Hamish Harding? Billionaire adventurer missing on Titanic tourist sub

Five people, including billionaire Hamish Harding, are missing after a small tourist submersible vanished somewhere around the Titanic wreckage. A small submersible, that is around the size of a minivan, and costs $US250,000 per ride has gone missing around the wreck of the infamous Titanic. The vessel, owned by OceanGate, is operated by a single […]