January
Directors brace for Trump’s DEI dismantling
Australian company directors are not willing to backtrack on hard-won gains in gender diversity and inclusion, but are preparing for employee and customer pushback.
- Patrick Durkin and Hannah Wootton
October 2024
The public institutions that have never been led by a woman
Leading executive women are calling for public institutions and government organisations to do better after the University of Melbourne appointed its first female vice chancellor.
- Hannah Wootton
July 2024
- Opinion
- Philanthropy
Why women will supercharge philanthropy
Australian women are poised to take charge of $3.2 trillion in the next decade. This will be the greatest wealth transfer in Australia’s history.
- Carol Schwartz
December 2023
Forrest family leads Rich List plunge on packaging disrupter
Andrew and Nicola Forrest have led a star-studded fundraising for the start-up that hopes to replace polystyrene with a more sustainable insulation material.
- Peter Ker
October 2023
- Exclusive
- Venture capital
Forrest, Denholm families unite to create more female millionaires
Aliavia Ventures co-founder Marisa Warren says women in venture capital are still underrepresented at the general and managing partner level.
- Tess Bennett
September 2023
‘Autocratic’ Andrews’ legacy divides business
Business leaders said the Victorian premier’s shock resignation would enable a welcome change of leadership in line with good governance and renewal.
- Updated
- Hannah Wootton, Patrick Durkin, Nick Lenaghan and Ben Potter
March 2023
- Exclusive
- Carbon challenge
Rich Lister’s $100m investment in ‘huge commercial opportunity’
Businessman and philanthropist Alan Schwartz will commit $100 million to green climate investments with millions more to advocate for policy and regulatory change.
- Patrick Durkin
- Exclusive
- Funding
New start-up fund for founders without rich family and friends
A new angel investor has got some well-known backers for a fund for entrepreneurs who can’t tap up wealthy relatives for money.
- Tess Bennett
December 2022
Why we are finally listening to women (but are still deaf in parts)
Women have struggled to get access to a slice of the economic and social pie for decades. We came a long way last year, but there’s still plenty of room for improvement.
- Sally Patten
December 2021
2021 was the year women roared
Poor behaviour towards women is nothing new, but there has been a far greater willingness over the past 12 months for women to speak out.
- Sally Patten
Spirit Super snaps up Schwartz family’s $330m Hobart project
The acquisition is the first for Spirit Super since its creation through the merger of MTAA Super and Tasplan.
- Nick Lenaghan and Martin Kelly
October 2021
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Exposing ESG’s dirty little secret
ESG is flavour of the month ahead of the COP26 summit in Glasgow, and this is causing some ironic smiles among women excluded from the conversations about diversity.
- Tony Boyd
September 2019
Why Alan Schwartz thinks stakeholder primacy misses the point
The investor and philanthropist says the role of business is to pursue profit making opportunities within the rules. But the rules need to change.
- Jemima Whyte
July 2019
Schwartz backs women in tech
Neighbourlytics has attracted the interest of property industry leader Carol Schwartz, closing a $1.25 million seed investment round.
- Natasha Gillezeau