Brisbane real estate player Grant Plummer tips Dameline Developments Pty Ltd into liquidation

A Brisbane real estate player who claims to be “responsible for the sales success of more than 100 projects throughout Australia amounting to more than $3 billion in sales’’ has tipped his company into liquidation, along with two other related entities.

Resources Minister Keith Pitt.

He claims to be “responsible for the sales success of more than 100 projects throughout Australia amounting to more than $3bn in sales’’.

He claims to be “responsible for the sales success of more than 100 projects throughout Australia amounting to more than $3bn in sales’’.

But Brisbane real estate player Grant Plummer, who manages Gap Development Sales at Newstead, has just run into a spot of bother.

He tipped his company Dameline Developments Pty Ltd into liquidation this week along with two other related entities.

Handling the wind chores for all three of them is Vincents operative Steven Staatz.

Plummer, who oversees the Gap project marketing business with his missus, Anita, could not be reached for comment Tuesday. She did not return a call.

Corporate records show he still controls a number of other intact entities, including one called Couran Cove Properties Pty Ltd.

The couple, who say they’ve been in the property industry for more than 25 years, flog units in Brisbane and the Gold Coast under the Gap banner.

LITHIUM TRADE WAR ‘ACE’

Australia doesn’t want a trade war sparked by a carbon tax but it has a potent weapon to deploy if the need arises.

Resources Minister Keith Pitt hammered home that point Tuesday during a speech at The Brisbane Club, taking aim at EU plans for tariffs on a raft of commodities from 2026 if greenhouse gas emission targets go unmet from global suppliers.

Lithium, a key ingredient used in batteries, just might be the ace up our sleeves.

Keith Pitt, Minister for Resources and Water.

Pitt, who was unceremoniously dumped from cabinet last month, noted that Australia is the world’s biggest producer and exporter of lithium.

It generates more than 55 per cent of global production and holds the third largest reserves, he told a Queensland Resources Media Club luncheon filled with the usual suspects in the mining game.

And guess who is forecast to need 18 times more of the stuff by 2030 and 60 times as much by 2050? Yep, a bunch of European companies.

Volkswagen alone expects to need 125,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate by 2025, he pointed out.

“We need to ensure that other countries are not misusing their market power to impose financial penalties on other countries that they claim are not toeing the line,’’ he said in speech that tended to veer wildly off-script.

“This is protectionism.’’

GETTING UNPLUGGED

A renewable power company in Brisbane has run into a bit of strife with Queensland’s governing body for footy.

Green Energy Queensland touts its capacity to help non-profit sports clubs get solar panels and battery storage systems installed for free by accessing government grants.

The company, operated by co-directors Ashley Leighton and John White, claims that clubs can save up to 60 per cent of their power bills or as much as $10,000 a year.

Solar panels installation on rooftop

“We install solar systems all across Australia for sports clubs (and) to help get this paid for we offer free grant writing services,’’ the website says.

But something’s clearly gone awry in their dealings with Football Queensland, which has launched legal action to wind up Green Energy.

The matter returned briefly to the Brisbane Supreme Court on Tuesday before it was adjourned until late next month.

Leighton and White did not return a call seeking comment. Spin doctors for Football Queensland also failed to respond after we left a message.