Property man puts on gloves for a good cause
Colliers real estate agent and former international rugby union player Harry Higgins is putting on the fighting gloves to raise funds in the fight against human trafficking.
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Colliers real estate agent and former international rugby union player Harry Higgins is putting on the fighting gloves for a good cause, raising funds for Destiny Rescue.
The Fight For a Cause black tie boxing charity event is being held at the Royal International Convention Centre on Saturday 15 June with a line up of boxers from the corporate world raising funds to help rescue the thousands of children who are subjected to human trafficking. Higgins (illustrated) tells us he has been in intense training for the event with daily 4.30am gym workouts followed by West Bulldogs sporting ground hill sprints. Preparing for the bout under the training of Irish born pro-boxer Conor Wallace, the boxers will be ready for an action packed evening of charity and networking with the night strongly attended by many from the Brisbane property and legal industries. Some of the other participants include Jack Rex from Rex Property Group and Andre Fisher from Elevature.
Vale Denis Reinhard
Friends of Denis Reinhardt will gather on Friday to celebrate the life of the legendary journo and businessman. A funeral service for Reinhardt, who passed away on Monday after a long battle with cancer, will be held at Pinnaroo Cemetery Chapel at 9.30am followed by a wake at the Brekkie Creek at 11.30am.
His good mate Steve Wilson, the former boss of Wilson HTM Investment Group, says after starting life as a student radical, the colourful Reinhardt became a top journalist and served as Queensland editor of The Bulletin magazine.
“It was a pretty prestigious job and he knew (Kerry) Packer well,” Wilson recalls.
Reinhardt then discovered a knack for business, running a surf shop and starting a gold company AuGold on Horn Island in Far North Queensland that according to Wilson “was worth of a lot money at one stage and then wasn’t.”
Reinhardt then developed a keen interest in Papua New Guinea where he became the right hand man of former PM Paias Wingti.
Reinhardt also was good mates with late City Beat diarist James McCullough, who followed his business interests in great detail in these pages.
“He was a great bloke and when you spoke to Denis he would always have some business he wanted to talk about,” Wilson recalls.
According to one newspaper report in the 1980s, Reinhardt even had a beehive installed under one of the four trees in the carpark of his Brisbane headquarters, from which he extracted and sold honey.
Reinhardt’s Fortescue Media, which had planned to start a new independent financial publication, sank with the October 1987 stock market crash.
Point of law
The Queensland Law Society has issued formal guidance to solicitors on the responsible use of AI, making it the first law society in Australia to do so.
Queensland Law Society president Rebecca Fogerty says that amid the rapidly evolving nature of AI technology, it is crucial that solicitors have a guidance framework in order to navigate the complex issues proposed by AI use.
“Despite common fears around the increasing use of AI, the technology, when used correctly, has the potential to provide numerous benefits to legal practice, including improving efficiency and making legal services more accessible,” Fogerty says.
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