Climate is right for a proactive ESG strategy The pandemic has brought to the forefront the need to fully understand risks and impacts to businesses, and for increased resilience and sustainability, but there’s also another risk on the register: climate change. The release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report last week brought […]

Telstra makes public payphone calls free Australians will be able to make free calls from public payphones across the country under a new Telstra initiative. Standard national calls and SMS from Telstra’s network of more than 15,000 payphones will be made free from Tuesday, while payphones will become completely coinless from October 1. But consumers […]

There’s a global crisis happening, and it doesn’t involve COVID. The fact is, 70-80 per cent of people who have legal needs don’t engage with a lawyer to seek the legal help they need and the main reason for this is fear around price; second is lack of trust. How can a small-business owner find […]

What now happens across the majority of cyber incidents? Cybercrime is an ever-evolving beast. Over the past 20-years, hackers have changed their tactics time and time again, finding multiple ways to monetise their illegal access to corporate networks. It used to be that criminals would steal the actual computer hardware – for example, snatching a […]

Jordan Nguyen is changing lives in unimaginable ways Dr Jordan Nguyen credits a swimming pool accident with changing the direction of his life forever. As a result of this, with his electrical engineering expertise, he has been able to change the lives of many in truly profound ways.On the day Dr Jordan Nguyen’s life changed […]

Businesses across Australia are being urged to join the mission to end the use of single-use plastic (SUP) during “Plastic Free July.” The call is spearheaded by start-up Zero Co, which produces locally-made, zero-waste personal care and home cleaning products. Zero Co is also calling on businesses to encourage their employees to go SUP free […]

Firstmac have announced a ground-breaking new deal, thought to be the first of its kind to hit the Australian market: a green RMBS. The deal is valued at $750m and will result in $230m in discounted green home loans. In conjunction with an international group including Japanese bank Norinchukin, the non bank lender will offer […]

Nick Berry is crushing it across the globe. Nick Berry grew up on a small grain and wool production farm on Kangaroo Island finding astute ways to lengthen the life of old machinery and build new equipment. In the agricultural sector he found the seeds of his passion for mechanical engineering. A decade on, the […]

In business, it is hard continually thinking of ideas, brainstorming and planning different ways to deliver results. There is always so much going on and mostly you just manage to get through what is expected of you instead of going that little bit extra each time. Things may be going well but why not push […]

Ransomware cartels are employing new tactics to extort money, according to a new report by cyber risk analytics provider CyberCube. Gangs of cyber criminals are organising themselves along the lines of drug cartels and changing their strategy of attack in order to keep ahead of authorities’ efforts to stamp them out, according to the report, […]