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forbes.com.au | Mark Whittaker |Jennifer Kester |Jim Dobson
Published on April 21, 2025 One minute, we’re sipping tea in a considered tasting, discussing tannins and malty notes, trying hard not to fall victim to tea wankery. The next, we’re bombing the mountain trying not to fall victim to the Taiwan bitumen at 60km/h.
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1 week ago | 
forbes.com.au | Josh Lai |Shivaune Field |Mark Whittaker
Published on April 18, 2025 This story was featured in Issue 16 of Forbes Autralia. Tap here to secure your copy. It was just another day in lockdown for Holly Fowler when, while on the couch watching Netflix’s Love on the Spectrum, a wave of inspiration struck. “I realised there was a huge gap in the market,” she says.
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forbes.com.au | Shivaune Field |Mark Whittaker |Sarah O’Carroll
Skip to content Magazine Published on April 17, 2025 Born in 1935, Imelda Roche always knew her life story would be about more than family – it would be about building an empire. “It was just embedded in my very being that life has to be better than this for women,” she says. “It isn’t just about being a house drudge and having all the responsibility of raising children, almost alone.” The determined second-eldest daughter grew up in Waverley, a suburb in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, watching...
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forbes.com.au | Mark Whittaker |Shivaune Field |Anastasia Santoreneos
Published on April 16, 2025 This story was featured in Issue 16 of Forbes Australia. Tap here to secure your copy. What inspired you to become an architect? I was 16 years old growing up in Tokyo. I saw an image of Manhattan with the skyscrapers, and I just fell in love. I decided to go to New York to study architecture.
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forbes.com.au | Mark Whittaker |Stewart Hawkins |Anastasia Santoreneos
This story was featured in Issue 16 of Forbes Autralia. Tap here to secure your copy. Scott O’Neill felt almost guilty, lying on a Greek island beach doing sums in his head. He kept returning to the same answer – he need never work again. Having built a property portfolio from zero to 25 titles in just seven years, he and his wife, Mina, had enough to retire. He was 28. She was 27.
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forbes.com.au | Mark Whittaker |Shivaune Field |Sarah O’Carroll
Published on April 15, 2025 This story was featured in Issue 16 of Forbes Autralia. Tap here to secure your copy. Alexander Phillips was born on the front seat of a Rolls-Royce, late for an appointment at the maternity ward. Aiming for his tenth year in a row as Australia’s number-one real estate sales person, he knows that pscheduling is key.
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forbes.com.au | Sarah O'Carroll |Mark Whittaker
This story was featured in Issue 16 of Forbes Australia. Tap here to secure your copy. Not an uncommon suggestion these days, given more and more of what we read – on Linkedin commentary, in emails, in news articles – is clearly scripted by AI. You can often tell. Technically, I could simply feed all the stories in this issue into a trained GPT and get it to generate a nice thought-provoking 500-word note in my voice. A few tweaks and bingo – job done. So, I thought to myself – what could AI not know?
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forbes.com.au | Mark Whittaker |Naazneen Karmali
This story was featured in Issue 16 of Forbes Australia. Tap here to secure your copy. Sometimes it’s hard for Shelley Sullivan to look women in the eye and tell them they can do what she’s done. Her mind goes back to those months flying the world, pregnant way beyond the usually allowable limits, ringing the hospital to make sure it had an ADSL internet connection because she had to sign off on something for David Jones before the birth.
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forbes.com.au | Mark Whittaker |Jeremy Bogaisky |John Hyatt |Alison Durkee
Published on April 12, 2025 This story was featured in Issue 16 of Forbes Australia, out Monday. Tap here to secure your copy.
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forbes.com.au | Shivaune Field |Mark Whittaker
Published on April 11, 2025 Australia’s most successful creative company facilitates 1 billion designs each month, equating to 373 designs each second, according to co-founder Cameron Adams. Adams is also Canva’s chief product officer and says the company recently set a record of 230 million users in one month.
