Shivaune Field

Contributor and Journalist at Freelance

Forbes Aus Business Journalist. Writer. Systems Thinker. Speaker. PhD Candidate. MBA. Behavioral Scientist. Fmr @Bloomberg. Aussie 🇦🇺

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Articles

Why now is the time to visit India, a bucket list travel destination

5 days ago | forbes.com.au | Larry Olmsted |Shivaune Field |Chase Peterson-Withorn |Mary Whitfill Roeloffs

Visiting India offers a vibrant mix of culture, history, cuisine, and spirituality, with diverse landscapes from Himalayan peaks to tropical beaches and bustling cities.
How pay.com.au turned loyalty into a $300 million business

5 days ago | forbes.com.au | Josh Lai |Mark Whittaker |Shivaune Field

As loyalty programs surge in popularity across Australia, one fintech start-up is helping businesses tap into the benefits. Pay.com.au is turning everyday expenses into airline points and premium perks - and has just banked $18 million to prepare for its expansion into the US. Few countries embrace loyalty programs quite like Australia.
The family that beat billionaires to the top of the bridge

1 week ago | forbes.com.au | Mark Whittaker |Suzanne Rowan Kelleher |Shivaune Field |Anastasia Santoreneos

Scenic World and the Hammon family took on some of Australia's wealthiest and won. Here's how they grabbed the keys to BridgeClimb - and what they did next. When Anthea Hammon declared she wanted to be a mechanical engineer, her older brother David felt an enormous weight lift. He was off the hook.
Want to live your best life? These are the world's 10 most liveable cities in 2025

1 week ago | forbes.com.au | Shivaune Field |Chase Peterson-Withorn |Mary Whitfill Roeloffs |Anastasia Santoreneos

A shake-up at the top of the Global Liveability Index has knocked Vienna off its perch - while three Australian capital cities have made the cut in the world's top ten list. It is home to 1.4 million people, sports 382 kilometres of bike lanes, will be 80 per cent carbon neutral next year, and is led by a Tasmanian-born, Danish-living Queen.
The 50 Richest Self-Made Women On Earth

1 week ago | forbes.com.au | Grace Chung |Anastasia Santoreneos |Shivaune Field |Mark Whittaker

Women everywhere from China and the U.S. to Indonesia and Russia have broken many glass ceilings, thanks to everything from coal and collagen to software and soy sauce. It's never been a better time for women entrepreneurs - at least by the numbers. There are now an estimated 658 million female founders and company owners worldwide, compared to 772 million men, per the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor.
Meet the female duo leading Australia's newest unicorn

1 week ago | forbes.com.au | Shivaune Field |Mark Whittaker |Josh Lai |Chloe Sorvino

With CEO Silvija Martincevic and CFO Emma Seymour at the helm, Deputy became one of Australia's newest tech unicorns in 2024. Now, the female-led company's shift work platform powers 1.5 million workers across 375,000 workplaces worldwide - redefining the future of frontline work. CEO Silvija Martincevic is decked out in designer duds and sits high up in a corner office with views over the financial district of San Francisco. She is a long way from where she started inlife.
Here's where Sydney and Melbourne rank in 2025

1 week ago | forbes.com.au | Shivaune Field |Rebecca Thurlow |Mark Whittaker |Hank Tucker

The Harbour City's startup scene is valued at $55 billion in Startup Genome's 2025 Global Startup Ecosystem Rankings. Melbourne's ecosystem value is a third of that at $18 billion, but has risen seven spots in the rankings in the last three years. Sydney has Canva, Employment Hero, and Immutable. Melbourne has CultureAmp, Airwallex, and Stake. The longstanding rivalry between Australia's two most populous cities is well-known.
Who is Lucy Liu? The anti-bank angel who helped turn Airwallex into a $10 billion giant

1 week ago | forbes.com.au | Shivaune Field |Mark Whittaker |Richard Nieva |Stewart Hawkins

The fastest-growing unicorn to emerge from Australia, Airwallex, has raised over $1 billion and serves 150,000 customers worldwide. Lucy Liu - the co-founder and investor - wrote a $1 million cheque, giving rise to a company now valued almost 10,000 times that. Ten years ago, Lucy Liu sat down at a Collins St, Melbourne restaurant, and promised Max Li and Jack Zhang a $1 million cheque.
A word from our Editor-in-Chief: Issue 17

1 week ago | forbes.com.au | Sarah O'Carroll |Phoebe Liu |Shivaune Field |Mark Whittaker

Jony Ive and Steve Jobs. Perhaps the greatest product design duo of our time. Together, they gave us era-defining products that changed how we live and work. Jobs, however, often credited Ive with much of Apple's success because he believed tech could be functional and beautiful. His eye for design was why users fell in love with the sleek curves, elegance and simplicity of the Mac, iPad, and iPhone. After nearly 30 years as Apple's design guru, Ive stepped away in 2019.
Here's where the 'Mountainhead' billionaires would rank on the Forbes list

2 weeks ago | forbes.com.au | Chase Peterson-Withorn |Phoebe Liu |Billy Bambrough |Shivaune Field

Would Ven Parish really be the richest person in the world? Here's how the characters stack up to their real-life counterparts. Warning: Contains spoilers for Mountainhead! The four tech bro billionaires in the new HBO satirical movie Mountainhead are very rich-just ask them.