Taking Care of Business
Business leader Naomi Simson is a familiar face – be it on Australia’s Shark Tank or as founder of experience platform Big Red Group. As a well-known entrepreneur and mentor to local startups, Simson shares her advice with Jay Houhlias on how businesses can get on the fast-track to success.
After a start in corporate marketing for global brands such as IBM and KPMG, Simson founded RedBalloon, an experiential gifts retailer, in 2001 from her home in Balmain and a $25,000 personal investment. So is building a company from the ground up harder in Australia than anywhere else?
Aggressive and Damaging Divorce Tactics on the Rise
They say divorce is worse than death in its stress, grief and devastation. But this life curveball should not also be a financial disaster so deep that it affects lives for years beyond the life event itself. Family lawyer and domestic violence advocate Joplin Higgins OAM and barrister Dr Darren Mort, co-hosts of the Dear Divorce Diary podcast, warn more Australians are weaponising the legal system to financially, emotionally or psychologically cripple their ex-partners.
Skills shortage constraining supply of residential housing
Despite rising interest rates and global instability, home building activity in Australia increased in the March quarter of 2026, adding pressure to a workforce already facing skill short
