By Lacey Filipich BEng(Hons) MAICD Cert Gov (NFP) Next year I’ll be clocking up my 20th as a submitter of tax returns. That’s twice as long as my relationship with the father of my children – a looooong time in my book. Over nearly two decades, I’ve seen the methods...
By Lacey Filipich BEng(Hons) MAICD On Tuesday, the Reserve Bank dropped the official interest rate to 2% – an all-time low. On Wednesday, Joe Hockey sent out the message: now is a good time to borrow. But is it really? There’s no doubt it would be great for the...
By Lacey Filipich BEng(Hons) MAICD In my professional past, I spent a lot of time flying into mining sites for a substantial fee to tell management teams two things: Your only targets should be Safety, Volume and Cost. The rest is window dressing. Stop doing most of...
By Lacey Filipich BEng(Hons) MAICD When I saw Joe Hockey on the news in March suggesting that superannuation (super) may one day be available to help First Home Buyers get into the property market, my jaw dropped. Could it be possible that our country’s most senior...
When I opened the interview with Erica by explaining I wanted to blog about her experiences building homes, I said she’d built a lot. Her response was, ‘Oh, I don’t know about that.’ She’s built 18 houses in her life. Call me crazy, but that’s my definition of ‘a lot’...
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