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Interview with Ilias Pavlopoulos
An interview with Ilias Pavlopoulos exploring how ColCap is combining disciplined lending, transparency and technology to build its $22bn lending business amid growing scrutiny of private credit. Published in The Australian on 23 September 2026.
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Interview with Matt Heine
An interview with Matt Heine exploring how Netwealth is combining technology, AI and regulatory discipline to help close Australia’s advice gap while continuing to build for the long term. Published in The Australian on 15 September 2026.
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AI and the ATM Paradox
3:55pm 24 August 2026 Automation debates tend to follow a predictable arc. A new technology emerges, predictions of mass unemployment follow, and historical analogies are deployed to reassure the public that disruption will ultimately create more jobs than it destroys. The automated…
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The ACCC is no longer policing markets, it is planning them
3:03pm 12 August 2026 Companies grow in two ways. The first is organic growth. This is investing, competing and winning customers through better products, service, or pricing. This expansion is gradual. It takes time to open stores, negotiate leases and secure sites…
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Scott Pape is celebrating the wrong housing correction
2:55pm 12 August 2026 Scott Pape says falling house prices are the “correction we’ve needed for 20 years”. He is wrong. Australia does need a housing correction, but not merely a correction in the price displayed on a real-estate website. It needs…
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Labor’s new gig wage will deliver another cost-of-living hit
2:15pm 12 August 2026 Australia’s new minimum rate for food-delivery drivers has been celebrated as a “world-leading” victory for workers. It is also a revealing example of how the federal government approaches industrial policy. Announce the immediate benefit, but ignore the second-order…
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Interview with Stephen Gaitanos
An interview with Stephen Gaitanos discussing his background and the rise of The Living Company as it grows towards its ambitions of being a $100bn Australian property empire. Published online in The Australian on 14 July 2026. In-print on 16 July 2026.…
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Cabinet by qualification, not popularity
6:46pm 14 May 2026 Australians like to think we vote for governments. We vote for local members of Parliament, from whom a government is constructed. However, within that structure lies one of the most consequential, yet least examined, features of our system,…
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The ACCC v Coles judgment’s perverse price signal
12:07pm 14 May 2026 The strangest thing about the Federal Court’s judgment against Coles is that, on one view, the supermarket was found liable because in the interests of consumers, it did not keep prices higher for longer. That is the uncomfortable…
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New merger reforms risk being a self-imposed handbrake on investment
10:02pm 16 May 2026 The new merger regime represent yet another example of Australia’s growing problem of disincentives within its regulatory frameworks. Regulatory bodies must strike a delicate balance between enabling efficient markets and ensuring adequate oversight. Yet, despite Treasurer Jim Chalmers’…
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Interview with Mike Gregg
An interview with Mike Gregg on his two-decade journey as an early WiseTech Global investor and the lessons that shaped his approach to long-term capital. Published in The Australian on 27 April 2026.
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Interview with Jack Cowin
An interview with Jack Cowin on the Domino’s Pizza Enterprises reset, franchise economics, and why a long-term orientation matters in hospitality. Published in The Australian on 20 April 2026.
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How richest Australians are building their wealth in secret
The richest 250 and the next generation of billionaires have a new playbook that favours stepping away from the spotlight of the ASX. Published in The Weekend Australian on 7 February 2026.
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