Moving day finally arrives for Bryant McKinnon Lawyers. Leaving the old Slater & Gordon building behind for new local premises they can make their own are Coffs Harbour’s Bryant McKinnon Lawyers. It’s only a ‘hop, skip and a jump’ down to 35 Gordon Street but it is a significant milestone […]
Coffs Coast Business
Banks confess new lows with business loans
The big four banks, Suncorp and BOQ have been cowed by the Hayne royal commission into confessing fresh examples of poor behaviour including fraud, incorrectly taking the homes of customers, overcharging and hounding customers over debts on the first day of hearings into small business lending. By James Frost The […]
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ALP: “What is going on with Coffs by-pass start/finish dates?”
Within eight hours of announcing in writing the Coffs Harbour Bypass start and finish years yesterday, the Government backed down, mysteriously removing any reference to the dates on the Minister’s and National Party’s website. A news release was handed to media at yesterday’s event in Coffs Harbour The second last […]
Deal on Murray Darling Basin Plan could make history for Indigenous water rights
On Monday night the Labor Party agreed to a federal government policy package intended to ensure the survival of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. By Sue Jackson , Professor, ARC Future Fellow, Griffith University The proposed amendments to the plan, and the complex technical details of water allocation, have been heavily scrutinised […]
Culture and governance are the problem at AMP and CBA
Culture and governance will take centre stage this week as the AMP board continues to grapple with the gravity of the royal commission, and Commonwealth Bank of Australia faces a landmark report into its culture and governance. AMP is a mess. It is facing three class actions, a board in […]
Bryant McKinnon Lawyers – local duo take over from international giant
Slater & Gordon has agreed to sell their Coffs Harbour family law practice to local lawyers, Benjamin Bryant and Heather McKinnon. Both lawyers were employed by the multinational firm to build the regional practice, which opened ten years ago. By Sheree Lyons In late 2017 a consortium of international hedge […]
Age no barrier to new Coffs Coast apprentice
At 54 years of age, Dave (Zac) Smith is proof you’re never too old to learn something new. By Brigid Veale Zac, (pictured) who works in the maintenance workshop at Costa’s Corindi farm, has just started his apprenticeship as a light vehicle mechanic, doing one day a week at TAFE. […]
“Stinking AMP rots from the head down. Just like a fish”
The fish rots from the head and AMP is stinking. As the royal commission into banking spent the day unpicking the conduct of AMP, some outrageous behaviour was exposed. By Adele Fergusson It doesn’t get much worse – or serious – than blatantly lying to the corporate regulator on at […]
Welcome to the tech wreck 2018 style
Welcome to the FAANG tech wreck, 2018 style. By Karen Maley As investors rush to dump their tech stocks – and particularly the FAANG stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google parent Alphabet) – some analysts are drawing comparisons with the collapse of the dotcom bubble almost two decades ago. […]