News that Sian Kingi’s killer is seeking parole has been met with a disgust best demonstrated by the noose that greeted him when he first appeared outside a court. Anyone who has met Sian’s parents knows why.
âRomance of biblical proportionsâ powers Rich List couple
Keri Craigâs gowns defined an era, while Trevor Leeâs cattle fed half the country. Together they have forged a partnership worth north of $1âbillion.
Beef baron Trevor Lee and his wife, fashion designer Keri Craig-Lee, at home in Brisbane.Â
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The Lees call it the Blue Mile. A narrow, straight corridor (blue, obviously) that weâre walking down, occasionally shuffling into single file to make room for the stream of gumboot-wearing, blood-splattered employees sporting ninja-style headgear.
The pace is fairly brisk â the shift is about to stop for lunch, and cleaning is due to start. But weâre all dressed for it: Trevor Lee is in a puffer jacket and cowboy boots, a knife clipped to his belt after our photo shoot, and his wife, Keri Craig-Lee, wears knee-high flat boots, enormous pearls and knuckle-grazing yellow and white diamond rings.
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at 12:20 pm on May 24, 2021 | 16 comments
Tony Kaye, senior personal finance writer with Vanguard, penned an interesting article over the weekend on the massive inter-generational transfer of wealth that will occur as the baby boomer generation dies and passes its wealth to its heirs.
In a nutshell:
The next 20 to 30 years will see the biggest intergenerational wealth handover in history.
At least $3.5 trillion of assets will be inherited in Australia alone, including family homes, investment properties and superannuation money.
Residential real estate and superannuation, which combined make up more than three-quarters of total household assets, are the largest components of most inheritances.
The big positive from the federal government cancelling Beijing’s two Belt and Road Initiative agreements with the Victorian government is that Australia is getting coherent policy nationally. That national policy is centred on not wanting to help the Chinese Communist Party create a China-centred global economy, whether through the BRI or Xi Jinping’s ‘dual circulation’ economic strategy.
Handing the Chinese government more power to coerce us economically is clearly not in our interests. If we don’t know that now, with wheat, coal, wine, barley and lobsters, we’re slow learners.
The BRI is about much more than soft loans to build infrastructure as the cancelled BRI framework agreement Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews signed shows. Its ambitions reach into advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, agricultural tech, research and technological innovation. And deep engagement with Chinese state-owned and other corporations in these areas comes with the involvement and attent