March 2018
Event Hospitality & Entertainment to manage Crowne Plaza Newcastle
EVENT Hospitality & Entertainment Limited has announced it has entered into an agreement with the Schwartz Family Compan...
Newcastle Permanent launches new payment technology
Osko by BPAY and PayID offers customers a simpler and faster way to send and receive payments.
Newcastle Council launches easy parking app
Parking your car in Newcastle just got "uber" convenient thanks to a new smart phone app that means you no longer have t...
Newcastle Airport celebrates 70 years of commercial aviation
On 20 February Newcastle Airport celebrated its 70th anniversary of commercial aviation.
$140,000 and a new vision for the future of Nelson Bay
On 21 February Port Stephens Mayor Ryan Palmer unveiled a fresh new identity for the future of Nelson Bay, with the lau...
Newcastle 500 tickets to come on sale
The Hunter’s biggest sporting and entertainment event, the Coates Hire Newcastle 500, is expected to be inundated once a...
Supply Chain Finance facility comes to the Hunter
Fifo Capital Supply Chain Finance is an innovative and complete solution for financing supplier invoices.
Solar panels project for Upper Hunter Shire Council
Around 300 square meters of solar panels will soon be providing free electricity to help power Upper Hunter Shire Counci...
Australian industry awarded over $1 billion in contracts for F-35 program
On 13 February the Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Christopher Pyne MP, announced that Australian industry has be...
Refresh for local finance company with national outlook
A small but growing finance company, Funda was founded by Newcastle locals Nathan Wright and Mark Owen in 2012 when they...
First National Newcastle supports HMRI
Local Real Estate Agency First National Newcastle City has donated $20,000 to the lifesaving medical research organisati...
#HunterInnovate March Edition
Welcome to the first issue of #HunterInnovate, a new regular section within HBR.
Defining purpose is crucial to innovation
Defining the purpose and defining your purpose are crucial to innovation and they are very different principles, yet ve...
Diagnostic device stroke finder trialled at HMRI
The goal is to put a Stroke Finder Helmet into every ambulance.
Uterine cancer could be Stopped in its tracks
Unfortunately, most of us have lost someone or know someone who is going through cancer.
Hunter Startups - Our Tomorrow Projects
Our Tomorrow Projects is a not-for-profit social enterprise start-up.
Hunter Startups - Anditi
Anditi is a start-up technology company providing data insights via cloud-based software and consulting services across ...
UON biotech startup sells for $502 million
In what is now one of the biggest biotech transactions in Australian history, Viralytics – an oncolytic virotherapy firm...
Further expansion for Eighteen04
Following the December 2017 opening event of their newly renovated facility at Hunter TAFE in Newcastle West, Eighteen04...
Sleeping on the job - an innovative booster?
It’s been going on across the globe for years, a little afternoon downtime.
Benefits of taking a vacation
These days it is common for people to not take sufficient vacation time.
Sydney to Hunter Valley flights may be on its way
A new seaplane service may be launched to connect Sydney with the Hunter Valley and Newcastle.
Hear the fear and do it anyway
We all have our fears. I believe, however, our biggest fear is that we are not good enough, and that we won’t be able to...
Remembering to play!
Sitting at my desk at the Dash co-working space, a sudden uproar alerted me.
Positive caution in vacancies factors
I sat back on the weekend and gazed at the view over Sydney back towards the airport from my hotel room window, (45) t...
Deductions from pay – When they can and can’t be made
Withholding money from an employee’s pay for tax is common practice for employers. Withholding money for other purposes ...
HR and the modern workplace
Business is full of risk and opportunity. No doubt you receive robust reporting on all manner of metrics to aide with de...
Eight ways to create a dream team in your business
Your team can either make or break your business.
People strategy for the growing business
In almost all situations, business growth generally requires an increase in personnel.
Stop trying to be the best and just get better
If we listen to the motivational speakers and the personal development bloggers, we should all be striving to be the bes...
Today's soft skills are the hard skills
Every year, Indra Nooyi, the CEO of PepsiCo, sits down to write a letter… in fact, 400 of them.
Market commentary
Several years ago, towards the end of 2012, there wasn’t just a decline in the NSW mining market, there was a cliff and...
Mined Land Rehabilitation Conference
The Tom Farrell Institute at the University of Newcastle and the Hunter Environmental Institute are joining forces on 12...
Coal exports set all-time record in 2017
The latest trade data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics indicates the strength of coal exports in 2017 which were...
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