The following statement can be attributed to Property Council CEO Ken Morrison.
The Property Council of Australia’s Director of Media and Communications, Henry Pike, has been pre-selected as the LNP candidate for the seat of Bowman for the next Federal election.
The Property Council is a non-partisan representative body and, as appropriate, Henry has advised he will resign his senior staff position to campaign for the election. The Property Council will contract Henry to undertake a number of member-facing projects where no conflicts arise.
His consulting work will not involve any aspect of the Property Council’s external advocacy work and we are instituting a clear management framework during this period to avoid any actual, potential or perceived conflicts of interest.
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Calls for a taskforce intensify as Sydney’s CBD returns to lockdown
By Fergus Halliday
02 July 2021
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The Property Council of Australia has cautioned that the recovery of Sydney’s CBD could be threatened by the city’s recent lockdown.
Despite the recent lockdown, Sydney’s CBD is said to be well on its way towards reaching pre-COVID levels of occupancy.
Although Hobart and Darwin led the pack when it came to mapping out office occupancy in each state’s CBD at 89 per cent and 88 per cent, respectively, Sydney isn’t far behind at 67 per cent for the month of June.
ASX rises; Westpac exposed to $200m âpotential fraudâ
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Westpac commences Federal Court proceedings against Forum Finance
Vesna Poljak
Westpac has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court against Forum Finance where Westpac claims it discovered a significant potential fraud with a potential $200 million exposure by the bank.
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Jessica Hromas
Westpac s institutional bank customers were referred to Forum Finance for equipment leasing. No customers suffered loss. Investigations are ongoing and the NSW Police, ASIC and APRA have been notified. An external review and investigation are underway at Westpac to determine the origins of what happened. The nature of the alleged wrongdoing was described by Westpac as sophisticated and perpetrated externally, according to the text of its ASX disclosure.
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