The NSW Government has passed legislation that will see the former Greater Sydney Commission become the Greater Cities Commission bringing together the cities of the Lower Hunter and Greater Newcastle, Central Coast, Greater Sydney and Illawarra-Shoalhaven. The Six-City Megaregion is an initiative of NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet who outlined his Vision for NSW when assuming the premiership in December last year The Greater Cities Commission will be tasked with developing the six cities vis...

AdviceCo Chartered Accountants roots go back to the mid 1980’s with National mid-tier accounting firm Love & Wallace.  Love & Wallace had a branch office servicing some of the Central Coast’s larger companies such as Sterland Bros and Kingstone Homes. After a change in leadership in November 2016, the business rebranded to AdviceCo Chartered Accountants & has gone on to become one of the leading business advisory firms on the Central Coast with close to 30 staf...

As we move toward the climax of another Federal Election business owners need to think seriously about their future under a union controlled Labor Government. As always the unions will finance most of the ALP’s campaign and of course that means there will be payback.  First cab off the rank will be the treatment of casual workers and gig workers. The unions have been campaigning against casual and gig workers for years. Only a few months ago they had a win in the High Court with...

Mingara Leisure Group has announced plans to build a 82-room hotel adjacent to its club facility at Tumbi Umbi. The $21 million hotel will be the culmination of Mingara’s original site masterplan to locate a hotel on the site when they moved to their new premises some thirty years ago. Mingara CEO, Paul Barnett said, “After undertaking the appropriate due diligence to explore the feasibility of the project, we have partnered with a team of specialist consultants to design a hote...

Alceon Group, one of Australia’s leading privately-owned financier and investment companies with extensive experience in real estate development, is about to start construction on one of the largest luxury residential developments to be undertaken on the Central Coast in Gosford. To be known as Rumbalara and built on the highest point in Gosford overlooking Brisbane Water the development is on the edge of the Rumbalara Reserve at 87-89 John Whiteway Drive on a former sandstone quarry s...