Nicola Forrest

Yeah.

Now, also, Nicola Forrest, who is Twitty Forrest's wife, although they've separated a couple of years ago, they're now parted.

But she apparently comes in seventh on Australia's richest list.

Seventh, yeah.

It's definitely no small, uh, philanthropic organizations... uh, organization by any means.

Um, that is the foundation that Andrew and Nicola Forrest founded.

Uh, and they've just decided to give, uh, CEOs For Gender Equity, or CGE as it's called, um, its first ever grant.

So very exciting.

The West Australian sort of had a bit more information or different information.

One of Australia's richest women, according to the West Australian, the second richest woman in the world, Nicola Forrest, WIZO, has donated more than half a billion dollars of her personal wealth to her own charity in what is listed as rather one of Australia's largest ever philanthropic gifts from a single individual or, in fact, the largest ever charity.

gift by a living individual.

Anyway, half a billion dollars is a lot of money.

That's just a good news story.

We like those.

We will hear from Nicola Forrest later on in the afternoon.

And 133882 with the Carrington steak sandwich and a couple, weren't they? Two steak sandwiches, a couple of drinks as well to give away to our caller of the day.

Today we're gonna look at the huge Land Forces conference and the defense news out of that.

Uh, we're gonna look at property with P- the Pete takeover of Vic Park Hotel, Regal Theater, and housing completions, as well as Nicola Forrest's big donation, Mandurah's revival, and Betts.

And of course, a big deal by BHP.

Well, lots to talk about, um, and first up is a little bit of a difference and a change.

Now, um, finally, Isabel, uh, overnight news Thursday night.

Mm-hmm.

Friday morning, um, Nicola Forrest has made a big...

Well, it's a donation kind of.

But about two years in, I benefited from being on the Tatarang Advisory Board.

And by then I'd done a number of projects for Andrew and Nicola Forrest.

So I'd set up the cancer initiative and we have a huge program in pediatric cancer, precision medicine, tumor boards.

I leveraged a whole lot of stuff.

Would you be interested? And so that flagged it on my radar immediately.

And then when the Tatarang bought RM Williams, I got in touch with John Harmon, who at the time, he did the deal on behalf of Andrew and Nicola Forrest.

And so that was a call.

It wasn't an email, but I managed through mutual connections to get a call.

But what is somewhat unique about R&Williams is that we are both a manufacturer and we are a retailer.

And one of the few brands that are – So manufacturing still holds the most substantial part of our business, and we do that down in Salisbury in South Australia.

The last, if I talk about it in two chunks, and the chapters are really from the Andrew and Nicola Forrest's ownership and Tatarang ownership.

to today, which has been a little over five years, that journey has been really on focusing on three things.