BUSINESS OBSERVATION
Founding Chairman
Warwick Powell Sister City Partners
Warwick Powell is the founding Chairman of Sister City Partners, a regional not-for-profit investment bank with headquarters in Townsville. He brings almost 20 years of experience in global capital markets and project development and finance to bear on the challenges of creating regional resilience. He is an iconoclast who questions and challenges orthodox thinking. For more information about Sister City Partners visit www. sistercitypartners.com.au.
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PLACE MATTERS
If the world is getting smaller, courtesy of the past decades’ developments in transport and communications technologies, the idea of place is curiously becoming more important. Just as the globalisation of media tends to superficially ‘flatten out’ cultural differences, it also raises the stakes when it comes to issues of provenance.