Together We Are Building Hope

We are appealing to our local community for sponsorship and or support of this very important organisation to not only support women in our local community but protect and aid these remarkable women and children who have endured the most unthinkable ordeals.

This International Women's Day was on the 8th of March, and we hosted a fundraising event in support of The SHE Rescue Home! The event was held at the Bribie Island AFL Club on First Ave, but we still need your contribution in the way of a donation please.

Childhood is supposed to be a time for fun, exploration and learning. Yet almost 1 in every 15 children are living in modern slavery. When our founder Leigh Ramsey visited Cambodia, she met young children, little girls who were being sold into sex trafficking. She said, ‘IT’S NOT OK’.

Within a year our SHE Rescue Home opened a safe haven in Cambodia for girls aged 5 – 16 years who have been trafficked or sexually exploited. Since then, we have opened several projects to change the lives of girls rescued from human trafficking and sexual exploitation and helping them lead thriving lives. Our high security home is where girls may find healing, wholeness, support, love, and reclaim a sense of childlike innocence.

We are so very grateful for your time, should you wish to donate, please go to our website https//www.itsnotok.com/donations-aud and you can donate there. Proudly supported by Sell Exclusive, Bribie Island.

Bribie Island Community Nursery is proud to showcase our female volunteers as part of International Women's Week. Meet Millie, she has been volunteering for over 25 years & was recently awarded Life membership at our 2023 A.G.M . Millie , along with all our wonderful volunteers works tirelessly to add value to our local community

This International Women’s Day, we still have a long way to go to achieve equality, let alone equity. Whether it’s domestic and family violence, coercive control, bullying and online abuse or violence towards women with disability, women remain unsafe.

As a leader, I commit to speaking up, and to helping other women to make their calls for change heard.

As a business that revolves around health, we believe that mental health also is a huge part of what we do. You feel so much better when you are physically fit which plays a major role in mental health care. As Anna Quindlen said “After all those years as a woman hearing, ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not thin enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I am enough.’” Happy International Women’s day to all the wonderful women in our community.

Sell Exclusive Real Estate Is proud to be supporting this fantastic occasion in celebrating all women in their achievements and Choose To Challenge for change. For us, these strong women are pivotal in their roles and our family business could not function without their amazing efforts and commitment to achieving great results for our clients! We recognise the incredibly strong women they are as mothers, colleagues and individuals. Here’s to Strong Women. May We Know Them. May We Be Them. May We Raise Them.

To me, International Women’s Day is a reminder that we have the power to speak our minds, to manage a household, to bear children, run successful companies, and so much more. It’s a day that we can come together collectively to celebrate and acknowledge all of the incredible women in our lives. As a professional woman in a male-dominated industry, I have leveraged every opportunity within my business to set the standard for the next generation of professional women that are coming through the ranks. Empowering women means there is no limit to what we can accomplish!

The team at eco village hair believe every woman should feel empowered and the most important thing one woman can do for another is expand her sense of actual possibilities. That is what we do in our salon, help our client’s look and feel the very best they can. As Judy Garland said, “Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else”. You have a dream, make it a goal.”

We strongly believe that women can do anything they put their minds too! As Michelle Obama said “There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.” The strongest action for a woman is to love herself, be herself, and shine amongst those who never believed she could. “If you have a dream, make it a goal.”

EMPOWERING OUR CLIENTS IN BIG WAYS AND SMALL. Being a woman is special. It means having a shared connection that allows you to inspire, help and uplift other women. Being able to share knowledge, education, and resources with other women freely gives us a special type of joy. Not only making our clients beautiful on the outside, but helping women support each other and cheering with them when they succeed. We love creating the energy of LJ Aesthetics, it’s comfortable, peaceful, and welcoming. To be inspired by other women and what they are able to accomplish is amazing!

As part of Voices Coral on Bribie Island, we thrive on equity throughout our group. With 42 performing members it' sour pleasure to celebrate International Women's Day with the other women of beautiful Bribie. It's a great day to honour those who fight against gender discrimination and inequities in legal, civil, health, and human rights.

Life has changed for many women in the world through movements such as this. However, my heart cries for the majority who suffer abusive, controlled lives with little access to education and health support or even the ability to choose their own destiny

Pauline The Bribie Islander CEO

At Hans Electrical, we pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer. Cassandra is a prime example. Cassandra started with us as in a school-based work experience role which led to beginning her apprenticeship in 2013. After she successfully completed her apprenticeship, she became a fulltime employee who works in the office as well as providing quotes onsite. Cassandra now has a beautiful 6mth old baby and is juggling motherhood and her work successfully.

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Diversity and generations of wisdom set the scene for a great business where learning, sharing and growing are a part of our values.

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The wonderful women at Scoopy’s collectively bring over 65 years of experience working in this single business. How amazing is that?

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Thank you for the laughter, energy, wisdom and care you bring to work every day and for creating an amazing environment where everyone feels they belong.

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DRAGONS - "We have crossed our arms for EQUITY this IWD as a symbolic gesture of solidarity, for all women across the world. Our paddlers are sending a message that we stand with and support their fellow breast cancer survivors and all women who may be experiencing physical, sexual and/or coercive control. This simple act of solidarity can help break down barriers and promote a more welcoming and inclusive environment for all women worldwide."

International Women’s Day is the perfect opportunity to celebrate the strong, resilient women in our lives that we love and admire, and to reflect on what we can do to improve the social, economic and cultural challenges that women everywhere continue to face.

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The January 2023 CreditorWatch Business Risk Index (BRI) reveals that business conditions are turning for Australian businesses, with a number of key metrics continuing to decline after a subdued end to 2022 as the RBA continued to tighten the screws on interest rates.

CreditorWatch’s key trade indicator, trade receivables (the average value of invoices), experienced a seasonal drop in January, down 39% from December, but have also been trending downward since July 2022. In fact, they are at their lowest point since

CreditorWatch began collecting this data in January 2015.

B2B trade payment defaults were down eight per cent from December to January but are still up 39% year-on-year and showed a clear upward trend before the seasonal decline in November last year (see chart below).

In terms of probability of default by industry, food and beverage services (hospitality) is ranked number one by a considerable margin due to the multiple challenges it currently faces: from labour shortages to price hikes to lower consumer demand.

Credit enquiries were up a massive 129% year-on-year in January, following an uptick that began in October – a likely consequence of the Optus and Medibank data breaches.

External administrations were trending upwards until their seasonal drop in January, however we expect the February Business Risk Index results to show a continuation of the upward trend.

· B2B trade receivables are at their lowest point since CreditorWatch began collecting this data in January 2015.

· Trade payment defaults are up 39% year-on-year.

· Credit enquiries are up 129% year-on-year.

· External administrations are expected to continue trending upward this year.

· Court actions are at their highest point since September and are up 36% on January 2022.

· Yarra Ranges in Victoria is the region with the lowest insolvency risk (across regions with more than 5,000 businesses), followed by Cottesloe-Claremont in Western Australia.

· Gold Coast Hinterland in Queensland and MeltonBacchus Marsh in Victoria are the regions at highest risk of default across Australia (for regions with more than 5,000 businesses)

. The Western Sydney regions of Merrylands–Guildford and

Canterbury have improved but still hold positions nine and 10 respectively on the list of worst performing regions.

CreditorWatch CEO Patrick Coghlan says that the January Business Risk Index results clearly indicate a tough year ahead for Australian businesses.

“The upward trend in trade payment defaults, in particular, should definitely be of concern to business owners,” he says. “The RBA’s tightening of monetary policy is beginning to bite, on top of other challenges like labour shortages and supply chain disruptions. We will hopefully see inflation peaking soon, followed by an improvement in business and consumer confidence. It is important to remember that the Australian economy is still in a much better position than most.”

CreditorWatch Chief Economist, Anneke Thompson, says trade receivables and trade default data provide a strong indication that we are now well past the peak of business conditions.

“This is in line with NAB's latest Business Conditions survey, which also shows business conditions and confidence falling,” she says.

“While 2023 will certainly be a tougher trading environment for businesses than 2022, we are coming off a period where many businesses were operating at or close to capacity, and the RBA is looking for a slowdown in activity to cool inflation.

“One of the likely results of this slowing of business activity is rising unemployment. Again, employment conditions have been extremely tight, so any rise in the unemployment rate will likely still see the rate at very low levels in overall terms. It will also dampen wage growth, something the RBA Is very keen to keep at moderate levels so as not to induce a wage-price spiral.

External administrations were slowly rising in trend terms over 2022, before falling In January due to seasonal impacts. It Is likely that external administrations continue to rise in trend terms over 2023, as falling demand hits businesses that were already struggling to cope with rising costs and interest payments but may have been maintaining operations due to decent cash flow.

Projected default rates for the next 12 months for both best performing and worst performing regions are considerably higher than their defaults rates over the past 12 months.

The five regions* at least risk of default over the next 12 months are:

1. Yarra Ranges (VIC): 4.80%

2. Cottesloe-Claremont (WA): 4.87%

3. Adelaide City (SA): 4.89%

4. Cairns - South (QLD): 4.96%

5. Chatswood – Lane Cove (NSW): 5.02%

The five regions* most at risk of default over the next 12 months are:

1. Gold Coast Hinterland (QLD): 7.02%

2. Melton – Bacchus Marsh (VIC): 7.04%

3. Kogarah - Rockdale (NSW): 7.09%

4. Southport (QLD): 7.27%

5. Bankstown (NSW): 7.30% * Regions with more than 5,000 registered businesses Once again, areas with a high number of households with residential mortgages are the most likely areas to see business defaults. This is because many small business’s finances are closely aligned with Individual/household finances.

The industries with the highest probability of default over the next 12 months are:

1. Food and Beverage Services: 7.26%

2. Transport, Postal and Warehousing: 4.64%

3. Arts and Recreation Services: 4.63%