Property developer Lend Lease Group has appointed Scott Charlton, a former Leighton Holdings Ltd executive, as its Director of Operations. The newly created role will be responsible for managing Lend Lease's key corporate functions, including risk and safety, human resources, legal, finance, corporate affairs and information and communications technology. Mr Charlton worked for six years at Leighton, most recently as Chief Financial Officer.
ATO plans to charge GST on manufactured home parks scrapped
A concerted effort by the Residents Association of manufactured home parks has headed off the ATO which had planned to impose GST in mobile homes. This would have added 10% to the cost of the purchase of a home