Anthill Magazine

Feature: Employer exploitation of foreign students in Australia is rife

However, as Matthew da Silva and Mingming Feng report, Australia’s educational institutions have far more appetite for international student tuition than local employers have for hiring these students as legitimate employees, causing young foreigners to reconsider Australia as their educational destination of choice. Andie Feng got ...

The morning after

Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield is a free agent again. After creating the world’s premier online photo-sharing community, selling it to Yahoo and spending three years working inside the walls of that now troubled internet giant, he’s out and ready for something new. Paul Ryan sat ...

Working the clock

He won a Chinese kickboxing title by pushing opponents out of the ring. He regularly analyses his own blood to identify trends. And he once outsourced the administration of his dating to teams in five countries. Who says Tim Ferriss can’t work a four-hour week? ...

24-hour podcast people

It’s tough to change the world from inside a middle-management corporate cubicle. So Cameron Reilly dropped out and tuned in, creating the world’s first podcast network. Having turned down venture funding, the only thing that Reilly wants to lend is your ears. Cameron Reilly waits, ...

Man on a mission

Peng Choo has a dream. He dreams that one day soon, almost anyone (even school children) will be able to program microchips. But this is not an idle fantasy. Choo’s Adelaide-based company, eLabtronics, has the technology to make it a reality. And the IT industry ...

The big house

A prison sentence early in life can dash the hopes of a would-be entrepreneur. Or it can fuel them. In the youth unit at Port Phillip Prison, rock bottom gives way to the bottom line as teenaged inmates become CEOs. Jodie O’Keeffe clears security to ...

Inside the asylum

All successful niche-market entrepreneurs have one thing in common: an enthusiasm for their work that extends far beyond mere profit-lust. Tim Anderson and Paul Wiegard embody this maxim. As founders and co-CEOs of Madman Entertainment, Australia’s largest distributor of anime DVDs and independent cinema, they ...

The alchemist

Mervyn Jacobson is the richest man in Eden. He is the Executive Chairman of Melbourne-based biotech company, Genetic Technologies (GTG), which controls patents on 95 percent of your DNA. Once considered ‘junk’, because it lacks genetic coding, this vast area of the genome is now ...

Success to dream about: ResMed’s Peter Farrel:

Peter Farrell’s authoritative baritone is at odds with his mission in life: to put people to sleep. From the embers of an idea, this erudite chemical engineer built ResMed into one of the world’s most successful fast growth companies. By Paul D. Ryan “Anthill? Yes, I’ve ...

David Bussau – The economics of enough

He’s been accused of imposing capitalism on the poor, but David Bussau says entrepreneurs are the key to overcoming poverty. And he has the record to prove it. By Paul D. Ryan. David Bussau is all too familiar with the concepts of under-privilege, survival and dignity. ...