How to build a unicorn — start-up founders call on government for budget relief

Founders and venture capitalists say the government's proposed changes to tax concessions in last week’s budget will be a massive handbrake on the start-up sector. They’re calling on the government to back the big thinkers and risk takers. Zac Altman, CEO of Kantoko, & Shivani Gopal, founder and CEO of Elladex share their wishlist? It’s the size of a sesame seed but - if left unchecked - has the potential to wipe out half of Sydney’s tree canopy. Our favourite species up and down the east coast - Moreton Bay and Port Jackson figs, flames trees, oaks and paperbarks - are all vulnerable to this nasty little borer and scientists like Professor Brett Summerell from Sydney's Botanic Garden are sounding the alarm.  The namesake of our most prestigious literary awards, Australian feminist icon and trailblazing author Stella Miles Franklin is enjoying a cultural revival and now there's a new novel by French author Alexandra Lapierre written very much in her own words.