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19.01.2022 "Catherine brings enormous passion and energy for self-development, and great attitude and motivation to her role at Matthews Steer. She has outstanding relationships with her executive team and key stakeholders, and I have complete confidence in her ability to get things done." - Ken Matthews, CEO Matthews Steer. https://www.matthewssteer.com.au/lates/duncan-appointed-coo

18.01.2022 The MS team is excited to have launched our new paid parental leave policy on July 1. It's the result of extensive research and industry benchmarking, and reflects our focus on nurturing a diverse workplace and our commitment to our purpose: ‘empowering our community to live their potential’. It's just one of a raft of employment conditions that makes our Essendon Fields-based accounting and advisory firm a competitive alternative to Melbourne CBD-based firms. https://www.matthewssteer.com.au//promoting-gender-diversi

12.01.2022 Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg handed down the most important Australian budget since World War II this week, announcing a series of measures designed to get people and businesses spending again through the largest set of investment incentives any Australian Government has ever provided. Here's why our Managing Partner Ken Matthews believes it will provide the stimulus Victorian businesses need to drive investment and forward momentum, and wake our state from its economic slumber https://bit.ly/36MhA4L

11.01.2022 ANZAC Day 2020 We will remember them. Each year, at this time, I think of my Pop, Corporal H Matthews (left), who fought in World War One (WWI), and my Dad, Petty officer HF Matthews (right), who served in the Navy in World War Two (WWII).... Pop came to Australia from Tottenham, London, England as a 16-year-old to work on farms at Birregurra and Leongatha, where he joined the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) after the outbreak of WWI, to serve for King and Country. Pop fought at Gallipoli with the 24th Battalion, and then moved on to France and the Western Front where he lost a lung from mustard gas at the second battle of Bullecourt. While in England recuperating from his wounds he married his childhood sweetheart and they moved back to Australia. My grandparents were real pioneers, living under a wagon while their farmhouse at Hazel Park in Gippsland was built under the Soldiers Settlement Scheme. During the depression Pop, Nan and my Dad and his sisters left the farm and came to Melbourne. Pop refused to go on the ‘Susso’ (unemployment benefits) and instead took to the road in a horse and cart, selling Mitchell’s brooms and brushes to support Nan and his six children in Maribyrnong. Pop was an honest, hardworking man. A man of principle. He didn’t smoke until he was at Gallipoli where he took up the habit, and with only one lung he died at the age of 71 from pneumonia. During his younger years, Dad ran away from home a number of times and left school at 14 years old during the Great Depression. At 19 he joined the Royal Australian Navy, about six months before the start of WWII. Dad did convoy duty from South Africa to England, and commissioned the HMAS Nestor (his favourite ship) which was in the Battle of Bismarck, the Atlantic convoys and helped to get the convoy through that saved Malta. Dad was not home for a number or years, fighting the Germans, and when he came back to Australia he joined the ill-fated HMAS Canberra, surviving its sinking at the battle of Savo Island near Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands. He served on many other ships and rose to the rank of Petty Officer. Dad loved the navy. It was his home away from home and it educated him. He eventually left the navy having married my mother Marion and had two of four children in 1950. He then joined naval inspection with the Defence Department until he retired. Dad had a firm handshake and would look you in the eye and tell you what he thought. He built his life around the navy values of Honour, Honesty, Courage, Integrity and Loyalty, and he lived them every day of his life. I hope in these testing times we can draw on the spirit of the ANZACs of our Grandfathers and Fathers and that we rise to meet the challenges that confront us as they did. Lest we forget. Ken Matthews 25th April 2020.

09.01.2022 Thanks to everyone who attended our Global Economic Update last week - our first 'virtual' event, and to Jonathan Pain for another insightful presentation. If you missed the livestream, there's a link to view it in this article... https://www.matthewssteer.com.au//light-at-end-of-covid-tu

09.01.2022 Great to see Ferguson Plarre Bakehouses featured in today's Herald Sun. The team here at Matthews Steer is proud to have supported CEO Steve Plarre and the Ferguson Plarre team to secure a $950,000 grant under the federal government's Manufacturing Modernisation Fund. During tough economic times our team has been doing some exceptional work with our clients, and good news stories like this one are heartening.... If you are looking to expand your business, or you're looking to purchase new equipment, perhaps our specialist government grants team can help you compile a grant-winning application? If you think we can assist, please get in touch with the team on (03) 9325 6300.

03.01.2022 Matthews Steer is the reason our government grant applications were successful we wouldn’t have been awarded funding without them. - Steve Plarre, Ferguson Plarre Bakehouses. Read on to find out how the Commonwealth Government’s Manufacturing Modernisation Fund and AusIndustry Entrepreneurs Program government grants will help the Ferguson Plarre team realise their groundbreaking 'Future Bake Project' vision. Read more https://www.matthewssteer.com.au//matthews-steer-case-stud