2026 Webinar Series
Our monthly webinars are designed for advisors supporting business owners and directors dealing with debt challenges, financial pressure and complex decision-making. Each session responds to current conditions and real advisory scenarios, providing practical insights that advisors can apply when guiding clients through restructuring, recovery or exit decisions.
Led by the de Jonge Read® team and trusted industry experts, each session focuses on real-world advisory scenarios, emerging risks and practical decision-making. The goal is to help advisors identify issues earlier, understand the available options, and guide clients with confidence before problems escalate. These sessions are educational, practical and grounded in current client matters — not theory.
Our webinars are typically attended by advisors who work with business owners and directors, including:
- Accountants and accounting firms
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Bookkeepers and BAS agents
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Business advisors and consultants
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Finance and mortgage brokers
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Professionals supporting SMEs in financial difficulty
If you advise clients experiencing cash-flow pressure, ATO debt, creditor demands or structural issues, these sessions are designed for you.
Previous webinar speakers and co-hosts have included representatives from the Australian Taxation Office, alongside industry-leading accountants, bookkeepers, lawyers, financiers and other relevant professionals, as well as the experienced de Jonge Read® team. This broad mix of regulatory, technical and practical perspectives ensures each session delivers balanced, commercially relevant insight.
Webinars are usually held on the 4th Thursday of each month and, by popular demand, are delivered in two live sessions at 10am (AEST) and 1pm (AEST). Our webinars contribute to Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programs. Attendees will receive a CPD certificate after the webinar. For advisors who are unable to attend either live session, a recording is published on our website in the days following the event, allowing you to stay informed at a time that suits you.
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22 Oct 2026, Thu
Ashley Shield (DJRA) & Natasha Denise-Weller (QBCC)
10:00am and 1:00pm (AEST)
When The Licence Is At Risk: What QBCC Sees Before Your Client Does
For a construction client, the licence is the business. You can restructure the debt, negotiate with creditors and a payment plan in place with the ATO, but if the licence goes there is nothing left to trade. Most advisors only see the QBCC side of a client’s position once a notice to show cause has already landed on the desk.
In October, Ashley Shield, Executive Director at de Jonge Read® will be joined by Natasha Dennis-Weller, Advisor for Financial Compliance at the Queensland Building and Construction Commission (QBCC). Rather than another walk through the minimum financial requirements, Natasha will show you what the regulator is seeing across the market, what brings a licensee to its attention, and what happens once it does.
Key insights you’ll gain:
🔹 Where compliance is breaking down across the building industry right now, so you know what to look for in your own client book
🔹 The triggers that bring a client to QBCC’s attention, and how to recognise them in what you are already seeing
🔹 What a notice to show cause actually requires from your client, what a strong response looks like, and how long you have to build one
🔹 What tips a file over into licence suspension or cancellation, including the insolvency events that exclude a director from holding a licence at all
🔹 The practical steps you can put in front of a client to keep them compliant and protect their licence before pressure builds
🔹 What options remain once financial or operational pressure starts to show, and how early you need to raise it for those options to still be open
This session will help you understand your QLD builder client’s licence risk in the information you already hold, and be clear on when to raise it while your client still has choices.
Note: Session times by state due to Daylight Savings
QLD: 10am & 1pm
NSW/VIC/ACT/TAS: 11am & 2pm
SA: 10:30am & 1:30pm
NT: 9:30am & 12:30pm
WA: 8am & 11am
Get your certificate of attendance. Our webinars contribute towards your Continuing Professional Development (CPD), and every attendee receives a certificate after the session.
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