Licence removed by ASIC

AUSTRALIA’S corporate watchdog has deregistered the development company run by prominent political lobbyist Simone Holzapfel and her husband Matthew Robinson.

Robinson Prospect, which shared an office at Mariners Cove with Ms Holzapfel’s PR firm Shac Communications, was developing the Huonbrook Estate project at Terranora near Tweed Heads.

ASIC deregistered the company on July 8.

Huonbrook Estate is being developed on land owned by another of the couple’s companies, Horseshoe Properties, which ASIC records show is in external administration after a creditor took them to court over an unpaid debt.

Court documents for the case say Horseshoe also has three previous court judgments between 2014 and ’17 for unpaid rates to Tweed Shire Council totalling $22,265. The documents say Horseshoe Properties had failed to pay $27,652.31 to Nerang business Envirosphere after being ordered to pay that amount by Southport Magistrates Court on March 14. Documents from a separate court case reveal the couple also took out a $1.75 million loan against their property at Beaudesert and put it towards a $1.2 million debt to billionaire developer Bob Ell.

Evidence tendered to the Supreme Court as part of a mortgagee repossession, which the couple is fighting, also shows a mortgage to a third company was registered two days later over the same rural acreage where the couple were married at Gleneagle.

Mr Robinson has a development application with the Scenic Rim council for a 50-lot housing development on land next to their Gleneagle house.