Connect Australia provides strategic advisory and coordination services, non-legal case management support, business situation mapping, records organisation, chronology and evidence preparation, submission writing, stakeholder communication and practical oversight of high-stakes workstreams. Our clients include company directors, licensed and regulated professionals, charities and small organisations across Australia.

Our role is different. We do the administrative heavy lifting around the professional advice: finding records, organising facts, building the chronology, preparing questions, coordinating contributors and keeping the work moving. We do not provide legal, tax, financial or insolvency advice. We work with your chosen qualified professionals when their advice is required.

We can help secure records, identify dates, build a chronology, prepare an adviser brief and coordinate urgent administrative work. We do not advise on the legal or tax consequences of a Director Penalty Notice. Directors should obtain qualified advice immediately. Current requirements should be checked against ATO guidance and the notice itself.

Yes. We can help organise purposes, activities, governing documents, policies, budgets, evidence and draft application material. The ACNC provides the official registration process and checklist. DGR eligibility is a tax question. A lawyer or registered tax adviser should provide eligibility advice where required. The ACNC and ATO remain the decision-makers.

Our role is administrative. We organise books and records, creditor information, practitioner requests, timelines and supporting material. ASIC states that the restructuring proposal period generally lasts 20 business days from the day restructuring begins, unless it ends earlier or is extended. The directors prepare the plan with the assistance of the registered restructuring practitioner. Read the current ASIC guidance. We do not assess eligibility or provide insolvency advice.

You deal with Massud Zhouand and Jessie Emily Zhouand directly. Massud works through financial, operational, technical and people-related parts of the matter. Jessie works through chronologies, evidence control, written material, applications and detailed administration. We work together. We remain accountable for the agreed scope.

No. We can control the quality of our preparation, the accuracy of the factual record and the care taken with the work. We cannot control the decision-maker. Applications, approvals, endorsements, negotiations and regulatory outcomes remain subject to the relevant authority, creditor, regulator or other decision-maker.

A brief fit check costs nothing. It is not a formal consultation. Tell us what has happened, what arrived, the deadline and the immediate concern. Do not send sensitive documents until we agree on a suitable channel. Fees, scope and deliverables are set out in writing before substantive work begins. See our engagements and fees and Terms of Engagement.