Austral Lending Solutions

Carl started his working life working for SGIO insurance in 1984 after finishing year 12 at St Brendan’s College an all boys boarding school in Yeppoon. In 1987 he started a degree in business (major in Marketing) which was completed in 1990. From there he started with for Esanda Finance Corporation Limit in Rockhampton with Steve Esdale as the Manager. With Esanda he travelled to Hervey Bay and Traralgon in Victoria. In 1997 Carl took a retrenchment from Esanda and started as a commercial finance broker for new firm Esdale Sinclair & Associates Pty Ltd (finance brokers) in Rockhampton. After 3 years as a finance broker Carl and Helen Weston moved to Gladstone and started Esdale Sinclair and Associates Gladstone Pty Ltd, finance brokers & managers of Pioneer Permanent Building Society Gladstone. Since then the firm has evolved to 100 % ownership by Carl and Helen in 2005 and rebranded as Austral Lending Solutions in 2008. During the last 21 years Carl and Helen have bought and sold real estate all over the state, had two (2) children and renovated their current business premises themselves, to make it a modern office complex that it is today. Helen Weston (Nee Buchanan) grew up in Gladstone and is related to many of the pioneers of the Gladstone region. Helen started work with NAB and married Carl in 1993. She worked for NAB for 10 years and worked all over Central Qld on relief staff as well as working in Hervey Bay and the La Trobe Valley branches after they moved to Victoria in 1995. Helen is a 50 % business partner in Austral Lending and is the bookkeeping and human resource manager for the firm. She also holds a IV in Financial Services.

Address: 46 Bramston Street, Gladstone, Queensland 4680, Australia

Phone: +61 7 4972 0522
FAX: +61 7 4972 0644