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Some people have a different view on stockmarket declines. They see the low stock prices as a chance to snare a good deal.
During times of market fluctuations, it is our natural instinct to guard our assets and distance ourselves from risk. While this reaction is unsurprising, it can also mean missing out on profitable opportunities [...]
As so often in Australia’s history, Melbourne was founded through deception when adventurer John Batman, an Australian fluent in several aboriginal languages, made a “deal” with aborigines to lease land on behalf of investors.
While offering the Aborigines any compensation at all was progressive in a colonial culture that preferred to simply run them off [...]
Senator Stephen Conroy
Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
Level 4, 4 Treasury Place
Melbourne Vic 3002
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Dear Minister Conroy,
I have never written to a government minister before, but I have serious concerns about the Rudd Government’s mandatory Internet filtering plan. Given the importance your Government has attached to modernising Australia’s broadband network, pursuing [...]
Many small businesses spend far too much time on debt collection rather than their core business. Over the last 2-3 months I’ve noticed an increasing lag in payment cycles.
If you are in any sort of operation that uses small businesses as service providers or product suppliers it’s well worth your while to pay your bills [...]
The turmoil in the international stock markets is having a tragic impact on the retirement plans of many retired Australians.
For example, during September 2008, it was estimated by Super Ratings, a company that tracks the performance of super funds, that Australian super funds lost as much as 6% of their value. During the past year [...]