Best Australian Online Shopping Sites Featured On New Portal
HelpMeSis.com.au is a brand new website that acts as a portal featuring the very best Australian online shopping sites and information websites. The comprehensive and well-researched website has been two years in the making and saves women valuable time and frustration by only showing the best and most relevant websites in each of the many [...]
Don’t Write Off the Market Just Yet
Some investors have a different view on sharemarket slumps. They see the low stock prices as a chance to invest in a bargain.
During times of market change, it is our natural instinct to protect our investments and distance ourselves from risk. While this reaction is not surprising, it can also mean losing out on profitable [...]
Modest Melbourne: Arts Heart of Australia
As so often in Australia’s history, Melbourne was founded through deception when adventurer John Batman, an Australian who spoke 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 [...]
Dear Senator Stephen Conroy - Open Letter about Australian Internet Censorship
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 [...]
Good Reasons to Pay Your Suppliers on Time
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 [...]
Piazza San Marco - One of the World’s Most Elegant Squares
One of the world’s most beautiful squares, Piazza San Marco (St. Mark’s Square) is the heart of Venice, a vast open space bordered by an orderly procession of arcades marching toward the fairy tale cupolas and marble lacework of the Basilica di San Marco.
Perpetually packed by day with people and fluttering pigeons, it can be [...]
