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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 Share Market Just Yet

Some people have a different view on sharemarket slumps. They see the low stock prices as a chance to snare a good deal. During times of economic volatility, it is our natural instinct to guard our assets and distance ourselves from risk. While this reaction is not surprising, it can also mean missing out on profit [...]

Modest Melbourne: Arts Capital of Australia

As so often in Australia’s history, Melbourne was founded through fraud when explorer John Batman, an Australian who spoke in several aboriginal dialects, made a “deal” with aborigines to lease land on behalf of speculators. 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 Venice’s Most Elegant Squares

  One of the world’s most evocative 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 [...]