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Don’t Write Off the Share Market Just Yet
Some people have a different view on sharemarket downturns. They see the low stock prices as an opportunity to purchase a cheap shares. During times of economic turbulence, 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...
Unassuming Melbourne: Arts Heartland of Australia
As so often in Australia’s history, Melbourne was founded through deception when adventurer John Batman, an Australian fluent in several aboriginal dialects, 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...
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...
Piazza San Marco – One of Venice’s Most Beautiful Squares
One of the world’s most stunning 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 tourists and fluttering pigeons,...