Archive for tag: Australia

Best Australian Online Shopping Sites Featured On New Portal

23 January, 2010 (03:25) | Uncategorized | By: Hot Harry

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

10 April, 2009 (01:05) | Uncategorized | By: Hot Harry

Some investors have a different view on stockmarket falls. They see the low stock prices as a chance to get a good deal.
During times of market change, 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 profit opportunities [...]

Modest Melbourne: Arts Capital of Australia

31 December, 2008 (02:55) | Uncategorized | By: Hot Harry

As so often in Australia’s history, Melbourne was founded through deception when explorer John Batman, an Australian fluent in several aboriginal languages, 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 off [...]

Dear Senator Conroy - Open Letter about Australian Clean Feed

23 December, 2008 (01:35) | Uncategorized | By: Hot Harry

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

21 December, 2008 (22:32) | Uncategorized | By: Hot Harry

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 [...]

Stock Market Turmoil Leaves Many Australian Retirees Worried

21 December, 2008 (01:09) | Uncategorized | By: Hot Harry

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 [...]