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 people have a different perspective on stockmarket falls. They see the low stock prices as an opportunity to purchase a good deal.
During times of economic turbulence, it is our natural instinct to protect our assets and distance ourselves from risk. While this reaction is not surprising, it can also mean missing out on growth [...]

Modest Melbourne: Australian Football Heart of Australia

As so often in Australia’s history, Melbourne was founded through fraud 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 [...]

Copenhagen: Capital of Denmark and Home of the Little Mermaid

Almost everyone who comes to Copenhagen visits the little mermaid harbour. Hans Christian Andersen’s popular fairy tale is about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a mermaid to gain a human soul and the love of a human prince.
Love is capricious. In the end, [...]

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 Beautiful 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.
Alwyas packed by day with people and fluttering pigeons, it can be [...]