January 23, 2010 – 3:25 am
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Some investors have a different perspective on stockmarket downturns. They see the low stock prices as a chance to purchase a cheap shares.
During times of market volatility, it is our natural instinct to protect our wealth and distance ourselves from risk. While this reaction is not surprising, it can also mean missing out on profitable [...]
December 31, 2008 – 2:54 am
As so often in Australia’s history, Melbourne was founded through fraud when adventurer 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 [...]
December 27, 2008 – 5:43 am
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, [...]
December 23, 2008 – 1:35 am
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 [...]
December 21, 2008 – 10:30 pm
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 [...]
December 15, 2008 – 5:33 am
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.
Alwyas packed by day with people and fluttering pigeons, it can be [...]