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Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard was has been touring Southern Queensland to sell last week’s budget at the request of the Federal Labor candidate for Hinkler Belinda McNeven.

Telstra iPad plans have been sweetened, with Telstra offering users the option to roll over unused data if they recharge before their prepaid iPad plan’s 30 days expires.

Generation Y, while never fully switching off from work when away from the office, would also refuse a job that banned them from personal social media access.

Mortgage owners can breathe a sigh of relief as the Reserve Bank appears unlikely to further raise interest rates above 4.5 per cent in June.

The Australian Labor Party has been quick to jump on the admission of Tony Abbott that what he says is not always the truth with an ad campaign targeting the opposition leader.

Akamal Technologies and Viocorp have teamed up to sponsor Australia’s first major independent TEDx event, taking place at Carriageworks in Sydney’s inner city.

In the wake of the Global Financial Crisis, audit committees have increased their powers in directing the course and action of internal audits.

The internet will run out of addresses within 500 days it is claimed, stressing the urgency for businesses to migrate to IPv6 addresses.

Australian asset management company MLC has begun the first intake of its innovative new Advice Business School, with overwhelming demand leading the company to announce further enrolments in the coming months.

Businesses are being driven from Sydney, with mounting costs attributed to Sydney’s traffic snarl costing up to $10,000 per year according to the NRMA.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has admitted that unless the words coming from his mouth are scripted, that voters cannot trust him to tell the truth.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission instituted proceedings in the Federal Court today against Air New Zealand Ltd for fixing prices.

Australia’s population growth is set to slow over the next two years, with overseas students and long-stay visa holders forecast to stay away says BIS Shrapnel.

Domino’s Pizza is is rolling out a change to it’s core pizza product offering, with 3,750 tonnes of tomato sauce and a new advertising campaign hitting consumers today.

Optus has launched a range of BYO Business Mobile Broadband plans with standard SIMs to compliment the range of MicroSIM plans released last week for the iPad.

Apple’s upcoming iPhone 4G is being used as a lure for online scammers, with free iPhone 4G links being spammed out via email and Twitter.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has obtained orders restraining three individuals from promoting an alleged pyramid selling scheme called TVI Express through Facebook.

26 percent of small to medium enterprises (SMEs) with a turnover of $1 million or more plan to take on more staff in 2010, with half expecting an increase in sales within the next six months.

I don’t generally deal in the currency of regret. I struggle to think of any other emotional pastime more useless, futile and unproductive. Unless you count the 12 months I spent longing, no pining for Inter Milan super hero Nicola Berti after a stint living in Italy during the early 90’s.

Transurban is still a takeover target for CP2 investment fund after its advances were spurned with a capital raising on the open market.