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Back to the ex treasurer, Mr Buswell. It is bad enough that we have to bring up the old episode of what he did to that chair (still can’t bring myself to type it or say it) but the whole episode has been like seeing a dead animal on the side of the road. Once you notice it’s there, you can’t turn away…you almost feel compelled to check out how it died, and how badly.
I was speaking to a colleague the other day who had just been ‘unfriended’ for the very first time. Nothing personal, you understand, the unfriender had just decided to limit his Facebook activity to family and close friends. But lets face it, ‘unfriending’ seems just so, well, unfriendly. And that got us talking about the […]
Those with IT skills are picking up significant pay increases in Western Australia as demand for resources pushes up wages and demand in the state for qualified professionals.
Kevin Rudd’s grand plans for a National Broadband Network (NBN) will come to nothing with Tony Abbott preparing to slash Government spending if the Liberal Party wins the next federal election.
NSW business leaders remain unconvinced about the merits of the Federal Government’s recently introduced National Employment Standards.
Australian fashion is defying the odds, as local brands export with success in a dark market. Sass & Bide and Willow are leading the way in Australian fashion exports, as other entrepreneurial designers begin to crack the New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States’ markets.
Financial advisers beware; the federal government is about to embark on an overhaul of the financial advice sector, placing a new emphasis on consumer protection.
Intellectual Property laws are often critiqued as a protectionist system that limits innovation and cross-company collaboration.
The Storm’s fall from grace has made some NRL sponsors nervous, with fears the salary cap rorting may extend across more teams.
The Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) is leading a trade mission to Shanghai in July this year, the first of its kind following successful missions to Hong Kong and New York.
The Queensland Government has announced the board which will take Queensland Rail through the process of an IPO to gain listing on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).
Real Estate Agents have been hit hard in by the ‘Most Trusted Professions’ study by readers Digest, coming out behind Sex Workers, Professional Footballers and CEO’s.
What do you do on a lazy Sunday afternoon, read the Sunday paper of course!
And this week end once I reminisced over the contribution the ANZACS made to Australian history and then ploughed through the analysis of the Melbourne Storm debacle, I found an article called: ‘We’d pay to do less work.’
After seven years in a consultancy I have had some time to think about this and I am going out on a limb and say what you are not meant to say if you are in an agency – I think it is time someone developed a code of conduct on how clients should treat their agency and this is why.
NSW Labor’s Kristina Keneally is dominating the Liberal’s Barry O’Farrell as preferred premier for the state, but seems destined to be a popular leader of a losing party if the latest Newspoll numbers hold true.
Australia is set to continue its strong resources lead economic recovery, returning to levels of prosperity not seen since the beginning of 2008. At least for resource rich states like Queensland and Western Australia concludes the latest Business Outlook report from Access Economics.
Expense Reduction Analysts Australia, a leading cost-reduction and procurement consultancy, announced today it expects to save Australian clients more than $3.2 million in 2010.
Domain Hosting Shop Tuesday announced the commercial release of their revolutionary new e-commerce software, Spiffy Stores.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has authorised arrangements to transfer specified amounts of coal handling capacity from the Barney Point coal terminal to the proposed Wiggins Island terminal at the Port of Gladstone in Queensland.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has reauthorised certain regulations governing the operation of the Australian Paper Clearing System.
