Archive for tag: australia

Best Australian Online Shopping Sites Featured On New Portal

23 January, 2010 (03:25) | Uncategorized | By: The Chief Technology Officer

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 Shares Just Yet

10 April, 2009 (01:05) | Uncategorized | By: The Chief Technology Officer

Some investors have a different view on sharemarket downturns. They see the low stock prices as a chance to grab a good deal.
During times of market fluctuations, 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: The Chief Technology Officer

As so often in Australia’s history, Melbourne was founded through fraud when explorer John Batman, an Australian fluent in several aboriginal dialects, made a “deal” with aborigines to lease land on behalf of investors.
While offering the Aborigines any compensation at all was progressive in a colonial culture that preferred to simply run them off [...]

Dear Senator Stephen Conroy - Open Letter about Australian Internet Censorship

23 December, 2008 (01:35) | Uncategorized | By: The Chief Technology Officer

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 [...]