Product Review: Sumo Omni by Sumo – Urban Lounge Gear

Product Details The Sumo Omni is a modern version of the bean bag and so is essentially a large sack filled with polystyrene balls. What makes the Sumo Omni different is that they have moved away from the traditional bean bag shape and instead have designed the Omni using a rectangular shape measuring approx 135cmx165cm [...]

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Stamp duty bills on home purchases soar 59% in five years

Runaway stamp duty bills on residential property are hindering Australian home owners’ ability to enter the housing market, the Bankwest Residential Stamp Duty report has revealed. The research found that stamp duty on the typical Australian home has soared 59% over the past five years, almost double the rise in household income over the same [...]

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Pay Safe Online this Christmas

NetChoice, the e-commerce advocacy group, has issued a set of guidelines in Australia to ensure a safe buying experience for all online shoppers. The NetChoice Pay Safe Guidelines provide the online shopping do’s and don’ts, plus some best practice tips:

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Celebrate International Women’s Day 2009 in Egypt

Ancient Egypt is a destination many women would love to explore, but not necessarily alone or even with a male companion. Sue Hile, Director of Australian specialist women’s travel company, Adventurous Women, takes travelling in her stride and therefore wants to encourage other women to step outside their comfort zone and feel the freedom she [...]

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EOWA names companies that have failed women in the workplace

The 2007-08 Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA) Annual Report tabled in parliament on Wednesday November 26 informs of progress made by the Agency on behalf of working women. In 2007-08 EOWA released its Top Earners report that identified gender pay gaps in the ASX200; its Generation F report that revealed what [...]

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Yahoo!7 announces Australia’s top web searches for 2008

Britney Spears has continued to enthral Australians with her diva antics and much publicised ‘comeback’ to record the highest number of web searches in 2008, however world events also rated highly for Australians according to annual rankings released today by Yahoo!7. Heath Ledger came in at number two behind Britney, following the Australian actor’s tragic [...]

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Nominations open for CLEO Bachelor of the Year

CLEO has officially launched the search to find Australia’s 50 most eligible men. For 22 years, CLEO has discovered the nation’s sexiest single men in the world-renowned CLEO Bachelor of the Year. Now, CLEO is calling on the public to do their duty for Australia’s single women by ‘dobbing in a bachelor’ and nominating those [...]

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Questacon Searches for Students with Bright Ideas

Questacon—The National Science and Technology Centre is looking for young Australians with bright ideas to attend the Questacon Smart Moves Invention Convention 2009. The Questacon Smart Moves Invention Convention is an intensive week-long program that brings together 30 innovative and entrepreneurial young Australian secondary students for an all-expenses paid trip to Canberra.

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Aged care workers set to leave the industry en masse due to stress

Almost a third of registered aged care nurses are considering quitting in the next year because of job stress, says a new University of Melbourne study. The study, conducted by the Centre for Human Resource Management at the University of Melbourne and the Australian Nursing Federation finds Victoria’s registered nurses in Victoria’s aged care sector [...]

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Landmark Federal Court Action Against iiNet for Illegal Downloads

Landmark Federal Court legal action by movie producers against Australia’s third-largest internet service provider, iiNET, has highlighted the problems of unlawful downloads and unauthorised file sharing. RMIT University General Counsel, John Lambrick, says unlawful file sharing – which is estimated to account for between 50 and 80 per cent of broadband use in Australia – [...]

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