Oprah’s Organising Guru Peter Walsh Shares His Organisation Tips

Best-selling author and resident organisation and decluttering expert on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Peter Walsh (pictured), will be back home in Australia this September to spearhead Dymo National Organisation Week (N.O.W.). This is the second year that Peter has been the ambassador for Dymo N.O.W., an initiative of Dymo Australia to encourage us to de-clutter [...]

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Australian Men Believe in Perfect Love but Women are More Realistic

Australian men may have to start reading romance novels to keep it real, after a recent worldwide survey by international romance publisher Harlequin, found that the majority of Australian men (91%) believe in perfect love, while their female counterparts (55%) are more sceptical. The survey also revealed that 46 percent of Australian men lust after [...]

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Man Booker Prize 2009 longlist announced

The judges for the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction have announced the longlist for the prize, the leading literary award in the English speaking world. A total of 132 books, 11 of which were called in by the judges, were considered for the ‘Man Booker Dozen’ longlist of 13 books. Chaired by broadcaster and [...]

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Book Review: Women & Money by Suze Orman

Known throughout the United States as ‘The Money Lady’, Suze Orman is the author of nine best selling books on the subject. Named by Time Magazine in 2008 as one of the ’100 Most Influentional People’ in the world, Orman is the host of her own TV show on CNBC, a popular motivational speaker, and [...]

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Simple Solutions for a Green Workplace

This article includes an extract from the new book Green Made Easy: The Everyday Guide for Transitioning to a Green Lifestyle by Chris Prelitz. Going green in the workplace doesn’t just benefit the environment, it also benefits the health and well being of employees and visitors to your place of business, and it’s cheaper! Yes [...]

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The Eight Qualities of a Wealthy Woman by Suze Orman

This is an extract from the Australian Edition of ‘Women & Money’ by Suze Orman, scheduled for release by Hay House Australia this August. A wealthy woman absolutely has money, but she also has happiness, courage, balance, and harmony. A wealthy woman is generous, clean, wise, and therefore beautiful. A wealthy woman has it all, [...]

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A Samoan Hen’s Party

I was dreading the arrival of my hen’s weekend with my four sisters. On the one hand, I was looking forward to the spa treatments in Hepburn Springs, which included an hour long full body massage, scrub and a 45 minute facial. On the other hand, sisters or not, their opinions and quirky habits I [...]

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Children’s Book Review: Darius Bell and the Glitter Pool by Odo Hirsch

It’s just so glorious to read a magical story that’s not steeped in the stereotypical fairies, wizards, goblins or mysteriously shifting worlds that appear in the blink of an eye or through some unseeming earthly portal. Since Enid Blyton sent us on Wishing Chair and Magic Faraway Tree adventures and CS Lewis penned his superlative [...]

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Children’s Book Review: Cicada Summer by Kate Constable

The dreamlike opening of Cicada Summer was a little painful to read. Having lost my mother far too many years ago, it was a little heartbreaking to realise, within moments of opening this junior fiction novel, that its young lead character was motherless. Moments into the dreamlike sequence, Eloise – an artistic, thoughtful and observant [...]

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Adjusting to a New Boss

The market is changing, many companies are reassessing headcount and as a result we’ve seen mass redundancies in recent months. With redundancy comes opportunity, many professionals will secure new work and will need to learn once again how to shine as the ‘new recruit’. James Nicholson, Managing Director of Robert Walters Australia offers some advice [...]

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