Rainy Day Savings Fund For Unemployment In Bad Economic Times

People who spend most of their payday money within a few days risk uncertainty and having to borrow money from friends and family if they suddenly need to pay medical fees, need urgent repairs to their car or lose their job and a few weeks later don’t have enough money for the next rent or [...]

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Inside Job (DVD Review) – Financial Crisis Catalyst of Occupy Wall Street Protests

The Sony Pictures documentary Inside Job says the 2008 meltdown of world financial markets was avoidable. The global financial crisis of 2008 was an “Inside Job” that led to a global economic recession, millions of people losing their jobs, savings and homes and huge increases in government debt in order to pay for corporate bailouts. [...]

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Sigma 120-400mm F4.5-5.6 DG OS HSM Telephoto Long SLR Camera Lens (review)

The Sigma 120-400mm F4.5-5.6 DG OS HSM provides SLR camera owners an excellent value for money option for wildlife, astronomy, bird watching and other photography subjects that are far away and require a telephoto long zoom lens. It doesn’t matter which brand of SLR you own because Sigma offers the lens at the same price [...]

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Freelance Journalist Work for August September 2011

This is a list of articles / other media work I’ve done as a freelance journalist during August and September 2011. I intend to continue writing freelance articles and do more radio interviews in the future. They will be linked to on a regular basis. Interviews, Talks and Events I got to ride the Nozomi [...]

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Jabra Stone 2 Bluetooth Headset (Review)

Bluetooth earpieces come in many shapes, sizes and colours, most of which leave you looking like a lame call-centre operative who has wandered into the street to carry on a conversation. In this respect the Jabra Stone 2 really stands out. With its unique shape and charging mechanism, it’s the first of its kind that [...]

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Impact of NBN on Visual F/X Industry: Rising Sun Pictures and Animal Logic

The proposed National Broadband Network (NBN) will have an impact on many parts of our lives at work and home. I spoke with a variety of people in the Australian visual effects (VFX) industry about how the NBN could effect their industry. Phil Sullivan is a classic example of how talented Australians in the VFX [...]

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5 Tips for First Time Japan Business Travellers

GUEST ARTICLE: So you’ve been asked by your company to head over to Japan and you’re worried that you’ll make a bad impression? The number one thing you should keep in mind is don’t worry, you’re not Japanese. As such you won’t be expected to know the right way of doing things. That said, it [...]

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Wisper 805FE Folding Electric Bike (Road Test Review)

During research for a previous in-depth article about electric cars I was disappointed to find the $220,000+ Tesla Roadster marginally outside my disposable income bracket. In comparison the Wisper 805FE Folding Electric Bike loaned to me for review by electric and folding bike retailer Commute sells for $2150, 1% of a Tesla’s cost. Omar Khalifa, [...]

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Force Of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie (Canadian Film Festival)

I watched the documentary “Force Of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie” yesterday at the Possible Worlds Canadian Film Festival held in Sydney (using a press pass from sponsors RIM, a Canadian company which created the Blackberry smartphone). My first few years of primary school eduction were experienced in Toronto, Canada and I remember watching David [...]

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Who Speaks For Interest Rate Rise Winners?

As usual media coverage of the Reserve Bank cash rate decision last week was dominated by the impact on households with mortgages and pleas from business lobby groups to keep rates where they are. This article was originally commissioned by ABC Online & published on The Drum Unleashed “A low rate world is not in [...]

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Flying Monsters 3D with David Attenborough (IMAX Review)

Last week I watched a media preview IMAX Sydney screening of Sir David Attenborough’s 1st 3D documentary. Flying Monsters 3D tells the story of winged lizards called Pterosaurs (also known as Pterodactyls). They were the first backbone animals to fly over 200 million years ago and dominated the skies for the next 150 million years. [...]

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Freelance Journalist Work for June July 2011

This is a list of articles / other media work I’ve done as a freelance journalist during June and July 2011. I intend to continue writing freelance articles and do more radio interviews in the future. They will be linked to on a regular basis. I was asked by Tourism Western Australia and Adventure Wild [...]

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My Thoughts on BBC World Service: Olympic Legacies for Sydney 2000 and London 2012

I was planning a quiet meal at home yesterday when I got a call from BBC World Service Radio. The producer of World Have Your Say had just read my article Olympics and World Cup Big Events Waste of Tax Payers Money and wanted me to contribute to the program.. I rushed to ABC Ultimo [...]

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Growing Human Population Could Lead to Soylent Green Future

The 1973 Film Soylent Green predicts a future world in the year 2022 where the stark landscape has been cleared of vegetation, temperatures are sweltering, mass extinction of flora and fauna means there’s no fresh food and the masses inhabiting overpopulated cities are fed energy concentrate wafers by the Soylent Corporation. The new Soylent Green [...]

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Future of Business, Holiday and Military Aviation

The world has recently been focused on the last NASA Space Shuttle flight STS-135. Back on Earth the combination of cost cutting airlines and government obsession with security theatre is making flying frustrating and uncomfortable with pat downs and scans by customs agents and shrinking legroom on aircraft causing leg cramps. We are at a [...]

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