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‘Mao’s Last Dancer’ – Premiered at the cinemas this week06 Sep 2010
A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet.
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Australian Population Growth Insight – from Bernard Salt06 Sep 2010
AUSTRALIA’S growth over the next 90 years will still leave us with a small population compared to the world’s largest cities, according to demographer Bernard Salt.
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John McGrath - Spring Property Review06 Sep 2010
John McGrath, a self-made millionaire at age 23, founded his own real
estate company McGrath Partners Estate Agents at age 26. He commenced
selling real estate in 1984 at 21 years, by the age of 24 years he had
already set a number of real estate records including the sale of
Australia’s most expensive house for $11.25 million.
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The Reserve Bank has spoken: Michael Pascoe’s Take on the Rise!06 Sep 2010
by Michael Pascoe, one of Australia's most respected finance commentators
The Reserve Bank has spoken: not only has the emergency passed, Australia and its trading mates will be back to normal growth in no time at all, inflation is hunky-dory for the next year, private investment is coming to the party and no banker will live in poverty by 2010 - or something like that.
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Dead Famous – The Underworld Documentary - by John Silvester & Andrew Rule06 Sep 2010
Dead Famous lifts the lid on the slaughter that resulted when two underworld tribes went to war over drug profits during Melbourne’s infamous gangland killings. This one-hour documentary takes viewers behind the frenzied headlines to put the killings in their true perspective screened on the ABC last night.
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Shane Jacobson Stars in “Charlie & Boots” with Paul Hogan06 Sep 2010
“Charlie & Boots” the road comedy, which stars Hogan and Shane Jacobson (Kenny), collected $804,002 from 173 cinemas around the country on the Father's Day weekend.
Directed by Dean Murphy, Charlie & Boots tells the story of Charlie McFarland (Hogan), a Victorian farmer in his late 60s who has suffered a devastating loss, and his estranged son "Boots" (Jacobson).In an attempt to cheer up his grieving father, Boots takes him on a long-promised fishing trip - 3,000 kilometres away at Cape York behind the wheel of an old Kingswood.
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Corporate Leadership Communication - Or Lack of It! - Brett Rutledge - Communication Expert06 Sep 2010
Effective communication is the greatest challenge facing the business world today and the most important skill set a leader can bring to their organisation. Remarkably, however, research shows that it is an area where business and business leaders dramatically underperform and under invest. Poor communication remains the number one reason that employees are disengaged, that suppliers underperform, that customers are confused, that investors make poor decisions and that leaders are not respected and yet little is done to redress the lack of understanding of the basic principals of communication.
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Interest Rates Up! Reserve Bank or Big Banks - Terry McCrann's Insight06 Sep 2010
According to statistics, the Australian economy is doing well and, depending on economic figures released shortly, interest rates look like rising soon. But there are still many households that can’t afford to make higher debt repayments.
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Advertising – is there a better way? From Roger LaSalle06 Sep 2010
We are being saturated and we are turning off!
Advertising is reaching saturation proportions and there is no reason to expect anything but perhaps even more of the same in the future. Indeed the frequency of television advertisements is driving many people away with some simply refusing to watch commercial television at all because of the level of advertising.
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Sam Cawthorn – Tasmanian 2009 Young Australian of the Year Back From the Dead – A Life Inspiration for All!06 Sep 2010
Sam Cawthorn – Tasmanian 2009 Young Australian of the Year
Back From the Dead – A Life Inspiration for All!
Congratulations Sam Cawthorn - recently awarded Tasmanian 2009 YOUNG AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR. Less than 3 years ago he was involved in a major accident and died, thankfully he was resuscitated leaving him with an amputated right arm and a permanently disabled right leg.
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Engaging people during tough times – Business Insight from Karen Schmidt06 Sep 2010
In case you hadn’t heard we are now officially in tough economic times. Many organisations are directing managers to cut back, focus on the important stuff and forget non-essential activities. They believe that this is not the time to spend money or outlay effort on activities that are “nice to haves”. We all need to get back to basics to ride out the storm.
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The Zen of Business - by Peter Switzer06 Sep 2010
Twenty years ago if you tried to talk to business people about being in the zone you’d soon find that you were talking to a brick wall.
There were a few sportspeople who really understood the practice and took it up but for the majority it was too transcendental to transfer meditative practices to the business arena. The business world just wasn’t ready for zen.
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Unleashing the Collaborative Potential of your Workforce - Dominic Thurbon06 Sep 2010
Dominic Thurbon is a world top-ten speaker and a leading authority on Generation Y. As Head of Research for Peter Sheahan, he has researched and written a wide variety of articles and reports on the impact of Gen Y in our workplaces and broader society, as well as presenting at numerous conferences and events on the subject.
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Australia is becoming a global hub for crowdsourcing platforms: Freelancer.com, 99designs, DesignCrowd - Ross Dawson06 Sep 2010
Crowdsourcing in the broadest sense will be one of the fundamental platforms of the emerging network economy. As such it’s pleasing to see that Australia is becoming a hub for a number of the most significant crowdsourcing platforms globally.
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Which Business Sectors will fare well in 2010 – Leading Business Expert Phil Ruthven06 Sep 2010
Which business sectors will fare well in 2010? Phil Ruthven, founder and executive chairperson of consulting group IBISWorld, is an expert in industry intelligence. This is an important tool for many businesses and investors.
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