Category Archives: Media Events

Are you using Twitter?

Here is a great guide to help you http://tinyurl.com/oaw22q Fantastic for new and old Twitter users and we have also updated the post on TWION on this blog, to include the new material. Either post will give you great insights into … Continue reading

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Saving Whales

Please say a prayer for all the beautiful whales who died on the beach yesterday and the ones being saved http://tinyurl.com/cz8pu9   http://tinyurl.com/d55c3g

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Greenpeace – It’s More Aussie Than You Think

Did you know that the great whales that the Japanese hunt in the Gt Southern Ocean migrate to a special whaling nursery just north of Broome in Western Australia, each year. Now, Thirty years after Greenpeace got its first real … Continue reading

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Have Australians Stopped Killing Whales?

THIS POST WAS ORIGINALLY MADE ON MARCH 7, 2009. Australia may have a new Prime Minister – but Australians are still killing whales, in 2011. The Last Whale. You must read this story – because Chris Pash sets out, in … Continue reading

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Does Grammar matter? This Grandma thinks so!

Mark Tredinnick ran his Little Red Writing Workshop at the Perth Writer’s Festival over the March long weekend. I got an autographed copy of the book – and his Little Green Writing Workshop companion book I also bought later. Mark … Continue reading

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Hundreds of Dolphins Saved By Fishermen

Not all fishermen disregard the wellbeing of the creatures of the sea. Quote” The pod included 200-300 dolphins but only three died. It is common for dolphins to beach themselves in the Philippines but rarely in such great numbers. On … Continue reading

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Perth Writers’ Festival – Revisits Whaling Controversy

I think I am (just a little) in love with Mark Tredinnick – who ran his Little Red Writing Workshop – I got an autographed copy of the book – and whose Little Green Grammar Book companion book I also … Continue reading

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Welcome, Rob, to Kiva.org and our No Tall Poppies Team.

Lesley welcomes Rob to the No Tall Poppies team at Kiva.org  Read all about our No Tall Poppies Team and some of our projects here http://is.gd/iTOV

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It’s a “downpayment”- so SPEND, SPEND, SPEND!

It will be an interesting question to be answered in the February 2009 Senate Estimates Committee Hearings to know exactly when the description of the payments to Centrelink recipients were changed from “downpayment” to “handout” or “Christmas Bonus.” On 30th September, … Continue reading

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You Tube Posting on Internet Censorship

 Jim Stewart has posted two extremely well balanced videos on You Tube. View them here http://bit.ly/H4ye & http://bit.ly/fWRz

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Censorship Of The Internet in Australia

This email has been sent today to The Hon Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy DEPUTY LEADER OF THE GOVERNMENT IN THE SENATE   Dear Minister As a fully employed, independently funded senior citizen, I … Continue reading

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Changing Jobs? Don’t Leave Your Superannuation Behind!

DOES “LOST” SUPERANNUATION MATTER? Do you know that one in every two working Australians has a lost superannuation account?   Your account is considered lost if it has not received any contributions for two Read.story.here

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Red Tailed Cockatoos feeding habits

As an exciting update to the story about the Red Tailed Cockatoos, we have for the past two days had a flock of them spending lots of time high in the branches of a huge Cape Lilac tree, in the … Continue reading

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Smart Poppies

Smart Poppies is our sister site, designed by Lesley Dewar to provide an avenue for women (and men, if they want) to  contact her on a range of financial planning matters – where she acts under her License as an … Continue reading

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Attitude – get some with a ‘glass half full’

In these tougher times, you need a ‘glass half full’ attitude and take every opportunity that comes along to promote yourself, your skills and your business. This week, we did not win the business award, but we certainly continue to … Continue reading

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Radio Interview with FM92.1 on 13th November, 08

This is a transcript (well, nearly – the order of the questions got changed around a bit, on the night) of my radio interview on FM 92.1 (in Perth) on Thursday 13th November, 08.  The interview was part of the … Continue reading

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