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UncategorisedAustralia welcomes the new Paid Parental Leave Scheme
editor | January 14, 2011
Alison G Aggarwal, Director of the Sex and Age discrimination Unit at the Australian Human Rights Commission, welcomes the scheme whilst looking ahead to strengthening it through the review process. READ IN FULL
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Refocusing on Fusion
quagga | January 10, 2011A year on are the folks at Lawrencevile Plasma Physics any closer to positive fusion? They’re getting warmer.
This article is a follow-up on a previous one that I wrote over a year ago, The Experiment that May Change the World, regarding the Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP) company’s effort to achieve net positive energy from a Dense Plamsa Focus Fusion device using the Boron to Helium nuclear reaction.
Earlier this week the scientists at LPP realeased a progress report announcing that they have achieved a very significant milestone. They have repeatedly achieved to rigorous scientific standards the billon degrees + temperature required for Boronic fusion in their device.
Why Gerry Harvey is wrong
patrickcallioni | January 6, 2011Gerry Harvey should be careful what he wishes before crying out for a "level playing field".
Today we will consider a significant public policy issue that affects all of us: competition in the retail sector. Gerry Harvey and other large Australian retailers are arguing that the Australian Government should impose the GST on purchases made online from overseas suppliers, to create a level playing field for Australian retailers.
Travelling with kids – tips and tricks I learned the hard way
Catherine Fritz-Kalish | January 6, 2011Having young children should not stop you from venturing forth to new and wonderful places.
Let me tell you that I am no adventurer by nature. I did marry one though, and along with the fact that much of my family lives overseas and I have always been interested in different cultures, my husband and I have vowed to travel every year somewhere new. The world is big and we want to see it all.
Here is a little background to myself and why I may be able to give you some travel tips.
Whiff of Success: The Intriguing Tale of Sandalwood
Warren Reed | January 5, 2011The Australian newspaper’s new business magazine, The Deal, in its December issue, ran an interesting article by Victoria Laurie on one of Australia’s newest exports. It’s the story of a sandalwood oil distillation factory in Albany, in the southwestern corner of Australia, with the tantalising name of Mount Romance.
UncategorisedThe Profit Principle
editor | January 5, 2011
Two of Open Forum’s bloggers, Peter Fritz and Jeanne-Vida Douglas, have combined forces to write a book. The Profit Principle is a great Christmas gift for anyone in your life who dreams of running their own buiness – or is already living the nightmare! Go to www.theprofitprinciple.com.au
The Pacioli-Fritz accounting system: bringing intangibles to light
Peter Fritz | January 4, 2011Since the so-called father of accounting, Luca Pacioli published his book Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalita in Venice in 1494, in which he describes the method of bookkeeping that Venetian merchants were using, known as the double-entry accounting system, much has happened in the world of commerce and economics.
Relatively speaking, not much has happened in the double-entry accounting system.
The Pacioli world was a mercantile one, dealing mainly in tangible products with definable risk profiles, and strict rules of depreciation. With the advent of intellectual assets the world has changed dramatically. Yet we remain driven by the mercantile concepts that pertain to accounting assets. We only account for so-called tangible assets. We must update our thinking, and recognise the change in the world, and also account for intellectual, so-called intangible assets.
UncategorisedHAVE YOUR SAY Sustainable Population Strategy for Australia
editor | January 4, 2011The Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities is conducting a public consultation to contribute to the development of a Sustainable National Population Stratgey for Australia. Take the Open Forum SURVEY to have your say.
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