July 2008

Latest auction clearance rates

Here are Australia’s auction clearance rates for the week ending 20 June 2008.

Source: RP Data

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The “Chrisco hamper” founder’s NZ haven is up for sale

The big question is, if you put money away into a Chrisco account every week, how many Christmas’ would you need to go without a Chrisco hamper before you could afford is founders New Zealand mansion?

The answer is: a lot! With a build-price touted in excess of $30million, what kind of hampers would you [...]

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How to cope with financial stress

A symptom of “financial stress” is the inability to raise a moderate sum of money to deal with an emergency of the kind created by the need to pay an unexpected bill.   The actual emotional turmoil in reality is often far less clear cut.

Over the past decade we have been encouraged to spend rather than save, [...]

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Marquette Turner officially recognize the extent of equal opportunity

Marquette Turner is one of 12 Australian companies, along with Qantas, IBM and Commonwealth Bank, that officially and publically recognize the right of equal opportunity in the workplace to extend to marriage equality.

By being part of the Australian Marriage Equality, we along with a handful of other upright Australian companies confirm that we grant full [...]

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View from the top of the world’s future tallest building

As part of Dubai’s transformation from a regional centre to a global one, and morphing from an oil economy to a knowledge-based one, the Burj Dubai will be the nation’s crowning glory.

Currently under construction, this awe-inspiring beacon of a building will reach
2,620 feet /801metres when completed.

Interesting to note: the workmen on the upper most girders [...]

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The multimedia kitchen

Faber’s Imago+ takes decorative hoods to a whole new level.

 
Your kitchen becomes a media room with this multimedia hood: it has a 19″ LCD TV analog and digital tuner with inbuilt recipes, Internet, video call, multimedia player and USB input. It also has web cam, allowing you to constantly monitor your home, an excellent feature [...]

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