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The weekend Sydney Morning Herald had a cover story article about the future population of Australia, depending on the choices the government may make over the coming years. It ranged from a reduced population of 17 million all the way up to 50 million if immigration were increased from the...

As I am in danger of being viewed as the forum ‘poet’, I thought I would write something a bit more practical and I hope I have chosen the right forum for it to be posted in ? There seems to be an age-old debate about whether shares or property are the best investment vehicle. Rather than...

“And the bid is with the gentlemen to my left….at $550,000,421.25, this delightful 40sq metre cottage overlooking the coal docks, with glorious views of the freighter ships coming into port and easy access via the toll motorway at the end of the front yard…luddies and gendlemen, this is the last...

It’s that dreaded moment. You’ve booked in for a two day seminar, arrived at a politically correct time (neither too early nor too late) and after lurking around the coffee table, drinking copiously to deal with early morning footballers eye syndrome (one at home, one away) you enter the...

From: C M “Zee boiler…..acht, it’s nine vorking” My German tenant was in the middle of a sub-artic English winter, with Jane Eyre gales blowing around her schnitzels and once again, the demon of the boiler had reared it’s ugly head. “Clay…mine fingers are freezing no? Pleease to do sumpsing...

From: C M Find me an “Expert” Picture this. A street-wise and savvy businesswoman, during her lunch-break, goes to her favourite department store to buy some more of that blusher “Raspberry Redneck” by LongPong De Paris, because, well…it suits her and she’s had a few favourable comments in...

From: C M I am in need of some advice on behalf of a good friend of mine….. Her father owns a large property in Sydney that is used as a boarding house, yet he has become ill and too fragile to run the place for too much longer. He is also having problems with insurances, due to its status...

From: C M Rat Race My dad once said to me “Life’s a rat race and even if you win in it – you’ll only be the top rat!” I guess I have carried those words around with me all my life and subconsciously have fought against anything that would enter me into the race. It’s only now that I am 35...