Australia’s IT market should continue to provide opportunities in consumer, government and business sectors in 2010, following a better-than-expected performance in 2009. The total size of the domestic IT market is projected to increase from US$18.7bn in 2010 to around US$22.7bn in 2014. Consumer spending held up relatively well in 2009, thanks to demand [...]

Wespac, the largest banking institution in Australia is to open a new branch in London next Tuesday to support its Australian and New Zealand customers and also to assist Britons wishing to immigrate to Australia by enabling them to open a bank account before they even enter Australia.

For British people wanting to emigrate to [...]

Periodically I come across businesses for sale in Australia. I list them on my website as a service and receive no remuneration for this. My listing a business on my website in no way constitutes an endorsement. The normal caution and discretion should be taken when assessing the viability of a business.
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McLaren Ridge is [...]

The Irish magazine ‘Business Plus’ ran an article on what you need to know to establish a business in Australia. They interviewed me extensively for the article and we do a question and answer section in it.  You can download a PDF of the article here.

Pamela Anderson has had her latest TV ad banned in Australia. The commercial was banned by Australia’s Advertising Standards Bureau.

Pam, yes we’re on first name terms, appeared in the commercial for Internet Company Crazy Domains.  The ad shows Pam as a smart businesswoman who strips off to reveal a gold bikini and has milk poured [...]

Dr Shane Oliver believes the Australian economy is set to grow by around 4% through this year, reflecting the lagged impact of monetary and fiscal stimulus, high levels of business and consumer confidence, the rebound in wealth and higher export prices. Dr Oliver is the chief economist with AMP, Australia’s largest retail and corporate superannuation [...]

Lydia Lassila won the third Olympic aerials medal — and second gold — for Australia on Wednesday night, flying pencil-straight through the dreary fog to defeat two of China’s best, Li Nina and Guo Xinxin.

Lassila credits the Aussie government and its freestyle program for creating her country’s success by bankrolling the training, most of [...]

Their plates overflowing with solidarity, many Australians tucked into Indian cuisine on Wednesday. From Victoria Premier John Brumby to the crowds that thronged Indian restaurants as part of the `Vindaloo Against Violence’ initiative.

Brumby ate lunch with members of the Indian community at Melbourne’s popular Indian cafe Desi Dhaba while Indian food, including tandoori chicken, [...]

Insatiable demand from China and other Asian countries is about to put a booster rocket on Australia’s economic growth, pushing mineral export prices almost to pre-crisis levels, the Australian Reserve Bank predicts.

Assistant governor Phillip Lowe told a conference last week that China’s extraordinary economic growth has ‘’some decades to run” – and Australia will [...]

Work has started on the first section of the backbone for Australia’s National Broadband Network, the project funded by the government that will allow rival users to deliver high-speed internet services.

Australia’s minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy, Stephen Conroy, visited a remote corner of Queensland to see the work being started by [...]

Australia’s national airline, Qantas says it is cutting first class seats from all but a few routes after reporting a 72% drop in profits.

Net income for the six months to 31 December 2009 was 58m Australian dollars ($52m; £33m), down from A$210m a year before.

The company blamed the figures on a drop in customer [...]

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said his government remains opposed to adopting a civil nuclear power program.  ”The priority now was to develop effective technology for carbon capture and storage to tackle greenhouse gas emissions.”

He also said the people of Australia could debate anything they wanted.

“Our policy is that Australia has multiple other energy [...]

I came across this article by Christopher Clarey of The New York Times. In it he highlights the like between Australians and Whistler home of the current Winter Olympics.

“It was well after 1 a.m. Monday in this party town.

Another line had formed outside the Longhorn Saloon, and suddenly, above the buzz of [...]

As a newly elected independent MP in 1996, Pauline Hanson declared in her maiden parliamentary speech that Australia was “being swamped by Asians”. She founded the One Nation Party on the platform of bringing net migration to Australia to zero and abolishing multiculturalism in favour of “assimilation”.  Now, Australia’s most prominent crusader against immigration [...]

‘How do I apply and successfully obtain this visa in the most efficient and cost-effective way?’

There are 2 types of visas in the Australian business investor category:- the State sponsored Investor visa subclass 165 and the Investor visa subclass 162. Both are provisional visas are granted for a period of 4 years. [...]

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I came accross this article by By John Pomfret of the The Washington Post about Australia’s ongoing business relationship with China. (The Picture on the left is of six couples from China celebrating Valentine’s Day and the Chinese New Year after climbing Sydney’s Harbour Bridge overlooking the Opera House at dawn. A [...]

The White House has announced that Barack Obama will visit Australia in March, as an extension of his trip to Guam and Indonesia.

“This trip is an important part of the President’s continued effort to broaden and strengthen the partnerships that are necessary to advance our security and prosperity,” press secretary Robert Gibbs told Washington [...]

Immigration is an important feature of society in Australia.  Over six million people have migrated there since 1945. These people come from over two hundred countries and settle there, making many contributions toward shaping a more modern Australia.

As an independent Western democracy, Australia is one of the most urbanized countries in the world and [...]

Picture: Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, the United Arab Emirates’ Minister of Foreign Affairs, walks with Australia’s Governor-General Quentin Bryce.

The United Arab Emirates, has concluded a six-day visit to Australia aimed at promoting increased security, business, trade and travel relations.

The delegation met with top officials, including Kevin Rudd, the Australian prime minister.

Sheikh Abdullah agreed to [...]