Posted in Realestate and Home Loans, tagged 1/5th of the, Australia, building a new home, BUILT, businesses, carbon, change, changes, changing, comfortably, compact fluorescent lighting, cool, cooling, cooling costs, costs, cross ventilation, design, dream, eco-friendly homes, Electricity, entire range, environment, fast., footprint, global, global stage, Government's, Green build homes, heat, hip pocket., hippies, impact, individual carbon footprint, layout, legislations, less resources, light, lighting, low, low carbon, low carbon footprint., making, money, natural, negative, negative impact, new home, normal lighting., positioning, Real Estate and Home Loans, reduce heating, Resources, responsibilities, save, saves, solar passive, stage, staggering, sun, sun’s natural light, ventilation, world on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With more people, not only in Australia but around the world becoming aware of our negative impact on the environment change is coming fast.
There are increasing responsibilities for governments and businesses on a global stage
Governments are changing legislations
Businesses are making changes
People may soon be responsible for their individual carbon footprint
Green build homes are no [...]
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Posted in ALL news, tagged 2005., abandons, all housed, ALL news, annual developers' conference., Applications, at Google's, attending, Australia, Australian, Australian Noel Gordon, boundaries, Christened Google Wave, chronological, client, combination, communication space, computer, cook-up, creation, creators, Danish brothers, developers, document-, download, email, email's mantle, engineers, feature, first, founded, fragmented, full backing, Gmail, google, Google Australia, Google co-found, Google co-founders, Google's offices, Google's Wave, hallmark, host, Hotmail, independent software, instant messaging, integrate, internet communications tool., internet's, internet-enabled mobile phone., iron, Jens Rasmussen, Larry Page, Lars, Lars Rassmussen, Look out, Maps to Google, maps- image, messages, Microsoft's Outlook, million, outlook., platform, plug-in, popular, post-launch, predominant, press conference., project, protocol, prototype, public release, public viewing, released, reliance, remaining bugs, replacement, San Francisco, San Francisco conference, Sergey Brin, servers., service, simultaneous., single package, software, software engineer, sold, stacking, standard email, Stephen Hutcheon, Stephen Ma, swag, swamp, Sydney, team of Google, this year., today, tools, under one roof., undisclosed sum, unveiled, video-sharing, wave, Wave team, web browser, world's email on May 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A team of Google engineers from Australia has unveiled a prototype replacement for standard email that abandons the reliance on the chronological sorting and stacking of messages which has been the hallmark of one of the internet’s first and still most popular applications.
Christened Google Wave, the new feature was given its first public viewing in [...]
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Posted in Local News, tagged $13 million, $13185273, $8.70., 10 months., 12-month expiry, 2008., A PERTH university student, Beechboro, bundle, charity, commas, costing, decimal, draw, dreams, expiry, family’s, father, finances., fulfil, gift, informed, jackpot, July 22, jumping, Local News, Lotto tickets, Mum, Newsagency $50 million, numbers, OZ Lotto, perth, presented, prize, remained, research, richer, shopping centre.”, Slikpik, student, Systems 8, ten months, ticket, tickets, unclaimed, unexpected, university, up and down, WA, week, windfall., winning ticket, won Lotto, worried on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A PERTH university student is more than $13 million richer after she presented her winning ticket this week, ten months after her numbers came up.
The Perth Student received the ticket as a gift from her father, purchased from Beechboro Newsagency in a $50 million OZ Lotto jackpot draw on July 22, 2008.
The winning ticket was a Systems [...]
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Posted in Sport, Uncategorized, tagged 60s, 70 people, across, activity, age, badge, ball game, band, Banksia Grove, blue, blue and white army, Butler, celebrate, chelsea, Chelsea versus Everton, children, co-ordinates, dedicated, early mornings, ex-pats, fa cup, FA Cup fever, fearless leader, final Saturday, followed, followers, football, four- five-year-old, from the, game, gripped, group, group’s, kick-off, Kinross, lament, Landsdale, late-nights, live, london, lose, May 30., members, men, mission, northern, northern suburbs, ocean, passion, perth, Perth base, Perth Chelsea Football Club Supporters Group, president Steve Van Doorn, pride, pub, pubs, Quinns, six years, Sport, suburbs, support, supporters., team, telecasts, Uncategorized, various, WA Chelsea fans, white, women on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BLUE and white blood runs in their veins. They eat, breathe and sleep blue and white, and bleed blue and white blood.
Who are they?
They are the Perth Chelsea Football Club Supporters Group, and they might be coming to a pub near you.
About 70 people, some from the northern suburbs, make up the blue and white [...]
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Posted in Local News, tagged accessible, amenity, benefit, best, boating, boating facilities, City’s, class, coastal, coastal engineering, commercial viability, commitee, community, community amenity, Community Reference Group, completed, concept, Concept Plan and Structure Plan, Council, delivers, details, developed, development, economic growth, encapsulates, environment, environmental, environmental impact, facilities, feedback, financial, First class, future, group, high, hydrology, iconic, iconic marina, impact, indicate, infrastructure, input, levels, Local News, look, marina, Marina Steering Committee., nature., Ocean Reef, ocean reef marina, plan, planning, potential, practice, preliminary, Preliminary studies, preservation, provide, Quality marine, Recreation, recreational, reef, reference, research, residential, residents, site, social, social benefit., structure, structure planning, studies, sustainability, tourism, tourism marina, world, world class on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Concept Plan and Structure Plan that details how the Ocean Reef Marina site should be developed and how it should look in the future.
The concept plan has been developed using feedback and input from the Community Reference Group, Ocean Reef Marina Committee (of Council) and the Ocean Reef Marina Steering Committee.
Based on input from [...]
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Posted in Local News, Realestate and Home Loans, tagged $6.35 million, 1500sqm block, adjoining room, Alan Bond, businessman, classic, common, common knowledge, downsizing, Eileen Bond, ex-wife, family, fantastic house, guesthouse, gymnasium, home, Italianate, Jody, knowledge, Leake St, Local News, market, memories, millionaire, moved, Ms Bond, Peppermint Grove, perth, plunge, plush, precious, Prominent, property prices, Real estate agent, Real Estate and Home Loans, residence, sell, selling, swimming pool, Sydney, test, The View St mansion, two-storey foyer, WA, waters., western, western suburbs, William Porteous on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
WHILE the plunge in western suburbs property prices is common knowledge, at least one prominent millionaire is willing to test the waters.
Eileen Bond, ex-wife of businessman Alan Bond, wants to sell one of her plush Peppermint Grove homes.
The View St mansion, which is on the market for $6.35 million, has been used as a [...]
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Posted in Living in Perth, tagged perth, western australia, coles, Yanchep, kids, Woolworths, month., parents, children, newspaper, south, over, published, east, entertainment., regional, selected, largest, area, running, Mandurah, popular, Kids in Perth, The Parents' Paper, Targeted, aged, 14 years, Paper, FREE monthly, metro, regional centres, longest, parenting, publication, distributed, beginning, every, 1995., 600, outlets, metropolitan area, north, Mundaring Weir, Education and Literacy, Health and Nutrition, Competitions, Events Diary, Sport, Recreation, Birthday Party Page, Just for Mums, Performing Arts, The Nursery, School Holidays Features, 75000 copies, per month, CAB audited, circulation, 71251, 90% mothers, 10% fathers and grandparents, IGA, Bounty Bags, MacDonalds, Living in Perth on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What is Kids in Perth – The Parents’ Paper?
Targeted at parents with children aged up to 14 years, Kids in Perth – The Parents’ Paper is a FREE monthly newspaper that can be found all over the metro area and in some regional centres. The largest, longest running and most popular parenting publication in [...]
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Posted in Local News, tagged Local News, future, success, open, tough, advice, television, personality, Gordon, weathering, failures, Gordon Ramsay., questions, personal advice, currently, empire, counting, Listen, real man, Gordon talks, belief, personal anecdotes, dish up, award winning Chef, 25 restaurants, Maze in Melbourne. on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Listen to the real man behind the television personality as Gordon talks about weathering the tough times and how the belief in yourself can pull you through. With personal anecdotes of his success and his failures, Gordon will dish up his advice and where he sees the future for Gordon Ramsay.
Be ready with your questions [...]
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Posted in Jobs and careers, tagged 19 - 20 June 2009, abundance, admisssion, advice, aspects, Australia, Australia's, broader, candidates, career, career minded, careers, careers & employment event, Careers & Employment Expo, communicate, connecting, directly, education, employers, employment, employment event!, enables, environment, expo, focuses, free, General, individuals., information., Jobs and careers, largest, leading, learning, living, major, media groups, metropolitan areas, national, non-threatening, offer, operating., opportunities, organisations., potential, providers, provides, public, real jobs, regional, State and Federal Government, the National, The Perth Convention Exhibition Centre, Thousands, throughout Australia, training, working' in Australia. on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
19 – 20 June 2009
The Perth Convention Exhibition Centre
The National Careers & Employment Expo brings careers, employment and training opportunities to the general public by connecting organisations with thousands of career minded individuals. The Expo provides a non-threatening environment which enables employers, education and training providers to communicate directly with potential candidates. Operating in [...]
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Posted in Realestate and Home Loans, Uncategorized, tagged perth, Real Estate and Home Loans, 000, finance, capacity, manager, lending, afford, reduce, dollars, buyers, income., house, first, package, home, land, new home, help, qualify, surplus, period, own, innovative, popular, potential, rest, house and land, developed, first-homebuyers, secure, home loan, substantially, loan, repayment period., concept, based, four-bedroom, two-bathroom, rented, tenants, allowing, struggling, traditional mortgage, built-in, income stream, Part, sealed, creating, rentable, one-bedroom, one-bathroom home., mortgage, rent, account, assessing, borrowing, bigger mortgage repayments, reduces, payback period, saving thousands, payback, repayments, Housing Edge director, Dennis Ward-Fay, home ownership, new approach, lending criteria, major banks, borrowers, Housing Edge loan, criteria, land package, valued, $380, salary, combined salary, handle, rent collection, property manager, tenancy, Uncategorized on May 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
An innovative house and land finance package developed in Perth could help more first-homebuyers to secure a home loan reduce their loan repayments.
Based on a four-bedroom, two-bathroom home using part of the home as a rental, therfore allowing first-homebuyers to afford a buy, part of the home is sealed off from the rest, creating a rentable one-bedroom, one-bathroom home.
The rent is taken [...]
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