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Blog posts January 2020

Why Hire Professionals for Spring Cleaning?

Deep cleaning your home every few months is essential to keep it neat and sanitary. However, with fast-paced lives, demanding jobs, hectic household routines, and so much stress, finding time to purge your property can be hard. Therefore, it is best to take the assistance of professional cleaners. T…

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Invasion Day protests held across nation and in London to challenge Australia Day date

Rallies have been held across the country to oppose the celebration of Australia Day on January 26, which protesters say should be a day of mourning.

Invasion Day or Survival Day demonstrations have gained momentum in recent years and coincided with a push to move Australia Day to a date consider…

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Reimagined Motorola Razr will be one of Australia’s most expensive phones when it goes on sale next month

We’re now one step closer to getting our hands on Motorola’s revived new Razr, a foldable smartphone that serves as a spiritual successor to one of the most iconic mobile phones of all time.

The new phone was revealed for the first time in Australia on Tuesday night at what the brand would ho…

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Calm urged as China's coronavirus reaches Australia with four confirmed cases

The number of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in Australia has reached four, with NSW officials confirming three men have tested positive for the virus. 

NSW Health Minister for Health Brad Hazzard praised the three men for coming forward.

"We are taking a very precautionary approach a…

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Mounting calls for Bridget McKenzie to resign over 'extraordinary' grant allocation

Labor leader Anthony Albanese, independent MP Zali Steggall and One Nation leader Pauline Hanson have all called for Bridget McKenzie to resign over her role directing $100m of sports grants to help the Coalition win marginal seats.

The deputy Nationals leader and former sports minister is under …

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Australia's risky mission at the world’s energy choke-point

The Strait of Hormuz is a deep marine blue sea but it has become proverbially combustible just as an Australian frigate, HMAS Toowoomba, is scheduled to arrive in the area.

From around Australia Day, Toowoomba will be patrolling the Strait of Hormuz – the world’s energy choke-point, providing the…

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What Cleaning Products Do Professional Cleaners Use?

Do you know that professional cleaners avoid commercial products because they have harmful chemicals in it? Instead, they are using household ingredients like baking soda, vinegar, lemon, etc. This is because more and more cleaning companies are opting for green cleaning. To give you more informatio…

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Julie Bishop takes job with Greensill, the firm pushing controversial financing practice

The former foreign minister Julie Bishop has taken a job with financing group Greensill, which specialises in the controversial practice of reverse factoring.

Reverse factoring, also known as supply chain finance, is a practice where suppliers to big business can get paid early by a company such …

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Relocating koalas to New Zealand is a nice idea, but it isn't a good one

A petition currently doing the rounds on the internet advocates for koalas to be introduced to New Zealand, in response to the horrific scenes of native animals suffering in the Australian bushfires. New Zealand has more than 23,000 hectares of eucalyptus plantations so why not? Isn’t that the spiri…

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Race to save animals on Australia's fire-ravaged 'Galapagos'

Sound and speaker specialist Bose will shut all retail stores in Australia as the company moves towards a more online-focused business model.
The American-owned and operated audio company today confirmed it would be shutting 119 physical retail stores across Australia, Europe, Japan and North Ameri…

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How to donate to wildlife injured by the Australian bushfires

People in Australia and around the world have dug deep in response to the nation’s bushfire crisis, with Celeste Barber’s crowdfunding page on Facebook raising more than $40 million at the time of writing and artists, Hollywood celebrities and sports stars donating hundreds of thousands of dollars.…

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Is Retinol Safe To Use In Summer?

Hi Everybody,

The cosmetic industry must be making millions by fooling people about the age reversing effects of their creams. Most of them do nothing but moisturise your skin. I was fed up of using such creams and started researching about removing wrinkles and found that retinol was quite effec…

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Australia’s cricketers wrapped up their Test summer on Monday. 48 hours later they visited the nation’s ‘real heroes’

For the past month Australia’s cricketers have deflected their own hero status at every chance.

Instead, the men wearing the idolised baggy greens have used their sporting platform to thank the “real heroes” of Australia – the firefighters protecting their fellow countrymen and women and defend…

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Young daughter of firefighter killed in Australia wore his helmet and service medal at his funeral

A 36-year-old firefighter killed battling Australia's blazes was honored by hundreds of mourners, a traditional dance and a medal of honor for his young daughter.

Andrew O'Dwyer, a 16-year veteran of the New South Wales (NSW) Rural Fire Service, was battling the bush fires in Sydney on December 1…

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The economic impact of Australia’s bushfire crisis

According to reporting in the Australian Financial Review (AFR), Australia’s bushfire crisis is weighing on consumer confidence and the jobs market as the ongoing emergency takes its toll on economic activity.

Consumer confidence in decline
As reported in the AFR piece, Australia and New Zeala…

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Australian Fires Prompt Questions About Protecting Houses From Embers

"The strong winds of a thunderstorm came through, but instead of raining water it was raining embers," one resident told The Sydney Morning Herald. Another described how, as he and his family tried to evacuate on New Year's Eve, "burning embers started falling and houses were starting to get lost."

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