Business Networking Opportunities

Our Eastern Edge Chapter of BNI has just started using the Double Bay Inter-Continental Hotel for its weekly meetings and we have been greatly impressed by our new venue. http://www.bni.com.au/index.asp Toni Zeltzer, the mayor of Woollahra Council attended this weeks...

20 Beaches Ocean Classic 2014

We are in the middle of summer and I love summer! One of the iconic things about my summer over the last few years has been competing in the Twenty Beaches Ocean Classic! It was on the 13th of December over a month ago though I have an urge to write about it. It is...

Contractors and Small Businesses beware!!

There are special tax rules for contractors to ensure they do not use business structures to avoid income tax obligations. Many consultants and contractors operate through a company, partnership or trust. In many cases, the income received for the work they do may be...

Work bully?

An employee can apply to the Fair Work Commission before consulting with their employer, for an order to compel the bullying to stop. The laws are treated as civil claims, as opposed to being dealt with under work health and safety law and anti-discrimination law. The...

How is life?

We have all been out and about and heard from friends and colleagues how hard things are under this Government or that Government, or since the GF or it was better in the 70s… There are plenty of measures out there Australia usually ranks highly on per capita...

Skydiving – The greatest experience!!!

After postponing for months and always finding an excuse not to go, I finally went Skydiving on the weekend with a group of 8 friends. We chose a company located in Wyong, about one hour and 30 minutes north of Sydney.  We got to the drop zone around 1pm, checked...