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  • Social Media

  How to use reality TV to boost your social media brand and income

  First 5000     |      January 23, 2020

  Reality TV shows are back with a bang this year and anyone – even those of us who don’t get the chance to appear on the programs as contestants – can still capitalise on their popularity.
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  • Information Technology

  Podcast: How to get the right software

  Craig West     |      January 23, 2020

  Outgrown your software? As your business grows, your systems and processes should, too. Host Craig West talks with Marianne Wichman from Attaché Software about how to choose and implement the right digital technology to manage the marketing, finances, inventory and more in your mid-market business.
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  • Business Development

  6 reasons why your business should offer international shipping in 2020

  Liam Smith     |      January 23, 2020

  The option of shipping your products internationally is not one that you should be too quick to dismiss. After all, it gives you so many benefits like a bigger, less saturated market and new chances of expansion.
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  • Jobs

  Australian contingent job vacancies experience successive quartile growth in 2019

  First 5000     |      January 22, 2020

  The latest Sunsuper Australian Job Index has today revealed that across 2019, contingent job vacancies (temporary, contract and casual work) experienced successive quarterly growth, while traditional permanent employment has struggled.
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  • Acquisition

  Pennant Australasia acquires software firm Absolute Data Group

  First 5000     |      January 22, 2020

  Pennant Australasia has acquired Brisbane-headquartered software company Absolute Data Group(ADG) in order to form an enhanced powerhouse of integrated logistics support. This will also increase its presence in Pennant’s target growth markets of Australasia and North America.
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  • Automotive

  Positive results for automotive industry transition support

  First 5000     |      January 22, 2020

  The initial outcomes of transitional programs for the automotive industry was released in a report on Friday (17 December 2019).
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  • Women in Business

  New national engineering taskforce releases report to tackle gender disparity

  First 5000     |      January 21, 2020

  A new independent national taskforce to tackle the deficit in the numbers of women studying engineering has launched a report which identifies a need to change the perception of engineering in society and schools if gender diversity in engineering is to improve.
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  • Grants and support

  Small businesses welcome bushfire relief

  First 5000     |      January 21, 2020

  The Morrison Government has announced a comprehensive suite of measures to immediately support small businesses impacted by the recent bushfires. 
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  • Workplace Environment

  Work and Travel: 5 tips to become a successful digital nomad

  Derek Lotts     |      January 21, 2020

  Becoming a digital nomad is more feasible and easier than it has ever been, but that doesn’t mean that you can just up and leave without taking care of a few key things first, Derek Lotts explains.
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  • Climate change

  Microsoft announces it will be carbon negative by 2030

  First 5000     |      January 20, 2020

  Microsoft Corp. has announced a new plan to reduce and ultimately remove its carbon footprint. By 2030 Microsoft will be carbon negative, and by 2050 Microsoft will remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted since it was founded in 1975.
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  • Tourism

  Federal bushfire recovery marketing package expected to boost tourism

  First 5000     |      January 20, 2020

  The Federal Government has committed $76 million to a tourism marketing package under their $2 billion bushfire recovery fund.
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  • Superannuation

  Victorian workers to lose billions if the super increase is scrapped

  First 5000     |      January 20, 2020

  Victorian workers would lose $3.6 billion from their retirement savings a year if politicians ditch a promised increase to their super rate, new modelling reveals.