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  Searching for Optimism in Shepparton

  First 5000     |      July 15, 2019

  Victoria’s former Commissioner to the Americas and Senior advisor to Australia’s G20 Presidency, Victor Perton, is searching for optimists in Shepparton and the region.
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  • Banking and Credit

  Poor financial management sending Aussies broke, stressed

  First 5000     |      July 15, 2019

  One third (31%) of Aussies confess poor financial management such as using cash advances on credit cards, not knowing how to budget, not paying attention to debt, and racking up late fees on credit facilities are contributors to their personal debt situation. 
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  • Employee Health and Safety

  How to Ensure the Health of Your Employees in the Modern Workplace

  Zack Halliwell     |      July 15, 2019

  Should you live to work or work to live? This is one of the biggest questions plaguing the modern workplace. The fact is that work should finish at the end of the day; but we still take many of the worries with us afterwards.
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  • Business Awards

  Entries open for MIKE Awards

  First 5000     |      July 12, 2019

  Entries are open for the first full Australia/NZ MIKE (Most Innovative Knowledge Enterprises) Awards. 
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  • Millennials

  How to motivate millennial workers

  Karen Gately     |      July 12, 2019

  How often have you heard a Baby Boomer or Gen X Leader to talk about their frustrations with the Millennial generation. It’s common to hear about the impatience, unrealistic expectations and lack of loyalty of younger workers.
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  • Agriculture
  • Business Awards

  Business planning reaps rewards for Victorian mixed farm

  First 5000     |      July 12, 2019

  Mixed farm operator James Hegarty has taken out the 2019 Rabobank Business Development Prize from a field of some of Australia and New Zealand’s leading young farmers.
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  • Customer communications

  The #1 thing you need to fix to keep customers

  Darrell Hardidge     |      July 11, 2019

  Edwards Deming said, ‘without data you’re just another person with an opinion’.
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  • Superannuation

  Super oblivious: One in four Australians unaware they have multiple super accounts

  First 5000     |      July 11, 2019

  Disengaged consumers want the Government to act on multiple super accounts, and ensure default super funds should be good quality, with low fees and a history of good performance, new polling has revealed.
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  • Digital transformation

  Vocus’ Australia Singapore Cable operating at 50% more capacity

  First 5000     |      July 11, 2019

  Vocus has announced its Australian Singapore Cable (ASC) system was now operating with an end-to-end total capacity of 60 terabits per second (Tbps) – 50% more capacity than it launched with less than 10 months ago.
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  • Workplace Relations

  Workplace Relations system review will take vision, leadership

  First 5000     |      July 10, 2019

  The founder of Australia’s largest workplace relations consultancy has urged theGovernment to be courageous in delivering the workplace relations system review.
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  • Fraud

  Optus customers urged to check for refunds

  First 5000     |      July 10, 2019

  Optus customers are encouraged to check if they have received an email or SMS from Optus about a refund they may be entitled to in relation to Optus’s Direct Carrier Billing (DCB) third-party billing service.
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  • Infrastructure

  Fast Track needed for infrastructure as building activity dips

  First 5000     |      July 10, 2019

  Governments at the state and territory level must work together with the Federal Government to fast track recent commitments on infrastructure, including both transport and social infrastructure projects, in light of today’s very mixed results for building activity.
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  • Superannuation

  No correlation between MySuper risk and returns

  First 5000     |      July 9, 2019

  There is no relationship between the performance of MySuper products, their level of volatility and the riskiness of their underlying investments, according to a report. 
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  • Foreign workers

  Deloitte Access Economics report adds to migration debate

  First 5000     |      July 9, 2019

  New Deloitte Access Economics analysis on Australia’s Significant Investor visa (SIV) program – and its economic and social potential – is set to add to the country’s ongoing migration debate.
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  • Recruitment

  Ten Steps in Successful Recruitment

  Kara Atkinson     |      July 9, 2019

  Investing in a team of rock star employees is the most profitable investment you will make.  Here’s how to take the coin-flip out of your hiring process.