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There a good saying, - "If you owe the bank a thousand dollars, you have a problem. If you owe the bank a million dollars the bank has a problem" My first stop would be somewhere without an extradition treaty with New Zealand. I'd then find a country with fairly lax banking laws to put the money into. (eg cook islands \ Caymans etc...)

Or to the people who have good accountants. I personally have my money bouncing between a couple of different entities. It's all legal, but it means technically I'm earning just enough to get by on (I receive pay increases in line with interest rate rises), but I work for a very very generious company. (Which supplies me with loads of good stuff like cars mobiles, travel etc...)

Depends, I run my own business, so in a good week it can be over $6k, it averages out to a little over $2k a week. It's funny though, $6k seems like a lot of money to have until your running your own business and your running the risk that next week and the week after will be very light on in payments.

Yeah, but it wasn't as good as last years (neither was the gala)

30th June, New FY starts on the 1st July.

Hi Superdan, Remember my step one, pay for good advice. By the sounds of it your wanting to speak with a business lawyer, they will know the rules and regulations for licenses \ permits \ and other things you will need to do to keep on the right side of the law. Whilst it may seem a little expensive up front it will save to heaps down the track (speaking from experience, getting good legal advice at the front has saved my skin in business on more than one occasion). Combine that with a good accountant and your well and truely on your way. I know it can seem a lot to do (and pay) to get even something small off the ground, but there is literally to much to know about getting a business off the ground for one man to know. Anyone who tries to tell you differently, don't trust them, as if they ever get audited or legally challanged they may be in for a rude shock. Just out of interest what sort of things are you planning on buying and selling, and more importantly how are you going to differenciate yourself from every other E-Bay seller out there (I'm imaging that's the type of business your wanting to get into) - in other words why should I spend my money with your business?

Yes, I run my own business, and my advise is simple, 1. pay for good advice 2. be selective on who you take advice from, I'm sure the old bloke down the pub \ that great mate \ mother in laws brother is knowledgable, but unless they have been running a SUCCESSFUL business themselves, don't take their advise, it's amazing how many business "experts" there are working 9 to 5 jobs, and the most they have ever ventured in to the world of running your own business is they considered moonlighting one night. 3. Get to know a lot of people (eg go to networking events, even if you wouldn't think it could help your business), they can really help find people to help you with point 1, plus you never know, your next customer could be found at one of those events. (Hey, it's where I found my mechanic)

Most US airlines as far as I know are in some degree of trouble. Yeah, LAX doesn't like the A380's because they did jack all to prepare for them so Qantas is talking about taking them to SFO, don't know what Qantas will do when they retire the 747's in a few years as they don't really have any other planes in their fleet which can make the distance from Melb to LAX direct as yet. The funny thing is that airports which will probably never see an A380 (or certainly not frequently) have gone and updated their infrastructure for example Adelaide.

There is a very easy way to workout if something is a con or not. 1. Is someone going to make (a lot) money from it? Yes \ No 2. Is it something which celebs \ pollies can get involved in for publicity? Yes \ No 3. Is questioning the science behind the claim considered to be bad form? Yes \ No Basically getting a yes to all three is a good way of determining that CC is a scam. 1. - Yes there are loads of companies which have sprung up to take your hard earn to reduce your carbon. 2. - Yes celebs have jumped on the bandwagon by the bucket load. Pollies have created new positions to cover the "problem" 3 - Yes question the science and your called a climate change denier. Also the fact that the earth has gone through these exact same patterns in previous history (without the influence of humans) suggests that yes climate change exists, no we are not to blame, and that we are pretty up ourselves if we can believe we can alter the planet by our lonesomes.

Yeah but what did you expect from a US airline? They are so busy cutting everything out, including from their so call "full serivce" airlines that there is no way they'd put something in. (Hell even safety can sometimes come second place to cost cutting). I would never actively choose to fly a US based airline if there was virtually any other option.

Yes, but most candidates spend nearly all of their allowances (and many go well over thanks to donations and other income), as they actually want to win. The loophole was that she was able to keep every cent even though the majority of it was not spent on campaign expenses. Typically when the gov't gives money you have to prove it was spent for it's intended purpose, with exception to election funding. I just can't believe she is serious. Basically because the way she hasn't handled the media, if she was serious she would have gotten a media advisor to help coach her through those "difficult" questions that every reporter was going to ask. She would have already had answers for each of those questions pre-prepared, she would have had answers for just about anything else they could have thrown at her, and she wouldn't have become argumentative (unless she was good at arguing a point, which she was quite obviously not) I personally know 3 different people who have stood in elections at one time or another, and 3 other people who directly worked on campaigns. Hey one year I was even roped into giving out those "how to vote cards", so I've seen the process fairly up close.

Great list, but you kinda need to know where your going to choose the airline. I personally fly Qantas everywhere, but try to get flights on either a A330-300, a B747 or an A380. That way you get video on demand (lifesaver for flights beyond an hour or two, trust me). (not the A330-200's not all of them have AVOD) I've also flown AirNZ a few times (and will do so again in about 9 weeks because Qantas doesn't fly to cook islands) and they seem ok, once again they have Video on demand on just about everything bar their 737's, but I don't think they fly their 737's to Oz. Personally I'd avoid the so call "cheap" or low cost carriers. Yes, their price on the web may seem very good, but start to throw in the additions which you will need on a long flight (unless staring out the window over ocean is your thing) and it starts to become very expensive. A mate of mine once flew jetstar to hawaii return with his GF, whilst yes it was a good rate, by the time he had added in all the features which are standard he had clocked up nearly $500 in extras between him and his GF (meals, baggage allowances, video screens etc). Also don't forget that flying international, taking drinks from home is a no go. (You can't get them past security) Also Emirates does have Boeings. They have a few B777. Infact you'll usually see an Emirates B777 sitting at melbourne airport for most of the day. I honestly wondered at one stage if it had broken down and Emirates had decided to leave it there, as I had never seen it be used. (And I spend a lot of time at Melbourne airport) I'm also usually very careful with how much I drink before flying, because there is nothing worse than chucking up in the middle of a flight (speaking from experience), as your seat will almost always be the furthest from the nearest toilet, and your will be one of the seats which they didn't put a sick bag into.

Yeah I heard that. I was even willing to listen to what she said until she went off her rocker at what I thought where quite reasonable questions. I personally believe she is only in it for the $$$ as I don't think they have fixed the loophole which netted her many thousands of dollars (I believe it was somewhere around the $300K mark) in the last election.

Yeah, but innocent until proven guilty and all... As I said, if a normal court proved him guilty I'd be the first to say throw away the key.

Yeah, I have my doubts at David Hicks "guilt". If you locked me away for 5 years without charge and then told me that I could be out of there and back in my home country within a few months if I signed something I would say "where's the pen" Had he been sent to a real court, with actual due process, and he was found guilty, I would have been the first to say lock him up and throw away the key, but as far as I'm concerned his guilt has never been established. As for the other stuff that Brandon Neeley has been saying I'd believe it. Gitmo was so placed so it could act outside the US consititution and in a country which I don't think has signed geneva conventions or anything like that. So technically there was nothing "illegal" so to speak about the way the inmates where been treated. I'd love to see Bush and his cronies be hauled infront of the courts on war crimes charges, but I doubt we'll ever see that.

Kyle Sandilands nuff said

There is a reason for that, the VE Expensive Daewoo body does not conform to the V8 Supercar rules. They needed to gain a special exception to modify the VE Expensive Daewoo body to conform with the rules. (From memory it had to do with the width of the wheel base). So it stands to reason the majority of the car would need to be modified to make the car slightly thiner.

Some of those are pretty good. I can just imagine however a movie entitled "Indiana Jones and the Search for the Golden Porsche"

The way airfares are going these days it'd probably be cheaper to go look at the car yourself, and then freight home is no longer a problem.

I remember listening to Dr Karl last year talking about just this, basically yes, the electricity fields that the average electrician is exposed to kills off male sperm. So in short, unless you don't mind having all girls have kids, then become a sparky.

You need to find yourself a good accountant. It's amazing how a good accountant will turn you from a high income earner, into a low income earner, but with all sorts of goodies paid from money not considered yours from an income point of view. Best thing I ever did was find a good accountant (and don't try and do it yourself, because if you f it up, you owe the gov't big time)

It was '07 that they wanted to get rid of "Ho Ho Ho", a few years before that a few shopping centres actually refused to have Santa's because it may offend someone. It doesn't matter if we have Australia Day or not, the deeds of the past (aka the First Fleet) have happened and can't be reversed, no matter how many protests you have. Australia Day should be a day to recognise and celebrate this country, that should be the only thing which happens. iTec - The problem is that the majority of the people complaining are many (sometimes x1000) generation Australians, it's not like they are simply coming across here and complaining that it's not like home.

Yeah, it was the Australia of the year who mentioned wanting a debate about changing the date, but others have also mentioned it.

1808 was the first recorded Australia Day (Celebrating 30 years of the colony), Australia Day as we know it has been around since 1946.