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The Marketability of Sustainability

In the quest to phase out the prominence of single-use products in our day to day lives, could there be a solution in using consumerism against itself? With the production...

Hidden costs, manipulation, forced continuity: report reveals how Australian consumers are being duped online

Image: Shutterstock Australian consumers’ choices on websites and apps are being manipulated through online designs taking advantage of their...

Why is lettuce so expensive? Costs have shot up, and won’t return to where they were

Image: Shutterstock Lettuce prices are skyrocketing. Twitter users are posting photos of iceberg lettuces for A$10 and $11.99, well above the more...

Australia’s biggest carbon emitter buckles before Mike Cannon-Brookes – so what now for AGL’s other shareholders?

Image: Mick Tsikas/AAP Billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes has won a major battle against Australia’s biggest energy company, AGL Energy, thwarting...

All new smaller size! Why getting less with shrinkflation is preferable to paying more

Image: Shutterstock Have you noticed your favourite chocolate is a little smaller, there are fewer biscuits in the same-sized package or bags...

Know These Components of KYC

Knowing who your customer is can help you enact protocols to deter financial crimes in financial institutions. KYC, short for “Know Your Client” or...

Third year of declining phone and internet complaints but problems persist for small businesses

Complaints about phone and internet services decreased 6.1 per cent in the last financial year ending 30 June 2021. During this period, residential consumers...

The Therapeutic Goods Administration has the power to stop misleading advertising. So why can’t it stop Craig Kelly’s texts?

  Picture: AAP/Mick Tsikas Earlier this month, many Australians received a text message prompting them to visit the “Australian Government’s COVID-19 Vaccines Adverse Events Report.” It...

From October, it will be all but impossible for most Australians to vape — largely because of Canberra’s little-known ‘homework police

  Picture: Steven Senne/AP After a misstep, it’s about to become illegal to import e-cigarettes without a prescription, which means that, for most Australians, it’ll...

Going electric and banning new petrol-powered cars could be Australia’s next big light bulb moment

  Image: ParabolStudio/Shutterstock In 2007 Malcolm Turnbull turned off an industry’s life support without blinking. The industry made light bulbs, of the traditional kind — so energy-inefficient...

Only a small fraction of buildings with flammable cladding have been fixed, and owners are feeling the strain

 Picture: MFB Australia has more than 3,400 buildings with flammable cladding. In Victoria alone, at least 71 of these buildings have been classified as “extreme risk” and another 368...

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Mick Pacholli

Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972.  Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry. Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.