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Know Your Rights When You’re Sold with a Faulty Second-Hand Car

If your purchase of a car is faulty, your rights and options depend primarily on how you have purchased it and whether you have...

You’ve got (less) mail: COVID-19 hands Australia Post a golden opportunity to end daily letter delivery

Picture: Shuttlestock Australia Post delivered more than 3.3 billion items last financial year. That’s almost 14 million deliveries a day (not counting weekends and...

What just happened to the price of oil?

Image: Shuttlestock We have just witnessed an oil price crash like never before taking prices of West Texas Intermediate into deeply negative territory. The spot price of...

What if I can’t pay my rent? These are the options for rent relief in Australia

Picture: Stephen Brashear/EPA You’ve lost income because of the coronavirus crisis and finding it hard to pay the bills. What if you can’t pay your...

Give people and businesses money now they can pay back later (if and when they can)

Image: Shuttlestock The novel coronavirus sees Australia facing major unprecedented health and economic crises. The key to preventing a downward spiral of the economy is...

Scalable without limit: how the government plans to get coronavirus support into our hands quickly

Image: Shuttlestock The government says its second stimulus package – the second in ten days – is temporary and targeted, but that’s not really true. What it is...

Desperately seeking toilet paper, pasta or hand sanitiser? Some relief is just weeks away

A supermarket in south London, March 15 2020. Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA Panic buying, shop shelves emptied of toilet paper, hand sanitiser, pasta and other household supplies, supermarkets...

A toilet paper run is like a bank run. The economic fixes are about the same

Image: Shuttlecock Panic buying knows no borders. Shoppers in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and the United States have caught toilet paper fever on the back of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Shop shelves are...

Memories overboard! What the law says about claiming compensation for a holiday gone wrong

Picture: FRANCK ROBICHON/EPA When booking a luxury cruise, you generally expect relaxation and enjoyment, not forced quarantine and distress. Unfortunately, for the thousands of vacationers...

Go local: how to keep the power on when disaster hits

Image: www.shutterstock.com Bushfires, storms and floods regularly leave thousands of Australian homes and businesses without power. Sydney’s wettest weekend in three decades left more than 130,000 households...
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Mikyla Cara Drops Infectious New Single: “If u Don’t Mind”

Channeling the essence of neo-soul and R&B, Mikyla Cara brings us a timeless gem that harkens back to the golden era of R&B. With...

Unleashing the Power of Content: A Guide to Effective Content Marketing

Have you ever come across a piece of content that held your attention for a long time? If you have, you must know the...

CARL NIELSEN DESIGN ACCELERATOR

  Applications are now open for the Carl Nielsen Design Accelerator, supported by a generous bequest from Carl and Judy Nielsen. The accelerator is open to...

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.