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Phoenix fraud
Well, small businessman Chris raised this issue on the Open Line last week
Businesses which shut down owing money and then reopen virtually the next day under another name
This practice is sometimes referred to as Phoenix fraud after the mythical bird which would self-destruct in flames and then rise again reborn from its ashes
According to the Insolvency Practitioners Association, Phoenix fraud in Australia costs $3 billion a year
Yet it remains completely legal
An unscrupulous operator - whose company is in trouble...
Dubai
Well, a bitter sweet result for 2 Australian men detained in Dubai for 4 years
Sweet because one of the men, 44 year old Marcus Lee, was yesterday finally acquitted of all charges against him
Bitter, because his former associate, 48 year old Matthew Joyce, was sentenced to 10 years gaol and fined $25 million
Joyce and Lee were arrested in 2009 and charged with inducing Gold Coast developer Sunland to pay a $14 million illegal commission to secure a Dubai property
Following their arrest they spent 9 months in solitary confinement...
Olympic great being honoured with a statue at his old high school in Melbourne
Teachers
Well, at the same time as Julia Gillard is trying to convince voters that this Gonski spending to fix a “broken” education funding model is somehow going to revolutionise education, more evidence that the problem is not the funding model at all but teacher training
I see a report by the Senate’s Education, Employment and Workplace Relations References Committee has concluded many teachers don’t even properly understand the basics of the English and maths they teach in schools
“We just don’t have teachers who are aware of how English works in...
Phoenix fraud
Well, small businessman Chris raised this issue on the Open Line last week
Businesses which shut down owing money and then reopen virtually the next day under another name
This practice is sometimes referred to as Phoenix fraud after the mythical bird which would self-destruct in flames and then rise again reborn from its ashes
According to the Insolvency Practitioners Association, Phoenix fraud in Australia costs $3 billion a year
Yet it remains completely legal
An unscrupulous operator - whose company is in trouble...
Dubai
Well, a bitter sweet result for 2 Australian men detained in Dubai for 4 years
Sweet because one of the men, 44 year old Marcus Lee, was yesterday finally acquitted of all charges against him
Bitter, because his former associate, 48 year old Matthew Joyce, was sentenced to 10 years gaol and fined $25 million
Joyce and Lee were arrested in 2009 and charged with inducing Gold Coast developer Sunland to pay a $14 million illegal commission to secure a Dubai property
Following their arrest they spent 9 months in solitary confinement...
Olympic great being honoured with a statue at his old high school in Melbourne
Teachers
Well, at the same time as Julia Gillard is trying to convince voters that this Gonski spending to fix a “broken” education funding model is somehow going to revolutionise education, more evidence that the problem is not the funding model at all but teacher training
I see a report by the Senate’s Education, Employment and Workplace Relations References Committee has concluded many teachers don’t even properly understand the basics of the English and maths they teach in schools
“We just don’t have teachers who are aware of how English works in...
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