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Beware of Malware in Tax Scams

In 2012, the Australian Tax Office received just over 26,000 reports from the public on a wide range of scams including fake job advertisements, emails and bogus phone calls. An ATO spokesman commented that various tricks where used by the scammers like sending emails with attachments that appear to have come from the ATO, which…

Canberra 100th anniversary coin unveiled

ACT Chief Minister Katy Gallagher and Member for Canberra Gai Brodtmann, representing the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, Bernie Ripoll, today unveiled the design for the new commemorative Centenary of Canberra circulating coin. The 20-cent coin shows the original blueprint for Canberra, as designed by Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin; the commemorative coin…

Women’s Australian Open coming to Canberra

ACT Chief Minister Katy Gallagher announced that the 2013 ISPS HANDA Women’s Australian Open, will be hosted at the Royal Canberra Golf Club for the first time. “Royal Canberra will provide a superb setting for the event and along with Australian players Karrie Webb, Katherine Hull-Kirk and Canberra’s Nikki Campbell, there will be great competition…

Australian Music Legends honoured

Ten legends of Australian music have been honoured as recipients of the 2013 Australia Post Legends award. This year’s Australia Post Australian Legends are Cold Chisel, Men At Work, INXS, The Seekers and AC/DC; individual artists Kylie Minogue, John Farnham AO, Olivia Newton-John AO and Paul Kelly; and the one and only Ian “Molly” Meldrum.…

Editor’s Note 120

As discussed in the previous Editor’s Note at the beginning of every week I will be making a list of DVDs that I intend to review this week. Of course other DVDs and movies will be reviewed. Also News articles will be posted when they are written. The River Murders Spartacus Detective Dee The Debt…

Editor’s Note #119

Ok, for those of you out there in the world wide web who have not read my previous 118, trust me they do exist about three of them have made their way to the current page but the rest will not be posted on this current version of The Movie Boards. I would like to…

Official Backyard Cricket Rules

Recent Research released by Commonwealth Bank reveals that close to a third of Aussie backyard cricket matches involve a dispute over the rules. According to the research, one quarter of backyard cricket matches have resulted in a disagreement about the rules, while one in five backyard cricket matches have ended prematurely because people couldn’t agree…

Bicentenary of Australia’s first coins

2013, is the bicentenary of Australia’s first coins, the Holey Dollar and Dump. Royal Australian Mint Chief Executive Officer Mr Ross MacDiarmid explained that, the first Holey Dollars and Dumps were struck in 1813 from Spanish eight reale coins, to give the rapidly establishing colony of New South Wales a stable currency that would not…

Hot Cross Buns in January ……… seriously?

Woolworths and Coles I completely understand that your primary objective is to make money, especially around the holidays. But Hot Cross Buns in January. Seriously? Nevertheless, in January with us just getting over the madness surrounding Christmas, we find hot cross buns for sale in your supermarkets a full three months before Easter. Now I…

50 Cents

50 cents. Half a buck. If you have ever wondered how profitable www.themovieboards.net is, well now I have told you. About 6 years (more likely 10 years) of inconsistent work has resulted in me making about 50 cents. And to be honest, I am pretty sure I don’t care. I know I should, but right…