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It is estimated that there are about one million wine producers and, for 2019, Penfolds has been awarded the most admired wine brand by Drinks International.
This is no fly-by-night decision as the publication and their group of retailers, importer...
DATE: Jun 07, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Michael Robinson
Life is short. What that means in my book is there is definitely room for dessert and wine.
The problem is if we stretch the “life is short” philosophy too far, then we risk life getting infinitely shorter.
I don’t know about you, but I have no des...
DATE: Jun 07, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
It is summertime! It is a happy time! It is a beaching time! It is my favourite time because I can dive into the exquisite ocean that surrounds us on every shore. I love to swim in the turquoise sea, struggling with the current, fighting with the wav...
DATE: Jun 06, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nina London
“Beware when you bring in a prince to get rid of your problems because, while he may get rid of your problem, the next problem is how to get rid of the prince.”
That is a proverb that has a myriad of literal and non-literal implications and applicat...
DATE: Jun 05, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
This week the ten-year US Treasury bond yield fell to 2.09 per cent, its lowest level in twenty months as interest rates in Europe continued to plunge and President Trump threatened Mexico with new tariffs. With Brexit negotiations caught in a seemin...
DATE: Jun 05, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Bryan Dooley
We have all heard of hoarders, and binge drinkers and shopaholics and emotional eaters.
Just about all of the research on these subjects talks about the underlying emotions that drive these behaviours; you seldom find anyone discussing the financial ...
DATE: Jun 04, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Robin Trimingham
This has become a small world, made even smaller by massive communications systems producing streams of positive and negative signals that impact life across the planet. I have heard some folks express the view that we are living in an age when truth...
DATE: Jun 04, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
Time, tide and fish wait for no man and the short season that is the summer offers few opportunities.
Short, because it goes by so quickly and there are so many other diversions that few weekend warriors can get in the amount of fighting that they w...
DATE: Jun 01, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
Today is the day that your monthly paycheques will become smaller.
This reduction is due to the significant increase in health insurance premiums caused by Government’s mandatory (now legislated) decree that private insurers remit each month almos...
DATE: Jun 01, 2019
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
Heraclitus of Ephesus made an insightful observation 2,500 years ago when he said: “Change is constant.”
At the time, wine grapes had been harvested in his country for 4,000 years.
Fast forward to the year of my birth and our species doubled its know...
DATE: May 31, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Michael Robinson
