Money Management and Financial Counselling By Sue Ellson with Mark Phillips Mark Phillips is the Treasurer for the Financial and Consumer Rights Council Inc (FCRC), the peak body and professional association for financial counsellors in Victoria and a Financial Counsellor with Jewish Care in Melbourne, Australia. Sue Ellson interviewed Mark on the topic of money management to understand more […]
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Advance Australia Now Anthem By Sue Ellson on 10 October 2017 I have spent the last three days at the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia (FECCA) 2017 Conference in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Like many third generation Australian born Australians, I am extremely ignorant when it comes to the 65,000 year heritage of Aboriginal
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How can I help? By Sue Ellson I know from my own experience of life, that I have needed help from time to time. But it is not always easy for someone with my education, ability and persistence to ask for help. What I do know is that I don’t want people telling me what
Australian Citizenship And What It Really Means By Sue Ellson I was very honoured to be a conferree’s guest at Australia’s largest Australian Citizenship Ceremony held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on 19 June 2010. As a ‘refugee’ from Adelaide who moved to Melbourne in 1994, I could certainly relate to the concept of adopting Australia
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Building A New Life In A New City By Sue Ellson Eleven years ago, Sue left her hometown of Adelaide and a large extended family to build a life of her own in Melbourne. This is her story… This month, it will be 11 years since I left my ‘home town’ of Adelaide. At what now
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One Cup of Coffee Syndrome By Sue Ellson As many of our regular readers know, Newcomers Network subscribes to a variety of online email groups. Spousesview is an international Yahoo Group that is part of Tales from a Small Planet and we share reciprocal links with them. In June 2003, our Founder responded to the
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