What More Could A Man Want?
Channel Nine’s new factual lifestyle TV show “Money For Jam” premiered last night, and featured an Aussie invention that was just so much fun, it deserved a mention here.
One of the segments featured a guy who turned his love of beer (a great Aussie pasttime) into a fully fledged business!
Tanked Drinkwear is a new clothing product range designed for the drinking enthusiast 
The clothing incorporates a built-in twist top bottle opener into the mens and womens tops and shorts.
The hats also have a twist top/ pop top bottle opener built into them.
And the shorts even include a tear-off stubbie cooler cleverly disguised as a pocket!
Really… What more could a man want? and almost in time for Father’s day this weekend…
Money For Jam also features some “easy” ways to make and/or save money… Last night, the amount of money they showed that can be saved on lunches was astronomical, and great food for thought!
Watch it, Wednesday nights at 8.00pm
Football, Meat Pies, Kangaroos… Next Aussie Brand?
A few days ago the Australian Government announced it was offering Advertising agencies a “prize” of twenty million dollars to come up with a new “brand” to sell Australia overseas… and not just for tourism!
The new “Brand Australia” advertising campaign is designed to ensure continued interest in Australia not only as a tourist destination, but as a place to live, a place to invest in, etc… pretty “big picture” stuff.
Some of the interesting campaigns we’ve had:
- football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars. Remember THAT campaign? If you do, then you must be starting to show your age
- Paul Hogan and his “put another shrimp on the barbie”,
- Kylie Minogue - our Queen of music and still a great ambassador O/S,
- and more recently Lara Bingle… the “Where the bloody hell are ya?” campaign was apparently a huge flop and even banned in a few overseas countries
So waddyareckon is gonna help sell Australia overseas?
Coincidence or not??? One thing I’ve noticed a lot more in the last few days has been this new Qantas “I still call Australia home” commercial!
Does that move you? Is it the sort of thing you think could help sell Australia overseas?
Remember… it’s NOT just about people and places… you’ve got to include education, investment and trade to keep the Government happy and secure your $20million.
Let us know below…
Free Ceiling Insulation? Yee Hah!
August 6, 2009 by admin
Filed under Around the Home, Money
The Australian Federal Government’s Energy Efficient Homes Package is in full swing now and runs right through to middle/end of 2011. It’s subsidising the cost of installing ceiling insulation in up to 2.9 million homes across Australia.
The rebates through this scheme are worth up to $1600 $1200 (changed from 1st November 2009) for eligible owner-occupiers, landlords and tenants (it even includes holiday homes), who want to install new ceiling insulation in up to 2.9 million homes across the country that are currently uninsulated, or have very little ceiling insulation.
Curtain Fading Time Again - Daylight Savings Is BACK!
It’s the time of year that Queenslander’s dread (sorry) when us southerners adjust our clocks and have an extra hour of daylight up our sleeves.
And to make it worse (for them), it’s starting earlier and finishing later than ever before!
In the ACT, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania, daylight savings begins this coming weekend, at 2.00am EST on Sunday October 5th. And this time, it goes right through to 3.00am on Sunday 5 April 2009.
In Western Australia, they begin their 3rd and final “trial” year of daylight savings on 26th October, and it ends for them at 3.00am on Sunday 29th March 2009.
If, like me, you have difficulty remembering whether the clocks go forward or back, then just remember this little gem!
Spring forward… (clocks go forward)
Fall (as in Autumn) back. (clocks go back)
And you’ll never be lost for time again!
That is… unless you live in Queensland or the Northern Territory… but you guys get enough sun up there, so you really don’t want any more!!!