Welcome to scammers' paradise
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Property developers at Queensland's Gold Coast are using aggressive telemarketing and investment seminars to attract property buyers. They are targeting armed forces personnel, miners, Interstate buyers, and others to sell their overpriced and less-valued property. Queensland is drafting a new legislation aimed at regulating the activities of marketers, developers, and agents, which would prevent them from using misleading sales techniques to sell their property.
Publication Name: The Bulletin with Newsweek
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1440-7485
Year: 1999
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Reef secrets
Article Abstract:
Gesner suggests that a person who wants to uncover Australia's history should start where many ships foundered, at the top of the country. Treasure troves of material culture were carried to the bottom there. The exact locations of the north-eastern shipwrecks is not revealed to protect the sites from being plundered.
Publication Name: The Bulletin with Newsweek
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1440-7485
Year: 1998
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Out of service
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People living in the country fear that access to high-technology communication services, such as e-mail, faxes and the Internet, will be slow to reach them. Three reasons are cited: insufficient infrastructure, lacking funds of a privatized Telstra and a reduction in maintenance staff.
Publication Name: The Bulletin with Newsweek
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1440-7485
Year: 1998
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