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Edition 340 – Lynne

A couple of weeks back, I headed to Tamworth in North Western New South Wales to celebrate my mother’s 76th birthday. With the impact of the lockdowns throughout 2021, illness with her and COVID taking hold in our own home, it had been almost 20 months since I’d last seen her. The road trip was long overdue.

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Edition 339 – Maybe, Just Maybe!

You know when your favourite sports team is being smacked around in the media? They’re not performing as they should and questions start getting asked about the performance of the coach, or even the star players? What starts out as a rumour, builds to a crescendo until the only focus is on when they’re going, not if.

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Edition 337 – Don’t Panic

If you turn on the news at the moment, all the headlines are bad. Last year it was all COVID related. This year, it’s about economics including:

  1. Rising interest rates.
  2. Inflation out of control.
  3. House prices to fall by 20%
  4. Budget cuts.
  5. Falling real wages.

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Edition 334 – Cyber Outages

Most small and family businesses think their IT investment should consist of new computers every few years and some anti-virus software. That’s it! No plan. No dedicated infrastructure renewal programme. Nothing to worry about, it seems, until something no longer works. Yet, all they’re thinking about is if something breaks. What about if you’re attacked from outside? Or even inside?

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