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Ere Perez Natural Cosmetics is a top name now in the field of cosmetic products. It is an Australian owned company. She is young energetic and an entrepreneur who is a true friend of nature and loves the natural products that are not tested on our animals. Ere plans to establish an enterprise that only produces and sells natural makeup range. Vegan beauty products are also available for those who are animal conscious. Ere truly believes that makeup enhances the personality of women and gives them the confidence to acquire the world.

When Ere came to Australia for the first time she was quite impressed by the Australians and their zeal for natural products and passion for the nature. Make-up does not mean simply applying powder or cosmetics it is much more than that. Make up means nourishing your skin, body, eye and lips. It enhances the beauty from out and within.

Cosmetics like eye liner, eye pencil and mascara must be purely natural. An eye pencil must sooth your eyes and the mascara must nourish the eye lashes and provide strength to them. A shampoo is must for the nourishment and strengthening of hair, in similar way mascara must also strengthen the eye lashes. The cosmetics for eyes from her collection are pure and the mascara has the goodness of natural almond oils. Vegan beauty products are also of a same quality but they are a little costlier in comparison to the natural beauty products.

Natural beauty products as well as the vegan beauty products are healthy for the skin they are totally up market and people look up to them as an ultimate product. Cosmetics should help your skin breathe and stay fresh. Be it a vegan beauty product or a natural beauty product according to Ere Perez rules the company does not test the cosmetics on animals and they even don’t allow child labor. Almost all the products and cosmetics from the stores of ere are prepared with natural and organic ingredients. It is a known fact that several skin care products do contain animal ingredients but there are vegan beauty products that are made from natural ingredients and are good for the skin. Such products also do not have any side effects.

For the make up art the makeup artist use brushes and usually the brushes are made from animal hairs. Vegan beauty products like brushes are made from Taklon. It is hard to find difference between the two brushes. Be it a vegan brush or the other one you must select the brush that are handy, natural and extra soft. Ere Perez natural cosmetics prepare the brushes from natural goat’s hair. The goats are not harmed in this process. The brushes as well as the cosmetic products from Ere Perez natural cosmetics are proven and are also cruelty free. A perfect natural brush must be of high quality and textured hair that is designed in such a way that, it can powder the skin in a perfect way.
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Despite Mr Rudds recent attempts to invoke the confidence to import and buy stock, followed by 3 success slaps in the face for small businesses by interest rate rises just when they expect to sell that stock, the ABS results (believe it or not) show Sales Growth For October.

In current price original terms, chains and other large retailers increased 6.6% in October 2009. The estimate for smaller retailers also increased 6.6% in October 2009.

Australia’s Retailers all know that sales increases wont be the case for November thanks to our inneffective Reserve Bank board, ( its only last year that those fools hiked interest rates sharply and then had to quickly reduce them).

The ABS chart above shows the trend series and seasonally adjusted series to October 2009.

In current price trend terms, Australian turnover increased 0.2% in October 2009 following increases of 0.3% in both September 2009 and August 2009. This is the smallest increase in Retail trend turnover since August 2008.

Food retailing, Department stores, and Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services have all had an increase in the trend for at least nine months. Clothing, footwear and personal accessory retailing decreased (-0.1%), the first decline since July 2008. Other retailing decreased (-0.1%) for the second consecutive month. Household good retailing remained unchanged in October 2009.

All states have had an increase in the trend estimate for at least four months except Queensland which decreased (-0.1%) in October 2009 and South Australia which remained unchanged for the second consecutive month.

In current price seasonally adjusted terms, Australian turnover increased by 0.3% in October 2009 following a decrease of 0.2% in September and an increase of 0.5% in August 2009.

Source for data: ABS.

Australia’s limp government are still allowing Paypal to hold massive consumer deposits in Australia without holding an Australian banking licence despite the fact that they are globally renowned for massive numbers of consumer and merchant complaints about the way they have handed customer’s money. (Just Google “paypal complaints” to see a few)
Frerk-Malte Feller the former head of eBay in Germany who has recently moved to Sydney to replace Dinuke Ranasinghe as the managing director of PayPal Australia hopes PayPal will sign up every single Australian merchant now selling anything online within the next couple of years.

It seems the friendly group of Australia’s licensed banking oligopoly are too much mesmerised by their ability to levy huge fees and now to increase loan spreads with the dud government’s blessing, to be bothered to compete with their unlicensed competitor.
Paypal claim that 27 per cent of online shoppers prefer to pay with PayPal, more than Visa or MasterCard or any other method.

Paypal says that they have five million active accounts in Australia and the company’s statutory financial statements for 2008 show PayPal Australia increased its customer deposit base by more than 50 per cent in 2008 to $92 million from $60 million in 2007.
Whilst Australia has so little competition between its banks now (because slimy politicians have allowed them to reduce to so few that they can all do better by not aggressively competing) the country needs more banks, but we don’t need the unlicensed kind that don’t have the government controls that provide public protection.
America has recently introduced the world to calamity caused by failure of unsupervised financial institutions not being required to meet prudential control limits. Let’s not have it here also.

Is our Government cutting existing projects whilst they skite about new projects?

After spending billions this year for little result, that future generation will have to repay, our Governments have started to talk a lot about spending money on infrastructure projects to create jobs. However it seems thay have no interest in protecting small business with existing committed infrastructure projects and are actually cutting them back.

A case in point is the the RTA’s new announcement that they have deleted the Ivy Lane exit from the Tintenbar to Ewingsdale Pacific Highway upgrade. This exit was to have been the major access to the famous Macadamia Castle from the Highway.

Under the new plan it would now be necessary for travellers from the North to exit 16 KM before the highway or backtrack 8km to visit the Castle. From the South visitors will have to exit at Ross Lane, travel 4km to the Castle and then continue on 13Km to rejoin the Highway. ( Yeah Right!)

This will have major detrimental effects on the Macadamia Castle and threatens its very existence. Macadamia Castle hopes to survive but may have to make drastic cuts to staff and infrastructure spending

The Macadamia Castle has become a landmark and well known place of interest to visit for people using the current highway.

As a major Retail business, Macadamia Castle at Knockrow is the area’s largest employer and a major purchaser of local goods. Each month over $200,000 is spent on local wages, produce and services. The business is 35 years old. The Castle is a major trainer of local youth in conjunction with TAFE. It provides a safe meeting place for Mums with young kids.

The Animal Park and is a destination for many school groups and holiday care programmes. It is a showcase for local products stocking over 200 local food items.  Its Café is a showcase for regional Cuisine.

Tony Gilding of the Macadamia Castle had the following to say about the RTA:-
“Despite the smooth words in the RTA documents :-
- The RTA has conducted no economic analysis of the impact on the Macadamia Castle.
- The RTA has made no predictions about the traffic flow that will result from these changes. In particular the issue of how residents and visitors from the North travelling to the  South of Byron such as Suffolk Park will exit the highway. The RTA’s suggestion that many of them will exit at Ewingsdale and travel through Byron Bay town would put pressure on already crowded Byron CBD.
- There is no compensation offered.
- There are vague indications of tourist routes and signage but no specifics.”

So how about spending the original planned infrastructure budget in this case where there is a clear and measurable impact and stop pretending its all new infrustructure spending.