Carly Tonkinson from IT Financial Services joins Michael Mclaren for The Bottom Line.

“ITFS is an independently owned, boutique financial planning and investment advisory firm. It is a testament to the stability we provide to our clients that the founding partners are all self-employed and have worked together for almost 20 years.”

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Every Monday morning Michael McLaren talks movies and entertainment with the Managing Editor of Screen-Space, Simon Foster.

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Ahmed Ademoglu, National President at Council of International Students Australia, who believes the federal government's response to the coronavirus outbreak has done long-term damage to the reputation of the country's $38 billion international education industry.

 

Mr Ademoglu, who represents 700,000 international tertiary students in Australia, said they felt "exploited" and would discourage future students from enrolling here.

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Michael Mclaren chats with Troy Lennon from the Daily Telegraph for the weekly history segment.

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Michael is joined by Mark Gregory, Associate Professor in network engineering in the School of Engineering at RMIT University, to discuss whether what is being delivered is good value for the money spent.

 

NBN boss Stephen Rue declared yesterday that the rollout of the $51 billion NBN was “well positioned” to be completed by June and would not seek additional taxpayer funding.

 

However, Dr Gregory says NBN Co’s half-yearly results revealed “a blowout” in the cost of operating the network and that there is “no way” the national broadband network rollout will be completed by this time.

 

 

“The areas affected by the fires will not be finished by the middle of the year,” and also says the NBN Co is “bypassing” a “large number” of “hard-to-complete” properties in the rush to meet its deadline.