Archive for the ‘Current Affairs’ Category
BROO’s Australia Day Celebration At Carlton’s University Café
To celebrate Australia Day, Broo “Flew The Aussie Flag” last Thursday at the popular Lygon Street restaurant, University Café, Breaking tradition, the café’s Manager and part owner, Brett, decided to offer a wide range of good old Aussie meals instead of their normal pasta and Italian meal specials.
Season Greetings From John Elliott
John Elliott and his production team would like to wish you all Seasons Greetings and best wishes for the New Year!
Broo’s Kent Grogan Featured In Australian Financial Review
I was pleased to see Kent Grogan continuing his 100% Australian ownership campaign against the ASX in a combined interview and article by Jason Clout in last weekends Financial Review. If you read the article you would see how tall Kent is when standing against 6 slabs high of Broo.
John Elliott & Ismail Akinci, CEO Videolink International
The Videolink International Group have been sponsors for my website since we started back in March 2009 and their videoconference business has expanded. Recently I interviewed Ismail Akinci, the CEO of Videolink who provides an overview of their expanding product range and main areas of focus.
John Elliott’s Monday Aussie Congratulations
Given the Aussie’s pathetic Test cricket performance in Hobart today, no sporting items will get a mention this week. Fortunately there is a good mixture of other worthy congratulation nominations.
Paul Hogan and Cockfosters
Back in the late 1980s Paul Hogan was the lead actor in Fosters innovative TV media campaign to promote Fosters in the UK, but also educate the English beer drinkers to drink their beer cold. This video is a classic. By the way, Cockfosters is a station on the London underground.
Will Broo’s Kent Grogan Be Australia’s Next Beer Baron?
The answer is yes now the Foster’s shareholders voted with their feet yesterday by overwhelmingly approving the SAB Miller takeover of Fosters where Fosters will no longer be Australian owned from 16th December 2011. It will be certainly be a sad day for me and my previous Elders IXL management team to see Fosters lose [...]
John Elliott’s Monday Aussie Congratulations
An interesting range of qualifiers for this weeks congratulations list. Politics – Congratulations to Ted Baillieu on his first year in office as Victorian Premier.
John Elliott’s Monday Aussie Congratulations
The following events and contributions caught my attention for inclusion in my weekly congratulations column. Cartoonists – Congratulations to the young Australian cartoonist Anton Emdin from Sydney for taking out the Gold Stanley for Cartoonist of the Year at the recent Australian Cartoonists 27th Annual Stanley Awards for excellence on cartooning.
John Elliott’s Monday Aussie Congratulations
There was a wider cross section of worthy contenders that qualified for inclusion on my congratulations list this week. Sport – Congratulations to Greg Chalmers, the 38 year old West Australian for winning the Australian Golf Open.
John Elliott’s Monday Aussie Congratulations
Horse racing as expected during Cup Week features in this weeks congratulations list. Sport – Congratulations to the VRC in attracting in excess of 356,000 patrons to the 7 day Cup carnival where Black Caviar, once again, proving a major attraction.
John Elliott’s Aussie Monday Congratulations
It must be that time of the year as sport dominates again. However, this time the non-sport selections will be listed first. Environment – Congratulations to the Snowy Hydro Scheme authorities for releasing more water into the Snowy River, the biggest release for 30 years.
