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Although Australian employers are feeling more optimistic about business conditions in the year ahead, this doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be getting a nice big pay rise from 1 July.

Some people have no trouble walking into their boss’s office and demanding a bigger pay packet, but for others, talking salaries can be a nerve-racking, awkward experience.

Melbourne-based critic and journalist Mel Campbell is the author of Out of Shape, her first book, which was released at the start of June.

There’s a lack of fictional women in top jobs across film and television, especially given the fact less than 30% of the speaking parts in Hollywood blockbusters are given to women.

As we quickly approach the end of the financial year, talk of salary increases and annual bonuses starts to emerge.

Last year director Joss Whedon shredded the global box office with his big, loud, sprawling take on The Avengers, a blockbuster superhero mash-up that earned the Buffy brain trust no small amount of industry cred.

I’m often asked about property: when to buy to buy, when to sell, what’s happening to the market, have we reached bottom yet? The latest RP Data-Rismark Home Value Index reflects a mixed bag, showing capital city house prices fell by 1.

One of the world’s longest-running film fests, The Sydney Film Festival, is now underway, amd cinephiles in Australia are once again spoiled for choice.

Recognising and understanding your ‘financial story’ is the number one way to achieve your financial goals, according to taxation specialist and senior partner of CIA Tax, Dr Steven Enticott.

Tax time is approaching and many readers will be digging out their paperwork and putting their finances in order.

Following the success of Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo comes Paper Giants: Magazine Wars, a story spanning a decade from the mid-’80s.

There is one — and, sadly, only one — good scene in the new, gaudy, mega budget adaptation of F.