Momento Photo Books closes doors

By Mike O’Connor | 21 May 2024 Momento Photo Books, the Sydney-based photo book publishing company, is to close after 20 years in business. The company confirmed it had gone into liquidation in a Facebook post last night. “Despite every effort to keep the business alive, economic conditions of the last few years sealed our…

Glasgow restaurant update amid reports of ‘liquidation’

We previously reported that the Japanese eatery Sapporo Teppanyaki appeared to enter liquidation. Simon Thomas Barriball and Gareth Bishop of McAlister & Co Insolvency Practitioners Limited were appointed as liquidators of a business named Sapporo Teppan Ltd – with Sapporo Teppanyaki as the trading name. (Image: The Gazette) READ MORE: Glasgow restaurant Sapporo Teppanyaki enters liquidation However it was not clear how this…

Government flags changes to HECS and placement pay

In short: the government has received recommendations from a major review of the university sector. Proposed changes include additional financial support for low-income students, and a new method for calculating HECS repayments. What’s next? Education Minister Jason Clare said the government would respond to the recommendations “in the next couple of months”. University students could get cost…

Mum’s despair when she discovered her son, 16, was gambling tens of thousands of dollars in local pubs – forcing her to cash in her super and re-mortgage her house to cover his debts

By Karen Sweeney For Australian Associated Press Published: 15:37 AEST, 7 December 2023 | Updated: 03:12 AEST, 8 December 2023 When a Melbourne mother discovered her 16-year-old son was gambling tens of thousands of dollars she began a frantic mission to get him help, only to be repeatedly turned away. In April last year she…