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The spare room for visitors a tourism twist!

The spare room for visitors a tourism twist!

Visitors wishing to rent a room in private houses or apartments, for a fee lower than a hotel or B&B, can now find such accommodation via a new website established in Australia this week. The company managing wheretosleep.com has already been successfully matching up hosts and visitors, and arranging secure payment of the rent monies, in Europe, UK and USA and it follows in the footsteps of the very popular 'couch surfing' website where travellers can find offers of free accommodation in whate.

  • The Thrifty Duchess

    In recent weeks Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge, wife of Prince William and affectionately known as Kate, has several times been photographed wearing the same outfit that she has worn previously.

  • The broken soul

    Well-Being Australia chairman Mark Tronson recently watched the Fletcher Jones (garment maker) story on television. It told how this thriving business was built up from a small operation prior to WWI into a national icon. In the seventies it collapsed and their best people experienced their souls being torn apart.

  • Doctrine and sentiment are different

    Well-Being Australia chairman Mark Tronson says that as a Protestant theologian, trained with a well-spring in Puritan theology, I like to worship together with like-minded fellow believers as a part and parcel of my Christian walk.

  • Mercy Ships returns to Togo

    The Africa Mercy, the world's largest charity hospital ship has returned to Lome, Togo.

  • A touch of nostalgia – paper giants

    Sometimes a TV show can bring back nostalgic memories. Artists, and in particular playwrights, after all have been those who have reflected society back to the people who live it for as long as humans have had any semblance of civilisation.

  • A church with a difference – an aircraft carrier

    Why not an aircraft carrier, for a church with a difference? Well-Being Australia chairman Mark Tronson, a retired Baptist minister says that he discovered there is one for sale, and its in good nick according to a recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald!

  • Thought provoking survey on WA prostitution law reform to end soon

    The WA Attorney-General Christian Porter introduced a Prostitution Bill in the WA Legislative Assembly on 3 November 2011. Debate is expected soon after Parliament resumes on 21 February 2012.

  • The art of double speak

    Increasingly we as a community are being confronted by professional \'double speak\' and its an art form which we can only admire and yet be completely mystified by it.

  • 1938 EVIAN Conference still haunts Australia

    As ANZAC day gets closer, Well-Being Australia chairman Mark Tronson noted what Australian Senator Guy Barnett (Tasmania) said in his speech 28 February 2011 to the Australian Senate: "I would like to speak about Australia's involvement at the Evian Conference in 1938 and call on the Australian government to apologise for the hurt that was caused."

  • Another view of working women - No 2

    A discussion yesterday on Catherine Hakim, feminist foe and author, whose latest new paper called Feminist Myths and Magic Medicine, has caused another furore amongst the politically correct, claiming that women still want to \"marry up\": to marry men who are richer and cleverer than them.

  • Australia's first Christian digital radio station now broadcasting on DAB+

    Similar to the introduction of FM radio in the mid 70s, digital radio on DAB+ is a new broadcasting method for Australian Radio that opens the door to a wider range of listening options, higher quality sound and more information about what you're listening to.