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Carpets are considered as one of the expensive investments in a home. This means you need to spend a good amount of time, efforts and money to maintain the look and feel of your carpets for years to come. To maintain its colour and shine, you need to remove dust, dirt, grime and tough stains on a regular basis. However, most people commit costly blunders while sprucing up their carpets. Whether it is about scrubbing the carpet stain or overlooking spot testing, there are plenty of mistakes that can damage your delicate floor coverings. To help you avoid the 6 major carpet cleaning mistakes, have a look at the article shared below. https://www.bondcleaninginmelbourne.com.au/6-costly-carpet-cleaning-mistakes-to-avoid/

 Australia's unemployment rate has beaten expectations, falling to 6.8 per cent despite more than 42,000 Victorians losing work in the month of August alone. New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed that 111,000 residents found work or resumed their duties in the past month. Just a month prior the unemployment rate was a staggering 7.5 per cent, with almost one million adults out of work. Read more:  https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-australia-unemployment-rate-68-per-cent-august-2020/af5867bb-be53-4b12-bf91-88f975802361#close

 Australia's stinging trees are notorious for delivering excruciating pain that can last for days, weeks or even months and researchers now say they know why. Key points: Researchers discover Australian stinging trees carry a venom similar to that found in marine cone snails Australia has two species of stinging tree with needle-like hairs that act like syringes to inject venom Scientists hope to develop new types of painkillers from the new discovery South-East Queensland's giant stinging tree and its northern cousin, the Gympie-Gympie stinging tree are both members of the nettle family and are covered in needle-like hairs filled with toxins. "When you brush past them, the needles act like a hypodermic syringe, penetrating your skin to inject what we now really consider a venom," Professor Irina Vetter said. Read more:  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-17/stinging-tree-toxins-similar-cone-snail-venom-queensland/12669088

 We all want to win the lotto but a cheeky couple of thousands hidden away is always a bonus in the meantime. Across the country there’s about $1.2 billion in unclaimed money in lost shares, bank accounts and life insurance. ASIC holds about 1.5 million individual unclaimed money listings. In 2018-2019 ASIC paid out $56.6 million in claims, plus interest. In Queensland there is $162.7 million available to claim. Read more: https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/the-unclaimed-12-billion-you-could-get-a-share-in/news-story/aea23658d3935d9f1f5e6d3e6ee1266f

 Tens of thousands of Australians are stuck overseas thanks to COVID-19 – but the effort is on to get them back home. At the moment, the limit on international returnees is 4000 a week. That's not much comfort for Queensland father of two Aaron Fechner, stuck off-shore in Brunei and waiting on the promise of a flight. Read more: https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-australia-return-limit-to-lift-how-states-responded/ad68133d-c0e5-4b1a-a823-cb5e14ea2837

Investing in a heavy-duty vacuum cleaner with a HEPA filter is always a good decision when it comes to maintaining the indoor air quality. A dirty carpets and furniture need regular cleaning and with a vacuum machine, you can achieve great results. However, most people don’t give much attention to this machine. It also needs proper cleaning on a frequent basis. If you want to boost the efficiency of your vacuum cleaner, then have a look at the article shared below. It includes some great cleaning instructions that will help you clean the vacuum cleaning machine with ease. Follow these tips and increase the functioning years of your machine. https://www.bondcleaninginmelbourne.com.au/how-do-you-clean-a-vacuum-cleaner/                                              ...

 "It's just good to be home." Those six words are familiar to most Australians, once their plane lands and they clear passport control. But ABC reporter Bill Birtles probably meant it more than most. He and fellow journalist Michael Smith, from The Australian Financial Review, landed in Sydney this morning after the pair were dramatically pulled out of China by their news organisations, over fears they were no longer safe. Birtles and Smith had endured a daunting last week, facing possible detention in China.  https://www.9news.com.au/national/bill-birtles-michael-smith-two-australian-journalists-pulled-from-china-after-cheng-lei-detention-abc-afr/f9d7e92a-e04a-4866-a08e-68786809e6b9

 It’s the season of new records, and the most notable one in a week of new milestones in Australia’s main electricity grids is a new peak for renewable energy share in the National Electricity Market: It reached 50.4 per cent at 10.55am on Monday. It also likely the first time that the combined output of wind and solar was more than that of black and brown coal, traditionally the dirty bed-rock’s of Australia’s electricity supply. Read more: https://reneweconomy.com.au/australias-main-grid-hits-new-renewable-energy-record-of-50-4-per-cent-12567/

 The Global Business and Talent Attraction Taskforce has been set up to trigger job creation by boosting efforts towards attracting the world’s leading talent and high-value businesses into the country under a new initiative to support Australia’s post-COVID-19 pandemic recovery. India is currently not part of the initial set of countries that have been identified as key markets by the global task force set up as part of the government's JobMaker plan. Read more: https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/india-not-on-australia-s-initial-list-of-source-countries-for-business-and-talented-migrants

 Citizen scientists from around the world are being asked to help complete Australia's longest daily weather record. Key points: The Zooniverse citizen science portal will host the Adelaide diaries, seeking help to digitise the new information It will help complete Australia's longest continuous weather record, making it a globally significant record There was an eight-year gap in that record — from 1848 to 1856 — that this project hopes to fill A 170-year-old diary recently unearthed from the National Archives will fill a key gap in Adelaide's weather history. The uncovered weather diary was kept by South Australia's third surveyor-general, Edward Charles Frome, and includes 150 handwritten pages of weather observations from April 1, 1843, to December 1, 1856. This time period is crucial because in June, climate scientist Dr Joelle Gergis and her team from the Australian National University released a paper outlining how they had created the longest daily weather recor...