No Cash? No Problem

You can live well without money. Claire Halliday finds people bartering everything from chooks and babysitting to thousands of dollars worth of goods and services.

Malcolm In Middle Of Pinks And Greens

The Tasmanian pulp mill and new electoral boundaries have left the Environment Minister bartering for preferences, writes Peter Ker.

Meet The Froogles

All over the world, environmentally friendly "froogles" are foresaking shopping for swapping. They're internet bartering as well as making, baking and breeding their own.

Stop The Press: We're Not Angry At Losing A Final

FINALLY, sanity prevails. It took years of squabbling, bitching and bartering, but with weeks to spare, the AFL and MCC have delivered a result on the preliminary final issue which can only be seen as football justice.

Barter Group Has $80m In Real Estate On Books

Property investors are bartering their way into real estate, with Business Barter Exchange revealing that $80 million worth of real estate is on its network. BBX

Save Some Hard-earned Cash By Bartering

In this special six-page Your Business feature, Investor shows how you can operate more profitably.

Annual Suburban Recycle: A Great Festival Of Silent Bartering

And so it was that on the third day of the third week of the third month, the man from the council waste management department said unto the people, ``Rejoice mightily, for I bring you tidings of great joy. In one week's time it shall be Hard Rubbish Collection Day".

Bartering The Way To Wealth

WHILE businesses get their minds around the paperwork wrought by the GST, a growing number have gone back to the future. They are bartering. But the digital age of bartering has a new twist and an unexpected bonus. It's all conducted electronically by Bartercard so that each business earns or

Online Swapshop

It's easier than ever to find and copy files on the Internet - with big consequences for copyright. But what makes kids think that piracy and bartering are the best business models for the network economy? By Michael Dwyer. Never mind the stable door. The horse, last seen wearing a portable MP3-p

It's Back To The Future As... Barter Meets Bourse

IT might be a new millennium but bartering, a form of commerce from a previous one, has made a big comeback. Bartercard will be one of the first floats of 2000, with a sharemarket listing planned in March, about the same time as the long-expected but much-delayed float of 30 per cent of Vodafone.

Seven's I7 Takes Stake In Murphy's Radio Play

The US acquisitions have been primarily driven by the need to capture large Net traffic spaces. Seven Network's Internet subsidiary, i7, has taken a major stake in Mr Chris Murphy's Internet radio venture, Digital One, in a deal that mirrors the US trend of television networks bartering advertisi

Scotland Dealing Begins

LONDON, SATURDAY Labour and the Liberal Democrats will begin bartering this weekend over the terms of agreement for establishing a coalition government to rule Scotland for the next four years. The party leaders, Mr Donald Dewar and Mr Jim Wallace, insisted they would first sleep on the result

Storm Insurance Ploy Riles Martin

It was appalling insurer QBE was using storm victims as a ``bartering chip" against any government in an attempt to get changes to the industry, Cunningham MP Stephen Martin said yesterday. ``They want their policyholders to be hung out to dry, to coin a phrase, while they play politics,&quo

Fans Pin Hopes On Olympics

AS the Olympic movement enters a state of flux, at least one related tradition remains constant and hundreds of that tradition's zealots will make a pilgrimage to West Wallsend on Sunday. They will be in town to participate in the global obsession that is buying, swapping and bartering for Olympi

Barter Beats Bills

IT might be a case of back to the future, but increasing numbers of small businesses are bartering with each other, often cutting their overheads in half. Some are even rewarding themselves with a holiday. The new twist to bartering or swapping your produce for somebody else's - the oldest fo

Grey In The Centre Of Interstate Bidding War

The State of the Union series is over and the bartering is in full swing for next year's Super 12 with NSW and Queensland duelling for the signature of 22-year-old Queensland centre Nathan Grey. Queensland coach John Connolly said yesterday Grey was one of 26 players offered a contract by Queensl

Hot Rocks

HISTORICALLY, The Rocks was a rough-and-tumble area, a place of hard work and heavy drinking, of bartering and bargaining, rising at dawn and carousing until the next one. Until about 12 years ago. "They thought we were crazy to put a hotel here," Serge Dansereau says, sitting in the ex

Bartering Takes On Banking

MORE than 8,500 small businesses have shunned cash and the banks by returning to the most primitive form of enterprise: barter. In fact the centralised bartering scheme has been so successful that Bartercard is negotiating franchises in Sri Lanka, Singapore and Hong Kong. The idea is like trad

Small Illusions

ON Labuan Island in Malaysia, the talk on the waterfront is smuggling. They don't actually call it that, of course: they call it bartering or exchange or even that old standby, "import-export". Nevertheless, smuggling it is. Like everything else on Labuan, however, this is difficu

President's Crime Bill Gets Another Setback

WASHINGTON, Friday: After another day of tense negotiations and bartering, President Clinton last night edged closer to the much-needed passage of his anti-crime legislation through Congress. But his attempts to get a Democratic health plan through the Senate suffered another setback when