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Sean Buckley (entrepreneur)
Sean Buckley is an Australian entrepreneur & thoroughbred racehorse owner and investor. He is executive chairman of Ultra Tune car service franchise. He is principal of the Ultra Group of Companies. Early life Buckley was raised in the Eastern suburbs of Victoria, the first born of son of Peter Buckley and Gloria Buckley and he had a younger brother Clayton. Buckley attended Mazenod College in Mulgrave where he completed his Higher School Certificate. He then attended Chisholm Institute completing a Bachelor of Business and Marketing graduating in 1984. Buckley was appointed Market Research Manager for Safeway/ Woolworths working on new store development and new product ranges. In 1988 he travelled to Hong Kong to work with Thomas Cook, up offices in India and Pakistan. He returned to Australia and commenced work with Ultra Tune in 1994. Ultra Tune Buckley is executive chairman of the Ultra Group of Companies and Ultra Tune. He has been the impetus behind the often critici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultra Tune
Ultra Tune is an Australian automotive servicing and roadside assist franchise with 275+ centres, the second largest independent automotive servicing and repairer in Australia, as of 2019. History Ultra Tune commenced trading in 1979 with a pilot store in Box Hill, Victoria. Its rapid expansion was catalyzed by businessman Bert Smart, who saw a specialist Fast Tune-Up store in Hawaii while travelling home from the United States. Smart established a franchise model that saw the new business expand rapidly into all Australian states except Western Australia. In 1988, each of the franchisor entities (with the exception of South Australia) merged and formed a new company, Ultra Tune (Systems) Australia Pty Ltd (UTSA). Within 12 months, Ultra Tune opened its first franchise store in Perth, Western Australia. During the early 1990s, the network experienced turmoil and faced financial ruin with a number of stores across the network forced to close due high rental lease costs. Afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magic Millions
Magic Millions Sales Pty Ltd is an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse auction house which holds auctions around Australia each year including its world famous Gold Coast Yearling Sale at Surfers Paradise in Queensland. Seven days of auctions are joined by a major Thoroughbred horse race meeting where all nine races are only open to horses who were bought at auctions staged by Magic Millions over the previous years. The race events includes the $2 million Magic Millions Classic for two-year-olds - a race which carries a $500,000 bonus for all female raced runners. The Gold Coast Raceday alone boasts prizemoney of $10 million and was the first race meeting held in Australasia with a $10 million total purse. The Gold Coast Yearling Sale is considered to be a top level auction in global racing circles, with buyers from Hong Kong, Japan, Europe, South Africa, New Zealand, China, the United States and the Middle East. The record for an individual horse purchase as a yearling was made b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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News Corp Australia
News Corp Australia is an Australian media conglomerate and wholly owned subsidiary of the American News Corp. One of Australia's largest media conglomerates, News Corp Australia employs more than 8,000 staff nationwide and approximately 3,000 journalists. The group's interests span newspaper and magazine publishing, Internet, subscription television in the form of Foxtel, market research, DVD and film distribution, and film and television production trading assets. News Pty Limited (formerly News Limited) is the holding company of the group. News Corp Australia owns approximately 142 daily, Sunday, weekly, bi-weekly, and tri-weekly newspapers, of which 102 are suburban publications (including 16 in which News Corp Australia has a 50% interest). News Corp Australia publishes a nationally distributed newspaper in Australia, a metropolitan newspaper in each of the Australian cities of Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, and Sydney, as well as groups of suburban news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herald Sun
The ''Herald Sun'' is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of the Murdoch owned News Corp. The ''Herald Sun'' primarily serves Melbourne and the state of Victoria and shares many articles with other News Corporation daily newspapers, especially those from Australia. It is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales such as the Riverina and New South Wales South Coast, and is available digitally through its website and apps. In 2017, the paper had a daily circulation of 350,000 from Monday to Friday. The ''Herald Sun'' newspaper is the product of a merger in 1990 of two newspapers owned by The Herald and Weekly Times Limited: the morning tabloid paper ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' and the afternoon broadsheet paper '' The Herald''. It was first pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defamation
Defamation is the act of communicating to a third party false statements about a person, place or thing that results in damage to its reputation. It can be spoken (slander) or written (libel). It constitutes a tort or a crime. The legal definition of defamation and related acts as well as the ways they are dealt with can vary greatly between countries and jurisdictions (what exactly they must consist of, whether they constitute crimes or not, to what extent proving the alleged facts is a valid defence). Defamation laws can encompass a variety of acts: * Insult against a legal person in general * Defamation against a legal person in general * Acts against public officials * Acts against state institutions (e.g., government, ministries, government agencies, armed forces) * Acts against state symbols * Acts against the state itself * Acts against religions (e.g., blasphemy, discrimination) * Acts against the judiciary or legislature (e.g., contempt of court, censure) Histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Randy Petalcorin
Randy Formemtera Petalcorin (born 31 December 1991) is a Filipino professional boxer who held the WBA interim light-flyweight title from 2014 to 2015. He has challenged twice for light-flyweight world championships; the IBF title in 2018 and the WBC title in 2019. Professional career Petalcorin fights in the light-flyweight division and was dubbed "Ultra Tune" when sponsored by the Australian car service franchise He fought in Melbourne, Australia on Peter Maniatis events between 2013 and 2017, training at the Boxingfit Gym in Port Melbourne. He won the WBA interim light-flyweight title against Walter Tello via seventh-round technical knockout in Shanghai, China, in front of 15,000 strong crowd on a Top Rank promoted card with Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum ringside. Audience member, fellow Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao , jumped into the ring when Petalcorin won the WBA interim title to congratulate him. Petalcorin trained in Melbourne using a high altitude training schem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hooked (horse)
Hooked (foaled 30 October 2010) is an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse. On 25 October 2014, he won the Crystal Mile. Background Hooked is a 4 year old bay stallion from Australia, owned by Sean Buckley and trained by John P Thompson, based at Randwick. He is sired by the stallion Casino Prince out of the dam Absolute Lure. Racing career On 25th Oct 2014 at Moonee Valley, Hooked was ridden by Craig Williams and scored his most significant win to date, getting the money in the $200,000 Schweppes Crystal Mile, defeating Bull Point. Hooked recorded a time of 1:34.98, falling just short of Cabeza’s benchmark of 1:34.78 seconds. Craig Williams pushed Hooked forward from barrier one and settled on the tail of leader Havana Rey before surging clear before the bend and holding off the fast-finishing Bull Point and Desert Jeuney. On Saturday 5 September 2015, Hooked won the Tramway Stakes 1400m Group 2 race at Royal Randwick Racecourse Royal Randwick Racecourse is a ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultra Thoroughbred Racing
Ultra Thoroughbred Racing Pty Ltd are breeders of thoroughbred racehorses based in Melbourne, Australia. The company is owned by Sean Buckley, with land holdings in Victoria and the Hunter Valley in New South Wales. The business has racing interests primarily in Australia and New Zealand. History The company was first located at the 400 acre ‘Barree Stud’ in Willowmavin, NE Victoria, which served as a breeding, spelling and pre-training centre. As development progressed, Barree was turned into a pre-training, spelling and rehabilitation centre. During this process, the company's breeding operations were relocated to the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, where other major Australian and international breeding operations are based. Facilities include a 2000 m sand-based track for workouts, equine water walker and swimming pool, high-speed treadmill, hyperbaric chamber and hydrotherapy equipment. In the early days of Ultra Thoroughbreds, the company focused on the pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mazenod College, Victoria
, motto_translation = Leave Nothing Undared for the Kingdom of God , established = 1967 , type = Independent, single-sex (male) , denomination = Roman Catholic , address = Kernot Avenue , city = Mulgrave , state = Victoria , zipcode = 3170 , country = Australia , gender = Boys , enrolment = 1400+ , grades_label = Years , grades = 7–12 , rector = Fr Harry Dyer OMI , principal = Dr. Paul Shannon , colours = Black, White, Blue , staff = 140 , coordinates = , affiliation = Associated Catholic Colleges , homepage www.mazenod.vic.edu.au Mazenod College is an independent, Roman Catholic, day-school for boys, located in Mulgrave, Victoria. It is on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Automotive Aftermarket Association
The Australian Automotive Aftermarket Association (AAAA) is an automotive industry association that represents the automotive aftermarket parts and accessories industry and companies that are involved in manufacturing, re-manufacturing, wholesaling, distributing and retailing of vehicle parts, tools, equipment, accessories and services. Established in 1980, the AAAA represents the interests of businesses in this particular market segment on a national level. The association is a not-for-profit organisation and provides members with access to a number of services and business development initiatives. The AAAA now represents over 2,300 members through a range of advocacy activities to promote their interests within Australia and overseas. Advocacy The AAAA represents the automotive aftermarket industry before federal, state and local governments and other regulatory bodies. The AAAA actively participates in more than 20 Standards Australia committees, liaises with international ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
