Weekly Australia Hottest News

Hitwise the world’s leading online competitive intelligence service, is pleased to announce Australia’s most visited websites for 2007.

Each year, the Hitwise Online Performance Awards acknowledges the #1 ranked websites, across over 100 industries. Results of the Hitwise Online Performance Awards are based on the Internet usage of approximately 3 million Australians visiting over 134,000 Australian websites, with winners receiving the greatest market share of visits throughout 2007 in their online industry.

“With the dynamics of online marketing continually evolving, the online success of these websites in 2007 is a wonderful achievement,” says Michael Walmsley, General Manager Hitwise Asia Pacific. He adds, “This is truly a ‘people’s choice’ award, as ultimately, organisations receiving a Hitwise Online Performance Award have been determined by Australian Internet users throughout the past year.”

Hitwise congratulates the 2007 winners, which include major online and offline brands such as Seek, MySpace, Qantas and Ripcurl. First time recipients of the award include Origin Energy, beyondblue and The Wiggles.

Comments(0)

Expressions of interest are sought for two PhD scholarships position to carry out field research in Indonesia on community, environment and local governance issues.

The successful candidates will work with a team of experienced researchers - Dr Greg Acciaioli (UWA), A/Prof Anton Lucas and Dr Jim Schiller (Flinders), Dr John McCarthy (ANU), and A/Prof Carol Warren (Murdoch), as well as collaborating researchers in the Netherlands and Indonesia on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project entitled `Social Capital, Natural Resources and Local Governance in Indonesia`. The project will focus on case studies of local decision-making on environmental issues in the context of conservation and development programs in different regions of Indonesia. It aims to improve understanding of contemporary community dynamics in a range of cultural and ecological settings, as well as the practical implications of local participation and capacity building interventions for achieving equity and sustainability outcomes.

The two candidates will be based at Flinders University in Adelaide and Murdoch University in Perth respectively, with location and supervision determined by the focus and site of each student`s component of the project. It is anticipated that one student will work in a coastal community where marine conservation issues are the focus of research, while the second student will focus on a primarily agrarian research site in which World Bank / AusAID / NGO local capacity building, conservation and development projects are being conducted. (Read the article)