New South Wales’ Minister for Fair Trading Linda Burney says people who are thinking about taking part in online auctions should make sure the transaction is legal.
Several real estate agencies will hold online auction for houses across the state from next month.
Ms Burney says the laws covering auctions in New South Wales are designed to [...]

Under the direction of Geoffrey Smith, National Head of Art, the major fine art auctions conducted three times a year are attracting high value items. This has created a new ‘middle’ market which will be offered to the general public under the Bonhams & Goodman brand Bay East Art.
The inaugural Bay East auction will [...]

Tuesday 2 October at 11am, 224 Young Street, Waterloo
On Tuesday 2 October at 11am, Bonhams & Goodman will conduct an auction of Books, Maps and Manuscripts. The auction of 425 lots, will be conducted at the new Bay East rooms at 224 Young Street, Waterloo and includes the Library of Dr John & Eithne Lagan, [...]

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, the world’s largest auctioneer of industrial equipment, conducted eight multi-million dollar unreserved public industrial auctions around the world last week, including two record-breaking auctions in Australia. The auction at the Company’s permanent Brisbane site on September 18, 2007 generated gross auction proceeds of AU$36 million — a new company record for an [...]

THE price for a classic Falcon GTHO muscle car is heading toward $1 million.
The top auction price for one of the muscle cars of $683,650 was set earlier this year.
However that looks set to be broken at the Sydney motor show auction on October 21.
Auctioneers Shannons will offer a restored 1971 Monza Green Phase III [...]

A glass urn purporting to contain the “used” prostate of Dame Edna Everage’s late husband has been put up for sale on eBay, with a starting price of $100.
Comedian Barry Humphries’ alter ego Dame Edna surprised guests at a Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) fund-raising dinner last week when she donated Norm Stoddard Everage’s [...]

A CRISIS in public hospital emergency departments has reached the point where they are forced to bid against each other for casual doctors who are already paid as much as triple the award rate.
Doctors say patient care is at risk because emergency departments are forced to rely on often inexperienced locums with a “nine-to-five mentality” [...]