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  • Is Australia the Face of Climate Change to Come

    leaving 24 people dead. Each of these one-off traumas was bad enough, wreaking havoc, but in Australia such events seem to be becoming commonplace. The Lucky Country has experienced a major spike in extreme weather in the past few years, with a string of devastating incidents just since January. That has people wondering if the island continent is somehow a perfect bellwether for the ...

  • Retracing the fall of the car industry

    An Australian classic: the 1971 Ford Falcon XY GTHO. In the mid-1960s, when Australia's trade minister Sir John McEwen was urging Holden and Ford to seek export markets in Asia, the leader of one of Asia's poorest countries decided his country needed a car industry. Defying the advice of economists, he ordered the country's biggest company to start making cars - with Ford's ...

  • Its a matter of standing up to a bully

    program on Ray Hadley that the ABC put to air last Monday evening. It's a matter of standing up to a bully. I know several of the young men who were tormented by this man. I know about Hadley's rages, the torrents of foul-mouthed abuse. I know he savaged these kids at their most vulnerable, when they were barely out of university and finding their way in the daily hustle of a radio ...

  • The tax secrets of big businesses

    'The ruleswere developed for the industrial age' said Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury. Very few Australians will have heard of Burdekin Investments, one of the thousands of low-profile post-box companies that makes its home at Ugland House, a resort-style office building in George Town, the capital of Caribbean tax haven the Cayman Islands. It keeps a much lower profile than ...

  • Sydney school fails to report doping

    Pumped: School boys are hitting the gym and supplements in the quest to be fitter and stronger. Serial steroid abuse by a Cranbrook School student was investigated by the police and the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority after the boy admitted taking performance-enhancing drugs while representing the private school in rowing and rugby. But Cranbrook failed to inform sports authorities of ...


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Twilight

Twilight

I am usually attuned to significant trends in popular culture, whether they be on disc, in print, or on screen, which is why I was surprised to learn not too long ago that I had somehow completely missed the arrival and growing popularity of Stephenie Meyers series of teen-pulp gothic novels a ... ...

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  • 5 things the Blues must do to win State of Origin

    AN impromptu team dinner two weeks ago underlined the camaraderie and commitment NSW players will bring into camp when the team for Origin I is named on Sunday. Organised by skipper Paul Gallen, hooker Robbie Farah, back-rower Luke Lewis and centre Josh Morris, the dinner was attended by players who were in the Blues team last year or hope to be selected this season. Trent Merrin drove 90 ...

  • Pakistani plane in UK diverted

    British police say two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after an incident on a civilian plane flying from Pakistan to England. A jet was launched to divert the Pakistan International Airlines plane carrying nearly 300 passengers to Britain's Stansted Airport on Friday. It was originally supposed to have landed in Manchester. Essex Police said that two men ...

  • Homicide squad looks into pogo-stick death

    Homicide detectives have officially taken over the investigation into the pogo-stick death of a seven-year-old Sydney boy. Paramedics were called to a Mulga Road address after receiving a triple-0 call to a boy who was unconscious and not breathing just before 6.30am on Tuesday. The boy's mother, Kayla James, told police her seven-year-old son lost consciousness after falling off a pogo ...

  • Stood down over fake reviews

    THE self-proclaimed "director of propaganda" for a major hotel group has been ordered on a leave of absence after he was discovered posting negative reviews online for rival companies under a fake ...

  • Carrs new passengers parachute ride

    A spokesman for Mr Carr, who is currently in the Middle East, referred to Mr Carr's previous statement in which he said he intended to be "very old" before he left the Senate. Mr Dastyari is the fourth general secretary of the NSW branch in 10 years, in a job which many in the party believe has become a revolving door. Senior Labor sources claimed an agreement had been struck. If ...

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