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The Nation
KEVIN Rudd's G20 diplomacy shows he's positioning Australia for a role in the new world order.
QUOTAS never make sense because they denigrate women as underachievers.
BEHIND the opaque management-speak is an increasingly beleaguered and brain-dead national broadcaster.
THIS is not the time to make excessive industrial relations changes.
KEVIN Rudd's G20 diplomacy shows he's positioning Australia for a role in the new world order.
Opinion
KEVIN Rudd's G20 diplomacy shows he's positioning Australia for a role in the new world order.
QUOTAS never make sense because they denigrate women as underachievers.
BEHIND the opaque management-speak is an increasingly beleaguered and brain-dead national broadcaster.
THIS is not the time to make excessive industrial relations changes.
KEVIN Rudd's G20 diplomacy shows he's positioning Australia for a role in the new world order.
Property
GOODMAN Group chairman David Clarke missed the company's annual meeting in Sydney yesterday because he was "very sick".
EMBATTLED Babcock & Brown yesterday warned that its property joint venture with General Property Trust faced a potential loss of about $US82 million ($128 million) on a debt facility with US bank Wachovia, renewing concerns about the future of the investment house.
JAMES Hardie Industries has suspended dividend payments after a 13 per cent slide in first-half sales due to a deteriorating US housing market.
JAMES Hardie has scrapped its interim dividend after first-half operating profits tumbled due to the US housing market slump.
AUSTRALIA must free up its approach to foreign investment or risk falling behind as a favoured destination, according to a new study.
Sport
BEN Cousins has broken his silence to announce he intends to pursue his comeback despite the AFL-imposed conditions for his return.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting has ended speculation over controversial all-rounder Andrew Symonds' place in tomorrow's Test against New Zealand, declaring the powerful Queenslander a certain starter at his home ground at the Gabba.
THE Socceroos have paid tribute to Craig Moore at their final training session before tonight's World Cup qualifier.
SPANISH golf legend Severiano Ballesteros has been moved out of intensive care where he is being treated for a brain tumour.
DIEGO Maradona says he cannot understand why Terry Butcher continues to harbour a grudge over the "Hand of God" goal.
Editor's Choice
PLAYING the blame game is a modern version of the ancient practice of scapegoating and fuelling a maelstrom of imaginary causes.
THE minimum wage will need to fall if workers are to hang on to their jobs.
AMERICAN decline is no more real now than it was 40 years ago.
THE Muslim world's romance with Barack Obama won't last, but the US will boost jihadis if it pulls out of Iraq.
THE US and Australian embassies in Indonesia received bomb threats amid a security crackdown ahead of the Bali bombers' execution.
Breaking News
A BILL lengthening Russian presidential terms passed its latest hurdle in parliament today, amid speculation over its implications for the future of powerful Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
AN Indian warship destroyed a pirate ship in the Gulf of Aden and gunmen from Somalia seized two more vessels despite a large international naval presence off their lawless country.
THE Reserve Bank chief says Australia should not talk itself into a recession and it is better able to defend itself against the global economic downturn than other countries.
THREE teenagers conspired to murder a boy by choking him and then hitting him with a baseball bat, police have told a court.
SENATOR George Brandis spent an average of $8000 of taxpayers' money a week on travel and entertainment in the last six months of 2007, figures show.
Business
Features
NOW there is yet another reason not to smoke if you're a woman: PMS. Smokers are twice as likely to develop the nastier symptoms of the syndrome.
A NATIONAL survey has found the hard-drinking, straight-talking Australian bloke is under threat from yoga-loving, champagne-drinking metrosexuals.
BULLIES enjoy seeing people in pain in the same way others get a thrill out of gambling or taking drugs, new brain scan research shows.
THIS Christmas your cashed-up Generation Y partner might just buy you anything with figures showing the age group is preparing to spend big.
THE list of yuletide necessities is changing as Australians bypass seasonal TV specials in favour of family videogame sessions, with hot titles out this year.
Queensland News
BRISBANE'S cityscape will change dramaticallly with tunnel and road projects to overhaul our transport network. Use the links below for a virtual tour.
A SUNSHINE Coast mother said a smoke alarm helped saved her son's life when their Mooloolaba home was destroyed by fire last night.
RAIN caused a major headache for a southside Brisbane service station after water seeped into underground fuel tanks, causing car break-downs.
A PEDESTRIAN struck by a bus at Bowen Hills yesterday was recognised by police as a man wanted for questioning over a break and enter.
A WOMAN alleged to have been drunk was trapped under a tractor for 12 hours overnight on a remote property near Gympie and is likely to lose her foot.
Guide to Sunshine Coast Hinterland
