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15 March 2007
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15 March 2007
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The Nation
PALESTINIANS need guidance to attain proper statehood and their immediate neighbours aren't going to be much help.
ISRAELIS who disagree with the Gaza assault are wrongly being accused of siding with the terrorists.
THE Government must review its plans for a national broadband upgrade.
PULP-MILL dithering shows the Rudd Government has an allergy to making tough calls.
IF customary practice had been followed this summer, Ricky Ponting wouldn't have had to fret at all yesterday.
Opinion
PALESTINIANS need guidance to attain proper statehood and their immediate neighbours aren't going to be much help.
ISRAELIS who disagree with the Gaza assault are wrongly being accused of siding with the terrorists.
THE Government must review its plans for a national broadband upgrade.
PULP-MILL dithering shows the Rudd Government has an allergy to making tough calls.
IF customary practice had been followed this summer, Ricky Ponting wouldn't have had to fret at all yesterday.
Property
US home sales will keep declining, a key gauge said, while more data showed the factory sector in November took another hit.
PROPERTY owners are expecting the value of their homes to decline in the next quarter, according to a survey conducted jointly by the Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia and BankWest.
PROPERTY group Watpac has rolled over $216 million of debt with its financiers, including the ANZ Bank.
AFTER a decade devoid of top-flight tennis, Brisbane has welcomed back the world's best players with the opening of an $82million centre.
MELBOURNE stockbroker David Browne has been a longtime advocate of Victoria's "other peninsula".
Sport
AUSTRALIA'S generation next has the opportunity to carve themselves a slice of history by bowling the side to a consolation victory.
HE came late and he left early, but Novak Djokovic says there is no reason to panic for his title defence in just three weeks at the Australian Open despite crashing out in the first round of the Brisbane International.
Melbourne Victory 1 Adelaide Utd 0
MELBOURNE surged clear of Adelaide in the premiership race last night with a 1-0 victory at Telstra Dome that not only put it two points clear of the Reds but consolidated an ascendancy that may prove to be more valuable.
AUSTRALIA's Hopman Cup title hopes were left hanging by a thread after Casey Dellacqua lost in straight sets to the Slovak Republic's Dominika Cibulkova.
EMBATTLED Cronulla star Greg Bird flew back into Australia yesterday alone after spending the Christmas-New Year holiday period visiting girlfriend Katie Milligan in New York, and still none the wiser about his playing future.
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
ISRAEL will open a humanitarian corridor into the Gaza Strip, acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office said early today.
BUSINESS believes the Federal Government should be considering more measures to stimulate the economy.
JAPANESE whalers have accused anti-whaling activists of trying to disrupt their search for a crew member missing and presumed dead after falling overboard in freezing Antarctic waters.
ISRAELI tank shells have killed at least 40 Palestinians at a school where civilians had taken shelter.
US STOCKS rose modestly overnight, lifted by gains overseas, and as investors hoped that emergency Government measures will pull the global economy out of recession.
Business
Features
INSULTING playground nicknames such as four-eyes, carrot-top and pizza-face can be good for children, a leading British psychologist has claimed.
FAT bottoms are the bane of many women, but now scientists believe oversized rears are a sign a woman's health has not gone pear-shaped after all.
THOSE strapped for cash may be spending less on restaurants and entertainment during a downturn, but not on the quality of their sex lives.
THE great Australian analogue TV shutdown will hit regional Queensland in the second half of 2011 as the switch to digital slowly covers the nation.
SMOKERS who make New Year's resolutions to quit the habit are unlikely to succeed - and most won't last more than 24 hours, a new study has found.
Queensland News
A PERVERT has twice broken into a Cairns adult shop and had intercourse with blow-up dolls before abandoning the vinyl vixens in a nearby lane.
QUEENSLAND Health has linked three deaths of mental patients in the past two months to overcrowding at the crisis-ridden Logan Hospital .
QUEENSLAND Health is struggling to cope with an outbreak of dengue fever in the far north with 78 cases of the mosquito-borne virus in Cairns.
THE Rudd Government has been accused of ripping off a blind woman by cutting her pension to claw back money awarded to her in compensation.
A BIRTHDAY party turned bad at a Tarragindi home on Brisbane's southside when a retaining wall suddenly collapsed and injured two children.
15 March 2007
