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17 May, 2007
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The Nation
THE underlying problem in retail competition, planning barriers to entry, will not be addressed.
INSTEAD of waiting for reviews, Kevin Rudd should tackle super reform immediately.
IT'S not Big Oil but Big Green that is using an alliance between corporates, government and individuals to make big money.
THE PM's anti-market policies will kill jobs.
COMPLACENCY, not the internet, is the enemy of the printed paper, but quality journalism will prevail.
Opinion
THE underlying problem in retail competition, planning barriers to entry, will not be addressed.
INSTEAD of waiting for reviews, Kevin Rudd should tackle super reform immediately.
IT'S not Big Oil but Big Green that is using an alliance between corporates, government and individuals to make big money.
THE PM's anti-market policies will kill jobs.
COMPLACENCY, not the internet, is the enemy of the printed paper, but quality journalism will prevail.
Property
THE family owned Melbourne-based retailer Besen Group has granted an option over a third of its 50 per cent share of Highpoint Shopping Centre, one of Australia's top centres, to the GPT Group.
AN exclusive agreement between leading property group Lend Lease and a London council for the multi-billion-dollar Elephant and Castle redevelopment lapsed this week without an agreement.
THE Hedley Leisure & Gaming Fund, founded and majority owned by embattled pub baron Tom Hedley, yesterday played down any fallout from the collapse of his private empire just 24 hours earlier.
SIMON Marais, the largest investor in Valad Property Group, said yesterday the Sydney-based highly-geared company would now survive, following a deal with the Bank of Scotland.
THE exodus of hedge funds from Mayfair in central London, one of the world's most prestigious office districts, has cut the cost of renting premises in the area by half in the past two years.
Sport
BRETT Lee storms into Australia's Ashes attack with incredible reverse swing that he tips will play a "massive" role in the series.
Serena and Venus Williams will meet in the Wimbledon final for the fourth time after a rollercoaster day of tennis.
MELBOURNE captain James McDonald was a shade of grey.
THE Wallabies' strict protocols on player behaviour on tour are believed to be behind the ARU's decision to terminate winger Lote Tuqiri's multi-million-dollar contract on Wednesday.
NRL clubs continue to roll out the welcome mat for Lote Tuqiri, but a move to Europe or Japan looks more likely for the sacked rugby union star given the constraints of the salary cap and a general reluctance from teams to spend excessive money on an ageing winger.
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
ONE of Australia's wealthiest individuals says he will consider buying
BHP Biliton
's troubled nickel assets to underpin an expansion of the Yabulu nickel refinery in Queensland.
FIVE people have been arrested in Victoria and Queensland over the seizure of chemicals which have the potential to make $20 million worth of drugs, police say.
AFRICAN leaders reached a compromise early today on the powers of a new African Union Authority that will coordinate key policies, but have little power to act without a mandate from member states.
VICTOR Smorgon, one of Australia's most successful entrepreneurs and the former head of one of the country's most diverse industrial groups, has died in Melbourne.
NORTH Korea must stop testing missiles, with the country's provocative actions only serving to isolate it further, Defence Minister John Faulkner says.
Business
Features
FACEBOOK is revising its privacy settings so more than 200 million users of its social network can share as much or as little about themselves online as they want.
THIS is the generation where Jack will truly become a man for all trades with the name Australia's most popular for a fifth successive year.
GOT the recession blues? Then go blonde. A survey of 1200 women in the UK found a 67 per cent surge in sales of blonde products since the financial crisis.
FOR years families have been told not to eat dinner in front of the television but a survey of mothers shows it may be the least volatile mealtime option.
THE humble cravat allegedly is making a comeback, yet the streets of Brisbane are oddly devoid of the foppishly fantastique fashion statement.
Queensland News
A WOMAN who recorded a blood alcohol eight times the legal limit after a car crash was able to walk in a straight line wearing high heels, say police.
A FORMER police officer accused of bashing three tourists allegedly told one victim as he repeatedly punched him in the face: "This is my town."
HOMES and a leagues club near the Gold Coast desalination plant are cracking and sagging in another debacle for southeast Queensland's water grid.
A MAN convicted of a 1990 murder is believed to be the first prisoner in Australia granted access to DNA evidence to try to gain his freedom.
UPDATE:
FORMER Queensland premier Peter Beattie has told a court a former minister in his cabinet never declared any conflict of interest he had with mining executives Ken Talbot and Harold Shand.
17 May, 2007
