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Queensland OKs Dalrymple sale with conditions

Report state will allow BBI's planned sale if expansion goes ahead. 20 Nov 2008 4:36 AM

Business Spectator politics & IR - 12 minutes ago

US Senate seeks compromise on $US25bn auto bailout

Struggling car makers push for urgent help in second day or hearings. 20 Nov 2008 4:21 AM

Business Spectator politics & IR - 27 minutes ago

“Don’t you know where I’m from?”, TV intern

Poynter: “University of Minnesota student Jennifer Nicole Anato-Mensah, 21, threw a fit last month after Twin Cities station KSTP let her go. She began hurling threats at an executive producer, ...

Trevor Cook - Corporate Engagement - 37 minutes ago

25 tips for business bloggers

This is one of the best of this ‘how to be a good blogger’ genre, I’ve come across. Here are the headlines but read the original it’s rich in explanation ...

Trevor Cook - Corporate Engagement - 49 minutes ago

Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions surge

From the Economist:

Trevor Cook - Corporate Engagement - 1 hour, 10 minutes ago

Malcolm Turnbull on John Howard’s 2007 Obama comments

The L Party - 3 hours, 33 minutes ago

THESE TWO LIVES SHATTERED

een. Yesterday, he was sent to jail, and she will spend the rest of her life in supported care. A LOCAL footballer who was drunk, speeding and unlicensed when he ...

The Advocate - 3 hours, 48 minutes ago

Bridge plans collapse

THE Heritage Council may kill plans for a new road bridge at Ulverstone, leaving local politicians Sue Smith and Mike Downie incandescent with fury. The State Government has been gearing ...

The Advocate - 3 hours, 48 minutes ago

Residents deny blame laid

RESIDENTS at the centre of the Rosebery metals poisoning scare yesterday moved to hose down local fears it was an attack on the town's mining industry. Sick resident Kay Seltitzas ...

The Advocate - 3 hours, 48 minutes ago

One of tomorrow's top scientists

NATHAN House is about to find out if a career in science is the life for him. The Marist Regional College Year 11 student has been selected to attend the ...

The Advocate - 3 hours, 48 minutes ago

Son spends day in car searching for father

DEVONPORT man Nick Sallese spent all of yesterday behind the wheel, desperate for clues to his father's whereabouts. Sheffield resident Nicola Sallese, 69, is still missing. Of Italian desce...

The Advocate - 3 hours, 48 minutes ago

Britain's carmakers demand access to state funds

Struggling manufacturers want slice of banking sector bailout. 20 Nov 2008 12:51 AM

Business Spectator politics & IR - 3 hours, 57 minutes ago

What should be done about those deported to danger/death?

SBS TV screened a documentary tonight which detailed efforts by Phil Glendenning from the Edmund Rice Centre to track what happened to some of the asylum seekers deported by the ...

Andrew Bartlett - 4 hours, 34 minutes ago

The Johnston St Spanish Fiesta - a victim of its own success?

The Johnston St Spanish Fiesta celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2008. The fiesta on the weekend of 15-16 November was incredibly busy, with thousands of people filling Johnston St on ...

fitzroyalty - a hyperlocal blog about Melbourne's first suburb - 4 hours, 45 minutes ago

Forum - Thursday, November 20

Say your say here.

Andrew Bolt - 4 hours, 47 minutes ago

Former PM with manners of steel

VITRIOL and vendettas are not part of John Howard's DNA.

The Australian - opinion - 4 hours, 48 minutes ago

Dad dies trying to save sons

SHANE O'Neill didn't hesitate when his two young children, along with their stroller, toppled from a wharf into a dark, churning ocean.

The Australian - The Nation - 4 hours, 48 minutes ago

Exception the rule for recovering addicts

BRENDON Gale is chief executive of the AFL Players Association. He has spent the past two days perplexed and bewildered by the AFL Commission decision to apply restrictions to Ben ...

The Australian - opinion - 4 hours, 48 minutes ago

Defence has battle at home

RUSHING to complete the defence white paper is a strategic blunder.

The Australian - opinion - 4 hours, 48 minutes ago

Economic abyss awaits

WE can feel it in our skulls and bones that things are going to get a lot worse.

The Australian - opinion - 4 hours, 48 minutes ago

Hitting the hard stuff

NSW Labor's longevity in government has been built on avoiding controversy.

The Australian - opinion - 4 hours, 48 minutes ago

NAB exit sparks parent panic

THE National Australia Bank pulled the plug last night on the second childcare group to collapse in as many weeks, putting Canberra under pressure to launch another bailout.

The Australian - The Nation - 4 hours, 48 minutes ago

Obama's Asia focus faces early scrutiny

DEEPER US-South Korea ties will benefit Australia.

The Australian - opinion - 4 hours, 48 minutes ago

Xenophon wants GroceryChoice website overhaul

Independent Senator Nick Xenophon will push the Government to overhaul its watchdog website for grocery prices.

ABC News federal politics - 9 hours, 22 minutes ago

Centrelink weathering financial storm, says GM

Centrelink's GM says there is no evidence that the welfare agency is struggling under the burden of the global economic crisis.

ABC News federal politics - 10 hours, 46 minutes ago

$13b in 'lost' superannuation accounts

The Federal Government says there is an extraordinary amount of money in unclaimed superannuation.

ABC News federal politics - 11 hours, 7 minutes ago

Tahra in shock

'Tathra needs a place to sit quietly and come to terms with the shock'

Bega District News - 11 hours, 53 minutes ago

Opposition wants infrastructure funds allocation transparency

The Federal Opposition is demanding the Government reveal the formula used to allocate money to councils for infrastructure spending.

ABC News federal politics - 12 hours, 11 minutes ago

Public service jobs face axe

Public sector jobs could face the chopping block under State Government attempts to reduce spending.

WA Today top headlines - 12 hours, 23 minutes ago

Latest childcare centre closures 'not beginning of domino effect'

Julia Gillard has moved to reassure parents of children at CFK childcare centres that the Government is in talks with the company's administrator.

ABC News federal politics - 12 hours, 35 minutes ago

Minister's wife sells shares

After days of pressure, Mines Minister Norman Moore's wife has sold her mining shares - at a loss of $100,000.

WA Today top headlines - 12 hours, 55 minutes ago

Unknown Sailor laid to rest

THE Unknown Sailor went to his final resting place today after a funeral service held to honour him and all his HMAS Sydney shipmates exactly 67 years after their ship ...

NEWS.com.au Western Australia - 13 hours, 8 minutes ago

Govt to crack down on financial rumour spreaders

The Federal Government is trying to crack down on people deliberately spreading false rumours about companies with the aim of driving down their share price.

ABC News federal politics - 13 hours, 15 minutes ago

Qantas says emissions trading scheme 'flawed'

Qantas says the Federal Government's proposed emissions trading scheme is flawed and the aviation industry would be a big loser.

ABC News federal politics - 15 hours, 47 minutes ago

Rayney's legal action begins

Lloyd Rayney's lawyer hopes to settle his defamation case against the WA Police through mediation.

WA Today top headlines - 15 hours, 51 minutes ago

Peter Foster: Bolting the Stability Door

Why has the Financial Stability Forum so spectacularly failed? By Peter Foster If you are a bank, your survival depends on your prudence and insights about profitable lending. If you ...

National Post - 17 hours, 12 minutes ago

Gang attacks Canberra youth with baseball bat

A Canberra teenager has been lured from his home and assaulted by five men, one wielding a baseball bat, police said today.

The Canberra Times - 17 hours, 31 minutes ago

CHILDREN : Reassembling the child care business

Australia has become a case study in how not to run child-care services, writes DEBORAH BRENNAN. How did this happen and what should we do about it?

Australian Policy Online comment and analysis - 17 hours, 48 minutes ago

Smoke-filled Qantas plane forced to land

A QantasLink plane made an emergency landing at Brisbane Airport last night, after smoke filled the cockpit.

WA Today top headlines - 19 hours, 38 minutes ago

Last goodbye for HMAS Sydney

Hundreds of relatives gather off the coast of Geraldton to mark the sinking of HMAS Sydney.

WA Today top headlines - 19 hours, 38 minutes ago