21/11/2008 | Countless autopsies, assessments and inspections will be performed to mark PM's first year.
21/11/2008 | It may seem an innocuous change, but, in voting to replace five members of the Australian Wool Innovation board at Wednesday's annual meeting in Perth, growers appear to have set the Australian woo...
21/11/2008 | The seizure of a Saudi supertanker on the weekend by the pirates of Somalia was their most audacious attack to date, but it was far from being their first.
The pirates hit the headlines a little ove...
21/11/2008 | About a decade and a half ago certain scholars began to call attention to the importance of ''soft power'' in world affairs, which they defined as the capacity to win friends abroad and persuade other...
21/11/2008 | Usually, when sanitation and water projects in developing countries are given publicity, the water tanks and tap stands get all the limelight. No one seems to want to be photographed next to a toilet ...
19/11/2008 | The culture of sailing around the world on a navy frigate in peacetime has little appeal to the current generation of Australians.
There's nothing family friendly about endlessly patrolling on the ot...
19/11/2008 | Many of us had hoped, despite the warnings, that the fire season was effectively over in Southern California. Or we had hoped the fires would consume only dry brush and firefighters would be able to ...
19/11/2008 | Spending our way out of national strife, a notion delivered in the shape of the Federal Government's $10 billion bailout package, was met with broad support. By injecting welcome pre-Christmas funds i...
19/11/2008 | Municipalities and shires must be completely cock-a-hoop at being handed $300million to spend on ''infrastructure'' on the condition that they spend it quickly but anyone who thinks this demonstrate...
19/11/2008 | Future historians, I suspect, will look back on Saturday's anticlimactic G20 gathering in Washington, DC, less as Bretton Woods 2.0 and more as a rerun of the London Economic Conference of 1933.
Bac...
19/11/2008 | As the Australian Government reviews both the need to improve maternity services and the structure of the Medicare Benefits Schedule, scrutiny must inevitably pass to the huge blow-out in the cost to ...
18/11/2008 | It's been a good year for women in American politics, writes Jacqueline Jago.
| Obama and McCain pledge reform
18/11/2008 | Recent world events have brought the issue of fuel supply into extremely sharp focus and while much public attention is focused on the Government's new car industry plan, something of more significan...
18/11/2008 | Waking up with the Sunrise television program last Tuesday, I heard co-presenter David Koch proclaim that the Federal Government should just get it over with and take over the nation's public hospital...
18/11/2008 | At first glance, President Hamid Karzai's offer to guarantee the safety and security of Mullah Mohammed Omar (a man with a multimillion-dollar United States price tag on his head) if the Taliban chie...
18/11/2008 | So the former chief of the Defence Force, Admiral Chris Barrie, insists he informed his minister that asylum-seekers did not callously throw their children overboard as they tried to enter Australia j...
17/11/2008 | Start preparing for a deficit, but don't expect the Government to mention the word until it is upon us.
17/11/2008 | So, the leaders of the world's top 20 economies, Australia included, have acknowledged what has been painfully apparent for many months, if not longer: the world is addicted to debt an addiction whic...
17/11/2008 | The Supreme Court was wrong to eliminate some of the navy's precautions that help protect marine life. At issue were 14 training exercises off the southern California coast being conducted by the nav...
17/11/2008 | Adoctrinaire obsession with the size of the budget deficit continues to distort discussion about Australian economic policy despite the risk of recession. Opposition speakers say that the Government'...
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