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The World in Pictures
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Koreans add mixed fuel to the fire
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| HYBRID cars are poised to become more affordable, with Korean brands looking to break Japan’s stranglehold on alternative fuel vehicles in the Australian... |
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Post impressions
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| ‘‘FOR the present I feel calmer than last year, and the turmoil in my head has really abated so much.” These words are taken from the last letter Vincent Van... |
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Jurassic in the outback
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| ‘Welcome to Jurassic Park,’’ says our guide. And despite being in the heart of Australia’s Red Centre, the description is apt. We’re standing on the edge of... |
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Holy mackerel!
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| example, or offal or cuts of meat that are usually considered to be secondary products.
The pickling recipe featured here was developed for herring – an oily... |
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Lessons in survival
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| One of the most important survival tools in the Australian bush is a condom. The bigger the better. I have pages of survival notes from my instructor, Lee, yet... |
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Khmer smile
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| Once called “the smiling country” and “the Nixon doctrine in its purest form” (by former US president Richard Nixon), Cambodia is waking from its long slumber... |
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CURSIVE DISCURSIVE
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| Irarely get an opportunity to use my prized Purdey side-by-side 12-bore shotgun, so I am grateful to a reader who this week wrote to me about the study of... |
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What to wear
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| ONE of the greatest pleasures of my childhood was climbing our mulberry tree with my brother and neighbourhood urchins to c ol l ect handfuls of f r uit t hat... |
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Scrap the corporate claptrap
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| On the television show 30 Rock, executive Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) asks his head writer Liz Lemon ( Tina Fey) to fire some staff. Trouble is, he tells her... |
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Gilt and gardens
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| You can’t help but notice the rivers of gold flowing down the cafe-studded streets and poplar-lined driveways of the Southern Highlands; the main street of... |
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All mod cons
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| Too cool for school . . . Stephen (Mark Ruffalo), Bloom (Adrien Brody) and Bang Bang (Rinko Kikuchi). Written and directed by Rian Johnson Rated M Running time... |
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GEAR CHANGE
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| A trip to South America and six different jobs in three continents over four years set the scene that catapulted Sam Maffett from a career in architecture to... |
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‘There’s a style of acting that gets rewarded. It’s not what I do’
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| ‘‘THIS is the first time I’ve done an interview with an ice pack down my pants,’’ Matt Damon says, having retreated to the relative comfort of his trailer on a... |
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Taste for the surreal
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| My brush with surrealism began long before I left Australia for Europe. It started late one night in Sydney, with the arrival of an email carrying unexpected... |
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Dangers of running with the pack
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| By Lynne Truss
Reviewed by Candida Baker IT IS impossible to imagine what the sports editor of The Times in London thought he was doing when he s uggested t o... |
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RED ALERT
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| The Reserve Bank governor, Glenn Stevens, has warned of the nation’s ‘‘heightened exposure’’ to China. His comments came as trade between the two countries... |
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Revealed: polluters’ fear tactics on climate
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| BIG greenhouse polluting companies around the world, employing thousands of lobbyists, are exerting heavy pressure on governments to weaken climate change laws... |
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Sri Lankans reject rapid resettlement deal
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| TANJUNG PINANG: The Federal Government has offered the 78 Sri Lankans on the Oceanic Viking the promise of resettlement in Australia or another country within... |
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Tax rise on super for high earners
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| Wayne Swan has endorsed making high-income earners pay a higher rate of tax on their superannuation contributions as part of the Government’s response to the... |
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Murdoch snaps up mansion
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| Le Manoir, a grand Georgian house in Bellevue Hill, was sold to media scion Lachlan Murdoch at auction last night for $23 million, setting the Sydney house... |
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Shocking jockey hits back
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| The Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Corey Brown has taken the whip to the RSPCA. He questioned the organisation’s credibility after it raised concerns about him... |
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Transurban gets them talking
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| Two of Canada’s biggest pension funds were seeking to reopen talks with the toll-road giant Transurban last night after it rejected a $6.7 billion takeover... |
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Sea-level policy riles developers
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| Property groups have criticised a planning policy aimed at limiting development in coastal regions subject to sea-level rises. The Planning Minister, Kristina... |
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‘I’m anything but delusional’
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| .......................................................................... JOHN DELLA BOSCA, the MP being described as ‘‘delusional’’ by colleagues, believes... |
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Not delusional – Della Bosca stakes his leadership claim
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| conference on November 14. The sources said the party’s president, Bernie Riordan, said as president he backed Mr Thistlethwaite but on a personal level he... |
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Border protection staff cuts reach 400
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| THE Federal Government has slashed staff at Customs and Border Protection in the past year despite expanding the agency’s role and assigning it to lead the... |
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Final fanfare for the lanky yank
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| DON LANE came alive yesterday, for a few minutes at least. P. J. Lane has the same walk, the same charm and the same dark good looks as his father, and when he... |
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Sudden closure
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| The places of 2000 foreign students were thrown into turmoil last night when Global Campus Management Group went into voluntary administration and forced the... |
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Radical super plan
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| Small businesses will soon be able to offload their superannuation paperwork to Medicare under a radical plan in which businesses with fewer than 20 staff will... |
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School bus crash
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| An elderly couple are in hospital after their car collided with a bus carrying schoolchildren in Ferndell Street, Granville, yesterday. The 77-year-old male... |
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MARKETS
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| The Australian sharemarket fell to its lowest close in almost two months on fears the global economic slump has a way to run and that high oil prices may dent... |
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The Young Gun
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| Dinesh ‘‘Danny’’ Bhandari is the epitome of a new breed of derivatives traders – they have no clients, and trade their firm’s own money using high-powered... |
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Transurban spurns $6b bid by Canadian funds
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Today on Australia’s leading business website
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| The Reserve Bank is due to release its quarterly statement on monetary policy. Watch Michael Pascoe’s review of the business week in his video report. Go... |
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Rejected Canadian funds stalk takeover target Transurban
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| While infrastructure has been on the nose, Transurban is better placed than other toll-road operators.
Its new chief executive, Chris Lynch, has set about... |
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Your Essential Mini books
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| There are over 20 subjects to choose from. Select any number of guides that interest you, and they will be posted free of charge to your home. Alternatively,... |
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Leighton divorce: who got the kids?
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| Addresses given at annual meetings do not always provide a true account of a company’s inner workings. Take Leighton Holdings, for instance. In describing the... |
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NAME THAT MAN
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| The Leighton chairman also got a few laughs when he introduced his fellow director Dr Herbert Lutkestratkotter. ‘‘And I got it right,’’ exclaimed Mortimer to... |
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THAT FIGURES
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| Phew. The department store group Myer hurried a statement to the market yesterday reassuring its investors that its ‘‘prospectus forecast [had been]... |
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TWIGGING TO IT
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| Andrew Forrest and his wife Nicola appear to have given the dog walkers around Bondi something to talk about. The chatter among the poopscoopers around the... |
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HORSE TRADERS
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| Macquarie Group 2, Steve Keen 1. Doomsday economist Steve Keen has hit back at the millionaires factory, just days after losing a bet with the Macquarie... |
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NORMAL USE
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| CBD’s coverage of Westpac boss Gail Kelly’s use of the term the New Normal to describe the current times has received a flood of feedback from... |
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Banks, Storm at impasse over margin call responsibility
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| BANKS, the regulator and Storm Financial’s founders are at a roadblock about who should be accountable for the failure of margin calls to reach margin loan... |
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Blame game leaves investors in the lurch
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| THE margin lender blames the financial planner. The financial planner blames the margin lender. The regulator says if it’s allowed by the contract, the margin... |
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Some should never have received a margin loan in the first place.
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| Now the margin loan is gone, and so is Macquarie’s margin loan business, sold off earlier this year.
And the plight of the 91-year-old is, apparently, nothing... |
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Boss thinks he’s on winner again
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| He’s giving away age and experience to every runner in Saturday’s group 1 Emirates Stakes at Flemington but if you listen to jockey Glen Boss then that won’t... |
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WILLIAMS TIPS NICCONI TO SHINE AGAINST HOT SPRINT FIELD
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| NICCONI’S former jockey Craig Williams would love to be riding any number of runners in Saturday’s Patinack Farm Classic at Flemington, a race the suspended... |
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THE JACKPOT
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| There’s almost $400,000 in First 4, Quaddie and BIG6 jackpots on offer this weekend for punters as part of the TAB’s jackpot bonanza. A $102,527 jackpot on the... |
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THE MAIL
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Lucky Thunder had enjoyed a good run behind the speed before getting dragged back behind tiring runners when contesting the Crystal... |
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BANKER
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| Governance has powered to the line in both his runs back from a spell with the latest being a late-closing second behind Avenue at Moonee Valley. Governance... |
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THE OUTSIDER
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| Royal Ida, a member of the astute stable of Luke Oliver, ran a blinder at big odds when third to Centennial Park at Flemington last weekend. He carries top... |
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SPORTS BET
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| Brisbane’s A-League season has hit the skids and on Friday night they take on Adelaide United in Adelaide. At $2.10, Adelaide can inflict another defeat on the... |
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THE TRAINER
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| David Hayes: Set for a big one on the final day of his home track carnival with nine runners to represent the stable. Hayes will send around two two-year-olds... |
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THE JOCKEY
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| Kerrin McEvoy: The Darley-retained rider is spreading his wings to a degree at Flemington on Saturday with a full book of nine mounts. McEvoy opens the day... |
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THE WILDCARD
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| Class is set to prevail with dual group 1-winning mare Purple, pictured below, due for a change of luck when lining up in the Matriarch Stakes at Flemington on... |
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THE BOOKIES
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| Glenn Munsie’s best bet of the day: Nicconi (Flemington, race 5). Small field suits and he has plenty of class about him.
Lay of the day: Vigor (Flemington,... |
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