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  • DIAGNOSIS: H PE | Page 21
    Elizabeth bryan was a slim, warm woman with springy blonde hair and a quick smile. Meeting her, you had a sense of enormous, forward-moving energy and humour....
  • Cars in conversation | Page 16
    Cars have long been computers on wheels. Now technology is turning them into communication centres as well. In the not-too-distant future, vehicles are likely...
  • Hearing voices . . . and other close encounters | Page 12
    I SPEND a lot of time in graveyards these days. On mornings when it’s too blustery to walk my dogs on the beach, I head for a cemetery. The towns of America’s...
  • Tuscan rays | Page 23
    SKATE is the common name given to edible rays and, as we all well know, some are capable of inflicting deadly injuries and electric s hocks. In classical...
  • Safari with a difference | Page 20
    After dark we sit around the campfire listening to the sounds of the Namibian bush. An owl calls, then comes the pulsating thrum of a nightjar, plus all the...
  • JOHN SAFRAN | Page 13
    Heading into the night after spending a long, confusing, ultimately illuminating first day with John Safran, the image that remains for me is overwhelmingly of...
  • Success: is it | Page 5
    What has played the greater role in your career: choice or chance? The traditional view of career development is that we must set goals and formulate career...
  • Premium economy | Page 12
    Platinum is one of the world’s most valuable elements, often associated with exclusive clubs and credit cards. Now Kia has adopted the name for its flagship...
  • The best car never built? | Page 3
    The Felixicator 65X, of course. Students of motoring history might guess that this is a car that not only hasn’t been built but wasn’t even imagined until I...
  • Georgia on my mind | Page 18
    I’ve always thought that one of the most stupid things you can do is assemble your entire family under one roof. As far as I’m concerned, family gatherings are...
  • Mysteries of the Nile | Page 14
    News cables dispatched the story around the globe: English archaeologist Howard Carter had made the find of his life. By candlelight, he peered into a lost...
  • ROUNDABOUT JOURNEYFROM VWTOVW | Page 5
    What was your first car? It was a lime-green VW Beetle. I think every self-respecting first-year schoolteacher in Brisbane had a Beetle, so I joined the tribe....
  • Two men walk into a sketch | Page 6
    TWO funny men in sharp suits are insulting each other in a grand hotel bar over sandwiches. ‘ ‘ We’ve only been working together for four days,’’ the first one...
  • Images of bliss amid tonal mist | Page 14
    MAX MELDRUM did not paint masterpieces. This alone is enough to distinguish him from the ranks of Australia’s most celebrated modern artists, who will be...
  • Devil in the details | Page 4
    Heather writes from Canberra seeking advice about her cover letter and CV. As a recent graduate, she has been frustrated in her attempts to secure a position....

FRONT PAGE  
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  • Turnbull burnt by revolt on climate | Page 1
    MORE than half the Coalition’s 37 senators have formally declared their opposition to Malcolm Turnbull’s desire to cut a deal with Labor on the emissions...
  • Reserve clears banks to lift interest rates | Page 1
    THE Reserve Bank has given banks a green light to increase mortgage rates, saying that their margins ‘‘have actually declined a little over the past two...
  • Thirteen years later, Tegan’s mother charged with murder | Page 1
    IF TEGAN LANE were alive today, she would be 13. Police have never found her body, but they believe they have finally gathered the evidence to prove her...
  • No time for patients: nurses swamped | Page 1
    A year after the State Government promised 500 clinical support officers for nurses, only about 47 per cent of the jobs have been filled. Three of eight area...
  • Trishna talking after separation surgery | Page 1
    Trishna, a conjoined twin who only two days ago endured marathon surgery to separate her from her sister, was awake and talking in her intensive care bed....
  • Emotional scars from bullying | Page 1
    Almost seven out of 10 adults who were bullied at school are left suffering from low self-esteem and a lack of assertiveness, research says. The Wesley report...
  • Code red fire warning for NSW | Page 1
    A CATASTROPHIC fire danger warning has been been issued for the west and south-west of the state today due to very hot, dry and windy conditions – the first...
  • Funeral was ‘the saddest thing you could imagine’ | Page 2
    NINA SIMONE sang Here Comes The Sun as plainclothed policemen kept watch at the funeral yesterday for Chloe Waterlow, 37, who, with her father, Nick, 68, was...
  • Highways revisited in road company plan | Page 3
    A DAY after the State Government announced proposals for a big expansion of the M5 tollway and motorway in Sydney’s south-west, the Minister for Transport has...
  • Traffic experts say it will not relieve congestion in the long-term. | Page 3
    ever fall in the total number of passenger kilometres in private cars in 2007-08. Dr Michelle Zeibots of the Institute for Sustainable Futures in the best...
  • Advertisers find a new voice in historic campaign | Page 3
    AUSTRALIAN advertising history will be made tonight with the screening of a television commercial featuring an indigenous language voiceover with English...
  • SOFT AND SAVVY: MOIRA GOES INTO BAT FOR DESPERATE CHILDREN | Page 3
    SHE’S passionate, genuine, gentle, insistent and unpredictable. She can front up to politicians, cajole bureaucrats, convince hospital administrators and...
  • Sympathy for the operator | Page 3
    SPARE a thought for the person on the line before you next hang up in frustration on a call-centre operator. Constantly watched as managers pace up and down...
  • Day ‘the Trellis’ Ellis trounced Hulk Hogan | Page 5
    IT’S a demonstration of just how odd politics is at the moment that yesterday’s Canberra highlight was a public arm wrestle between the Sports Minister, Kate...
  • Senator keeps at the faith | Page 5
    IF THE major parties do not agree to an inquiry into Scientology, Nick Xenophon will just keep telling horror stories about the religion until they do. ‘‘I’m...

NEWS  
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  • Mothers and infants behind detention centre bars | Page 4
    The women and children from the Oceanic Viking, now being held behind bars in an Australian-funded Indonesian immigration centre, have described their...
  • ‘We want to play, we want to play. Australia, Australia.’ | Page 4
    They had been processed in a visitors’ area of the detention centre on Wednesday night and would have ‘‘free access’’ to the detention centre to visit...
  • Murdered toddler craved his mother’s love | Page 9
    BEFORE she murdered her twoyear-old son, Rachel Pfitzner used to lock him out of the house. Every week their neighbours in Rosemeadow saw Dean Shillingsworth...
  • Fence called ugly blot on death spot | Page 11
    TWO councils on the north shore could take legal action to stop a safety fence being built at a notorious suicide spot, because they claim it would ruin the...
  • Plea to keep ABC centres from predatory buyer | Page 11
    THE union representing childcare workers is alarmed that a private equity company bidding for up to 705 ABC childcare centres has described itself as an...
  • ‘To have it sold in two years would be a bad outcome.’ | Page 11
    cater for about 73,000 children. Ms Lines said: “If there were better regulations about who could buy and sell and operate childcare centres, we would not...
  • Obama signals an endgame in Afghan war | Page 14
    Barack Obama has for the first time flagged the need for an endgame in the strategy for Afghanistan, saying he did not want to leave the next US president with...
  • President confident alleged September 11 linchpin will be executed | Page 14
    President Barack Obama has defended plans to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court, and predicted that the accused mastermind of the September 11...
  • Karzai promises to take graft and drugs seriously | Page 14
    Hamid Karzai was yesterday sworn in for a second fiveyear term as Afghanistan’s President, assuming leadership of a war-battered nation and a government that...
  • Anti-apartheid veteran leads Greenpeace | Page 14
    He grew up during South Africa’s apartheid era in an impoverished township in Durban, attended a school with no electricity and tattered textbooks and at 15...
  • ‘Corruption is a very dangerous enemy of the state.’ | Page 14
    and should be able to take control of security in the next five years. He said a conference would be held soon in Kabul to consider ways to tackle corruption,...
  • US suspects investigated over Mumbai attack | Page 15
    Indian authorities are investigating whether two men recently arrested in Chicago on terrorism charges had a role in last November’s attacks in Mumbai that...
  • India warned it is being overtaken in English-language skills | Page 15
    India is falling behind in educating its people in English, a study has found. India has a large pool of English speakers that has helped fuel the rapid...
  • Prosecution stalls on rebel’s autopsy photos | Page 15
    Prosecutors at the trial of Timorese-born Australian Angelita Pires have refused to release 200 photographs of the body of her slain former lover, Alfredo...
  • Sri Lanka astrologer warns of falling star | Page 15
    With candles glowing next to his computer, Chandrasiri Bandara, Sri Lanka’s most popular astrologer, looked at his birth chart and predicted that he would soon...

JIM HOPE MURRAY ... HEADING OFF ON A SECOND EXPEDI  
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  • ASIC already ‘doing it smarter’ | Page 28
    Joel Gibson and Colin Kruger LITIGATION and corporate governance experts were united in their condemnation yesterday of the way the Australian Securities and...
  • Snowy Hydro insists it can bid for state power assets | Page 28
    THE stoush between Snowy Hydro and the NSW Government has moved up a gear, after the generator ignored orders and submitted an expression of interest in buying...
  • The old Allco gang band together | Page 28
    The camaraderie among the former executives of Allco Finance Group is so tight that they will not even let a multi-billion dollar corporate collapse get...

CHALPAT SONTI  
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  • Home deposit rules could stem price bubble | Page 29
    A SENIOR Reserve Bank official has floated the idea of regulating the size of deposits home buyers must provide to banks, in an attempt to prevent...
  • Withdrawal of credit ratings has bank industry worried | Page 29
    BANKS have voiced concern at the threatened withdrawal of credit ratings from debt products offered to retail investors, saying it could ultimately affect the...
  • Moody’s reviews $24b of hybrids | Page 29
    BANKS face having the credit ratings of some $24 billion of hybrid securities slashed as regulators take a tougher view of the shares that make up a key part...
  • We want access to Rio’s train, says Forrest | Page 29
    THE chief executive of Fortescue Metals Group, Andrew Forrest, has issued a challenge to the competition watchdog, saying his firm’s ambitious expansion plans...
  • Mirvac’s turn to feel wrath of shareholders | Page 30
    DIRECTORS of the diversified property group Mirvac have become the latest executives to feel the blowtorch of investor unrest over its remuneration report at a...
  • Bowen backs fees over ‘distorted’ commissions | Page 30
    FINANCIAL planners should be better educated and willing to work for fees, rather than commissions, the Federal Government says. Within day it will receive an...
  • Chinese steel production may overtake demand | Page 30
    STEEL production in China, the world’s largest maker and consumer, may outpace demand growth this year, spurring exports in the last two months, the country’s...
  • Strong dollar weakening gold prices | Page 30
    THE gold producer that takes its name from the patron saint of miners – St Barbara – has blown the whistle on the myth that the Australian industry is enjoying...


 

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