Hard drives of Jay Weatherill's computers were allegedly repeatedly wiped
THE South Australian Labor Premier's claims he was never told about the rape of a girl at an Adelaide primary school caused Royal Commissioner Bruce Debelle to order a police search of Jay...
View ArticleCollins' views 'at odds with portfolio'
NEW cabinet minister Jacinta Collins has been accused of holding views against gay marriage and parenting that are at odds with her new portfolio of mental health and ageing. Activists and some Labor...
View ArticleCraig Thomson appears in court to fight charges
EMBATTLED former Labor MP Craig Thomson has appeared in court with a fresh application to fight the criminal charges against him. Mr Thomson, who is running for re-election in his seat of Dobell as an...
View ArticleKoran MP Ed Husic warns of extremism
MUSLIM Labor frontbencher Ed Husic is no stranger to religious abuse, so after waking to find a torrent of Islamophobic condemnation over his decision to swear on the Koran instead of the Bible he...
View ArticleCatholics urged to turn political by Bishops Conference
THE Catholic Church is issuing a call to arms for the coming election, urging Catholics to vote, lobby candidates, join political parties or even stand for election as part of a "vote for the common...
View ArticleClimate change science has become an expensive smokescreen
SIGNING off as "Mr FOIA", the person who leaked the emails from East Anglia University that came to be known as "Climategate" and that drew a line in the snow at the Copenhagen Climate Summit recently...
View ArticlePrimeAg sells final $76m stake to Australian Food & Fibre
PRIMEAG Australia Ltd has entered into a scheme of arrangement to sell all of its remaining shares to Australian Food and Fibre. In a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange, PrimeAg said the...
View ArticleMalcolm Turnbull tells of the most wounding blow inflicted by Fairfax
IT was a class reunion of the halcyon days of the 1970s and 80s, the largely made-redundant top Fairfax journalists gathered to hear Malcolm Turnbull and journalist Colleen Ryan tell how the media...
View ArticleLabor's holdout on APY dialysis
SOUTH Australia's Labor government has refused to meet with community groups over key renal dialysis infrastructure and service delivery as it prepares to reject a federal funding offer to build a...
View ArticleCoalition cools on referendum
THE prospect of a successful referendum for the constitutional recognition of local government has been dealt a significant blow, with the Coalition cooling its support for the change. Tony Abbott has...
View ArticleDare to be bold, Milan men's fashion week tells us
PITY the poor tourists who arrive all excited in Milan for their once-in-a-lifetime trip, ready to explore the Duomo, shop at the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II and taste the city's famous culinary...
View ArticleServices forced to turn out homeless
NEARLY 70 per cent of housing and homeless services report they have struggled to meet demand, with a 5 per cent increase numbers of people turned away. The annual Australian Community Sector Survey...
View ArticlePolitical era ends as tally room is axed
THE Australian Electoral Commission has decided not to operate the $1.2 million national tally room in Canberra at this year's federal election. The decision to abandon the long-running institution,...
View ArticleBudget cuts force ANU to shed 10pc of staff
AUSTRALIA'S premier research university yesterday was forced to announce a 10 per cent cut to its workforce as part of a package to cope with budget cuts ordered under previous higher education...
View ArticleNo plan B for the Middle East
THERE is a scene in The West Wing where the US president's advisers caution him about launching another bid for Middle East peace. Toby Ziegler says to President Jed Bartlet: "The road to the Nobel...
View ArticleProsecutors to fight Craig Thomson's bid to have magistrate, not jury
PROSECUTORS will oppose former Labor MP Craig Thomson's bid to avoid a jury, after the embattled politician asked for a magistrate to be the sole judge on criminal charges against him. Lawyers for Mr...
View ArticleUS leaker Edward Snowden down to Venezuela, Bolivia for asylum
EDWARD Snowden's hopes of escaping his hiding place in the transit zone of a Moscow airport have shrunk with more than half the countries he had asked for asylum turned down his application. Only two...
View ArticlePM must toe line on marriage: de Bruyn
JULIA Gillard's staunchest union supporter because of her opposition to gay marriage has declared that Kevin Rudd can win the next election and urged him to wait before going to the polls. Shop,...
View ArticleEdward Snowden's 'insurance' back-up an intelligence worry
ROGUE US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden left a back-up copy of his trove of secret data in Hong Kong as an "insurance policy" that could have devastating consequences for Western security...
View ArticleFarms ignore animal rights at their peril
IN his well-considered commentary (The Australian, June 18) Nick Cater asks why a farmer would willingly hurt a pig. It's a good question and the answer is that the forward thinking among them don't,...
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