Academic's explicit harassment of economist Willem Buiter
A 44-year-old academic has been charged with harassing one of the world's most prominent economists and sending him more than a thousand e-mails, including explicit pictures of herself. Heleen Mees, a...
View ArticleAustralians keep the branders honest
AUSTRALIANS are relatively unlikely to pay more for designer brands if they can buy a cheaper, unbranded product that does the same job, a new study has found. Just one in four Australians (26 per...
View ArticlePrice of legitimacy my life, says Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi
EGYPT's armed forces were preparing to sack Mohammed Morsi last night unless he resigned, reports said, after the Islamist President warned that his electoral legitimacy was "the only guarantee against...
View ArticleNBN Co's pricing plan in jeopardy, ACCC warns
THE Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has warned the NBN Co it will reject its long-term pricing plan unless changes are formally made to allow the competition regulator to intervene in...
View ArticleAustralian Computer Society rejects government's 457 visa fix
A DECLINE in undergraduates studying information technology and a skills shortage, rather than the overuse of 457 visas, was the issue facing the IT industry, The Australian Computer Society said...
View ArticleSaviour bats on, but past won't go
AS much as he may want to start afresh as the new Labor saviour, Kevin Rudd cannot escape his past term as prime minister or the legacy of the Gillard government. On his arrival in Indonesia, where he...
View ArticleWIN cuts to get in shape
BRUCE Gordon's WIN Television is continuing to cut staff and take costs out of the business ahead of any takeover bid by Nine or Ten. The company is rumoured to be planning cuts in regional NSW...
View ArticleSlim chance of election win but Rudd provides hope
IN just one week as a resurrected Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd has reinvigorated Labor, given the ALP MPs and faithful new hope, regained the initiative on calling the election and directly confronted...
View ArticleGet over it, girls - Gillard just had to go
WHEN Kevin Rudd was ignominiously dumped from the prime ministerial position to which he had been elected, I strongly supported the candidacy of Julia Gillard. On the record and behind the scenes, my...
View ArticleHe's not dead, but rare night parrot nest stays secret
THE director of the CSIRO's wildlife collection has confirmed naturalist John Young has taken the first pictures of a live night parrot in more than 100 years. Mr Young is so concerned the publicity...
View ArticleReforming Labor a clever move though resistance inevitable
KEVIN Rudd's intervention into the NSW Labor branch to stamp out corruption is step one in his campaign for prime ministerial re-election as the anti-Labor Labor candidate. Eradicating corruption is...
View ArticleEgypt's fraught path to freedom
IT took Egyptians three decades to remove Hosni Mubarak from power and only three days to topple Mohammed Morsi, his successor and the country's first democratically elected president. The tens of...
View ArticlePunk finds nirvana in soundgarden of war
UNTIL this week, Jason Everman was generally regarded as a curious footnote in rock music history: a guitarist who played for Nirvana, but could not bear the heavy burden of being a rock 'n' roll...
View ArticleGermans embrace Angela Merkel's French
IT is probably Angela Merkel's fault. After the German Chancellor used the word to describe the eurozone crisis, "shitstorm" has been officially included in the standard German dictionary. Duden, the...
View ArticleLA mayor declares lack of film shoots a civic emergency
HOLLYWOOD is searching for a new action hero, a superman whose daunting mission will be to save Tinseltown. Los Angeles may boast movie star residents, but for years it has struggled to entice them to...
View ArticleMan charged over 'vampire' murder
POLICE have made a dramatic breakthrough in their 10-year-old investigation into the murder of self-described "vampire" gigolo Shane Chartres-Abbott after arresting the man they suspect of ordering...
View ArticleAlbanese to release NBN rollout targets
NEWLY appointed deputy prime minister Anthony Albanese has said he will soon release details of the NBN Co's politically sensitive rollout targets as he defended the company's chief executive despite...
View ArticleAussies cut fixed-line home phone cord
ONE in five Australian adults have cut the cord on their fixed-line home phone and gone mobile-only according to new statistics from the communications and media watchdog. More than 3.3 million...
View ArticleYou beauty: $9 an hour works for trainee and boss
AT the chain of beauty salons called Skin Deep in Perth, Chelsea Van Dyke, 17, is one of four teenagers learning the ropes. She is paid $9 an hour -- the lowest rate under the award governing the...
View ArticleWeinstein court drama set over what the White House butler saw
HARVEY Weinstein is a movie mogul straight from central casting: a bombastic, abrasive marketing genius, constantly alive to the possibility of garnering a little extra publicity. So when he was...
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