Toxic toll of BP spill to last years
Long-term effects in the Gulf of Mexico are just beginning to bite, writes Michael Taylor.
View ArticleA-League lifting its game but passion wanes
IT IS the start of the A-League finals but, publicly at least, the end of a period of acute disappointment and growing restlessness for football in Australia.
View ArticleFlood damage will be felt for years, warn farmers
HERE and there they cling tenuously, spread thinly and randomly across the slender branches. These leaves are twisted, brown, crisp and crunchy, as if they have been scorched by a blowtorch.
View ArticleCommercial interests hooked on specious logic
Claims that declining fish catches since the 1980s are due to marine parks are from the church of delusional fisheries management (€˜€˜Marine parks up for review and promise of cash to cut fishing...
View ArticleGeneration next is stepping up for the Cummings clan
Edward Cummings, son of Anthony Cummings and grandson of Bart, is taking a professional approach to preparing for a career as a trainer.
View ArticleAnd then there were 3
There was much sneering when the couple with everything added a new baby to their life. Elton John tells A.۠A. Gill of the pain of feeling rejected by his own father, while David Furnish extols the...
View ArticleNot even the PM's pansies are safe from city's possum 'plague'
AND lo, after the floods came frogs, then gnats, and after the gnats came locusts, and after the locusts came ... possums.
View Article'Angels' sought for story-book comfort
A BACKGROUND of trauma or neglect is not the only disadvantage children in foster care carry with them into the classroom. Many have never been read a bedtime story. They have no knowledge of fairy...
View ArticleSol Trujillo and his latest amigo
'Plants in an office ... can result in ... a 5 per cent increase in vigour.' Ray Borg, Ambius
View ArticleLiving with fowl friends
A DEAR departed friend had chooks all his life, as a young boy growing up, to a family man with children.
View ArticleElectronic toys more than playthings
TOY store owners and buyers for the mass market and educational retailers were crowded in the VTech booth last week wearing the brightly coloured Bananas in Pyjamas lanyards and badge holders that...
View ArticlePlenty of laughs, but Premier like the Keneally in a coalmine
IN the final days of the NSW election campaign the fortunes of the two parties could not be more stark.
View ArticleWarm, inviting and thoughtful
Attention to detail is a drawcard, writes Frances Thompson.
View ArticlePlaying to win
Ken Edwards has the hottest job in sports management in Australia right now, writes Joanne McCarthy, and he wouldn't have it any other way.
View ArticleGet in on the act
Don't miss this massive mix of entertainment from puppetry to dance and comedy, writes Wendy Preston.
View ArticleSegenhoe changes hands after 22 years as Maloney takes the baton
Segenhoe Stud, one of Australia's most famous breeding nurseries situated in the heart of the famed Hunter Valley, has had a change of ownership, with the buyer being Sydney businessman Kevin Maloney.
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