Lisa Pryor
You're no one until you've hatched a plan to open slice of Melbourne in Sydney.
Ian Verrender
Just keep saying 'going forward' at every opportunity.
Anne Davies
Inaugural balls have turned into pale shadows of their glory days in 1800's.
Peter Roebuck
Kevin Pietersen has failed to act
responsibly.
National
Underbelly 2 set for hostile reception in Griffith
MALCOLM BROWN |
John Dal Broi, for 17 years the mayor of Griffith, has seen promotional clips from the new TV series Underbelly 2 and is "horrified what the end result will be".
World
The fight for the White House
In this extract from A Long Time Coming, Evan Thomas and his team of Newsweek reporters reveal how stress in both the Obama and McCain camps reached boiling point.
Business Day
US unemployment surges to 16-year high
7:51am |
US employers shed a massive 524,000 jobs in December as a deepening recession pushed unemployment to 7.2%, leading to calls for swift fiscal action.
- It takes two to tango, Telstra
- Sceptical analysts give Mac the knife
- Satyam head arrested, board scrapped
- Oil falls below $US40
- CSL therapy gets thumbs up from FDA panel
- Just add water: Top End's big wet to lift cattle prices
- B&B Power organises a show-and-tell tour for suitors
- From Fleet Street to the suburbs of Sydney
- Radio late to the feel the pinch on advertising
- Annette Sampson: Crystal-ball bookends for the trite but true
- Ian Verrender: Colour your language - no, not more swearing
Opinion
Revoke the rules and help book pirates
Even though Indians have won three of the past 12 Booker prizes, it is one of the mysteries of the book publishing world that the
market in India is so small, writes Malcolm Knox.
- Lisa Pryor: Barfly's lament
- Anne Summers: Need for more than great speeches and symbolism
- Tanveer Ahmed: Climate change is more than abstract idea
- Joel Gibson: I, too, am a ranga and proud of it
- David Marr: It stings when pie hits the po-faced
Technology
TV or not TV?
ASHER MOSES IN LAS VEGAS 2:46pm |
Soon we'll be able to access the web from the couch without having to use a keyboard or mouse.
Travel
Cheap trips going, going, gone
KAY O'SULLIVAN 12:00pm |
STA Travel launches an auction site for trips, accommodation and flights with no minimum reserve.
- Budget flights Tiger tickets half-price, but customers unhappy
- No holidays Aussies working world's longest hours
- Gourmet travel World's top 10 most interesting foods
- USA Luxury for less than $100 as Las Vegas is hit by downturn
- Northern Territory 'Stupid' Korean tourists rescued in outback and fined
Sport
Contract a killer for Hayden
JAMIE PANDARAM AND MICHAEL GLEESON |
Matthew Hayden's Ashes prospects will hinge on selectors'
willingness to offer central contract for 2009-10 season.
- A-League: Adelaide smack Jets with the wooden spoon
- Football: Benitez lets fly at Ferguson
- Tennis: Former No.1 Hewitt's self-belief still burning brightly
- Union: Referee learns a lesson in life
- League: I'll never forget you, Sonny
