ENDANGERED SPECIES: Apr 05, AU Edition ENDANGERED SPECIES Redefining the Australian family She works hard for the money. She works hard at home. He’s burning the candle at both ends, chasing the dollars they desperately […]
THE ARENA: June 05, AU Edition JAMES MORROW Forget Supernanny. What Australia needs is Superteacher If there is one show that is appointment viewing in our house – OK, besides Desperate Housewives – it is […]
How do you take a radical idea and turn it into a market leader? JAMES MORROW talks to Ross Cameron, Managing Director of Dyson Appliances’ South-East Asian operations about how he took a vacuum cleaner […]
David J. Ford has spent a lifetime working in the region’s hotspots – including over a half-dozen years active service with the British Army’s Royal Military Police during the Malayan Emergency and the Borneo Rebellion […]
THE MISERY INDEX It comes like a thief in the night and empties wallets of purchasing power. And it means debtors make off like bandits. What is it? Inflation – and with oil prices high, […]
REVENGE OF THE NERDS: Apr 05, AU Edition REVENGE OF THE NERDS Australian families are spending more on education than ever – but what are they getting for their money? A crash course in left-wing […]
THE DEATH OF TAXES As pressure builds on the Howard Government to cut taxes, IAN WISHART reports on moves in the United States that go one giant leap further, and which may yet impact on […]
JAMES MORROW Get ready for a long, hot summer… Anyone who has ever taken a holiday in a beach community knows that such places can be fairly insular places. When so much time is spent […]
Australian theologian Dr Rollan McCleary has again gone where angels fear to tread and issued a critique of the late nun Mother Theresa, suggesting she is not a viable candidate for sainthood. The Catholic Church’s […]
By Sid Astbury Sydney (dpa) – An Australian yachtsman was praised for bravery but chided for his foolhardiness after jumping overboard Wednesday to cut a 9-metre humpback whale from ropes that were dragging it under. […]
A 21-year-old Chinese national, Mr Jie Wang has been sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment for the attempted importation of two kilograms of pseudoephedrine into Victoria. In July 2011, Customs and Border Protection […]
Sydney (dpa) – Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Thursday defended greeting Queen Elizabeth II with a handshake rather than a curtsy. Monarchists criticised Australia’s first female prime minister for not bending the knee to […]
“The media storm over the alleged treatment of a few Australian spectators at Rugby World Cup matches is not backed up at all by a scientific survey of New Zealanders attitudes toward Australians” says Stephen […]
UPDATE: on 14 December 2012, Investigate received a letter from Greywolf Resources NL director and CEO Dehong Yu advising that Edward Lancaster “is very unwell and has handed in his resignation to the company.” On […]
Sid Astbury Sydney (dpa) – If Jessica Rudd’s novel is made into a film, the female lead would have red hair and the man she knifes to become prime minister would have a blond mop. […]
By Sid Astbury Sydney (dpa) – A 31-year-old Australian was killed by a shark Tuesday as he surfed in the early morning near Gracetown, 270 kilometres south of the west coast city of Perth. […]
By Sid Astbury Sydney (dpa) – An Australian grandmother claimed a record Tuesday for the oldest woman to swim the English Channel. Sue Oldham, 64, completed the crossing from Dover to the […]
FAMILY SECRET: Apr 05, AU Edition FAMILY SECRET Untold tens of thousands of women terminate their pregnancies every year in Australia. Thousands of others, desperate for a child of their own, undergo IVF and other […]
By Sid Astbury Sydney (dpa) – Prime Minister Julia Gillard was rapped Thursday for linking the future death of Queen Elizabeth II to constitutional change in Australia. Gillard, who supports severing ties with the […]
VICTORIA’S SECRET Why is the Bracks government sticking with a world-first roadside drug test that’s controversial, expensive, and will make Victorian motorists only marginally safer? JAMES MORROW crunches the numbers and finds that there are […]
MORE THAN JUST A CHILLY PLACE The moon’s still out there, but what is it good for? Maybe the next century of Asian economic growth, says Pat Sheil Since Eugene Cernon closed the hatch on […]
Sydney (dpa) – Actor-director Paul Hogan will not be allowed out of Australia until the Crocodile Dundee star pays a tax bill of around 150 million Australian dollars (133 million US dollars), news reports said […]
May 05, AU Edition WAYNE’S WAY Butcher. Cop. And one of the most storied coaches in Rugby League. JENI PAYNE sits down with legendary Brisbane Broncos coach Wayne Bennett – and finds a seemingly quiet […]
A joint operation between the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) has disrupted an organised crime syndicate, preventing 216 kilograms of illicit drugs worth an estimated $30 million from […]
X IN THE SUBURBS: Apr 05, AU Edition X IN THE SUBURBS Ecstasy and other party drugs used to be an import-only business. But now, home-grown gangs have figured out the trick to pill-making and […]
TRAFFICKING IN TEARS Slavery was supposed to be a thing of the past. But in the dark corners of Australia, it is still flourishing – and as SHAUN DAVIES reports, despite recent efforts the government […]
Sydney (dpa) – Last weekend’s by-election results presented Prime Minister Kevin Rudd with an inconvenient truth: Australians are warming to the opposition Liberal Party’s do-nothing approach to climate change. With an election to contest next […]
SYDNEY, Jan. 29 (UPI) — Australian Home Affairs Minister Brendan O’Connor says the SmartGate system offers an easier and more efficient alternative to airport customs efforts. O’Connor credited the SmartGate system, which uses ePassports and […]
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