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A cheap xenophobic shot
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News is what a journalist and an editor decide is news and sometimes they just have no taste. This morning the prejudiced and selfish views of a dairy farmer have been plucked from obscurity to give the Murdoch tabloids an angle with which to attack Australian efforts to get a seat on the UN Security Council. This is such a cheap shot at exploiting xenophobia that I have made it my pick of the morning’s stories. PICK OF THE MORNING’S STORIES AUSTRALIA Rudd wooing Africa while our growers struggle - Sydney Daily Telegraph ELSEWHERE GM board meeting to finalise bankruptcy - Financial Times of London POLITICS AND ECONOMICS AUSTRALIA Budget Liberals deny cashing in Prime Minister’s handouts - Sydney Daily Telegraph Don’t mock the bereaved, Rudd warns Turnbull - Sydney Morning Herald Industrial Relations Unions urge Kevin Rudd to help sacked workers - Brisbane Courier Mail Stay off bench if pay hurts: ex-judge Ian Callinan - The Australian Union no-confidence vote at Nepean Hospital leads to work to rule in protest against unfilled job vacancies and management structures within the beleaguered Sydney West Area Health Service - Sydney Morning Herald ACTU seeks new deal on worker entitlements - Sydney Morning Herald Unions seek dole boost in ‘new deal’ - Melbourne Age Foreign affairs Canberra missed in US diplomatic mix - The Australian John Howard praises shunned diplomat Hugh Borrowman - The Australian Downer a late scratching for plum job - former foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer has withdrawn an application at the last minute for a plum international job amid claims his old department and sections of the Government believed he was ill-suited for the position reports the Sydney Morning Herald Revealed: payback row snares Papua tourists - Sydney Morning Herald
Political life Victorian Senator Jacinta Collins ‘disbelief’ at no limo to take her home from the airport. Melbourne Herald Sun Brumby signals end for contentious Labor MP George Seitz - Melbourne Age Economic conditions Building hot spot in crisis as Queensland blamed for collapse of construction - The Australian Reserve Bank warns on debt, inflation - Sydney Morning Herald Government will veto ‘buy Australia’ push by unions - Melbourne Age A hint of strange things
RBA company in Sudan link - Melbourne AgeOpinion Kevin Rudd: From Dr Death to cranky pants - Dennis Atkins in the Brisbane Courier Mail describes a peeved Kevin Rudd as a fearsome thing The devil is in the detail - Michelle Grattan writes in the Melbourne Age of the recession confetti being thrown around by the government as one factor that must give the Opposition cause for worry as it contemplates a complicated political outlook Samson and Delilah a provocative view of Aboriginal issues says Andrew Bolt turned film reviewer in the Melbourne Herald Sun Liquid gold less than meets the eye - George Megalogenis in The Australian looks at how much water is actually involved in the purchase of water licences by the Federal Government We need new US ‘friend ‘- Greg Sheridan writes in The Australian of the kind of person Australia needs as the US Ambassador to Canberra Age will weary Kevin Rudd, and spin condemn - argues Michael Costa in The Australian Regulators should be neither bubble poppers nor blowers - says Alan Wood in The Australian Poll dancing Rudd does his show-and-tell routine - Annabel Crabb in the Sydney Morning Herald Rudd steers ship back to a closed welfare state - Mark Coulton in the Sydney Morning Herald ELSEWHERE
India fury on student bashings - Melbourne Age Four blasts kill at least 10, hurt over 80 in northwest - Dawn, Pakistan Papua New Guinea vow to burn all Asian shops - The Australian Most Palestinians want unity govt: Poll - Arab News, Saudi Arabia
Budget 09: Bill’s big I.O.U - New Zealand Herald Piracy
Navy warships join fight against piracy - Brisbane Courier Mail BUSINESS
China cash to prop up Oz coal venture - China Daily Jobs to go at OneSteel Whyalla - Adelaide Advertiser Rio Tinto’s Korea iron ore win pushes China - The Australian Sales slide at an end, says Myer - Sydney Morning Herald ENVIRONMENT Kevin Rudd’s $300m ‘phantom’ buyback sparks new row with states - The Australian NSW snaps freeze on water buybacks - The Australian River deal leaves NSW spluttering - Sydney Morning Herald Obama administration supports a timeout on road building in national forests - Los Angeles Times Toyota boosts operation hours at popular hybrid Prius factories - Mainichi Daily, Japan Chinese Premier: China ready to cooperate with U.S. in coping with climate change - The People’s Daily, China
Pipistrelle mini-bats facing extinction - Sydney Daily Telegraph Premier Anna Bligh’s backflip on water management - Brisbane Courier Mail Noosa two-headed fish scare widens - Brisbane Courier Mail Every breath they take: the science of watching whales being watched - Sydney Morning Herald MEDIA Jones unruffled as PM lets the bird fly - Sydney Morning Herald LIFE Swine flu
Swine flu luxury limbo - Townsville Bulletin Hotels evicting swine flu victims - Sydney Daily Telegraph Tamiflu rushed south as Victoria pig flu toll soars - Melbourne Herald Sun CSL could be first in world to make pig flu vaccine - Melbourne Herald Sun Canberra has announced plans to immunise almost half the population against swine flu - The Australian Health officials order swine vaccine for millions - Sydney Morning Herald Pets New twist in Mitcham Council cat debate - Adelaide Advertiser Homelessness Alpha Accommodation - where police fear to tread - Only five minutes’ drive from the mansions of Bridgeman Downs in Brisbane’s outer north sits a tiny, poverty-stricken community which has a reputation for being one of the city’s most dangerous places reports the Courier Mail. Families living on the edge - Brisbane Courier Mail No place to stay - Homeless shelters turn many away - Brisbane Courier Mail Police move-on powers attacked - Move-on powers are under fire for forcing homeless people out of areas close to vital services says the Brisbane Courier Mail Crime and violence Stabbing victims lash out at growing knife culture - Melbourne Herald Sun Drugs Plans to fine South Australian teenage smokers $315 - Adelaide Advertiser AFL’s dirty dozen - The Melbourne Herald Sun reports the AFL’s latest drug testing data reveals seven players will play out the season on their last chance with illicit drugs. A record number of 1220 tests by the AFL in the 12 months from February 2008 also revealed 12 failed tests involving 10 players. Sport Manly feud claims top lobbyist - When the politics at Manly become too bitter for a politician, even one who has negotiated, like Kerry Sibraa, the power plays in the ALP and confronted Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe, it’s a bloody battle at Brookvale. - Sydney Morning Herald |
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