Right on cue, the gouging bastards of the banking cartel are demonstrating exactly what Joe Hockey has been saying. Labor needs to get creative on banking regulation.
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Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Vic Democrats to lose their political party status?
It’s all looking a bit sad for the Australian Democrats down south, with the Victorian membership down so low that they risk losing their official political party status.
Storm’s media blitz on Commonwealth
The co-founder of Storm Financial, Emmanuel Cassimatis, has launched a media blitz, blaming the Commonwealth Bank for panicking and causing Storm clients to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, writes James Thomson.
Media briefs: White House plane detained, Phuket, let’s pun and more
China detains White House media plane: A charter airplane carrying the White House press corps was detained for nearly three hours Friday at Beijing’s international airport not long after President Bush arrived to attend the Olympic Games. The flight crew of the Northwest Airlines 747 had been expecting to park at a VIP terminal, but […]
Morning Market Report
The highlights and lowlights of this morning’s sharemarket activity.
Fish fight: How tuna went from can to canard
Monday night’s edition of Media Watch picked up on a nasty editorial in Ausmarine, a national fishing magazine. But what really motivated its author was not concern for conservation, rather the self-interest of fishing industry businessman, writes Lionel Elmore.
