Sarah Palin suggested that Julian Assange should be hunted down like Osama bin Laden and also charged with treason, a tough thing for a US court to hang on an Australian citizen.
Mervyn King
UK chancellor spends the night rearranging the deckchairs
It’s a case of back to the future in London as the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat government decides to give more power to the country’s central bank and its governor Mervyn King.
Business As Usual: Saving Gunns … billion dollar Toll … where you should live
Time for a bailout, there’s an election in Tasmania and one federally this year and the biggest flashpoint in the state is Gunns’ pulp mill. Plus, paying the toll at Toll and RBA watchers pay attention.
Call to break up UK banks resonates here
Yesterday, the head of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, said he wants a break-up of banks to prevent them becoming “too important to fail”. It’s a message with some echoes in Australia.
