In the welter of post-Melbourne Cup coverage, it is surprising that Bob Brown has not turned the result into an environmental issue. One can only imagine how many trees, or perhaps forests, went into the production of the newspaper guides to the Cup right around the nation, And what a waste of good trees it turned out to be.
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Flint: Potential for vote fraud remains
Recent measures have reduced the scope for fraudulent enrolment but the potential for multiple voting remains, writes David Flint.
Minimum bid rule ain’t working for Coles shareholders
One of the principles underlying Australian takeover laws is that all shareholders of a target company are to be treated equally. To achieve this, section 621 of the Corporations Act provides that the price offered by a bidder must “equal or exceed” the price paid by the bidder in the past four months, Adam Schwab writes.
