South western sydney


The stoush over Canberra airport

The ambitions of Terry Snow, one of Australia’s wealthier men and owner of Canberra Airport, and those of long time opponent of an expanded Sydney Airport and NSWS Planning Minister Frank Sartor are locked in a peculiarly bitter fight over a housing estate near Queanbeyan, just over the state line from the capital.

Secrecy and the Haneef case

Dr Haneef got back to India solely because his defence team refused to meekly drink their allocated dose of shut-the-f*ck-up. Traditionally in terrorism cases, the authorities feed sensational tit-bits to the media while the accused sucks it all up in silence.

Tabloids sow the “Seeds of Terror”

If you use the Herald Sun’s logic, John Howard is directly linked to al-Qaeda, writes Irfan Yusuf.