Farmers to march on house over AWB
THOUSANDS of wheat farmers will seek to split the Coalition by descending on Parliament House if John Howard sidelines AWB and scraps the single desk for wheat exports.
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Aunty’s ‘nightmare’ new boss generating goodwill
ON the face of it, Mark Scott could easily be seen as the ABC’s worst nightmare. He is an American-born, Harvard-educated, evangelical Christian who has worshipped at the Christian City mega-church in Sydney’s north, with a 5000-strong congregation.
Oxfam coffee ‘harms’ poor farmers
TWO Melbourne academics have lodged formal complaints against Oxfam Australia over the sale of Fairtrade coffee, saying it should not be promoted as helping to lift Third World producers out of poverty because growers are paid very little for their beans.
ABC considers charging for the web
THE ABC is preparing to embrace a more commercial future under managing director Mark Scott, with the potential for ABC-owned, commercially funded websites being investigated.
Minister sued over ruling on AWB
AGRICULTURE Minister Peter McGauran is being sued in the Federal Court over his refusal to grant the right to export Australia’s wheat through companies other than AWB.
Howard plan for AWB will fail: Nat
JOHN Howard’s plan to dilute AWB’s marketing monopoly has fallen at its first hurdle, with Nationals Senate leader Ron Boswell saying last night it would fail and had gone down “like a lead balloon” among farmers.
US farmers, shareholders sue AWB for $150m
AUSTRALIAN wheat exporter AWB Ltd will be forced to defend law suits on two continents after lawyers in both Sydney and New York yesterday lodged claims for a combined $125 million in damages over the Iraq kickback scandal.
Why you go away with the pixies when pregnant
NOBODY dares admit it, but some women do go a bit loopy when they are pregnant.
It’s no pyjama party: lawsuit looms over sleep drug
THERE was a time when waking in the morning to discover you had slept with a stranger, but could not remember the details, was called adolescence. Now, it means possible class action.
Board to study positions on porn
THE Classification Review Board has agreed to conduct research into whether the so-called reasonable adult is offended by films that show actual sexual intercourse.
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