Be adult about porn, pleads industry
THE pornographic film industry will tomorrow begin a creative Federal Court action to have adult films that depict actual sex between consenting adults stripped of their X-rating.
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Film on my life is wrong: Khouri
HOAX author Norma Khouri failed to show for the premiere of a film about her life at the Adelaide Film Festival last night.
Burmese refugees replace Sudanese
THE number of Sudanese refugees coming to Australia is about to be slashed in favour of people from hill tribes on the Burmese border, as part of a push to make Australia’s humanitarian program less African and more Asian.
Green answer is blowing in the wind
IF you own a cat, you know the smelly truth: they break wind and it’s foul. Not only that, it harms the planet.
Reel thing: sex, lies and literary fraud
SHE is a literary hoaxer, a conwoman and a thief – and now, if you can believe it, she’s also the victim of sexual abuse and domestic violence.
No Iraq contracts expected for AWB
IRAQ is “highly unlikely” to buy wheat from Australian exporter AWB this year, although it could resume purchases in 2008, according to reports in English-language newspapers circulating in the Middle East.
Iraq kickbacks not bribes, but tax deductions
THE Australian Taxation Office has declared that the millions of dollars AWB funnelled to Saddam Hussein’s regime in the lead-up to the Iraq war were not bribes, and can therefore be claimed as a tax deduction.
Guarantee a better price than AWB, wheat rivals told
COMPANIES jostling to export Australian wheat will have to prove they can pay growers more than AWB is offering, the Howard Government has warned.
Islander work visas could solve childcare shortage
A BRISBANE entrepreneur wants to bring in women from Fiji, Papua New Guinea and other failing island states to care for the children of affluent Australian parents and do their household chores.
Career mums wary of jobs in regional cities
AN acute shortage of childcare is causing professional women to turn their backs on regional Australia.
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