Minister’s fury at patient deaths claim
CLAIMS that more people die from hospital overcrowding and admission logjams than in road accidents have escalated into a furious row between senior doctors and a state government.
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Voters turn against Labor states
LABOR’S vote has slumped in its bastions of Queensland and South Australia, further eroding the party’s once-iron grip on power in the states and shifting momentum decisively to the Coalition.
Terror academics’ feud to rage on
A UNIVERSITY has washed its hands of feuding academics who are waging their own culture war over the teaching of terrorism subjects.
Culture wars bomb hits the military
SOME of Australia’s top thinkers on national security have opened a new front in the culture wars – over whether a postmodernist interpretation of terrorism is brainwashing our next generation of military leaders.
From loose mates to ‘persons of interest’
EVIDENTLY, it was the gym that brought them together in Adelaide. But the men who would become notorious as “persons of interest” in the death of Dianne Brimble didn’t just work out together: they did some heavy lifting on the party scene, as well.
Trial and error
A FOSTER carer found not guilty of sexually abusing boys is demanding an inquiry into his case.
Chinese bid for outback uranium
THE Chinese have moved to buy into Australia’s booming uranium industry, with steelmaker Sinosteel yesterday applying to develop a $160 million mine in the South Australian outback, posing a further challenge to foreign investment controls.
Xenophon gets serious with gaming
SO, it’s all Kevin Rudd’s fault. Nick Xenophon, the former No Pokies MP who carved out a political career by being a thorn in the side of state governments in South Australia, and is now honing his act in Canberra, revealed yesterday it was the Prime Minister who had inspired him to jump to federal politics.
Buyouts to ease Murray anger
THE Government will offer to buy out the water entitlements of entire irrigation communities as Kevin Rudd moved yesterday to appease growing outrage at the plight of the lower Murray River.
Rudd orders audit to save Murray lakes
KEVIN Rudd has announced an independent audit of the entire Murray-Darling Basin system to save the lower lakes.
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