Actions speak loudly

It is possible to make a difference, just ask Clean Up Australia Day's Ian Kiernan, writes Nick Galvin.

City cleans up its act the morning after excess of night before

ON THE morning after the Mardi Gras night before, the rubbish was still knee-deep in places on Oxford Street, but at Dawes Point, overlooking the harbour, Alan Au's Clean Up Australia squad was having difficulty finding any.

Huxley returns to brilliance

THE Melbourne Rebels have presented a new start for veteran utility back Julian Huxley.

Time's up: council fights backpackers with the clock

BACKPACKERS and their vans have long vexed councils in charge of popular Sydney beaches, taking up residence each summer in prime coastal locations.

A cut above the rust

A FRIEND rang me recently lamenting the fact that there was rust on the leaves of her prized geraniums. Humidity is the problem, I told her. The same with black spot on roses, tomatoes growing like crazy but hardly fruiting, blighted azaleas and bugs eating everything. It all comes down to the recent humidity.

In the eye of the storm, a man not easily pinned down

"THE thing you've got to remember about Scott Morrison," says a senior Liberal, "is he's a very ambitious man."

A million voices: leave, leave, leave

THIS was to be a night like no other in Cairo. After 17 days of protests that had irretrievably shaken one of the Arab world's most entrenched leaders, hundreds of thousands came to watch their dictator fall.

Defiant Mubarak spoils the party

THIS was to be a night like no other in Cairo.

Abbott on the attack makes cuts on the run

THE return of Parliament after an election year usually feels like the morning after a very big party. Some of the more outrageous poll-driven policy gyrations are by unspoken collective agreement quietly forgotten, the crazier excesses of rhetoric toned down, the less affordable of the grand election promises tidied up and taken out with the old corflutes in the rubbish.

POSTCODE 3000

Another show on the boil in cooking world

Don't let an index distract you from the main game

THE market fell last year ��� down 2.6 per cent on the ASX 200. It's a number to which everyone will compare the achieved returns of their fund manager, or perhaps spouse, and chastise them or fawn upon them accordingly.

Projects axed as flood bill soars

PROJECTS and upgrades in Brisbane not related to floods will be shelved as the council begins to tally the financial impact of the disaster on the city's budget, with two infrastructure repair projects already costed at $140 million.

Projects not related to disaster postponed

NON-FLOOD related projects and upgrades in Brisbane will be shelved as the council begins to tally the financial impact of the disaster on the city's budget, with two infrastructure repair projects already costed at $140 million.

Illegal Waste Dumpers Are Given Notice

THE hunt is on for an illegal waste dumper after a series of incidents in Wollongong.

First In, Best Trashed: In Praise Of Neighbourly Recycling

There's always a jewel among the junk at the hard rubbish pick-up. But she who hesitates will be empty-handed.

Rubbish Removal Will Free Waterways

I AM amazed it has taken so long for the council to address our stormwater rubbish problem.

From Roads, Rubbish To Social Change

NEWCASTLE City Council general manager Janet Dore told a gathering of about 50 women yesterday that local government had gone beyond roads, rates and rubbish to embrace social change.

New Policy To Clean Up Unsightly Bin Sites

CHARITY clothing bins have long been uninvited dumping grounds for people too lazy or ignorant to dispose of their rubbish properly but Wollongong City Council hopes to change all that.

How Sydney Works New Year's Clean-up

The city is confident that the success of previous years' clean-ups will be repeated, states a press release that fell off the back of a City of Sydney rubbish truck.

All At Sea Over Attempt At Rubbish Disposal

A shipload of unwanted ash is back home after a voyage lasting 16 years, Matthew Engel reports from Washington. After the longest and least glamorous cruise in maritime history, the world's best-travelled rubbish has finally come home.