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.

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.

Defiant Mubarak spoils the party

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

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