Revealed: the best protection against cancer – Global study discovers astonishing power of vitamin made by the sun – The Independent, London
THE PICK OF THE MORNING’S STORIES
Swine flu lockdown plan as PM tested – Sydney Sunday Telegraph
POLITICS AND ECONOMICS
AUSTRALIA
Health and ageing
Our nursing homes in turmoil – Sydney Sun Herald
Political life
Anger as MPs lock in sweet super deal – Glen Milne finds some budget small print – Brisbane Sunday Mail
Rees losing grip on power – New opinion poll in Sydney Sun Herald shows preferred premier: Barry O’Farrell 50%, Nathan Rees 33%
Deals within deals as ALP factions wrestle – Melbourne Age
A hint of strange things
Embassy link to accused in child-sex case – Sydney Sun Herald
Now Tina Sanger affair threatens Rees – Sydney Sunday Telegraph on the continuing saga of the sacking of Labor MP Tony Stewart
Corbys plead for Rudd to deliver – Melbourne Sunday Herald Sun
Real estate
Property sales hit boom level – Melbourne Sunday Age
Transport
Advertising campaign costs taxpayers $300,000 – Brisbane Sunday Mail on promoting a toll road
Local Government
Council lashed over civic house of stoush – Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle has been branded a hypocrite after defending a coming boxing night at Melbourne Town Hall despite slamming a similar event at Southbank’s QBH nightclub three weeks ago. – Melbourne Sunday Age
Historic Adelaide vineyard to be bulldozed – Adelaide Sunday Mail
Granny flat tax slug – Adelaide Sunday Mail
Education
Three Rs hits a big wall – Melbourne’s Sunday Herald Sun finds some experts to claim the Federal Government’s push to return to “three Rs” education is being derailed by a lack of qualified English and maths teachers
Opinion
Diplomacy at the coalface keeps Rudd on edge – Michelle Grattan in the Sydney Sun Herald on the implications of the Chinese bid for a major stake in Rio Tinto
Rudd leaves country towns high and dry – Kerry Anne Walsh in the Sydney Sun Herald on water buy backs
Stewart saga haunts Rees – The sacking of the former minister is quickly turning into a nightmare for the Premier, writes Lisa Carty in the Sydney Sun Herald
Proof is in the policy – writes Josh Gordon of Malcolm Turnbull in the Sunday Melbourne Age
Forget sleaze and innuendo, just pick a water fight – Brian Costar in the Sunday Melbourne Age believes the announcement by Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu at last weekend’s Liberal Party state council that he was going to make Labor sleaze a major campaign (including another recycling of the Guilty Party tag that bombed so badly in 2002) is politically unwise and smacks of desperation.
Turnbull coyness is a bit rich – Claire Harvey in the Sydney Sunday Telegraph on Australian attitudes to wealth
ELSEWHERE
Ukip confident it can beat Labour in EU poll – The UK Independence party has told members it can beat Labour in next Thursday’s European elections, a scenario consistent with an opinion poll published on Saturday – Financial Times of London
Don’t go to Australia: Indian victim to students – Times of India
’20 racial attacks on Indians in Sydney in a month‘ – Times of India
Indian students in Australia to hold rally on Sunday – Times of India
BUSINESS
U.S. Firms End Streak Of Quarterly Losses – Wall Street Journal
ENVIRONMENT
Now, the sound of spring is at risk – The UK Independent reports that the cuckoo joins the Red List of Britain’s most endangered species as migrating birds vanish from our shores
MEDIA
Mal Turnbull’s angry young man` – the Sydney Sunday Telegraph outlines some confrontations between the Opposition Leader’s press secretary Tony Barry and journalists
LIFE
Poker machines
Ban Big Ted in clubs: has MP gone bananas? – Sydney Sun Herald reports senator Nick Xenophon has provoked protest from clubs and the ABC for suggesting Play School, Bananas In Pyjamas and other children’s concerts be banned from licensed venues.
Swine flu
Swine flu lockdown plan as PM tested – Sydney Sunday Telegraph tells how Kevin Rudd tested negative for the flu after returning from a trip to Singapore with a sore throat
Tougher quarantine orders – flu patients in NSW could be forced to comply with government health orders under new powers announced by Health Minister John Della Bosca says Sydney Sun Herald
Virus spreads to country Victoria – Melbourne Age
Flu ship sails on to Sydney – Brisbane Sunday Mail
Mystery shrouds Cairns teen’s positive swine flu test that prompts school closure – Brisbane Sunday Mail
Sexuality
Sex-change clinic ‘got it wrong’– Australia’s only sex-change clinic has been temporarily shut down and its controversial director forced to quit amid growing claims that patients with psychiatric problems have been wrongly diagnosed as transsexuals and encouraged to have radical gender reassignment surgery reports the Melbourne Age
Racism in sport
Send him to the never never – a visit to Arnhem Land is Wendell Sailor’s advice on how to treat Cronulla rugby league player Paul Gallen for some racist remarks
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