Jakarta bombings
Jakarta bombings claims life of Brisbane man – Brisbane Sunday Mail
Hunt on for top terrorist – Sydney Sun Herald
Bombers wanted to punish Westerners – Sydney Sun Herald
Streets empty amid predictions of expatriate exodus – Sydney Sun Herald
Australia
Discrimination
Church and state clash over equality laws – A controversial review of Victoria’s Equal Opportunity Act is threatening to become a political headache for the Brumby Government, with many churches, religious leaders, parents and private schools vowing to defend discrimination based on faith – Melbourne Sunday Age
Economic matters
Plight of the disappearing nest egg – Self-funded retirees have been hit hard by the global financial crisis, with one in four forced to go back to work or delay retirement – Sydney Sun Herald
Political life
Bill Shorten and Chloe Bryce G-G’s girl expecting a child – The Sydney Sunday Telegraph‘s Glenn Milne gives us a story about a politician that people will actually read. The up and coming Labor new boy and the Governor General’s daughter along with a couple of divorces.
MP won’t pay for surf patrol, but dinners are okay – Sydney Sunday Telegraph links ministerial refusal to fund shark spotting flights with some fine ministerial lunches
Gordon Nuttall asked Anna Bligh to help roll Peter Beattie – Brisbane Sunday Mail reveals that had Gordon Nuttall’s ego-driven political plan come off, he could be sitting in the premier’s office today instead of a prison cell
Industrial relations
‘Slave merchant’ cops record fine – Melbourne Sunday Age
Opinions
Rudd is a bit player on the world stage – Piers Akerman writes in the Sydney Sunday Telegraph that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had a short-lived and undistinguished career in the Australian diplomatic service and now we know why. He wasn’t very good at diplomacy and the prospect of working for a Queensland Labor premier, Wayne Goss, obviously seemed vastly more attractive.
Peter Beattie says Gordon Nuttall ‘betrayed him’ – Peter Beattie in the Brisbane Sunday Mail
BUSINESS
Consumers buying generic during economic downturn – Melbourne Sunday Herald Sun
ENVIRONMENT
Television tax looms for disposal of old appliances – Melbourne Sunday Herald Sun
MEDIA
MasterChef final expected to draw record television audience – Sydney Sunday Telegraph
LIFE
Swine flu
Young hardest hit by swine flu pandemic – Sydney Sunday Telegraph
Swine flu eases hold on Victoria – Sydney Sunday Telegraph
Workforce hit as doctors predict swine flu peak – Sydney Sun Herald
Swine flu cases in sharp decline – Melbourne Sunday Age
The drink
Pubs fear cost of crackdown – Sydney Sun Herald
The punt
Clubs accuse Tabcorp of bullying over pokies – Melbourne Sunday Age
Property
Agents to face $1m fines for fake bids – The Australian consumer watchdog says real estate agencies involved in under-quoting and dummy bidding will be hit with fines of up to $1.1 million from January 1 – Melbourne Sunday Age
Fashion
Fashion designers bring back real fur for winter – angering animal rights activists – Brisbane Sunday Mail
P Platers
Tough laws snare 88,000 P-platers – The RTA has stripped almost 88,000 P-plate drivers of their licence for speeding and drink-driving in the two years since tough zero-tolerance laws were introduced – Sydney Sunday Telegraph
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