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Costello's cold war
JUST after 3.30pm last Tuesday John Howard's intent, tone and body language began to change. Howard, the political warrior, was reacting to pressure and the impression left was that Howard would stay as Prime Minister.
On top of his game
AS John Howard considers his future, a lot of other people are asking a simple question: "Why should he go?" Peter Costello has demanded this week that the Prime Minister depart, and depart soon. Yet the essential reason the Treasurer appears to be giving for demanding the PM resign in his favour is that 12 years ago Howard said he would.
No more the boss from hell
THE dragon lady boss from hell never had it so bad as she does in vengeful author Lauren Weisberger's best-selling novel The Devil Wears Prada. A barely veiled portrait of Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of American Vogue, the roman a clef was based on Weisberger's repeated humiliations as the "smart, fat girl assistant" to the impeccably coiffured fashion oracle with an allegedly appalling management style.
Why bother with Patrick White
HE is the nation's most lauded novelist, our only Nobel prize-winning writer, twice a winner of the Miles Franklin award and three times the Australian Literature Society's Gold Medallist. Yet without his name on the cover, Patrick White's work is apparently of little value to Australia's publishing industry.
Mother of all battles a bit rich in its bias
WHEN my younger son was hospitalised at a tender age, a tense discussion took place at his bedside. In what I can recall only with excruciating guilt, I debated with my husband who would remain at his side and who would return to the office.
Spending the nation's future
PETER Costello's claim to the top job is built on his boast of having put together 11 successful budgets. Those budgets have clearly been in the Treasurer's interests and in the Government's political interests, but have they been in the national interest?
Terrorist strike puts Pakistan on the spot
TO a senior Indian analyst these are "difficult and dangerous days", and who, in the aftermath of the devastation and carnage wrought by terrorist bombers attacking the suburban train system in Mumbai, the country's teeming business and commercial metropolis, can doubt the accuracy of his assertion?
Conspiracy theory haunts East Timor
ON his first day in office this week, East Timor's new Prime Minister Jose Ramos Horta accepted a cache of illegal weapons from a former soldier, Vincente "Railos" da Conceicao.
Master predator sustained by the state
PEDOPHILE Bill Clare had spent years preying on the young, the naive and the intellectually impaired, before he finally raped and killed a three-year-old boy following three weeks of sustained depravity in September 2003.
How to counter jihad
A YEAR ago, on July 14, The Times published a photograph of a thoughtful young man at work in a Yorkshire classroom. Mohammad Sidique Khan was pictured, purse-lipped and neatly bearded, in the school where he was employed as a teaching mentor.
Careful, they might call you
BRODENE Wardley is a single mother of three and a crane driver at the Roche Mining plant near Hamilton in western Victoria. She is also the occupational health and safety representative for the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union.
On the road to disaster
HEZBOLLAH fighters crouched behind a roadside tree as two Israeli Jeeps rolled nearby along a high-wire border fence in northern Israel. At 9.05am on Wednesday, their two rocket-propelled grenades cannoned into both vehicles within seconds. Before the survivors could free themselves, they were being hauled into Lebanon by a mortal enemy. The Middle East conflict had turned irreversibly in an instant.
Training hubby
Vive the beautiful game
The plain fact is it's hard to be clever and comely
Divide and conquer: trio quits top law firm
Westfield bench awaits Lowy whistle
Wider war on terror
Firms fight to contain inflation
Fallout over four wives
Stealth discounts push Corolla to top
Stoush they had to have
Fellow travellers' tales
Isolated from morality
A jostle for the third wave
A drought of reasoning
Misguided missiles
Leading questions
A calm hand on the reform tiller
Once it's wet, they'll leave
Boom time for the bold
All eyes on the enemy waiting by our door
Good life's work for Labor titan
The urge of Afghanistan
This year's model is from Planet Botticelli
Lay's awkward legacy
Plaid to profits
End of an American dream
Fortysomethings sign up for a good-looking retirement
Rogue's missile menace
Why the Government is rolling in cash
Dead men tell very few tales
Louise Evans
Righting your wrongs can turn life upside down
INSPIRED by the Seven Network's new top 10 rating television comedy My Name is Earl, I've made a list of all the bad things I've done and have started a crusade to right the wrongs.
Game over as unsteady Eddie knocked off his Nine pins
A long night's journey into day calls for a true brew
Equality is overrated, girls, you'll just have to marry down
Passengers in dire straits as the Spirit gets the heave-ho
Susan Maushart
The perfume of female power
Henry Kissinger?s view that power is an aphrodisiac is a bit like the observation that kangaroos have pouches ? ie, accurate roughly 49.538 per cent of the time. Or so, at least, I?d always believed.
Jane Fraser
Play's the thing
IT is a great relief to a mother when her daughters are safely dispatched to the care of a husband. Don't ask me why. I think every man should come with a warning attached to his neck: Danger. This person, when afflicted with the common cold, will behave in much the same way as a man condemned to the gallows, before which he needs both legs amputated while giving birth to triplets.
Ruth Ostrow
Aversions to things
I was watching a film the other night with my daughter and one of the lead characters engaged in a lesbian kiss.
THE real business of today's Council of Australian Governments meeting in Canberra will be lobbying Prime Minister John Howard to put in a bid for hosting the 2018 FIFA World Cup. There'll be squabbling between Morris Iemma and Steve Bracks as to whether the final would be played in Melbourne or Sydney, but South Australian Premier Mike Rann, who is spearheading the proposal, said Australia would have to move quickly if the bid is to succeed.