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- Festival of food and hope
- Fight to find drug labs
- Cracking Ivan Milat
- Facebook lacks OMG factor
- Quade's dazzling return
In Geece it's all economic woe, but for Brisbane's Greeks the Paniyiri Festival was a celebration of food and hope.
Almost 70 per cent of the manufacture of illegal stimulants is taking place in secret laboratories in residential areas.
Almost two years after he first confronted Phil Denmeade, Eamonn Duff can finally tell the incredible story.
After its historic sharemarket float, Facebook is valued at about one-third of Greece's gross domestic product.
Cooper impressive in his return to Super Rugby, but a late fade took some of the gloss off the Reds clinical triumph.
Brisbane Times National Headlines
- What comes after ABC?
- He was 13 years old when Australia locked him in an adult prison for people smuggling
- Canny grain growers let nature take its course
- It's the little extras that matter in health insurance
- Killer parasite puts rare frogs in peril
- Failed by system that nabs the naive
- Toxic chemical found in school shoes
- Search for stolen masterpiece ends
- Gillard feels pressure to lift dole
- Sex still sells - erotic lit's second coming
- State 'plays silly buggers' over HSU
- Greek festival fills the faithful with food and hope
- Fallout after dream is shattered
- Heffernan accused of homophobic assault on Lib
- Cargo ship risk to Barrier Reef
- Sink or swim - Chinese tourists the key
- Battle lines drawn for the fight ahead
- NEWSMAKER JAMIE DIMON
- Pup takes his bride and the mags for a ride
- Claims of lying as casino owners trade blows over the Star
- Insecure? New shoes should fix it
- Popularity of an Assange run for Senate could cost Greens
- It's time to talk: a new way to get involved in the debate on drug laws
- Carr 'way out' on call for Taliban to get seat in coalition
- Everyone seems to want a bite of the Big Apple
- In age-old rivalry of cats and dogs Sally nose best
- Lingering anguish hinders devastated village's recovery
- Livestock exporter sanctions criticised
- London rained kippers at Games fit for their times
- Patients left fuming over hip implant failure rate
- Saving Daniel: a couple's desperate bid to keep their only child alive
- Drugs: it's time to talk
- Born to talk and tweet: why some children are always on the phone
- When the Concert Party ruled politics
- Ballot box is still the best referee
- Let the banter begin
- Parents feel agony of needle and damage done
- Losing the war
- Wife, mother ... security threat
- Multiple deficiencies uncovered in NSW abattoirs
- All change! Now it's time to get a Wiggle on
- Probe into retailing on the net
- ACCC to investigate internet clothing deals
- Three original Wiggles to hang up their skivvies
- Bandt wants unions to back Greens policies
- Chevy chase over as Holden secures US export deal
- Gang of three's feud held back relations with China
- Shorten returns fire after BHP chief's attack
- Surge in vanity drugs pushes busts to new high
- Brain drain: why young entrepreneurs leave home
- Gillard fails to act on Labor plan to help refugees blacklisted by ASIO
- Tasmania dips into debt
- Kroger the loser in Costello attack: Kennett
- The price is right?
- Patients forced into repeat surgery over faulty hip implants
- Hockey weakens Abbott's commitment to the disabled
- Panel to help unions avoid HSU scandal
- Hockey doubt on disability funds
- Inquiry questions 'minimal' action in pursuit of Trio fraud
- Sandilands ruling falls short of blanket ban
- Thomson says he won't name names to the police - yet
- Thomson tells Laurie Oakes, but not police
- Children in hiding thanks to foreign help
- Pyne emailed Slipper's accuser
- Pyne sent aide email after drinks
- Quit Facebook or be expelled, school says
- You're fired! Video mix-up reveals Apprentice victor
- Ocean temperature made Queensland floods worse: study
- Striving for balance over gay marriage
- Gorilla warfare as women activists don the mask for art's sake
- Children in hiding after Family Court battle
- More funds, more diversity, says Australia Council review
- New chapter has opened for small bookshops, says top author
- Refugee limbo spurs suicide attempts
- Boom in food allergies driving physicians nuts
- Carbon compo payments begin
- Abbott to defend defamation claims
- Back me, Gillard urges unions
- Chinese official: it's us or America
- Refugees' ASIO despair
- Carbon tax cash on its way to families
- Thomson should go if guilty: Windsor
- Bid to strike out Slipper cab charge claim
- Fears for super obese mums-to-be
- Swan to tell business he's still committed to cut in company tax rate
- Solomon Lew sued over US luxury yacht bump
- Women still missing in manager ranks
- $30m Sumatra forest deal in doubt after concerns over funding
- Canberra knows cost of carbon and value of saying nothing
- Indonesia lifts prisoner-swap hopes
- Gender diversity good for business but women shut out of C-level suite
- Gillard says troops to exit Afghanistan by end 2014
- HSU whistleblower hit for $40,000 legal fees
- Jailed executives are Chinese, Carr told
- Just what Solomon Lew didn't need - a parking mishap
- PM leaves door open to disability levy but rebuffs Abbott offer to help
- Parents working too hard, say children
- Cold War warning as China hits out at defence co-operation with US
- Custody battle: PM urged to help kids on the run
- Business slams casuals plan
Julia Davison is seeking to change the focus, and the culture, of the once-troubled childcare business.
After three years of tireless campaigning from advocates and the media, Ali Jasmin has been released, but his story is not unique. As an inquiry into his case - and 23 others like it - begins, Natalie O'Brien examines the case that became a catalyst.
Farmers who decided to grow rice by relying solely on rainfall are beginning to reap the benefits of their foresight.
FORGET hospital and ambulance cover. A survey of the reasons why people take out private health insurance reveals they are more interested in massages, gym memberships and plastic surgery.
THE most vulnerable frogs in NSW are being ravaged by a deadly parasite.
The answer is not as simple as 'stopping the boats' , writes lawyer Edwina Lloyd.
A toxic chemical banned in Europe because it can cause burns, rashes and respiratory troubles has been found in imported children's school shoes sold by major retailers. Tests undertaken three months ago by the Council of Textile and Fashion Industries revealed 25 per cent of the shoes it bought and tested contained the toxic chemical DMF (dimethyl fumarate).
Police have been unable to find answers to the whereabouts of a Dutch masterpiece stolen from the Art Gallery of NSW.
Julia Gillard faces mounting pressure from her backbench to increase the unemployment benefit as MPs argue it is so low people have been forced into poverty or have turned to crime.
Australian publishers are desperate for hot sex - and willing to pay big bucks for it.
THE acting head of the Health Services Union has accused the NSW government of ''playing silly buggers'' with the appointment of an administrator for the troubled East branch.
Brisbane played host to what might have been the happiest Greek people in the world yesterday.
IT HAD all the makings of a Mills and Boon novel.
POLICE are investigating a claim Senator Bill Heffernan assaulted an employee of Chris Hartcher, the NSW Energy Minister, in an alleged homophobic attack at a fractious Liberal Party meeting on the central coast.
Emergency tugs have been sent to rescue a cargo ship that has broken down on the Great Barrier Reef after its engine lost power yesterday.
The GFC, the high dollar and natural disasters have created a perfect storm in Cairns, writes Frank Robson.
Key players are trying to claim the high ground on industrial relations, writes Deborah Snow.
America's leading banker was left a little red faced this week, writes Damien Murphy.
There's nothing the media likes more than a ''bombshell'' to break the routine of reporting the same old, same old big issues, such as economic crises, political wrangles and Craig Thomson's credit card receipts.
JAMES PACKER'S Crown group has accused the rival gaming company Echo Entertainment of ''lies and numerous breaches of its own code of conduct'' following the release of the final report of an inquiry into the Star casino.
LIGHTS, mirrors, skinny models - the thought of buying clothes can be a self-esteem nightmare.
THE WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, would stand a good chance of securing a Senate seat, most likely at the expense of the Greens, a new poll has found.
TODAY Fairfax Media launches a new way for you to have your say. It's called WikiCurve and it's part of the Herald's commitment to provoke thought and discussion about key community issues. It's an experiment in how people can use the power of digital tools to affect their peers and decision-makers.
A LEADING Afghanistan expert has described as ''fairly way out'' the Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr's claim that Taliban participation would make a future Afghan government more sustainable.
AUSTRALIANS are pouring into New York at a rate of almost 1500 a day and are the Big Apple's third-biggest overseas spenders, spurred on by the favourable exchange rate and new work opportunities.
''SHE'S got him.'' Sarah Legge cannot see her dog among the waist-high grass tufts characteristic of the central Kimberley, but the conservation scientist runs towards the distinctive bark the mutt makes when she has caught her prize.
THE suicides last month of four residents of the mountain village of Kinglake, ravaged by the Victorian firestorm of February 2009, has left the community on edge.
ANIMAL rights groups and Labor backbenchers have slammed the sanctions issued to livestock exporters who breached animal welfare rules as weak and dismissed claims by the government the new regulations are working.
THERE was the daily diet of kippered herrings. The incessant rain that made the running track a soggy mess. And the climax to the cut-price opening ceremony when the release of 10,000 pigeons sent the crowd running for cover.
THE government's failure to promote patient interests in the wake of what is unfolding as Australia's worst orthopaedic debacle has triggered an outcry from patient and health groups.
JUDY SMITH knew nothing about heroin until it had her only child, Daniel, in its grip.
The war on drugs has raged for decades with organised crime the only winner. Catherine Armitage reports.
ARE your children spending too much time talking and texting on their mobile phones? According to new research, it's your fault. Or more specifically, the fault of the genes you passed on to them.
It is difficult to imagine it now when there seems such little music in the hearts of Australia's politicians, but not so long ago song and mirth spread a bit of magic across the national political landscape and clear into the skies.
Very few things are new in politics, and so it was this week as the Craig Thomson and Peter Slipper dramas reignited talk about parliamentary ethics and a code of conduct for federal MPs.
Soap slurs, bets and beer raids - John Coates is helping to keep the Olympic rivalry between Britain and Australia very much alive, writes John Huxley.
Judy Smith knew nothing about heroin until it had her only child, Daniel, in its grip.
The drugs dilemma: ?I don't have a golden bloody bullet here ... I just know we need to have a better conversation about this'
Ranjini was found to be a genuine refugee before ASIO decided last week she is a security risk for Australia. But the government won't tell her why, and now she's facing a life in detention.
ANIMAL welfare breaches have been uncovered in all 10 of the state's red meat abattoirs, a government review has found.
Is it a mere changing of the guard or is it an early indicator of the decline and fall of the Wiggly empire?
The competition watchdog will launch an investigation into clothing importers who are reaching agreements with overseas suppliers to stop selling their products to Australians on websites.
AUSTRALIA'S competition watchdog will launch an investigation into clothing importers who are reaching agreements with international suppliers to stop selling their products to Australians on overseas websites or instructing them to lift their web prices.
AND then there was one. After entertaining children for 21 years the Wiggles will undergo a massive makeover with three of the original band members - Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt and Greg Page - departing in favour of younger performers.
UNIONS should back the Greens workplace policies at the next election because they offer the best protection for workers and reflect schemes from this week's Australian Council of Trade Unions congress, deputy leader Adam Bandt says.
IT HAS been rumoured, leaked and hinted at for almost four years but Holden finally confirmed its worst kept secret overnight - it will begin exporting V8-powered Commodores to North America next year.
THE Labor leadership feud stalled for more than a year the creation of an annual summit to strengthen Australia's brittle relationship with China.
The government has turned on the BHP Billiton chairman, Jac Nasser, suggesting he clean up his own backyard before blaming the workplace relations laws for the increase in industrial disputes in the mining sector.
RECORD levels of performance and image-enhancing drugs are being stopped from entering Australia, with new police figures revealing the country's obsession with looking good is at record levels.
"WE'VE created crack for women," says 20-year-old entrepreneur Nikki Durkin of her online fashion startup 99dresses. The trouble is, Australian financiers don't want to get the habit.
The Gillard government has failed to implement a decision of last year's ALP national conference that offered hope for almost 50 refugees facing indefinite detention.
Tasmania will fall into net debt, borrowing to pay its bills, as the smallest state battles sluggish economic growth running close to recession.
The credibility of former Liberal Party heavyweight Michael Kroger was shattered when he launched an extraordinary public attack on his one-time close friend and political ally Peter Costello, according to Jeff Kennett.
Is Australia's carbon price too high compared with other major countries, or will it be all right in the end?
MORE than 1000 patients have had to undergo repeat hip implant surgery as new figures show a dramatic rise in the failure rate of once-popular implants.
THE Coalition has diluted its commitment to a National Disability Insurance Scheme with the shadow treasurer, Joe Hockey, saying it would be irresponsible to promise the scheme when there is no known way to fund it.
A NEW panel set up by the ACTU and led by a retired Federal Court judge will help unions avoid serious governance scandals such as those engulfing the Health Services Union.
Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey has cast doubt on the funding for the proposed national disability insurance scheme under a Coalition government.
AUSTRALIA's top fraud fighting agencies have been called to account for their failure to pursue those responsible for stealing $176 million in Australia's largest superannuation theft.
AUSTRALIA'S media watchdog has been forced to defend its decision to stop short of banning controversial radio presenter Kyle Sandilands from making demeaning comments about women and girls.
CRAIG THOMSON has declined a request from the Victorian police to nominate the people he claims tried to set him up with prostitutes.
Craig Thomson has declined a request from the Victorian police to nominate the people he claims tried to set him up with prostitutes.
THE mother embroiled in a bitter international custody dispute over her four daughters says a mysterious overseas benefactor is helping her children hide from authorities seeking to return them to Italy.
Opposition powerbroker Christopher Pyne made direct email contact with Peter Slipper staffer James Ashby within minutes of leaving late-night drinks in the Speaker's office earlier this year.
THE opposition powerbroker Christopher Pyne made direct email contact with the Peter Slipper aide James Ashby within minutes of leaving late-night drinks in the Speaker's office earlier this year.
A primary school principal is threatening to expel students aged under 13 who refuse to delete their Facebook accounts, in a bold bid to stamp out cyber bullying at her school.
A ninemsn employee might be in the firing line today after accidentally posting a video online announcing the winner of Channel Nine's Celebrity Apprentice before it was due to air tonight.
Abnormally high ocean temperatures off the coast of northern Australia contributed to the extreme rainfall that flooded three-quarters of Queensland over the summer of 2010-11, scientists report.
The retired High Court judge Michael Kirby told a Senate inquiry into gay marriage earlier this month that despite the heights he had reached in his career, he remained a second-class citizen because he could not marry his partner, Johan van Vloten. A reader wrote: ''It seems that all Kirby has to do is to raise his tired old hat and he gets a free kick from the Herald.''
They're among the world's most famous activists, yet their identities have remained a secret for more than 25 years.
THE grandmother of the four children at the centre of an international Family Court battle has said her mother ''would die'' before she returned her great-grandchildren to their father by last night's midnight deadline.
THE Australia Council needs $21 million more in funding and should overhaul its grants application process to welcome emerging art forms, reversing the perceived prejudice towards big arts organisations such as theatres and opera companies.
THANK God for little bookshops. Jeanette Winterson is nearly pentecostal about them and thinks they are the saviour of the book trade.
REFUGEES with no prospect of being released or resettled after secret Australian Security Intelligence Organisation assessments branded them security threats have suffered a spate of suicide attempts inside detention centres
IT WAS once a staple of the lunchbox but the humble peanut butter sandwich is increasingly being shunned from school lunches as the number of children, especially preschoolers, with allergies continues to rise significantly.
MORE than 1.6 million families will start receiving their share of $325 million in compensation for the carbon tax from today.
Tony Abbott has vowed to defend himself against accusations of defamation from a Victorian construction union leader.
JULIA GILLARD has urged the labour movement to stiffen its spine and fight its way out of its slump, as she acknowledged people are frightened about the impending carbon tax but insisted they have nothing to fear.
Australia cannot juggle its relationships with the United States and China indefinitely and must choose a ''godfather'' to protect it, according to a prominent Chinese defence strategist.
Asylum seekers branded security threats by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation have been involved in a spate of suicide attempts inside the nation's detention network.
MORE than 1.6 million families across the nation will start receiving their share of $325 million in compensation for the carbon tax from today.
Craig Thomson should be out of the Parliament if he is convicted of a serious civil offence, independent says.
A request to strike out claims made against the Speaker, Peter Slipper, regarding the misuse of travel entitlements has been lodged with the Federal Court by the Commonwealth Government.
Two in 1000 pregnant women in Australia had extreme morbid obesity in 2010.
THE Treasurer, Wayne Swan, will offer an olive branch to big business today by renewing the government's commitment to lower the company tax rate, a week after the federal budget scrapped a promised reduction.
Retail magnate embroiled in legal stoush with a fellow billionaire after their yachts collided.
Only 22 per cent of 1200 chief executives say they've appointed a female senior manager.
THE future of a much-vaunted $30 million Australian project to protect Indonesian forests for their carbon is in doubt after an independent review found it is not the best use of the money.
IF CARBON could be removed from the atmosphere as efficiently as it has been scrubbed from the latest government carbon tax advertisements, our problems would be solved.
Indonesia has given its strongest indication yet that it will allow transfers of prisoners to and from Australia.
RESEARCH may show women in management is good for business, but only 22 per cent of 1200 Australian chief executives say they have appointed - or even intend to appoint - a female senior manager.
THE Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has confirmed the plan to have Australian troops in Afghanistan until the end of 2014, although they could be home ''possibly earlier'', after key foreign allies questioned reports of an early pull-out.
THE woman who supposedly blew the whistle on corruption inside the Health Services Union will have to pay legal fees of more than $40,000 she incurred while defending herself against findings by Fair Work Australia.
BEIJING: The three Australians sentenced to long jail terms in China - Stern Hu, Matthew Ng and Charlotte Chou - were in effect considered Chinese nationals by the Chinese government, despite holding Australian passports, the Foreign Affairs Minister, Bob Carr, said.
THE retail magnate Solomon Lew has become embroiled in a legal stoush with a fellow billionaire after their luxury superyachts collided in a Florida shipyard, causing damage estimated at $500,000.
THE Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has declined to rule out introducing a levy to fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme and has rejected a proposal by the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, for a multi-party parliamentary committee to oversee the creation of the scheme.
ABOUT one in three 10-year-old children say their parents work too hard, and about one quarter of all parents agree, research by the Australian Institute for Family Studies has found.
BEIJING: China has criticised Australia's close military alliance with the United States as an outdated throwback to the Cold War era in an apparent rebuke of Canberra's decision to allow a US military presence along Australia's north coast.
The Prime Minister has been urged to intervene after the Family Court ordered four children to board a plane by the end of today to return to the homeland of their father, an Italian citizen.
Plan to provide better protections for casual workers would 'damage the nation's interests'.
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