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Windschuttle admits Quadrant 'hoax'
UPDATED: Samantha Maiden | 4:52pm
QUADRANT editor Keith Windschuttle has confessed he was "tricked" into publishing an article about scares on biotechnology issues.
New York Times opens front page to ads
Kerry E. Grace
THE New York Times has joined the growing trend of newspapers around the United States of putting advertisements on its front page.
Bligh bid for Logies ceremony
Nick Tabakoff
TELEVISION'S biggest awards night could be headed for the Gold Coast after the Nine Network's owner, PBL Media, yesterday confirmed it...
Boom or bust in book industry
Anita Elberse
AMID the worst economic crisis in decades, publishing executives are still making what many see as big gambles on new manuscripts.
Aussie comedy team chases laughs in US
AUSTRALIA'S pre-eminent mischief-makers, The Chaser comedy crew, have cracked the US television market.
Microsoft loses ground in browser war
John Letzing
MICROSOFT'S internet browser lost a notable number of users during the second half of 2008 as Safari, Firefox and Chrome gain.
Nintendo to start TV channel
Leo Lewis
IN its quest for world living-room domination, Nintendo is preparing to take on the world's top broadcasters.
Brown to report for Seven and SBS
SEVEN Network news chief Peter Meakin is keen to assure viewers reporter Adrian Brown remains part of the network’s landscape. In…
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consolidated Media Holdings | 2.05 | +11.6 | UP | +5.67% |
| WA Newspapers | 5.46 | +27.3 | UP | +5.00% |
| Austar | 0.77 | +2.6 | UP | +3.35% |
| REA Group | 3.90 | +10.3 | UP | +2.63% |
| Macquarie Communications | 0.88 | +2.1 | UP | +2.33% |
| Citadel Resource Group | 0.14 | -0.5 | Down | -3.34% |
| iCash Payment Services | 0.03 | -0.1 | Down | -3.71% |
| Macquarie Media Group | 1.08 | -4.8 | Down | -4.41% |
| Seven Network | 6.77 | -31.5 | Down | -4.65% |
| MKY Resources | 0.01 | -0.1 | Down | -12.5% |
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Opinion
Meltdown is a story with legs
IT IS not often you get a major story that runs a full year and still shows no sign of fading away.
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Time to take stock of 2008
TIME, as you get older, seems to pass at an extraordinary rate.
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Luhrmann won't save us
A brilliant film industry goes bung, correctly identifies some serious issues for the nation's film industry. But all's not lost.
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Business News By Wall Street Journal
CanWest chief beaming over Ten
Nick Tabakoff
THE Canadian head of CanWest Global Communications has great faith in its local Ten Network subsidiary.
Spain joins new tactic to woo tourists
Imre Salusinszky
A THREESOME with a simmering painter versus lust in the dust with a brooding drover are the competing fantasies being offered to...
Networks shun new channels
Nick Tabakoff
THE three commercial free-to-air networks have been permitted to launch a new digital channel -- but none will have the new channels...
Packer to sell off family farms
Andrew Main
JAMES Packer is in talks to sell the family's cattle empire in a move that is likely to net more than $400 million.
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Brush up on fine art portfolio
Tim Blue
In times of stock market uncertainty, investors are looking around for alternatives.
The real miracle is in people
Rowan Callick
THE single most impressive feature of the China I have encountered is not its economic drive, its modernistic makeover or its growing...
2008 a wasted opportunity
Mitchell Bingemann
Relations between the Government and Telstra created deadline blowouts, ruining 2008 broadband opportunities.
Spain joins new tactic to woo tourists
Imre Salusinszky
National Tourist Office of Spain cashes in on Woody Allen's latest, lusty film.
A tough cop's fantasy car
Philip Glenister, the star of Life on Mars, celebrates a symbol of the 1970s and suggests a modern rival.
Invest with the stars
CRITERION: Tim Borehman
Tim Boreham gets in touch with his spiritual side and gives us financial, astrological predictions for 2009
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BOB Oatley's dream of a fourth consecutive Sydney to Hobart win was almost undone by a piece of rubbish - but it was saved by a shark.
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