The Australian Flexibility needed to protect workers | In hard times, union demands that deny reality cost jobs | ALL of a sudden it's the early 1980s again. Now, as then, the economy is slowing and there is a real risk that unemployment will rise rapid... (photo: WN / Aldrin Leyba)
The Australian Vast wreckage of a president Americans want to forget | The New York Times columnist Frank Rich marvels at the grandeur of George W. Bush's numerous failures | THE last NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll on George W. Bush's presidency found 79 per cent of... (photo: AP / Charles Dharapak)
The Australian Observers approve Bangladesh polls | DHAKA: General elections in Bangladesh this week were "credible", monitors from Commonwealth nations concluded yesterday, urging rival parties to accept the result and work together. | "Most ke... (photo: AP / Saurabh Das) BangladeshElectionsPhotosPoliticsSociety
NZ Herald UN to join push for Fiji elections | The United Nations has agreed to work with the Commonwealth to try to get an agreement on the timing of parliamentary elections that would return military-ruled Fiji to... (photo: AP / Ed Wray) DemocracyElectionsFijiPhotosUN
The Australian Scrutiny can stop another Haneef case | A closer watch on police and public servants is required | JOHN Clarke's review of last year's arrest and detention of Queensland based Indian national Mohamed Haneef i... (photo: AP Photo / kalpana) AustraliaLawPhotosPoliceTerrorism
