Sunday October 29, 2006
Sheikh in stand-down offer
Muslim cleric Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali gives the first indication he would be prepared to stand down as mufti.
School chaplain plan gets go-ahead
PM to unveil school chaplaincy program to encourage values guidance and mentoring for students.
Outcry at Cheney torture views
SUZANNE GOLDENBERG | Vice-President reignites US debate on torture by seeming to endorse the practice of "waterboarding".
Timor alert for Diggers
LINDSAY MURDOCH, DILI | Rumours circulate in Dili that appear to be aimed at provoking attacks against Australians.
Australia dudded in Cup
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Omagh by nose in epic duel
ANDREW EDDY | An accident that ruins carefully devised plans leads to the stunning finish of the 2006 Cox Plate.
- GALLERY Winners and grinners
Baillieu campaign to kick off with ad blitz
JASON DOWLING | Liberal leader to appear in an advertising blitz explaining why the Liberals should govern the state for the next four years.
The wars within wars destroying Iraq
TOM HYLAND | As things go from bad to worse in the country, it is the violence between Iraqi groups that is the main threat to the country's future.
Scanty clothing never justifies rape
RACHEL WOODLOCK AND ANNA HALAFOFF | Sheikh Hilali is unfit to be a leader of Australian Muslims.
- SALLY YOUNG The dark side of democracy
- ROBERT DOYLE Party in search of a narrative
- MONICA GOULD No match made in heaven
- LETTERS Trees the rural lifeblood
- EDITORIAL Sheikh not fit to be mufti of Australia
- FULL COMMENTARY COVERAGE
Bag lady with a bright future
LIZ PORTER | She never made design school but one Melburnian's colourful, idiosyncratic luggage is now a $3 million international business.
All Ords | 5329.9 | -0.6% |
ASX 200 | 5358.5 | -0.6% |
Industrial | 5801.1 | -0.3% |
Property | 2182.8 | -1.2% |
Music lovers choosing to tune in to choice
STEPHEN CAUCHI | Victorians can now walk into a store, cherry-pick individual songs from albums using a "digital kiosk" and make their own compilation CD.
- Wanted: 50,000 angels for collective film
- Google accused of harbouring racists
- Mystery noise is a real humdinger
- Top tunes miss the hit parade
- This iPod user rocks
- How to embellish your photos
- Sony laptop almost burns house down
- Firefox 2 boasts improved security and interface
- FULL TECHNOLOGY COVERAGE
Fab five going for the gongs
JOHN MANGAN | Bernard Fanning, Hilltop Hoods, Wolfmother and Eskimo Joe look set to dominate Australian music's ARIA Awards in Sydney's Acer Arena.
- MUSIC Ring the curtain down - CDs are losing it
- FASHION Rent-a-rack
- ARTS Raising the roof
- BOOKS Parental guidance
- FASHION The simple life
- FULL ENTERTAINMENT COVERAGE