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Intensive care specialist Dr Stuart Lane is preparing to swim the English Channel.

Swim for your life

Intensive care specialist Dr Stuart Lane has an appetite for titanic challenges and the English Channel is in his sights.

Caltex illustration by Simon Bosch

Caltex cleans up in worker compo 'hoax'

Amid the fracas of a wage fraud scandal tearing through Caltex, more than 200 franchisees and senior executives jetted into Tokyo in late March for a three-day conference at Tokyo's swish Hilton Odaiba, overlooking Tokyo Bay.

Minister for Employment Michaelia Cash

Cash under pressure to explain Hadgkiss appointment

Pressure is mounting on Employment Minister Michaelia Cash to explain why Nigel Hadgkiss was appointed to head the building industry watchdog months after it emerged that he was facing allegations of breaking the Fair Work laws he was meant to enforce.