Sixth asylum boat in four days arrives

THE sixth boatload of asylum-seekers to reach Christmas Island in the past four days has been brought ashore at Flying Fish Cove.

Read a newspaper from a bygone era

For a cure to cultural amnesia, tried and tested gardening tips or just a laugh at the past, try the National Library of Australia’s magnificent archive of digitised newspapers, writes Jim Forbes .

Balanced funds not as good as shares

AUSTRALIANS would have been better off putting their superannuation solely into Australian shares for the past decade.

Checks reveal drug labs at fault

Deficiencies have been uncovered at 98 per cent of the pharmaceutical laboratories audited by the drugs regulator in the past year.

Boom helps put 100,000 in jobs

THE resources boom has helped generate more than 100,000 new jobs in the past three months.

The Status of Women in Developing Countries

Over the past 40 years the level of women and girls education and health standards in developing countries has improved

Same tax arguments, but politics trickier

FOR the past two days, Australia’s biggest mining bosses have spent hours in the wood-panelled, windowless, slightly claustrophobic cabinet suite.

Markets in turmoil over debt

LOSSES on the Australian stockmarket in the past six weeks passed $140 billion and the Australian dollar plunged more than US3c.

Homer voted greatest screen character

HOMER Simpson has been named as the greatest character created for TV and film in the past 20 years.