Australia Votes 2007: Liberals promise personal income tax cuts

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 With the election campaign just beginning, Australian Prime Minister John Howard has promised AU$34 billion in personal income tax cuts over the next three years. That is on top of $31.5 billion announced in May, and $36.7 billion announced in 2006. The new tax cuts are based on new projections for…Continue reading

Australia Votes 2007: Liberals promise personal income tax cuts

DaBaby Levitating remix losing US radio audiences after the rapper’s comments on HIV/AIDS

Thursday, August 5, 2021 Rapper Dababy (cropped).jpg DaBaby performing in 2019.Image: Azhern123.(Image missing from Commons: image; log) Following remarks by the rapper DaBaby regarding HIV/AIDS at a Miami, Florida festival, his remix of Dua Lipa’s song Levitating has lost a significant amount of radio audience in the United States of America. Yesterday, Billboard reported that,…Continue reading

DaBaby Levitating remix losing US radio audiences after the rapper’s comments on HIV/AIDS

Commonwealth Bank of Australia CEO apologies for financial planning scandal

Thursday, July 3, 2014 Ian Narev, the CEO of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, this morning “unreservedly” apologised to clients who lost money in a scandal involving the bank’s financial planning services arm. Last week, a Senate enquiry found financial advisers from the Commonwealth Bank had made high-risk investments of clients’ money without the clients’…Continue reading

Commonwealth Bank of Australia CEO apologies for financial planning scandal

Police social media frenzy threatens to prejudice alleged child killer trial

Wednesday, August 17, 2011 Police in Queensland, Australia received an unexpected response from the public on Saturday when they announced on their Facebook page that a 41-year-old man had been arrested and charged with the disappearance and murder of 13-year-old Daniel Morcombe. Morcombe’s disappearance in late 2003 triggered one of the largest manhunts in Queensland…Continue reading

Police social media frenzy threatens to prejudice alleged child killer trial

ElBaradei says no ‘concrete evidence’ of Iranian nuclear weapons program

Monday, October 29, 2007 Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said on Sunday that he had seen no “concrete evidence” that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. Flag of the International Atomic Energy Agency ElBaradei discussed Iran’s nuclear program in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Sunday. When asked “Do you…Continue reading

ElBaradei says no ‘concrete evidence’ of Iranian nuclear weapons program