via thedailybeast.com The price paid for celebrity is caricature, and by the end of his rich, accomplished life, Christopher Hitchens had become everyone’s lovable [...more]

via thedailybeast.com As I surveyed him over lunch, chain-smoking cigarettes literally in between mouthfuls, I knew that only a miracle would preserve him for old age. via: [...more]

via smh.com.au NSW opposition and minor party MPs will lose access to costings for their policy ideas, apart from election time, under a recommendation to the government they [...more]

via theaustralian.com.au Building unions threaten new action over sham contracting BY: NATASHA BITA From: The Australian December 16, 2011 BUILDING unions are threatening [...more]

via theaustralian.com.au UNIONS have declared employers emboldened by the aggressive industrial tactics of Qantas. But business groups blamed the increasing aggression of [...more]