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Issue cover date 05 February 2010
THIS WEEK IN THE WEEK
News
Out of the blocks
The gun fired for the start of a long election campaign when Parliament resumed and immediately became a battleground over climate change. Kevin Rudd reintroduced the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, already rejected by the Senate, and Tony Abbott... Read more »
Business
ASIC gets bigger teeth
The Australian Securities and Investment Commission will have powers to tap phones, text messages and email accounts and raid premises courtesy, of new laws announced by the Federal Government, said Patrick Durkin and Marsha Jacobs in The Australian... Read more »
Sport
Football: World Cup wobbles
Followers of Australian soccer won’t be at all surprised by the latest shenanigans emanating from the corridors of FIFA, said Ray Gatt in The Australian. FIFA chairman Sepp Blatter’s revelation that the goalposts have been moved to guarantee Europe stages the... Read more »
Culture
Theatre: The Sapphires
Based on a true story, The Sapphires takes the audience “on a musical journey back to the swinging ’60s”, said Maria Noakes in The Sunday Times. Set in 1969, four indigenous sisters – Gail, Cynthia, Kay and Julie – sing Motown covers in... Read more »
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