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NEWS AND VIEWS
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The Morning Round UpWednesday, 4 June 2008 What the papers say about politics and economics the stories The Age:
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• Costa's $58bn Budget apology for Labor neglect Simon Benson reports NSW Treasurer Michael Costa admitting that the spending on infrastructure was partly about catch up and could have begun up to six years ago when state debt had been virtually wiped out. The Courier Mail:
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The Advertiser: • SA 'running out of teachers' There's a major skills shortage in the education system reports Lucy Hood. What the papers say about politics and economics the opinions The Australian: • Don't blame mandarins Alan Wood on how events are exposing serious weaknesses in the way Prime Minister Kevin Rudd governs. • Babies out I'm too timid to pass any comment on Janet Albrechtsen's assertion that by failing to remind women about their biology and their declining fertility, feminism deliberately ignored the innate desire of most women to have a child. The silence continues. • NSW sees the light on infrastructure the paper's editorial says Costa's third budget finally gets it right. The Age: • Go Nelson, go! Lawrence Money reckons you've got to love an underdog so he's up there in his pavilion to cheer on Doc Nelson. Brendan bloody Nelson! The Sydney Morning Herald: • Michael Costa keeps up appearances While the triple-A credit rating, polished up for display year after year, like grandpa's medals on the mantlepiece, is safe for another 12 months, editorializes Granny, the expected lower budget surplus matches the rather moth-eaten NSW economy. The Daily Telegraph: • What will it cost us, Michael? asks Piers Akermann about yesterday's NSW Budget. Herald Sun: • Edges fray on control freak Andrew Bolt sees the private Kevin Rudd smashing into the public image of Kevin Rudd, and his blood is now all over the polls. The most read stories on Australian websites The Age:
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Some interesting bits and pieces Port Phillip Leader:
Mainichi Daily News: Politics and economics on the international newspaper sites The race for the Democratic Party's nomination is all over bar the formal voting according to the journalists. For the Los Angeles Times the last pieces are falling in to place for Obama and the Washington Post agrees as Obama Looks to Lock Up Nomination . The New York Times has already moved ahead to the next stage of the presidential contest with its lead story Obama Looks to Recruit Clinton's Top Fundraisers . The Jakarta Post : Govt mulls freezing FPI over brutality The difficult task of governing Indonesia is illustrated in this report on the aftermath of Sunday's attack by the Islam Defenders Front on a rally held by the National Alliance for the Freedom of Faith and Religion (AKKBB) at Monas to commemorate the 63rd year of Pancasila state ideology and also to support members of the Jamaah Ahmadiyah Islamic sect. Coordinating Minister for Politics, Law and Security Widodo Adi Sucipto said the government was looking at a 1985 law that allows for the suspension of a mass organization. "We should not only see this problem as a violent action, but as something that may tarnish our country's civilization," Widodo said. The Cold War is no more but if Pravda is anything to go by there is not much Russian love for the United States . I wonder what Nostradamus forercast about that?
The most read stories on international websites The London Times: World leaders tone down menu over fears of hypocrisy "It does not look good if leaders discussing global starvation are seen to be dining lavishly. At the last summit in 2002 we did not give enough thought to the menu and were open - unfairly, in our view - to the charge of hypocrisy." An official of the Food and Agriculture Organisation explaining why lobster, goose and foie gras gave way to pasta, mozzarella, spinach and sweet corn for lunch at the UN food summit in Rome The UK Independent : Germans told how to avoid British tourists Advice by biggest selling German newspaper Bild on six holiday spots to avoid because they are full of Poms serves as a reverse kind of recommendation for readers of The Independent which reprinted the list. USA Today : AP: Obama 'effectively' clinches - An Associated Press tally of convention delegates gives Barack Obama the numbers. Los Angeles Times : Good Samaritan killed in 134 Freeway crash It was an SUV that did it! The Times of India : NRI groom? Rejected! These readers had me googling this morning to learn that an NRI is a non resident Indian and they are no longer seen as the good catches they once were which cannot be good for Australia's recruitment of doctors. The Singapore Straits Times : Teenager crowned Thailand's most beautiful transvestite Cheating a little bit because this story actually came second on this morning's most read list but I wanted an excuse to run the picture and No 1 is the same as yesterday anyway.
The People's Daily, China : New tribe of indigenous Indians discovered in Brazilian Amazon Toronto Globe and Mail: Clinton open to vice-presidential candidacy
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