28 August 2010 | Peter Crayford | The Australian Financial Review
There are limits to the ability of director Michael Winterbottom and screenwriter John Curran to capture the 1950s crime novel
28 August 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
The Cold War espionage thriller is back and it's called Salt.
28 August 2010 | Sophie Morris | The Australian Financial Review
Tony Windsor is a canny politician who listens to his constituents. His conservative electorate of New England was once Nationals heartland but now gives Windsor the sort of loyalty most politicians only dream of.
28 August 2010 | Tony Walker | The Australian Financial Review
Ian McAllister,
28 August 2010 | Jamie Freed | The Australian Financial Review
How fast things change. Just three years after its disastrous acquisition of Alcan, Rio Tinto has rebounded just as rival BHP Billiton finds itself under pressure.
28 August 2010 | James Eyers | The Australian Financial Review
Professional cycling is the missing link in the Australian sporting landscape and Chris White is determined to change that.
28 August 2010 | Deirdre Macken | The Australian Financial Review
Back when the Easter Show was a big deal, it was fun watching the country cousins arrive in town. Along with their over-sized cows, fuzzy sheep and impossibly big pumpkins, the country visitors were clearly a different breed.
28 August 2010 | Ben Hurley | The Australian Financial Review
Three years ago Sydney racing identity Frank Tagg rejected a $10.25 million offer for his house-sized penthouse crowning the five-star Swissotel in Sydney's CBD.
28 August 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
The federal election may still be weighing on the minds of many but the capital's property market seems to be ticking over regardless.
28 August 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
It's been a mild winter in Hobart and agents are hoping that augurs well for spring.
28 August 2010 | Jonathan Barrett | The Australian Financial Review
It's a buyer's market in Perth this spring, after the expected resources-fuelled boom that emerged early in the year failed to ignite.
28 August 2010 | Scott Elliott | The Australian Financial Review
Spring is shaping up as a time of reckoning for Melbourne's property market as uncertainty over the country's political and economic future weighs on the minds of vendors.
28 August 2010 | Ben Hurley | The Australian Financial Review
Analysts are predicting a slow spring for Queensland properties, which have shown less price growth than all other capitals except Hobart for the past year.
28 August 2010 | Ben Hurley | The Australian Financial Review
Those watching inner city auctions earlier this year likened listing a house to throwing chips to seagulls. Record numbers of home owners wanted a piece of the action and threw their properties into the frenzy.
28 August 2010 | Andrew Cornell | The Australian Financial Review
A few months ago, Woolworths decided it would no longer accept so-called scheme debit cards - Visa and MasterCard products that draw money directly from a customer's savings, like eftpos.
28 August 2010 | Rachel Lebihan | The Australian Financial Review
Many Australian shoppers complain about a lack of local goods on supermarket shelves, but it's usually the cheap imports that end up in their trolleys.
28 August 2010 | Katrina Strickland | The Australian Financial Review
Rafael Bonachela has a theory about why Cuban dancers are so good. There's the Russian technique, the long, Latin limbs, and the intensity of focus that comes from isolation.
28 August 2010 | Michiko Kakutani | The Australian Financial Review
Jonathan Franzen's
28 August 2010 | Brook Turner | The Australian Financial Review
It was a homecoming in middle age that turned Impressionism's master into one of the world's best-loved painters.
28 August 2010 | Mark Skulley | The Australian Financial Review
Melbourne's new Greens MP has flagged he will support Labor but still has clear points of difference.
28 August 2010 | Lisa Murray | The Australian Financial Review
Rob Oakeshott, 40, is the youngest and most left-leaning of the three independents. He has argued for an emissions trading scheme and a more compassionate refugee policy.
28 August 2010 | Deirdre Macken | The Australian Financial Review
In the family of federation, the siblings are getting fractious. Queensland has declared itself above all that southern baloney; Western Australia is pulling on its boots and walking out the door; NSW is lashing out like an adolescent; Victoria is wringing its hands over the fracas and South Australia is finally getting its act together only to find the family falling apart.
28 August 2010 | Geoff Kitney and Sophie Morris | The Australian Financial Review
Voters were unable to make a clear choice. Now it's up to the fringe players in Parliament.
28 August 2010 | PETER KERR | The Australian Financial Review
West Australian voters clearly prefer their MPs to have an independent streak - and the Nationals live up to expectations.
28 August 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
Tasmanian independent and Iraq war whistleblower Andrew Wilkie may prove to be the key to which party forms government.
28 August 2010 | Angus Grigg | The Australian Financial Review
When Bob Katter senior died in 1990, the common theme of tributes was that federal Parliament had lost its last "real character". The political class, even in north Queensland, would never again throw up a frontier member like "old Bob".
21 August 2010 | Angus Grigg | The Australian Financial Review
The burst of activity in Australia's rural sector is all about locking in the supply of key commodities, rather than punting on a super-cycle.
21 August 2010 | Angus Grigg | The Australian Financial Review
It was the image of burning crops outside Moscow that first got the world's attention. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin then abruptly banned wheat exports, pushing prices up 30 per cent almost overnight.
21 August 2010 | John Stensholt | The Australian Financial Review
The two Davids relished taking on cartels, be they petrol or shopping. And rapidly rolling out discounted offerings helped them build huge personal fortunes.
21 August 2010 | Matthew Drummond | The Australian Financial Review
Sometimes you have no choice. You have to rely on someone else. So it was when
