13 March 2010 | Robert Harley | The Australian Financial Review
Amid recovery, an examination of how property trusts fared during the global financial crisis is sobering and timely.
13 March 2010 | Nick Lenaghan | The Australian Financial Review
Blame it on the boom. Old failed structures get a rerun in the hope that this time they will perform better.
13 March 2010 | Alison Kahler | The Australian Financial Review
A cruel twist of fate last year delivered a double whammy to investors who 10 years ago had sought nothing more than to better their financial positions.
13 March 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
"I worry personally from time to time who the hell can afford to buy this stuff? But people seem to buy it." An executive of a Big Four bank commenting on Australian house prices. He declined to be named.
13 March 2010 | Louise Dodson, National affairs writer | The Australian Financial Review
Deserts do strange things to people. Just ask Tony Abbott, who is remaking the political rule book with his $2.7 billion parental leave scheme.
13 March 2010 | Patrick Durkin | The Australian Financial Review
The client list of retired 79 year old Sydney stockbroker, Robert "Bob" McMillan Blanshard was the envy of every other broker in the country. But after his arrest last month investors are counting their losses.
13 March 2010 | Angus Grigg and Julie-anne Sprague | The Australian Financial Review
For much of the last decade Bourke has been at the epicentre of a slow-motion disaster unfolding in rural Australia. The town, on the banks of the Darling River, seemed to have little future.
13 March 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
There's nothing like a flood to lower the price of water. Seen as "liquid gold" by some during Australia's long drought, this commodity has suddenly become far less rare.
13 March 2010 | deirdre macken | The Australian Financial Review
The past decade has been a period of retreat in America and the impact of this is only just being addressed, as the xenophobic attitudes of the Bush administration are replaced with the more open stance of the Obama era.
13 March 2010 | Marcus Priest | The Australian Financial Review
Ian Macfarlane was a lobbyist's nightmare as industry minister in the Howard government.
13 March 2010 | Marcus Priest | The Australian Financial Review
There is nothing more former than a former ministerial adviser. Just ask Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's former chief of staff and now Qantas head of corporate affairs David Epstein.
13 March 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
From the federal government's lobbying code of conduct
13 March 2010 | Nick Lenaghan | The Australian Financial Review
Muhammad Yunus is a contrarian. The gentle demeanour of the former academic belies a startling capacity to turn conventional thinking on its head in search of a solution.
13 March 2010 | Katrina Strickland | The Australian Financial Review
Sweden beat Hollywood to creating film version's of Stieg Larsson's hugely successful Millennium series, and the values and vision of the late author were central in the films' production.
13 March 2010 | Hannah Tattersall | The Australian Financial Review
Crated in Paris and transported across the seas, it will be treated with the utmost care when it finally arrives in Brisbane. Some will be mesmerised by its colours, others will declare it the work of a master.
13 March 2010 | Tara Bahrampour | The Australian Financial Review
THE BREAD OF ANGELS: A Journey to Love and Faith
13 March 2010 | Leo Robson | The Australian Financial Review
Twenty-five years ago, in White Noise, Don DeLillo perfected a distinctive, paranoid style. His new novel is a distant echo of that masterpiece.
13 March 2010 | Peter Crayford | The Australian Financial Review
Adapted from Rajiv Chandrasekaran's book Imperial Life in the Emerald City, Matt Damon plays a US officer sent to Iraq to find mythical weapons of mass destruction. Directed by Paiul Greengrass it covers similar territory to In the Loop with men being sent to locations where no weapons exist and where politics hold most sway. It's a gritty but earnest thriller shot hand-held which can be irritating.
13 March 2010 | Peter Crayford | The Australian Financial Review
Renée Zellweger's Southern belle, loosely based on the actor George Hamilton's mother, takes an emotional journey in the 1950s.
13 March 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
ACROSS1 Dog born with irritating complaint (5)4 Reserve, pressing, is coming back strongly (9)9 Turn over famous sheep (5,2)10 Chapter in detail roughly depicted a different way of speaking (7)11 Special resolutions altered peer's extravagant use of money (8,5)14 Tip cut off finger that hurt (4)15 Identify, in different ways of speaking, unfortunate events (9)18 Cooked pie and pickle ordered by an admirer of good food (9)19 A parrot returns (4)21 Treatment of hero undergoes superior academic qualification (7,6)24 Leading type of bank, involved in dodgy deal, is put out of action (7)26 Rate poorly a layer made of clay (7)27 Worry about entering part of room with a cataract (9)28 Cast is not involved in this argument (5)DOWN1 Play for money and nearly bust with king (4)2 A constraint affected business (11)3 One responsible for derby, say, that upset the Queen (6)4 Cease to acknowledge fool backing one in charge (9)5 Russian agreement signed in big star's African place (5)6 Advertisement is not going forward in travelled area, by the way (8)7 Stock farmed in New England? (3)8 Lace makers all checked material (10)12 Shrimp, for example, used up in different blend (3,8)13 Signal sustained in reconditioned woofers (10)16 Fish against sides of granite rock (6,3)17 Copper tucking into hamper is a cool one (8)20 Deterioration doctor and tyro treated (3,3)22 Displaced aliens overlooking large city in Tuscany (5)23 Recognise ending of book immediately (4)25 Meet one in middle of street (3)Compiled by David StickleySolution next week
