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Gender question for DJs
November 30th, 2009
MOST of its customers are women, most of its store managers are women and the number of women in its executive team are fast making ground on the men. Yet David Jones has just one woman on its board.
A pariah’s honesty lifted curtain on drugs
November 29th, 2009
LAST week, the winner of the Beijing men's 1500m - one of the five-star events on any athletics program - was banned for doping during the Games and forfeited his Olympic gold medal.
Emirates ruler to fight fires at home
November 29th, 2009
THE Dubai debt crisis has forced the chairman of the city-state's Supreme Fiscal Committee and head of the Emirates Airline group Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum to postpone a trip to Australia this week.
No Olympic medals without funding
November 27th, 2009
IN the wake of the Crawford Report and its flow-on effect on Olympic financing, I am speaking up on behalf of the "little guys".
AOC boss keeps Ellis under fire
November 26th, 2009
AUSTRALIAN Olympic Committee boss John Coates is bombarding the federal Sports Minister Kate Ellis with daily criticism of the government-commissioned Crawford review of sport, which concluded that funding was biased towards Olympic sports.
Winter jitters eased
November 25th, 2009
PARALYMPICS: The money is already in the bank to get the Australian team to next year's Winter Games in Vancouver, but that didn't stop Paralympics boss Greg Hartung giving a sigh of relief yesterday when federal Sports Minister Kate Ellis promised to increase funding to Olympic and Paralympic sport.
Coates questions Crawford’s bias
November 25th, 2009
SPORTS FUNDING: An assurance from Sports Minister Kate Ellis yesterday that the federal government is committed to increasing funding to Olympic and Paralympic sport "over time" is unlikely to placate furious Australian Olympic Committee boss John Coates in the wake of the Crawford report.
Ellis pledges Olympic, Para boost
November 25th, 2009
THE Rudd Government has pledged to increase funding for Olympic and Paralympic sports, a week after the Crawford report argued against it.
Ellis pledges more funds for Games
November 25th, 2009
FEDERAL Sports Minister Kate Ellis today said the government would increase funding to both Olympic and Paralympic sports and called for all stakeholders in Australian sport to stop the bickering since the release of the Crawford report.
