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2008 October:   Business

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Carbon

(see also in Climate: Mitigation and National)

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Adam Morton, Emission cuts to squeeze smelters, The Age, 2008 Oct. 31 (aluminium smelting in Australia will be among the big losers as the world moves to cut greenhouse emissions, with its output projected to be halved by mid-century)
China warns on emissions control, BBC, 2008 Oct. 29 (China admits its greenhouse gas emissions are equal to America's and that there is little prospect of an early improvement)
Tim Colebatch, Emission model to call polluters' bluff, The Age, 2008 Oct. 29 (claims rejected that an emissions trading scheme will force industries with high carbon emissions to leave Australia)
David Hencke, Minister bows to calls on climate change bill, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 27 (Green campaigners hail 'world-class' legislation as shipping and aviation to count in emission targets)
Cathy Alexander, ‘Green coal’ to save the economy, The Age, 2008 Oct. 23 (Forget clean coal—now it's “green coal” that could save the planet and Australia's economy)
Adam Morton, Emissions trading plan under fire, The Age, 2008 Oct. 21 (pressure is mounting on the Federal Government to recast its emissions trading blueprint after an analysis found it could give the aluminium and black coal mining industries more than $1 billion compensation each in the first year alone)
Elliot Morley, Low-carbon economy is not a luxury, BBC, 2008 Oct. 21 (the low-carbon economy is an integral part of economic recovery, not a luxurious extra, says Morley, president of GLOBE International; in this week's Green Room, he sets out the reasons why the current financial crisis offers a unique opportunity for us to clean up our act)
Leon Gettler, Financial meltdown just a curtain-raiser to what we face with global warming, The Age, 2008 Oct. 16 (the business model that assumes carbon is free is a model that is no longer viable)
Charlemagne: A changed climate, Economist, 2008 Oct. 4 (the European Union is struggling to deliver on its promises to cut carbon emissions)
Adam Morton and Peter Ker, Compo offer for coal plants, The Age, 2008 Oct. 3 (Climate Change Minister Penny Wong reassures coal-fired power generators they will be compensated under emissions trading)
Adam Morton, Trading to soften blow, The Age, 2008 Oct. 3 (what would cutting greenhouse emissions by 90% by 2050, as recommended by Professor Ross Garnaut, involve?)
Juliette Jowit, Met Office warns of need for drastic cuts in greenhouse gases from 2010, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 1 (cutting global emissions by 3% a year is only hope of avoiding dangerous temperature rise; study says inaction could have dire consequences)

Competition and Cartels

(see also Marketing)

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Cameron Houston, Tabcorp accused of pay-off bid, The Age, 2008 Oct. 9 (gaming giant tried to persuade rival not to bid for Victoria's lucrative poker machine licence with $20 million inducement, court documents show)
Terry Macalister, ‘Paraffin mafia’ firms given £500m fines for price-fixing, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 2 (secret meetings led to fixing of prices and markets for chewing gum, tyres and candles)

Consumerism

(see also Social and in Social)

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Zoe Wood and Ruth Sunderland, Will we worship at the new temples of consumerism?, Observer, 2008 Oct. 26 (a retail downturn is forecast and customers can no longer indulge their taste for overspending)
American retailing: Left on the shelf, Economist, 2008 Oct. 25 (America's retailers need to respond to plummeting consumer demand)
Jenni Russell, Consuming anxiety, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 24 (this herd reaction of a stampede to frugality is a political challenge that must not be ignored)
Ian Black, With 265 shops and 50 restaurants, an impossible city is reborn, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 18 (the opening of a new retail empire in London is sublime timing for students of paradox)
Anna Tims, Tour operators that can't cope with women doctors, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 3 (Airtours explained that its computers only recognised men as doctors and that if the passenger wanted to reclaim her femininity she would have to be a ‘Mrs’)
Andrew Godwin, Plain language needs stark reminder, The Age, 2008 Oct. 3 (there are moves to have contracts that reveal more of the risks)

Copyright and Trademarks

(see also in Internet and Technology)

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Nick Abrahams, Does music have a DRM-free future?, The Age, 2008 Oct. 23 (as a lawyer I rarely get to quote the Village People in the office but the costumed sages' defiant lyrics “You can't stop the Music, Nobody can stop the music” will be ringing in the ears of Microsoft and Walmart executives as they wonder about the future of their DRM-protected music sites)
Stephen Hutcheon, Brewer accused of ripping-off iBeer idea, The Age, 2008 Oct. 16 (mega US brewer Coors being sued for millions over allegedly copying a $US2.99 novelty interactive beer download for the Apple iPhone)
Kate Connolly, Poetic licence: dead writer gets TV demand, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 2 (Friedrich Schiller receives notice from licence-collecting agency threatening legal proceedings)
AP, Hollywood gangs up on ‘rent, rip and return’ software, The Age, 2008 Oct. 2 (Hollywood's six major movie studios today sued RealNetworks to prevent it from distributing DVD copying software that they said would allow consumers to “rent, rip and return” movies or even copy friends' DVD collections outright)
Raymond Gill, Once collaborators, two acclaimed art families fall out over reworked film, The Age, 2008 Oct. 2 (rift develops between two prominent Melbourne arts families over moral rights and copyright of an award-winning film made in 1958)

Economics and Policy

(see also Money)

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Michael West, What does Keynes advise in a crisis? Avoid it in the first place, The Age, 2008 Oct. 17 (the enhanced equilibrium theory is designed to keep the economy flying in normal conditions)
David Marquand, Situation vacant: a theorist is sought to succeed Mr Keynes, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 11 (the capitalist system is the least bad we have, but the role of states and markets need redefining for the modern economy)
Steven Pearlstein, World crisis turns into meltdown, The Age, 2008 Oct. 8 (what we have is a liquidity crisis that is bigger than anyone has seen, on top of an insolvency crisis that is bigger than anyone has seen)
Larry Elliott, Get ahead of the game, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 7 (now the denial is over, there are three key tasks: in philosophy, in policy, and practical action)
Madeleine Bunting, Faith. Belief. Trust. This economic orthodoxy was built on superstition, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 6 (there is no alternative, went the mantra; now this corrupt mythology lies in tatters, the crisis of conviction is profound)
Bridie Smith, Economic rumblings to be felt in classrooms, The Age, 2008 Oct. 4 (the tumult in the global economy could change the way school economics is taught, with the emphasis shifting from the benefits of a free market to the importance of regulation)
Larry Elliott, This primal scream of rage is a call for thorough overhaul, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 3 (the whole system has to be rebuilt; a recovery must draw lessons from 90s Sweden, and focus on growth over inflation)

Environment and Conservation

(see also in Health and Science)

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Peter Ker, Businesses wilt under heat of bans, The Age, 2008 Oct. 25 (businesses fear imminent closure, as uncertainty over Melbourne's water restrictions continues to fester)
——, Feathers will fly at talks on wetland threat, The Age, 2008 Oct. 22 (fewer migratory birds will make the journey from the northern hemisphere to Australia if Asian nations continue to degrade their internationally listed wetlands, experts will tell a summit next week)
Andrew Darby, Logging blamed for decline in already rare swift parrot, The Age, 2008 Oct. 21 (one of Australia's rarest and fastest birds, the swift parrot, seems to be plummeting in number, and logging has been blamed)
George Monbiot, This stock collapse is petty when compared to the nature crunch, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 14 (the financial crisis at least affords us an opportunity to now rethink our catastrophic ecological trajectory)
Jo Adetunji, Bleak warning that UK fish face extinction, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 14 (severe overfishing biggest environmental threat facing Britain today, says Marine Conservation Society)
Richard Black, Whale deal falls at last minute, BBC, 2008 Oct. 13 (hope for consensus between environmentalists and whalers in Barcelona is derailed by a last-minute Australian intervention)
——, World 'to fail' on nature target, BBC, 2008 Oct. 13 (the world's governments will fail to meet their agreed target of curbing biodiversity loss by 2010, conservationists tell the BBC)
Andrew Burbidge, Wonder land in danger, The Age, 2008 Oct. 13 (there is a great opportunity to ensure the North Kimberley is properly recognised)
Carrillo Gantner, Heritage is more than buildings, The Age, 2008 Oct. 13 (the State Government has the opportunity to protect our ecosystems forever)
Richard Black, Nature loss ‘dwarfs bank crisis’, BBC, 2008 Oct. 10 (the global economy loses more money from deforestation than the current banking crisis, says an EU-commissioned report)
Andrew Darby, Rich waters need 'greater safeguards', The Age, 2008 Oct. 9 (a call for greater protection of Australia's marine riches has followed the discovery of a deep-sea ecological treasure trove south of Tasmania; CSIRO marine scientists have found 80 extinct volcanic seamounts, 274 new species and the rare red crystalline mineral crocoite)
Conservation: Where the wild things are, Economist, 2008 Oct. 4 (a new database will warn companies if their activities threaten rare species)
Marlowe Hood, Earth faces 'tsunami' of species loss, The Age, 2008 Oct. 4 (animal and plant species are vanishing at unprecedented rates, evidence that the Earth is facing a tsunami of mass extinction, warn experts gathering for a global conservation conference starting tomorrow)

Fraud and Corruption

(see also in Internet and Social)

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Paul Millar, Tinkers cursed for blarney frauds, The Age, 2008 Oct. 31 (band of Irish "tinkers" loaded up with blarney and goods for sale lands in Melbourne as part of nationwide tour where they fleece buyers looking for a bargain)
Rachel Williams, Secret website for net fraudsters shut down after worldwide raids, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 18 (nearly 60 people arrested in connection with the DarkMarket forum which sold stolen personal data)
David Leigh, Britain's failure to tackle corruption damned amid new claims against BAE, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 18 (arms giant accused of fraud over Saudi deals as international monitors put UK ministers in dock)
Bank turmoil fuels phishing boom, BBC, 2008 Oct. 10 (scammers and fraudsters are capitalising on the changes sweeping through global financial markets and sectors)
Jason Dowling, Ballarat councillors face charges, The Age, 2008 Oct. 10 (two Ballarat City councillors face a total of 17 charges for failing to appropriately declare business interests, in breach of local government laws)
John Silvester, Loyalty ‘shields police corruption’, The Age, 2008 Oct. 10 (corrupt police are being protected through a misguided sense of loyalty that leads colleagues to lie and cover for them, according to the Office of Police Integrity annual report, tabled in State Parliament yesterday)

Globalism and Free Trade

(see also in International)

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Jennifer Freedman and Jonathan Stearns, Asia, Europe support banking rules revamp, The Age, 2008 Oct. 27 (Asian and European leaders have called for an overhaul of global banking rules that date to World War II, lending support to French President Nicolas Sarkozy as he presses the US to join an effort to resolve the financial crisis)
Madeleine Bunting, A crisis sparked by the world's rich will have the poor paying the highest price, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 20 (our worries about jobs or pensions pale beside the fallout Africa and Asia now face in this absurdly skewed global system)
Zanny Minton Beddoes, The world economy: When fortune frowned, Economist, 2008 Oct. 11 (the worst financial crisis since the Depression is redrawing the boundaries between government and markets; will they end up in the right place?; introduction to a special report; other items:    Taming the beast: How far should finance be re-regulated?;   Of froth and fundamentals: The real lesson from volatile commodity prices: speculators have long been a popular target for politicians frustrated by volatile commodity prices;   A monetary malaise: Central bankers helped cause today's mess: will they be able to clean it up?;   Charting a different course: Will emerging economies change the shape of global finance?;   Beyond Doha: Freer trade is under threat: but not for the usual reasons;   Shifting the balance: More than a new capitalism the world needs a new multilateralism)
Peter Mandelson, In defence of globalisation, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 3 (we need another Bretton Woods to lessen the risks but keep the benefits of world financial markets)
Daniel Flitton, China holds aces as US loses face, The Age, 2008 Oct. 2 (amid chaos on Wall Street, the question looms—who wins?; increasingly, eyes are flickering towards China)

Management

(see also in Computing)

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AAP, Managers under duress 'make poor decisions', The Age, 2008 Oct. 23 (global economic crisis could hurt more than just the bottom line of Australian businesses, workplace psychologist warns)
Leo Benedictus, Do open plan offices work?, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 14 (the idea of putting staff together in one big room is as old as the office itself)
Simon Caulkin, 'Trust me, I'm a manager. Doesn't work, does it?, Observer, 2008 Oct. 12 (company executives have not only forfeited society's trust; they don't trust each other)
The paperless office: On its way, at last, Economist, 2008 Oct. 11 (no longer a joke, the “paperless” office is getting closer)
Bethany McLean, Enron was the pit canary, but its death went unheeded, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 4 (history is repeating itself as companies hide debt, blame the market for their failings and expect the taxpayer to pony up)
Leon Gettler, Boom to bust for workforce outlook, The Age, 2008 Oct. 2 (finding ways to work with an army of older people is one of the most challenging managerial issues)
Kate Benson, Puffed up managers can't help but feel a little cocky, The Age, 2008 Oct. 2 (if your boss parades around, a bright silk tie on his breast to attract attention, verbally pecking at junior staff and protecting his turf, he is only doing what has come naturally for more than 2 million years)

Manufacturing and Mining

(see also in Science and Technology)

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Jason Dowling and Ben Schneiders, Brumby aboard buying local bid, The Age, 2008 Oct. 22 (governments would buy more Australian-made products under a plan being hatched to stem job losses hemorrhaging in the manufacturing sector)
Industry and the financial crisis: Meanwhile, in the real economy . . ., Economist, 2008 Oct. 18 (how the world's most basic industries are coping with the crash)
Barry Fitzgerald and Michelle Grattan, Alarm bells for Australia as China tries to delay iron ore shipments, The Age, 2008 Oct. 10 (Australia's mining sector rocked by first signs that China could be preparing to cut previously voracious demand for iron ore)
Ian Porter, Luxury car tax forces rethink on engines, The Age, 2008 Oct. 9 (changes made to luxury car tax begin to influence design of premium cars, with Audi announcing plans to install smaller diesel engines in some of its models)
Ashley Seager and Julia Kollewe, UK manufacturing slump confirms economy is in recession, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 8 (new figures prompt further calls for Bank of England to cut interest rates by half a point)
George Monbiot, This green subsidy for car makers is just a disguised corporate bail-out, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 7 (having long sabotaged eco-innovations, the motor industry is now demanding billions to cut its carbon emissions)

Marketing

(see also Competition and in Internet)

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Fast food in China: Here comes a whopper, Economist, 2008 Oct. 25 (the world's second-largest burger chain is gearing up in China)
John Harris, Hard sell, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 24 (it took 10 years to build and cost £1.6bn—but as London's vast new Westfield shopping centre prepares to open, the economy is heading into recession; how can it—and the growing number of giant malls around the country—survive?)
Emma Young, Ads and their effects are equally hard to see, The Age, 2008 Oct. 16 (product placement and split-second publicity are blurring important lines: a blurring between what should be the distinct content of advertising and the editorial independence of broadcasting)
Peter Munro, Sport's fast food fetish keeps coffers fat, The Age, 2008 Oct. 12 (playing field of Australian sports sponsorships resembles a fast-food addict on a bender)
Video games and music: Playing along, Economist, 2008 Oct. 11 (“Guitar Hero” and other games are boosting music sales for some artists)
Dan Harrison, Ten's 'blink and you miss it' ARIA ads breach code, The Age, 2008 Oct. 9 (communications watchdog rules that Channel Ten breached television industry code by including subliminal advertising in broadcast of last year's ARIA music awards)
Fears over electronic cigarettes, BBC, 2008 Oct. 8 (fears are being raised about the boom in sales of so-called electronic cigarettes)
Asher Moses, Telstra spruikers accused of harassment, The Age, 2008 Oct. 3 (telemarketers contracted by Telstra accused of harassing people and making false promises in order to convince them to switch to Telstra)
Matthew Weaver, Call to ban use of cartoons to sell unhealthy food to children, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 2 (Snap, Crackle and Pop, Tony the Tiger, and Moo the Dairylea cow have been recast as cartoon villains in the fight against childhood obesity)

Media and Television

(see also Newspapers and in Technology)

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Dan Harrison, SBS chief denies shift to mainstream, The Age, 2008 Oct. 22 (SBS managing director Shaun Brown has denied multicultural programming is being crowded out of the broadcaster's schedule by higher-rating English-language shows)
Jewel Topsfield, Fraser laments decline of 'multi' in SBS culture, The Age, 2008 Oct. 21 (former prime minister Malcolm Fraser, whose government established SBS, has endorsed a statement warning that the public broadcaster was in danger of losing its way, with "mainstream replacing multicultural")
Emma Young, Ads and their effects are equally hard to see, The Age, 2008 Oct. 16 (product placement and split-second publicity are blurring important lines: a blurring between what should be the distinct content of advertising and the editorial independence of broadcasting)
Dan Harrison, Ten's 'blink and you miss it' ARIA ads breach code, The Age, 2008 Oct. 9 (communications watchdog rules that Channel Ten breached television industry code by including subliminal advertising in broadcast of last year's ARIA music awards)
John Mangan, Cinemas plex their muscle with wide screens but narrow choice, The Age, 2008 Oct. 5 (multiplex maths seemed simple enough—carve a huge cinema into lots of smaller cinemas and you'd be able to give audiences a wider range of films)
Raymond Gill, Once collaborators, two acclaimed art families fall out over reworked film, The Age, 2008 Oct. 2 (rift develops between two prominent Melbourne arts families over moral rights and copyright of an award-winning film made in 1958)

Money and Banking

(see also Economics and Wealth)

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Vanessa O'Shaughnessy, Daniella Miletic, et al., Credit card laws under review, The Age, 2008 Oct. 31 (interest charged on most credit card accounts has not been cut—and some have been lifted—since the Reserve Bank lowered interest rates last month)
Nick McKenzie, Money trail goes global, The Age, 2008 Oct. 29 (police are being outgunned by sophisticated crime syndicates, according to Federal Government report)
Larry Elliott, Phillip Inman and Nicholas Watt, Cost of crash: $2,800,000,000,000, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 28 (Bank of England calls for fundamental reform of global banking system to prevent repeat of unprecedented turmoil)
David Gow, Brussels begins crackdown on complex trading, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 27 (EU internal market commissioner presses industry to agree to central clearing for credit default swaps)
Jennifer Freedman and Jonathan Stearns, Asia, Europe support banking rules revamp, The Age, 2008 Oct. 27 (Asian and European leaders have called for an overhaul of global banking rules that date to World War II, lending support to French President Nicolas Sarkozy as he presses the US to join an effort to resolve the financial crisis)
Hedge funds in trouble: The incredible shrinking funds, Economist, 2008 Oct. 25 (high borrowing and the credit crisis are bad enough for hedge funds; panicky clients are worse)
Prime brokers: Do the brokey-cokey, Economist, 2008 Oct. 25 (where will hedge funds put their business in future?)
A short history of modern finance: Link by link, Economist, 2008 Oct. 18 (the crash has been blamed on cheap money, Asian savings and greedy bankers; for many people, deregulation is the prime suspect)
Kenneth Davidson, In a crisis, old wisdoms come to the rescue, The Age, 2008 Oct. 16 (the real time bomb in our financial system is still ticking: the $90 trillion (about 80 times Australian GDP) global credit default swaps market)
Larry Elliott, Tobin's nice little earner, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 15 (a levy on currency transactions could raise billions and act to calm markets in turmoil)
——, Now is the witching hour when we find out if we are in for systemic meltdown, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 13 (if we escape the mess, we can never let bankers bring us to this point again)
The world economy: A monetary malaise, Economist, 2008 Oct. 11 (central bankers helped cause today's mess; will they be able to clean it up?; part of a special report)
The world economy: Taming the beast, Economist, 2008 Oct. 11 (how far should finance be re-regulated?; part of a special report)
The ascent of money: A financial history of the world, Economist, 2008 Oct. 11 (one way to make sense of the present financial chaos is to look back at the past; by Niall Ferguson)
Ben Perry and Marc Moncrief, World's central banks in joint action to halt carnage, The Age, 2008 Oct. 9 (world's leading central banks simultaneously cut interest rates, in unprecedented combined bid to restore confidence to shattered global financial system)
Ed Pilkington, The scariest politician in Washington: Henry Waxman, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 8 (the world financial meltdown has provoked some pretty desperate behaviour but it has also given rise to a new hero of the hour)
Julia Finch, Fewer banks, fewer mortgage and credit card offers—and more common sense, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 8 (an overhaul of the banking system is likely to result in less choice of financial ‘products’)
Vanessa O'Shaughnessy and Eric Johnston, Big four make no promises to pass on interest rate cut, The Age, 2008 Oct. 2 (Australian banks say they will pass on interest rate cuts if they can, but emphasise that official interest rates are not the only influence on standard variable mortgage rates)

Outsourcing and Consulting

(see also Pay and in Computing and Social)

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In a pinch: How the financial crisis will affect the outsourcing industry, Economist, 2008 Oct. 11 (huge outsourcing deals involving banks are still being done—on October 8th Tata Consultancy Services a big Indian firm, announced a $2.5 billion, nine-year deal with America's Citigroup—but they are getting rarer)
Ben Schneiders, 500 Telstra jobs head to Philippines, The Age, 2008 Oct. 10 (more than 500 Telstra call centre jobs, including at least 200 in Melbourne, are to be transferred to the Philippines)
——, Telstra call centre jobs to be axed in overseas deal, The Age, 2008 Oct. 4 (hundreds of Telstra call centre jobs are set to move offshore, possibly to the Philippines, after the company awarded a big contract to a US outsourcing firm)

Pay and Wealth

(see also Outsourcing and in Computing and Social)

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Naomi Klein, The Bush gang's parting gift: a final, frantic looting of public wealth, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 31 (the US bail-out amounts to a strings-free, public-funded windfall for big business; welcome to no-risk capitalism)
Leonie Wood, Bosses' snouts slurp bonus bonanza, The Age, 2008 Oct. 28 (as average weekly earnings for most Australians rose by a little less than one-third between 2001 and 2007, the amount their bosses took home soared)
Philip Hopkins, Greed is not good, The Age, 2008 Oct. 14 (Lord Michael Hastings, global head of citizenship at KPMG, is blunt: greed is the culprit)
Marc Moncrief and Michelle Grattan, Firestorm sweeps world markets, The Age, 2008 Oct. 11 (more than $90 billion torn out of Australia's sharemarket as crisis meetings of the world's financial leaders begin in Washington)

Privatisation and Private Equity

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Peter Ker, Profits for water retailers dry up, The Age, 2008 Oct. 31 (water restrictions wreak havoc on finances of Victoria's water authorities, wiping off millions of dollars in expected revenues)
Clay Lucas, Kosky under fire over softer transport penalties, The Age, 2008 Oct. 31 (Public Transport Minister's vow to get tough on train and tram operators labelled "a joke" after documents reveal they face lower penalties for poor service)
——, Secrecy over $500m in transport money, The Age, 2008 Oct. 27 (controversial laws have been used to stop the public finding out how Connex and Yarra Trams plan to spend over half a billion dollars of public money)
Paul Kelbie, Private cleaners barred in war on hospital bugs, Observer, 2008 Oct. 19 (Scottish health minister orders an end to privatisation to reduce the spread of infections)
Privatisation in South Korea: Against the tide, Economist, 2008 Oct. 4 (one government at least still plans to sell its assets rather than buy more)

Publishing and Newspapers

(see also Media)

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Damien Pearse, US paper stops the presses to focus online, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 29 (Christian Science Monitor will be the first major US newspaper to abandon print)
Matthew Ricketson, Newspapers diversify to stay ahead of the game, The Age, 2008 Oct. 8 (there has been a lot of talk recently about “quality journalism”, and there will be a good deal more in coming weeks as more than 10% of the editorial staff of both The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald are made redundant)
Angelique Chrisafis, Sarkozy plans to shake up France's ailing newspapers, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 2 (Nicolas Sarkozy is to launch crisis talks to save France's ailing newspaper industry)
Richard Wray, Scientists aim to deliver e-paper in full computerised colour, Guardian, 2008 Oct. 2 (prototype e-paper looks more like sheet of A4 than offerings of rivals such as Amazon's Kindle and Sony eReader)

Recycling

(see also in Climate)

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Social and Property

(see also Consumerism)

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