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By way of supplementary question, will the minister advise whether councils are obligated to follow the better development plans? If they decide not to, are they placed under any pressure?

Penny Wong’s water buy-out won't save the Murray. Instead, the Federal Government should acquire every irrigation licence in the system says Democrat MP Sandra Kanck."Professor Mike Young says we should buy every licence. That would cost around $10 billion, so

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. The Democrats will not agree to this move by the opposition to create a loophole which would

In light of the minister's answer, would she please comment on the accuracy of the article by Nick Henderson in The Advertiser in July 2007, in which he states that the minister has been preparing a list of prisoners she

Democrats MP Sandra Kanck has introduced a bill for labelling of foods containing genetically modified material. 'I am seeking the support of the government - we stand to score a trifecta of a kind for SA. We have a firm

We have gone out on our own on container deposits. Last week, the Minister for Environment and Conservation announced that we will go it alone on plastic bags. So, I am saying that we should make it a trifecta and

A TEENAGE girl bitten and whipped by a man she says forced her to commit a sex act had an interest in sado-masochistic sex practises, a court has heard.

THE frenzied foreign raid on Australia's resource and energy assets is only warming up, analysts say, with Origin Energy joining the long list of takeover targets yesterday.

ANZ Banking Group has almost $50 million at risk with troubled business systems company On Q Group which has come under severe financial pressure this year.

ALLCO Finance Group says it expects to post a significant loss in fiscal 2008 through writedowns and impairments, possibly more than $1.5 billion.

THE Federal Government will use its first Budget to close a loophole that allows highly-paid executives to minimise their tax.

WESTPAC has shrugged off global market turbulence to post a solid rise in first half profit to more than $1.8 billion.

ANZ and Westpac issued almost all the top-secret tax-haven bank accounts at the centre of an alleged $100 million tax-evasion scheme.

BUILDING approvals have dived by more than five times market forecasts, with some economists now predicting a rate cut by the end of September.

THE US economy has limped ahead in 2008 just enough to avert the onset of recession, but analysts say it is causing pain regardless of the definition.