Fittler All But Resigned To Losing Tupou

IF ROOSTERS fans have woken this morning dirty that their side gave up an eight-point lead to capitulate in the second half against Newcastle yesterday, their day will not get any better from the club's admission they have all but given up on re-signing representative second-rower Anthony Tupou.

Desperate Measures Employed To Find Staff

BONUSES and bounties are being offered to find enough people to staff Sydney's building needs as a booming economy strains at the leash of full employment.

At Work, At Play, It's All The Same Thing To The New White-collar Intelligentsia

'Study finds working at work improves productivity" was the headline of an article I read recently. "According to a groundbreaking new study by the Department of Labour, working - the physical act of engaging in a productive job-related activity - may greatly increase the amount of work accomplished during the workday, especially when compared with the more common practices of wasting time and not working."

Planning A Nest Egg

A delicate balance may be needed for a comfy retirement but don't leave it too late and it can be done.

Dead Reckoning

HIH is history and its judge tells us to learn from it, but few past inquiries drew so much blood. Kate Askew reports.

Out Of The Blue And Into The Black: Time To Flense A Blubbery Carcass

It can be something as simple as a request by golfers for private helicopters to get them from their five-star hotels to the first tee. Sometimes it's the mental arithmetic that reveals the third-round loser at the Australian Open tennis will ``earn" the average annual wage.

The Front Row

With the business end of the Rugby World Cup approaching, MALCOLM KNOX reflects on the former players who drive the action from the commentators' box. NEIL Edwards used to play football. In the Australian television industry, this seems to substitute for talent, experience and on-air presentat

Driving Home A Bargain

Emotion may drive a lot of luxury car buying decisions, but finance is the fuel that gets the deal on the road. Robin Bowerman reports on your options Car buyers in Australia are now being offered a greater range of finance options than ever before, but the changes to luxury car financing in Aug

The Drum

GOLD IS ALL SWINGS AND ROUNDABOUTS THE gold bugs were wearing nervous smiles last week, boosted by the realisation that although gold stocks are an inflation hedge, no-one seems to have yet spotted that there is not much inflation actually out there. The movements in the overall sharema

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* LION MANURE: Our inquiries on behalf of Mr Philip Bradley, of Lake Bathurst, who is seeking a supply to scare wild deer from his garden, led us to the Lion Safari at Warragamba. Sorry, they don't collect the stuff - it just lies out there in the sun. And the lions would take a dim view of any