11-February-08 by Anna Moreau and AAP
Rate alert of 8% by year's end
A leading economist has warned that official interest rates could hit 8 per cent by the end of the year, delivering mortgage holders double-digit rates on their home loans, if the surging Australian economy fails to cool and inflation remains high. The West
WA stocks fall behind benchmark
The panics on world financial markets last month has taken its toll on the Deloitte WA index, with the benchmark for WA-listed companies plunging almost 15 per cent last month. The West
Buckeridge takes port fight to court
Billionaire Len Buckeridge has vowed to seek an injunction to prevent the Fremantle Port authority building a new port near Kwinana as the long running feud between the building magnate and State Government intensifies over his plans for a private port on the site. The West
Empired swoops on lame Commander's IT outpost
Struggling Commander Communications has continued its slim down for survival campaign, selling its WA information technology service arm to the Perth-based fledgling Empired. The West
Rio boss writes off new BHP bid
Rio Tinto remains unmoved and unwilling to engage hostile suitor BHP Billiton, despite the bidder's best efforts.
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
Page 3: A leading economist has warned that official interest rates could hit 8 per cent by the end of the year, delivering mortgage holders double-digit rates on their home loans, if the surging Australian economy fails to cool and inflation remains high.
Billionaire Len Buckeridge has vowed to seek an injunction to prevent the Fremantle Port authority building a new port near Kwinana as the long running feud between the building magnate and State Government intensifies over his plans for a private port on the site.
Business: Rio Tinto is under pressure to deliver on its ambitious growth strategy at its full year results on Wednesday as the board attempts to shore up its rejection of BHP Billiton's $165 billion takeover bid.
The panics on world financial markets last month has taken its toll on the Deloitte WA index, with the benchmark for WA-listed companies plunging almost 15 per cent last month.
Struggling Commander Communications has continued its slim down for survival campaign, selling its WA information technology service arm to the Perth-based fledgling Empired.
THE AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
Page 1: The federal government has launched a process to overhaul the rules that discourage private sector infrastructure projects.
Page 3: Westpoint founder Norm Carey has attacked the corporate regulator's bid to recover compensation for victims of the property developer's $320 million collapse.
Page 5: The Rudd government faces a significant hurdle in its plan to completely abolish Australian Workplace Agreements, with key senators considering retaining some form of statutory individual contract.
World: US President George Bush is set to sign a $188 billion stimulus package today aimed at stopping another slide towards recession in a slowing economy (Washington).
Markets: Floods in Queensland and snowstorms in China have disrupted coal production, sending prices soaring to record levels.
THE AUSTRALIAN
Page 1: Australia needs better access to NATO's strategy and planning in Afghanistan, Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon says.
Page 2: Kevin Rudd is set to meet with India's prime minister twice this year in a sign that India's nuclear ambitions are back on the negotiating table.
Page 3: Western Australia's premier Alan Carpenter has ruled out interrogating government MPs over claims that some are still in contact with former WA premier Brian Burke.
World: US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama swept the board on Saturday, winning the state primaries in Louisiana, Nebraska and Washington state (United States).
Finance: Rio Tinto remains uninterested in BHP Billiton's most recent takeover bid.
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Finance: Rio Tinto is under pressure to deliver on its ambitious growth strategy as its board attempts to shore up its rejection of BHP Billiton's $165 billion takeover bid.
THE AGE
Page 1: Former prime minister Malcolm Fraser has called for a dramatic overhaul of the Victorian Liberal Party, saying it is in the grip of ideological conservatives who stack branches and stifle dissent; A police taskforce is investigating an emerging organised crime group intent on exploiting the void left by the destruction of the Tony Mokbel drug cartel.
Page 2: A lack of government support for the film industry is driving movie-makers south to Melbourne.
Page 3: Children today are no better at reading, writing and arithmetic than their parents and grandparents were, despite better technology, smaller class sizes and developments in theories of education.
World: If Hillary Clinton ever thought about having to fight for the Democratic nomination after Super Tuesday, she would have been painfully aware that February would be her month in the wilderness.
Finance: Rio Tinto has put pressure on BHP Billiton to increase its $US147 billion takeover bid by urging shareholders to reject it - until a better offer comes along.
HERALD SUN
Page 2: Australian Rules Football legend Graham Polly Farmer says this week's apology to the stolen generation is 100 years too late.
Page 3: Tens of thousands of poker machine could be phased out across suburban Australia within a decade under a radical new federal tax plan.
World: Barack Obama continues to ride a tsunami of growing support, trouncing rival Hillary Clinton in a clean sweep of the latest round of US presidential nominating contests.
Finance: The federal government has ruled out increasing the value of its $4.7 billion national broadband tender to cater for proposals that would build a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said yesterday.
CANBERRA TIMES
Page 1: Multi-million dollar reform plan for ACT health system. New report shows Australian literacy and numeracy levels are no better than they were in the 1960s and 70s. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd promises big spending measures to address indigenous disadvantage.
Page 3: PM Kevin Rudd promises to talk with anti-pokies campaigners on strict new laws to limit gambling losses.
World: Shops, bars and homes destroyed in a blaze at London's trendy Camden Market.
Finance: G7 meeting of finance ministers in Tokyo failed to bring a quick fix to slowing global growth.
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Forbes selected 20th century s most influential business books of 20.
Highest in the New York Times bestseller list for 10 months, the 2005 champion again reelected.
Fortune business people selected a required reading book one of the 75.
An interesting book to help you with a new way to see the world.
-- Fortune
Geladeweier works extraordinary charm, touched the depths of people s thinking will be affected at thinker of the world.
-- Michael Lewis, the best-selling book Liar s Poker author a people unwilling to release volumes of the works, not on a conventional adventure, capturing the turmoil in the social clues.
-- The Daily Telegraph
Not only is that the public readers were sitting Gradwell of this work is the gospel of business people, and help them to the creative minds of everyone converted into fashionable trend.
-- Magazine publisher
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Forbes selected 20th century s most influential business books of 20.
Highest in the New York Times bestseller list for 10 months, the 2005 champion again reelected.
Fortune business people selected a required reading book one of the 75.
An interesting book to help you with a new way to see the world.
-- Fortune
Geladeweier works extraordinary charm, touched the depths of people s thinking will be affected at thinker of the world.
-- Michael Lewis, the best-selling book Liar s Poker author a people unwilling to release volumes of the works, not on a conventional adventure, capturing the turmoil in the social clues.
-- The Daily Telegraph
Not only is that the public readers were sitting Gradwell of this work is the gospel of business people, and help them to the creative minds of everyone converted into fashionable trend. -- Magazine publisher
The book on the popular solve three major problems, who create popular? Popular mystery? How to create pop?
The book on the popular solve three major problems, who create popular? Popular mystery? How to create pop?
The book is The New Yorker magazine writer Malcolm Geladeweier the full-time one for the talented. His community sudden wave of popular entry point for the study from a new angle to explore the scientific and marketing control mode. In his view, thinking, behavior, information and products are often like an infectious disease outbreak, the rapid spread of the spread. As a patient can lead to a city-wide influenza if individual staff members lashed out at the customers, or several graffiti enthusiasts Guanbuzhu themselves, but in the subway, set off a crime wave; a satisfied customer also emphasised allow the opening of the new restaurant was fully packed. These phenomena are social epidemic wave , which broke out in that moment, the critical level is reached that moment, a tipping point.
Geladeweier visited religious groups, the success of high-tech companies and the world s best salesman, he analyzed several in the book to create a wave of popular personality characteristics of a variety of highly infectious analysis of the events, such as various habits, smoking phenomenon of children s television, commercial advertising and mailing, and to clarify its underlying fuse. A host of great note of the study revealed that the popular tide initiate and maintain its momentum of the principles and methods. For business leaders, artists, thinkers, designers, the book can help you find a development impact of the new communication concept ideas.
Tipping point can be said to be an intellectual adventure memory, fun and highly infectious, thinking people fully aware of the charm and joy. It is particularly important to the book as a navigation map thinking, thinking people to see a new development, and I believe, an imaginative person as long as it can pinpoint the ignition point, we can open up a world full of surprises .
Forbes selected 20th century s most influential business books of 20.
Highest in the New York Times bestseller list for 10 months, the 2005 champion again reelected.
Fortune business people selected a required reading book one of the 75.
An interesting book to help you with a new way to see the world.
-- Fortune
Geladeweier works extraordinary charm, touched the depths of people s thinking will be affected at thinker of the world.
-- Michael Lewis, the best-selling book Liar s Poker author a people unwilling to release volumes of the works, not on a conventional adventure, capturing the turmoil in the social clues.
-- The Daily Telegraph
Not only is that the public readers were sitting Gradwell of this work is the gospel of business people, and help them to the creative minds of everyone converted into fashionable trend.
-- Magazine publisher
