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Despite their best attempts, the Opposition couldn't breach the Government's desperate defence of Peter Garrett this week.

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To combat the problems of violence against Indian students in Melbourne, Hungry Beast examines a local prep school helping Indian students assimilate, with classes in thinly veiled racism and hating bad coffee.

Crikey readers weigh in on ASIO, the horrors of the housing market and housing affordability and the NSW ALP.

The messy collapse of Melbourne-based software firm SCentral appears to have reached an end, with the company placed in liquidation with debts of more than $10 million, less than four months after it sold its assets to rival IT provider Brennan.

Business investment rebounded strongly in the December quarter hinting that the mining boom was back with added oomph, just as RBA officials predicted.

With Tony Abbott arguing for a tax-free direct action plan, Kevin Rudd needs business to pack his economic model. But the initial support for an ETS is falling away, reports Jason Whittaker and Matthew Knott.

Christopher Joye and Steve Keen go head to head on the Australian residential property market.

Snow business takes on a new meaning, world trade is at its the worst since 1945. Plus, China to rationalise it car market, but plans do not include the gas-guzzling Hummer in today's business snippets.

Wall Street finished up 91 overnight. The Dow was up 111 at best and down 2 at worst. Bernanke’s semiannual testimony on monetary policy drove the markets.

The radio station Nova has been an extremely expensive experiment, that has been proven to be a disaster financially, writes a Nova insider.

Alan Jones, in Sydney, and Eddie McGuire and Jon Faine, in Melbourne, were the big winners from the first radio ratings survey for 2010.

Nine won with the Games averaging a million viewers for the first time these Winter Olympics.

Caroline’s poetry a little queer ... MPs slam Murdoch newspaper ... The internet no safe haven for poison pens ... The funniest headline fails of all-time ... Newspaper shares rise despite ad slump

The insulation scheme was shut down and the jobs of at least 5000 people and the immediate living standards of another 12-15,000 family members got sent down the toilet because journalists were incompetent.

The Greens are getting much better in the money raising department and now in Tasmania they have grasped the importance of being seen as the underdog. Plus, Garrett's off the hook and other political tidbits.

The base has spoken: Mitt Romney is the man most likely to win America's Next Top Republican and challenge Barack Obama in 2013. Harley Dennett reports on the influential Conservative Political Action Conference.

Upon obtaining a copy of Malcolm Fraser and Margaret Simons' new book Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs, Gerard Henderson began a snarky correspondence with Margaret Simons. These are those letters, and this is his story.

If we chuck in the idea of a market mechanism for reducing carbon emissions, we need to think seriously about how to minimise the problems of direct action.

The federal government's NT income management scheme has been branded a nutritional failure, with indigenous communities continuing to load up on junk food despite stringent measures meant to boost fruit and veggie sales.