Prince Charles coveted the position in the 1980s, but was foiled by then prime minister Bob Hawke who said Australians would not accept a royal "double dose''. Full Article at The Daily Telegraph

As an ‘Airport Economist’ you get to have some funny experiences. En route to Papua New Guinea (PNG) recently, I noticed on my Air Niugini flight from Brisbane to Port Moresby that the instructions in the toilets were in Icelandic! Full Article at The Age

KEVIN RUDD and Nathan Rees are Labor leaders whose surnames comprise four letters, beginning with R. But that is where the similarities end. Full Article at The Age

Asian Australians with entrepreneurial drive and the willingness to work long hours have become the new wave of successful small business owners in the nation’s shopping strips and malls. Full Article at The Age

POLITICAL memoir is not very distinguished in Australia. Some of our best politicians wrote serviceable memoirs, but nothing much more. Full Article at The Australian

KEVIN Rudd brings a new brand of governance to Australia marked by political control yet policy compliance, a contradiction at the heart of Labor's rule. There seems no end to paradoxes Rudd has wrought. Full Article at The Australian

FORMER Labor finance minister Peter Walsh has savaged the Prime Minister as an "economic illiterate" in the wake of the government's decision to reject the Productivity Commission recommendations that would have slashed book prices. Full Article at The Australian

Time heals. This happy snap appeared in The Australian last Friday of former Prime Minister Bob Hawke surrounded at a function in Adelaide by a group of smiling former assassins. Full Article at Crikey

Labor heavyweights from Bob Hawke's government have gathered in Adelaide to mark the upcoming 80th birthday of the former prime minister. Full Article at The Age

FORMER Prime Minister Bob Hawke has called for a national summit on climate change to sweep away misinformation and ignorance on what he says is a critical challenge facing the world. Full Article at NEWS.com.au

FORMER Prime Minister Bob Hawke has called for a national summit on climate change to sweep away misinformation and ignorance on what he says is a critical challenge facing the world. Full Article at Herald Sun

The approaching 80th birthday of former prime minister Bob Hawke has been celebrated with the launch of a book at the University of South Australia. The Hawke Legacy is a collection of views on the years Mr Hawke led the nation. Full Article at ABC Online

FORMER PM Bob Hawke has proposed a national climate change summit to sort out a position on an emissions trading scheme. He made the comments after climate change expert Ross Garnaut delivered the annual Hawke lecture in Adelaide last night. Full Article at Herald Sun

FORMER prime minister Bob Hawke has proposed a national climate change summit to sort out a position on an emissions trading scheme. He made the comments after climate change expert Ross Garnaut delivered the annual Hawke lecture in Adelaide last night. Full Article at Herald Sun

FORMER prime minister Bob Hawke has proposed a national climate change summit to sort out a position on an emissions trading scheme. He made the comments after climate change expert Ross Garnaut delivered the annual Hawke lecture in Adelaide last night. Full Article at The Daily Telegraph

FORMER prime minister Bob Hawke has proposed a national climate change summit to sort out a position on an emissions trading scheme. Full Article at NEWS.com.au

HOW well do Australians understand Kevin Rudd? Not very well. Rudd is the least familiar and, in terms of time spent in the public gaze, the least experienced prime minister of the postwar period. Full Article at The Age

“We are bringing back all our successful programs of 2009 (and) add to that our new strong and domestic content for 2010,” Ten’s chief programming officer David Mott says. Full Article at Herald Sun

The station will also air two new US series, drama The Good Wife and comedy Modern Family. Channel 10 will be heavily promoting a telemovie based on former prime minister Bob Hawke's life, called Hawke. Full Article at The Daily Telegraph