THE MEANING OF OZ - All you need to know!

The Commodore has helped define the modern era of General Motors Australia and it's been the vehicle of choice for tens of thousands of Australians for decades.

But the popularity of the six cylinder sedan has slipped in recent years and its days may be numbered.

The engineers' union believes Holden is about to either axe the Commodore's production or send its design overseas. The union say hundreds of jobs are at risk.

As Simon Lauder reports the car maker hasn't denied the union's claims.

Hey cartoon queen - can you find David Rowe's melbourne cup themed 'Red Speedaux' cartoon - Tony Abbot as a blinkered jockey flogging a skeletal 'no' horse? I've had no luck tracking it down. It was on Insiders this morning is a thing of beauty.

MIKE BOWERS: From the wonderful mind of David Rowe or dark mind depending on which way you look at it but he's got Tony Abbott riding Red Speedeaux.

(vision of David Rowe cartoon from the Financial Review)

MARK KNIGHT: This is a beautiful play on of course Red Cardeaux who finished by a whisker.

MIKE BOWERS: By a whisker on his nostril.

MARK KNIGHT: And poor Tony lost the federal election by a whisker so he must have felt like he was actually riding red Speedeaux.

(vision of David Rowe cartoon from the Financial Review)

MIKE BOWERS: Red Speedeaux with his NO and his Speedos and the dead horse he's flogging. He's demanding they run it again. Which would be nice and it's Tony who's got the blinkers on, not the horse.

(vision of pictures by Alex Ellinghausen, from Fairfax).....

TV cash for Bali drug boy likely to anger Indonesia
Rebecca Richardson
November 6, 2011/Sunday Age


Nine network to pay Bali drug boy
Victim support groups angered over claims channel nine will pay boy accused of drug possession in Bali.

THE family of the 14-year-old boy on drug charges in Bali has sealed a six-figure deal with Nine Entertainment Co to tell the story of his arrest and trial.

Sources told The Sunday Age last night that the deal, worth between $200,000 and $300,000, includes coverage across 60 Minutes, Nine News, and Nine Entertainment Co's ACP magazines.

News of the deal is likely to anger Indonesian prosecutors and judges, and could impede attempts to have the boy released. The payout could breach Australian laws against profiting from criminal offences.

Nine's managing director, Jeffrey Browne, finalised the deal and it was signed off by the CEO, David Gyngell. A 60 Minutes team may be flying to Bali on Wednesday to film the boy and his family – anticipating he will be released on Friday.

Celebrity publicist Grant Vandenberg, who also represents Alan Jones, Russell Crowe and the recently released Justice Marcus Einfeld, managed the deal, signed on Thursday.

News Ltd's Sunday newspapers said 60 Minutes intended to "unmask" the boy as naive, who only survived the ordeal with the support of his parents.

I guess fourteen year olds aren't good at thinking before they act....hence the different treatment under the law.

But adults....absofuckinglutely....

Life’s Big Questions: Peter Cundall

Theologian Scott Stephens returns to Compass to continue the search for meaning with a host of new guests: Peter Cundall, Cheryl Kernot, Lincoln Hall, Di Fingleton, Warwick Thornton and Margaret Fulton.

Up first is Peter Cundall, the irrepressible face of gardening in Australia. Peter was born into poverty in Manchester, trained as a parachutist in WW2 and fought in the Korean War. Today he is an ardent pacifist and environmentalist. He's packed many lives into his 84 years. So, does he believe in God?

All four major banks have passed on the full central bank rate cut, saying they want to support customers in a tough economic period even though their own costs are rising.