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COLES Myer chief executive John Fletcher has responded to the tidal waves of takeover speculation that have washed over the company in recent weeks with a nationwide advertising campaign that highlights the performance of management and staff in achieving the retail giant's strategic goals.

The first Australians returned home last night from sites devastated by tidal waves and told of running in terror as surging water swept bodies to sea.

SIX-MONTH-OLD Melina Heppell is one of two Australians confirmed among the 23,000 dead in tsunami-devastated South-East Asia. Melina, from Western Australia, was swept from her father's arms on Patong Beach, in Phuket, Thailand, when tidal waves hit on Sunday.

THERE is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; and there are tidal waves that can flush the most battened-down of governments out of a duplicitous comfort zone.