Retail sector hit by flood levy impact on sales

THE sale by billionaire John Gandel of his half share in the $900 million Northland shopping centre in Melbourne has been hit with its own tidal wave after brokers issued a downgrade to the retail property sector if the government's flood levy is initiated.

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Coles On Front Foot To Sell Recovery Plan

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.

Back Home And Safe, Australians Relive The Hell

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.

Swept Up In Grief

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.

Truth Swamping Pm

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.

Scientists Downgrade Chances Of Meteorite Calamity

Devastating meteorite strikes, which could wipe out cities or create tidal waves, occur much less frequently than currently believed, according to British and Russian scientists.

Monday 17 July

23 days until International Day of the World's Indigenous People. Birthdays of Jimmy Cagney and David Hasselhoff. Two years since tidal waves hit north-west Papua New Guinea, killing 2000 people. "It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all." -- Georges Courtelin

Site Unseen

There is more to geography than maps and learning the countries of the world. The Internet also offers keen geographers the latest on tidal waves and erupting volcanoes. Discover which volcanoes are currently erupting at Volcano World, http://volcano.und. nodak.edu/, this site also offers volc

Delicious Doom

IT'S five miles wide and hurtling at unimaginable speed towards a collision with Earth that will result in nuclear winter, towering tidal waves, and massive eruptions of bad dialogue and worse acting. No, we aren't talking a deafening Hollywood blockbuster in 1998, where cowering movie-goers root

Png Toll Unknown

VANIMO.- Relief workers sealed off the most devastated areas of Papua New Guinea's West Sepik coast yesterday, to allow hundreds and perhaps thousands of unrecovered bodies - victims of a series of tidal waves a week ago - to decompose. The official death count stands at more than 1300, but 6000

Png Tidal Wave Terror Toll: 3000

VANIMO.- Efforts to save injured survivors of the tidal waves which devastated northern Papua New Guinea intensified yesterday as officials feared the death toll could rise to at least 3000. John Tekwie, governor of the West Sepik province hit by the three waves late on Friday, said the number

Quake Sparks Tsunami

Tidal waves start as an insignificant ripple on the ocean's surface capable of passing under a ship unnoticed, but they become giants as they approach land, destroying everything in their path. A tidal wave, or tsunami, three of which smashed into the Papua New Guinea coast on Friday, can be cau

Japan's Tidal Wave Scare

TOKYO.- The tidal wave scare that briefly disrupted one of Japan's most popular holidays yesterday was just business as usual for a nation that always lives under threat of the earth - and sea - moving. Japan's Meteorological Agency estimates nearly 10 per cent of the energy released worldwide by

Now It's The Indian Connection

OUTSOURCING used to be the buzz word of the IT industry as it grappled with a desperate shortage of the human skills needed to stay afloat in the tidal waves of technological development. Now there is a new word churning in the wild worldwide digital surf - offsourcing. It was invented in Ind

Making Nets With Mac-nificent Ease

NO COMPANY worth its salt today can be without an intranet to handle in logical fashion the tidal waves of information with which we all now have to deal. And, if you want an intranet, the easiest way to set one up is to use an Apple Macintosh. That's the message being spread around the country now

Hot Dog

Automatic document updating comes with OpenDoc and Apple's Cyberdog software, reports GARRY BARKER. AS the world's commerce and industry turns increasingly towards the use of intranets and the Internet, control of these tidal waves of information becomes vitally important. For example, enginee

Many Parts Make A Clever Net Hound

AS COMMERCE and industry turn increasingly towards the use of intranets and the Internet, control of these tidal waves of information becomes vitally important. For example, engineers need to know that the specification sheet they have is the latest version. Purchasing officers need to know in

Apprehension And Anticipation On The Road To Atlanta

THE construction, the training, the mind games and the tidal waves of hype are over. Today, what the world has been waiting for since Barcelona four years ago begins again in Atlanta. Today, the ideals that inspired the rebirth of the Olympic Games 100 years ago - physical and mental excellence

Nine's Programming Scuttles Seven

NINE crushed the opposition last week, recording one of the biggest ratings wins in the past year. Much of the credit goes to Nine's programmers, who cleverly scheduled two specials - Tidal Waves, Tornadoes and Twister on Tuesday and Don Bradman - 87 Not out on Wednesday - to attract viewers away