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Brambles builds team

THE Brambles chief executive-designate, Tom Gorman, has begun corralling his new management team just a week after he was named to take over from Mike Ihlein.

Unis To Face 'free Market'

UNIVERSITIES will enter a new era of competition for public funding that could place some institutions at risk, under a shake-up to Australia's higher education sector.

Student Aid In Line For Major Improvements

YOUTH Allowance and Austudy are expected to be overhauled under a sweeping university shake-up to be considered by the Federal Government.

Unis Celebrate Major Infrastructure Boost

UNIVERSITIES will get hundreds of millions of dollars for infrastructure and make campuses more "student-friendly", as the Federal Government prepares for the biggest shake-up to the sector in decades.

Uni Review Calls For Mergers

UNIVERSITIES are expecting an overhaul of their funding, incentives for them to consolidate and a blurring of the boundaries between vocational and higher education in the biggest shake-up of the sector in two decades.

Staff At Anz Brace For Rejig

A FURTHER jolt is expected through ANZ headquarters this morning as the banking giant outlines details of a planned shake-up of its institutional and corporate business staff.

All Tainted By A Love Of Hate

USE the word "gook" or "coon" at a party nowadays and you'll more than likely have someone object or at least shake their head in total disgust.

Finding Equity In Balanced Pay Scales

JUST as the tech sector was "recalibrated" in 2001, so too the financial sector is being recalibrated through this year's brutal market shake-up.

It Budgets Slashed

FINANCE Minister Lindsay Tanner has promised not to impede the delivery of services during a radical shake-up of government information technology begun as part of the "Razor Gang" process.

University Standards On The Decline, Admit Teachers

UNIVERSITY teachers admit the quality of education students are getting is worse than it was five years ago, placing growing pressure on the Rudd Government as it prepares for a massive shake-up for the nation's tertiary sector.

Exit, Stage Right: It's Curtains For Some In Funding Upheaval

A SHAKE-UP in funding for small to medium theatre companies has left some of them celebrating and others contemplating oblivion.

Gpt Group Expected To Unveil $1.6bn Raising

A SHAKE-UP of one of the market's oldest listed property trusts, GPT Group, is on the cards.

Trains And Boats And Pains

NATHAN REES'S red-hot go is cooling fast, if the measures he announced this week to shake up two central elements of Sydney's public transport are a sign of what is to come. They amount to little more than studied prevarication.

Growing Payne

Mark Wahlberg can't shake his murky - or is that marky? - past.

New Rules For Abc And Sbs Boards

ADVERTISEMENTS will appear in newspapers around the country today inviting Australians to apply for seats on the ABC and SBS boards under a promised shake-up designed to depoliticise appointments to the body.

For A Good Huff Mix Indignation With A Measure Of Martyrdom

Coming from a family prone to taking offence at the merest slight is an inheritance that's hard to shake.

Aisles Emptying For Transport

RISING operational costs and cut-throat competition are giving rise to a major shake-up in the transport and logistics sector and exposing industrial property owners to large financial losses as businesses are closed or sold off.

Get Ready To Shake, Rattle And Roll In The Cash

WARIO LAND: THE SHAKE DIMENSION Platform Wii Publisher Nintendo Price $79.95 Rating PG VERDICT 3/5