The outlook statement talks of continued weakness in recruitment markets which management argue -- more persuasively than other peers -- is cyclical rather than structural given a softer public sector in late 2005.

From a procedural perspective, the issues from here are: bidder due diligence; recommendation levels; and, any conditionality on the bidder's funds,

If [the ceremony] is not that, it will be an also-ran, and Melbourne is not that sort of place.

It's of a scale that hasn't been seen in Australia before and it's a scale of truly ... international standard.

The sad reality is that groups have already interacted by insulting each other's religions. In most cases, certainly in the Danish case, it's a calculated insult. In the West, we are allowed to make calculated insults in the name of freedom of speech.

Truth No. 1 is that blasphemy is in the eye of the beholder. One person's honest critique is another's blasphemy.