Growing public opposition will challenge the moral cover given to Australian support for the US alliance and its role in Afghanistan, writes Marcus Strom.

SYDNEY's party season is in full swing, but not all is as it seems when it comes to attracting the "hottest" crowd to your soiree. While it is not uncommon, no matter how incongruous, for such international celebrities as Paris Hilton to pocket six-figure sums to strut about a Sydney..read more

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission is believed to have raided the homes and offices of at least two financial planners over sales of managed investment scheme (MIS) products.

HERE'S something new in the eye-popping world of the paparazzi: the publishers of No Idea magazine claim that disputed photos from a Hollywood party this year were taken by the guests themselves on equipment provided by the hosts.

The performance of fund managers has been poor but it hasn't stopped them lavishing extraordinary largesse on the financial planners who spruik their products to investors. Stuart Washington details the duchessing.