Victorian consumers will lead the post-Christmas shopping binge according to the Australian Retailers Association (ARA), spending about $682m on Boxing Day while NSW is expected to fork out $584m.
Eventually, even in heavily ironic England, this may be where Boris Johnson's ambition to lead the post-Cameron Tory party comes unstuck; what is he serious about, other than the business of making us like him by making us laugh?
But in reality, California, a rich state that helped lead the post-Sputnik push for public education in the 1960's, has fallen so far behind that even six straight years of spending increases have left the latest generation of state officials and union leaders struggling to meet what would seem a modest goal: the national average in spending per pupil of roughly $6,600.
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were among eight men who paid tribute to the man who led the Post newsroom from 1968 to 1991 – through the coverage of the Watergate scandal that toppled the presidency of Richard Nixon and elevated the newspaper to new heights.
So it was on June 25, when a sizzling story on the Whitewater investigation initiated by Woodward and coauthored by Susan Schmidt led the Post in a five-column display.
Bradlee, who led the Post from 1968 to 1991 and became the best-known newspaper editor of his generation, has died.
Leonard Downie, who led the Post from 1991 to 2008, wrote the report, "The Obama Administration and the Press," for the Committee to Protect Journalists.
What type of underdeveloped moral compass, contempt for democratic processes and lack of imagination over R&D policies led the post Editorial Board to write and publish this Post View?
Mithika Mwenda Let citizens lead: The post-2015 development agenda will ultimately take form in the villages, towns and cities – the places where people actually live [and not in the UN headquarters in New York where the new goals will be decided].
