UOW Journalism: Introduction to Features

Links and Resources

Death row...The convictions of the Bali bombers will be quashed. As the final round of appeals begins, relatives of the victims fear that the three mass-murderers will walk free. Paul Toohey and Cindy Wockner report.

Death row...(pdf) an analysis of the Toohey & Wockner feature

Waiting for the man in the know...HE HOLDS the secret to Australia's sleaziest deal with Saddam Hussein's regime. After the Iraq war he briefed senior Foreign Affairs officials on how Australia could get its hands on Iraq's oil. He smoothed BHP-Billiton's entree into postwar Baghdad as their partner in a potential oil bonanza. He advised AWB when it was time to pay "influential people" in the occupation government.

His Space....Perched on the edge of a bright white power sofa on the supernaturally quiet eighth floor of the News Corporation’s global headquarters, the last thing Rupert Murdoch looks like is a fire-eyed revolutionary. Starched cuffs. Courtly manner. A month past his 75th birthday. But then he starts talking. “To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which, incidentally, is what really destroyed the old world of kings and aristocracies. Technology is shifting power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, the media elite. Now it’s the people who are taking control.” And he’s smiling.

Out of Mel's mind...Mel Gibson's brain explosion was not just a mad moment, according to new research which says the mind of an addict is its own lethal weapon. Diana Bagnall reports.

Risk...We should be feeling safer right now. British officials appear to have foiled a plot to blow up as many as 10 U.S.-bound passenger jets with liquid explosives hidden in carry-on luggage. Another batch of alleged operatives has been discovered and taken out of commission. Several thousand men, women and children did not die ghastly deaths over the Atlantic Ocean. "This," said Republican Congressman Christopher Shays when the arrests of 24 suspects was announced last week, "was a good day."

Market forces...A chef at a market is like a hound on the scent. Head high, eyes bright, senses alert, Jared Ingersoll lopes off so fast that I can barely keep up with his lanky frame.