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NewsMail Morning Edition Sat 08 Oct, 2011 Top Stories More Top Stories » Officials to hold talks on boy arrested in Bali Australian and Indonesian diplomats are likely to hold talks today to try and secure the release of a 14-year-old boy allegedly caught with marijuana in Bali. More » Brave women share Nobel Peace Prize Budget surplus can wait if crisis worsens: IMF Moody's cuts credit ratings of 12 UK banks Warring committees deliver carbon tax reports Undiagnosed toddler died in terrible pain: coroner Car crashes into hospital, three injured Sharks drawn to caged tourists off SA coast Naked crash driver fails to beat heat Men At Work loses final Down Under appeal More Analysis » Ken Henry, patience and the right change It can't be very easy, being Ken Henry. Having thrown himself in earnest at the task of dreaming up a new tax system most of his ideas were greeted with cold silence and the Resources Super Profits Tax was butchered. Outside the tax summit this week, Australian politics was giving a fairly robust demonstration of why when it comes to tax reform, Dr Henry is, as they say, dreaming. More » Government communications: online but out of touch Palestinian statehood alone no road to peace My friend, Diana Gribble, died the other night ... Speech regulation: a linguistic sewerage system Occupy Wall Street will not come to our utopia 10 years in Afghanistan: where to from here? Meatloaf, horsey drunks and the dog that ate my grand final The predictable and pointless tax forum Bolt factor: the making of an opportunist Just In More Just In » Budget surplus can wait if crisis worsens: IMF The International Monetary Fund says the Federal Government would be in a strong enough financial position to delay returning the budget to surplus if global markets got worse. More » Officials to hold talks on boy arrested in Bali Car crashes into hospital, three injured Moody's cuts credit ratings of 12 UK banks Syrian forces kill seven protesters: activists Liberia's Sirleaf: post-war hero and rights icon Gbowee sowed peace through feminine havoc Karman: first Arab woman to win Nobel Peace Gaddafi urges mass protests as diehards fight back Mills leads Tigers past Kings World More World » Brave women share Nobel Peace Prize Three women who have campaigned for women's rights and an end to violence in Liberia and Yemen are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. More » Timeline: Decade in Afghanistan Footage offers glimpse of N Korea hunger crisis UN says 2,900 killed in Syrian violence Anti-corporate protests spread to Washington NATO sets out goals to end Libya mission Business More Business » Budget surplus can wait if crisis worsens: IMF The International Monetary Fund says the Federal Government would be in a strong enough financial position to delay returning the budget to surplus if global markets got worse. More » Moody's cuts credit ratings of 12 UK banks Local shares continue to climb Delays expected as Qantas engineers strike Obama issues stern warning on eurozone crisis Bank denies investment duty to suing councils Politics More Politics » Warring committees deliver carbon tax reports Stephen Dziedzic Two parliamentary committees, each dominated by a different party, have handed down polar opposite reports on the Federal Government's carbon tax. More » Lawyer urges swap deal for boy arrested in Bali Rudd pins down cause of Richo syndrome Abbott, unions welcome manufacturing plan Australian-made plan closes jobs forum Sport More Sport » Mills leads Tigers past Kings Star Boomers guard Patty Mills announced his arrival to the NBL in style with 28 points to lead Melbourne past Sydney 82-76 in the season opener on Friday night. More » Wallabies welcome back big guns Socceroos put five on Malaysia Hasler to coach Dogs from 2013 Tomic bows out in Tokyo Science and Technology More Science and Technology » Mirror group denies phone hacking claims Europe correspondent Emma Alberici, wires The Mirror Group in Britain has denied phone hacking allegations made by a former journalist. More » Study shines new light on damaging UV rays Space 'snakes' revealed in first images Steve Jobs: titan who drove a tech revolution Summer bushfires risk rivals the 1970s Environment More Environment » Warring committees deliver carbon tax reports Stephen Dziedzic Two parliamentary committees, each dominated by a different party, have handed down polar opposite reports on the Federal Government's carbon tax. More » Grounded ship threatens top NZ tourist spot Sharks drawn to caged tourists off SA coast Study shines new light on damaging UV rays Meeting to review global tuna catch quotas About this email You received this email because you are subscribed to ABC News email alerts. This message was sent to you at starnewsposting@gmail.com Please add newslists@your.abc.net.au to your email address book to see images by default and stop the email being treated as spam. This email address is not monitored - Please don't reply to this email. 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