Greed Is Not Good...

LORD Michael Hastings, global head of citizenship at KPMG, is blunt: greed is the culprit. "However we reflect on the current financial pressures, at their root are the dramatic issues of life - greed, personal responsibilities, ambition ... these are basic human behaviours," he said.

Rudd's Multicultural Policy 'opaque'

THE Rudd Government has not corrected the policies of the Howard government towards tolerance and diversity, Liberal backbencher Petro Georgiou says. "(Its) approach to multiculturalism remains opaque," he said, citing Labor's support for a citizenship test.