Muhummad Yunus has already produced one great breakthrough. He transformed the concept of aid by pioneering micro-lending, tiny loans as small as $20 to poor villagers, and has lifted many millions out of poverty as a result. He won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition.

Germaine Greer helped change the world; she deserves better than ridicule.

Throwing money at the problem worked a treat

LAST week I saw Manpower, Australia's No.1 all-male review. Buns of steel, ripped abs, glistening six packs, Rock Eisteddfod choreography and music you'd expect to hear coming out of a vehicle with a sticker reading "If the van's rockin', don't bother knockin"' — right beneath the one that says "Fat..read more

IT WASN'T until I was about 16 that I honestly grasped the reality that I was going to become an adult one day. Until that point I had subconsciously assumed that you were either a child or an adult, not both, and that I had been blessed by being born..read more