It's A Longer Way To The Top Without A Private Lift

IT'S a long ride up to the 36th floor of the 41-storey Southern Cross tower in Exhibition Street, and the journey appears to have taken its toll on Howard Ronaldson (below), the secretary of the Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development. Word has reached Diary that Ronaldson put in a request for his own private lift and his own bathroom (not in the lift). A reasonable degree of sanity prevailed up top because it was "no" to the lift and "yes" to the bathroom. But, when Diary ...

It All Adds Up For Accountants Who Choose The Fast Lane

STUDENTS from a variety of backgrounds can take a quicker path into accounting through a new postgraduate degree.

Perhaps It Was Prosperity We Could Not Afford And Did Not Deserve

Imre Bokor (Letters, September 19) reminded me of something an American associate told me when I was working in New York. He defined economic rationalism this way: "If you can't afford it, you don't deserve it." It's not a view I heard when I was doing a commerce degree, but I never heard a more succinct or accurate one.

It's A Long Way To The Big Top

A degree in circus arts. You're joking, aren't you?