Babble Wrap: World-Defying Growth Forecasts Underpin Nation’s Road To Recovery

World-Defying Growth Forecasts Underpin Nation’s Road To Recovery
Wayne Swan has milked Peter Costello’s budget surplus legacy to help fund a $22 billion infrastructure spending spree to create 15,000 jobs a year – buying the Government economic breathing space as it waits for the global recession to run its course. The Australian

Wayne Swan Assaults Middle-Class Welfare In 2009 Federal Budget
Wayne Swan says his budget was “never going to be popular” – making people work longer and harder. Tell him now. Herald Sun

Midwife And Nurse Practitioner Boost
Midwives and nurse practitioners will spearhead Canberra’s ambitious health workforce reforms, winning the right to both prescribe subsidised drugs and to bill their services to Medicare. The Australian

Career Clouded, Johns Jets In To Front Channel Nine Bosses
The career of embattled former footballer Matthew Johns will pivot on a meeting today with Nine Network chief executive David Gyngell. SMH

Incubator Breakdown Kills IVF Embryos
A leading in-vitro fertility clinic has been forced to check all of its incubators after at least five embryos died because of a possible machine malfunction. The Australian

Bad Luck Bimbos: Intelligent Women Have Better Sex, Study
Beauty may bag you a man – but brains will bring you more fun in the bedroom. Mail Online

Baby Gloria ‘Squealing And Distressed’
A nine-month old baby who died after her parents allegedly failed to get conventional medical treatment for her eczema had the worst case of the skin condition the emergency pediatrician at the Sydney Children’s Hospital had ever seen. SMH

Policewoman Critical, Bashed On Way To Work
The policewoman that was brutally bashed on her way to work in King’s Cross this morning has been identified as a 33-year-old mother who had just returned to work from maternity leave. Daily Telegraph

Hit By A Wheel At A Bus Stop
A 10-year-old boy is fighting for his life after a wheel spun off a passing car and hit him at a bus stop in Sydney’s north yesterday. SMH

David Breen’s Organs Donated To Sick Children After His Fatal Crash
In an act of love, Sharon Newell has given the ultimate Mother’s Day gift to four women she has never met. Daily Telegraph

Young Women Are Embracing Curves
Young women, with role models like Peaches Geldof and Lily Allen, equate the half-starved look with their middle-aged mothers. Times Online