Storm Insurance Ploy Riles Martin

It was appalling insurer QBE was using storm victims as a ``bartering chip" against any government in an attempt to get changes to the industry, Cunningham MP Stephen Martin said yesterday. ``They want their policyholders to be hung out to dry, to coin a phrase, while they play politics,&quo

Fans Pin Hopes On Olympics

AS the Olympic movement enters a state of flux, at least one related tradition remains constant and hundreds of that tradition's zealots will make a pilgrimage to West Wallsend on Sunday. They will be in town to participate in the global obsession that is buying, swapping and bartering for Olympi