FEVOLA AXING CLOSE

Brisbane will sack troubled footballer Brendan Fevola within the next few days. The Lions could make the official call as early as Monday, having held high-level talks yesterday at AFL headquarters. The AFL yesterday confirmed it would use its discretion to relieve the club's salary-cap woes by spreading Fevola's seven figure payout over two years, as it did with St Kilda last season when Andrew Lovett was sacked. With significant six-figure gambling debts, Fevola, is expected to return to Melbourne in a bid to rebuild his life.

Intellect And Intuition Count Equally

A DISAPPEARING NUMBER Complicite Sydney Theatre, Until December 2

Big Losses Expected As Ex-lib Politician's Business Collapses

Pescott says he did nothing wrong as questions raised over veracity of Environinvest's books and records

Free Spirit Crispell Twists And Turns On An Evocative Journey

MARILYN CRISPELL Bennetts Lane Jazz Lab Sunday 14 September www.marilyncrispell.com

All In A Day's Trade: $20,000 Slap For A Few Errant Zeros

IT WAS near the close of trading on July 27 last year when a client of CommSec decided to sell 2500 shares in Westfield Group.

Nsw Is Squeezed In Water Buyback

KEVIN RUDD has bowed to rising anger in South Australia and announced an increased buyback of water from NSW and Queensland irrigators in an attempt to send more water down the Murray River and save its ravaged lower lakes.

Afl Is Trading On Its Isolation For Protection

PREDICTABLY, rugby league defector Sonny Bill Williams is threatening to hit the NRL with a writ to say that its salary cap is a restraint of trade. But experts say a salary cap - like the AFL's - is unlawful in the same way a nuclear bomb is a weapon: unarguably, but also improbable that it ever will be exploded. In nearly a quarter of a century, the AFL's button has not been pushed.

Tuesday - Movies

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)

Local Art In Cyberspace

Want to see what a few artists can do with a $4 million grant?

Challenge Of The New

Changing your job requires careful consideration, writes Clive Hopkins.

Murdoch Starts Spreading The News As He Takes On New York

Rupert Murdoch is making headlines in the Big Apple, writes Phillip McCarthy from New York.

Aboriginal Children Need Teaching That Respects Their Culture

It is too simplistic to insist on imposing values on Aborigines.

A Few Good Reasons Why Our Rail System Should Go Metro All The Way

The authorities have been telling us for years that our rail system is difficult to manage because of its complexity, and that metro systems are more reliable, easier to manage and able to run more frequent services. The main feature of metro lines is that they are point-to-point, with no branches or intersections, which eliminates scheduling problems. Users have to change lines more often, but are compensated by a higher frequency of service.

Heart Of Darkness

Nicola Hensel has tipped the scales with her miniature ode to the city's nocturnal mystery, writes JILL STOWELL.

At Last, Investors Start To Catch Up With Alkane Resources' Golden Glitter

Alkane Resources

Crystal Ball Gazing

Terry Lane casts an eye at the year ahead in search of camera trends.

Units 'discreet'

LIGHT, sustainable and discrete - that's the philosophy behind the accommodation that may appear at Killalea State Park.

Adolf Had New York In Mind, Too, And Not For A Holiday

AS IT HAPPENED 8.30pm, SBS: We haven't had a Hitler doco for a few weeks so lovers of the genre - and it is unquestionably a discrete branch of documentary filmmaking - will be keen to see this program, cobbled together in the now-familiar manner, about Adolf's plans to lay waste to New York with what the narrator terms "weapons of mass destruction". Newsreel clips, old documents and blueprints, reminiscences from war veterans and views by historians are combined to conjure a September 11 ...

Ideas Suggested To Senate Inquiry

Investigate discrete facility usage periods such as Bankstown City Council's trial of female-only swimming pool times to encourage Muslim participation. (Womensport and Recreation NSW)

Tinkering Leaves A Few Carrots And Plenty Of Stick

SO, IS this the welfare revolution we had to have? This budget is Treasurer Peter Costello's 10th, and cannot be seen as a discrete document.