PEOPLE are more likely than ever to be pursued by a debt collector as businesses are forced to call in debts earlier and over-committed borrowers struggle to keep up with repayments.

Banks should help customers with financial problems but instead are turning to debt collectors.

The Good Living article Fruits of the land (September 23) referred to the collection and use of marsh samphire as an interesting menu item at several restaurants in Sydney.

The surveillance activities of intelligence agencies may endanger liberal democracy more than the activists under surveillance.

ROCK promoter Glenn Wheatley is back in town. Sitting at a leather-bound desk in his palatial South Yarra home, there are few signs that he is still under home detention.