A BAD job that asks too much without giving back enough is just as stressful as having no job at all, a big Australian study has found.

THE BOTTOM line with Parramatta last year is that they lost the plot - to the extent that players who had never worn a No.6 or No.7 on their backs starting telling the five-eighth and halfback how to do their jobs.

SHARES in Fairfax Media increased by 4.1 per cent yesterday, on speculation that its board will give its interim chief executive the permanent job as early as today.

DEPUTY Liberal leader Julie Bishop will spend the weekend phoning colleagues to gauge her support in the party room before Monday's leadership spill.

MALCOLM TURNBULL has defied leadership threats and will fly to Perth this weekend to argue his case on climate change directly with the hostile West Australian division of the Liberal Party.