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Bank on it: punters support rate cut after weak sales A BETTING plunge on financial markets suggests an interest rate cut today is as good as certain after weak retail sales figures appearing to show the worst growth on record. Women want the chance to bend it like Beckham, headscarves and all MUSLIM Lakembaroos are free to wear the hijab when they take to the soccer field in club competitions in Sydney every week. Follow the leader - it's not a game IS THE Labor leadership issue a bizarre beat-up entirely confected by the news media? Certainly not. Is it an unstable and shifting situation, which may lead to a challenge, and which is notoriously difficult to report? Absolutely. Here are some of the dilemmas: Gillard aims to time it right as voters back race equality ALMOST two-thirds of voters support changing the constitution to recognise indigenous people as the first inhabitants of the land but the Prime Minister has warned the proposed referendum on the issue should be delayed until there was ''overwhelming bipartisan support''. Parents fight for right to manage child's gender THE parents of an 11-year-old child who was born a boy but identifies as a girl oppose statutory intervention.