FROM an Olympic swimming medallist to a retired, overweight party boy, Geoff Huegill knows what it is like to struggle out of a bad place.

BLUES skipper Dominic Thornely and Daniel Smith denied themselves centuries in contrasting styles at the SCG yesterday but the pendulum remained stuck in the home side's favour as South Australia lost a vital late wicket.

INDUSTRIAL relations laws swing like a pendulum. Sometimes the rules governing the workplace are perceived to be favouring one side more than another and pressure builds in the community for laws to change to enable the pendulum to move the other way.

THE petrol price pendulum has swung firmly in favour of motorists. Six months after predicting unleaded fuel would reach $2 a litre, analysts are forecasting prices to approach $1 a litre.

AUSTRALIAN Governments just can't seem to figure out what to do about private health insurance. The pendulum of assistance for the industry swings back and forth as different views prevail in political parties and the bureaucracy.