Thurston is also a four time Dally M Medallist, 2008 Wally Lewis Medallist and the 2015 Clive Churchill Medallist. Thurston started his career at the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in 2002, where he won the 2004 NRL premiership, before moving to the North Queensland Cowboys in 2005, playing in that year's grand final. In 2008 he was named as halfback of the Australian Aboriginal team of the century.
Although Greece is selling off its public assets to reduce its billions of dollars' worth of debt, reclassifying the country as an emerging market economy is deeply offensive, according to one analyst. Greece is not an emerging markets country, because it is too rich and its financial system is too developed. Greece is simply a bad credit. The example of Greece illustrates a basic fundamental principle of investing that all countries are risky and all countries can become bad credits.
German, Russian and Chinese companies race to buy up Greek infrastructure. The Greek government has yielded to privatisation measures as a means to pay off its creditors. Foreign corporations from countries including Germany, China and Russia are lining up to buy Greek state assets as the country struggles to pay its European creditors.