Police prepared as beachgoers urged to return, Weekend Australian, 24 December, 2005.

Police prepared as beachgoers urged to return: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 24 Dec 2005: 8. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract AN extra 800 police officers will work Sydney’s beaches this weekend despite assurances from politicians and police that the worst of the Cronulla race riots is now over. In a separate […]

Charges over riot messages, The Australian, 23 December, 2005.

Charges over riot messages: [1 All-round Country Edition] Dan Box, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 23 Dec 2005: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract A 33-YEAR-OLD man has become the first person to be charged for inciting racial violence by forwarding text messages in the aftermath of the Sydney race riots. Former Cronulla Sharks captain Andrew Ettingshausen is one of […]

Drug victim’s dad ‘predicted’ violent death, The Australian, 22 December, 2005.

Drug victim’s dad `predicted’ violent death: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Tracy Ong. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 Dec 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract [Tony Vincent Jr.] patriarch Tony Sr faces trial next July on charges including making false statements. Tony Jr is in jail for supplying drugs, as is Shamus Vincent. […]

Leopard cubs arrive after a spot of bother, The Australian, 21 December, 2005.

Leopard cubs arrive after a spot of bother: [6 NSW Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 21 Dec 2005: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract THEY may be the product of a rocky relationship but the 10-week- old snow leopards that made their public debut at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo yesterday were showing no signs of stress. The cubs […]

Fears of a fiery summer ahead, The Australian, 19 December, 2005. Additional reporting.

Fears of a fiery summer ahead: [1 All-round Country Edition] Christopher Dore, Additional reporting: John Stapleton, Alana Buckley-Carr, Jeremy Roberts, Verity Edwards. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 Dec 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “We anticipate a severe season kicking off around Christmas,” NSW Rural Fire Commissioner Phil Koperburg said. Mr Koperburg said recent […]

Highway jinks solved by western spaghetti, The Australian, 17 December, 2005.

Highway jinks solved by western spaghetti: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 17 Dec 2005: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract As of last night, it became possible to travel from Baulkham Hills in Sydney’s northwest to Canberra without hitting a single traffic light. Motorists faced 48 sets before the construction of the 144 bridges, the movement […]

PM calls for calm over the holiday, The Australian, 16 December, 2005.

PM calls for calm over the holiday: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 16 Dec 2005: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract Translate Abstract Mr [JOHN Howard] slammed the torching of churches in western Sydney in recent days, saying it was “particularly repugnant”. It was “utterly and unconditionally condemned, particularly […]

Another morning assignment, PM opens Westlink M7 Motorway, The Australian, 16 December, 2005.,

They’re called Public Private Partnerships or PPPs, a collusion between government and private industry to fund major infrastructure projects. Sydney is now ringed with expensive tollways costing commuters up to $50 a day, a huge impost on their beloved constituency, “working families”. It is essentially a government gifting transport routes and public lands to private […]

Churches are new target, The Australian, 15 December, 2005. Additional reporting. Page One.

Churches are new target: [2 All-round First Edition] Nick Leys, Dan Box, Additional reporting: John Stapleton, Jonathan Porter. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 15 Dec 2005: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Police believe the attack on the hall, in the suburb of Auburn, was intended to destroy the Uniting church next door, while nearby StThomas’s Anglican Church, which has a primarily Chinese congregation, […]

Aussie pair leave to sniff out trouble in Tokyo, The Australian, 12 December, 2005.

Aussie pair leave to sniff out trouble in Tokyo: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 12 Dec 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The former strays, now worth tens of thousands of dollars each, will be at the front line of Japan’s fight to stop the spread of avian flu. Japanese quarantine officers have spent the past […]

Whither Family Law? Dads On The Air, 12 December, 2005.

With Special GuestsCommentator Simon Hunt andBarry Williams,President Lone Fathers. This was our last show of the year for 2005. The Dads On The Air teamwould like to thank all the forum participants, who have made it sucha lively debating ground during the past year. And thanks to ourinterview subjects, who this year included the head of the FamilyCourt Chief Justice […]

Iemma to make sweeping changes to PPPs, The Australian, 8 December, 2005.

Iemma to make sweeping changes to PPPs: [1 All-round Country Edition] Ean Higgins, John Stapleton. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 08 Dec 2005: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract NSW Premier Morris Iemma will today announce sweeping changes to the way the state deals with public-private partnerships, especially toll roads. In another day of high drama, Mr Iemma […]

Anger at plan to split up Sydney, The Australian, 5 December, 2005.

Anger at plan to split up Sydney: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 Dec 2005: 8. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The 25-year plan, hailed yesterday by NSW Premier Morris Iemma as a blueprint to secure Sydney as Australia’s gateway to the world, was derided by the Opposition as “just a collection of […]

City plan reveals ‘crack in ministry’, The Australian, 5 December, 2005.

City plan reveals `crack in ministry’: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 Dec 2005: 8. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Rather than the detailed framework that Premier Morris Iemma claimed would provide a city centre within easy reach of every Sydney family, Opposition planning spokesman Chris Hartcher said it just papered over […]

A jock and sock XMAS as lasting gifts fit the bill, The Australian, 5 December, 2005.

A jock and sock Xmas as lasting gifts fit the bill: [1 All-round Country Edition] Sid Maher, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 Dec 2005: 8. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract NRA executive director Patrick McKendry said this was a modest target, just ahead of inflation, which took into account that retailers in recent months […]

Tunnel toll’s back … and so is traffic chaos, The Australian, 2 December, 2005.

Tunnel toll’s back … and so is traffic chaos: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 02 Dec 2005: 8. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The chaos came ahead of a NSW upper house inquiry into the tunnel. Public hearings begin next week, with former premier Bob Carr, who oversaw the tunnel contract, to be questioned. “Patronage […]

Calls for silence at moment of execution, The Australian, 28 November, 2005. Additional reporting. Page One.

Call for silence at moment of execution: [2 All-round First Edition] Elizabeth Colman, Steve Lewis, Additional reporting by Samantha Maiden, John Stapleton, Padraic Murphy and James Madden.. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 28 Nov 2005: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract As momentum grows for Australians to stop and recognise the execution, John Howard warned Singapore yesterday thatAustralians‘ anger would linger if […]

Happy ending for model, but story still unsold, The Australian, 23 November, 2005.

Happy ending for model, but story still unsold: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Elizabeth Gosch, Additional reporting: Stephen Fitzpatrick. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 23 Nov 2005: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract UNDERWEAR model and convicted drug user Michelle Leslie had two Cinderella moments on her return to Australia yesterday — first losing a […]

Payout deal to make Alvarez a millionaire, Weekend Australian, 19 November, 2005.

Payout deal to make Alvarez a millionaire: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 Nov 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Ms [VIVIAN Alvarez], who came to Australia in 1984 with husband Robert Young and became an Australian citizen in 1986, was found in a dishevelled state in the northern NSW town of Lismore […]

In boom times, good things come in threes, The Australian, 17 November, 2005.

In boom times, good things come in threes: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Leticia Makin. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 17 Nov 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Liberal backbencher Malcolm Turnbull said a strong economy had been fundamental to the turnaround. “The best guarantee that families have and the best encouragement to have children is a strong economy,” […]

It’s for the students, say teachers – IR REVOLUTION, The Australian, 16 November, 2005.

It’s for the students, say teachers – IR REVOLUTION: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Dan Box. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 16 Nov 2005: 8. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract In Victoria, 100 schools closed completely and 1500 others operated on reduced staff levels as 20,000 teachers attended the nation’s biggest rally in Melbourne’s CBD. While half the teachers […]

Teachers doing it ‘for education’, The Australian, 16 November, 2005.

Teachers doing it `for education’: [3 All-round Metro Edition] John Stapleton, Dan Box. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 16 Nov 2005: 8. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract In Victoria, 100 schools closed completely and 1500 others operated on reduced staff levels as 20,000 teachers attended the nation’s biggest rally in Melbourne’s CBD. While half the teachers at Ultimo […]

A new era of air travel arrives in our skies, The Australian, 14 November, 2005.

A new era of air travel arrives in our skies: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 14 Nov 2005: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Chief operating officer with Airbus John Leahy said: “Just as the 747 was a game-changing plane for the 20th century, so the A380 is a game-changing plane for the 21st. “The 747 was a great plane for […]

Mufti condemns raids as race-driven, Weekend Australian, 12 November, 2005.

Mufti condemns raids as race-driven: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 12 Nov 2005: 8. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract TERRORISING women, frightening children and the elderly, breaking down doors in the middle of the night and pointing guns at civilians was behaviour that ran counter to the best interests of Australia, the […]

Interstate link as 18th man arrested, The Australian, 11 November, 2005. Additional reporting.

Interstate link as 18th man arrested: [2 All-round First Edition] Natalie O’Brien, Annabelle McDonald, Additional reporting: John Stapleton, Padraic Murphy. The Australian[Canberra, A.C.T] 11 Nov 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Acting with a Victorian arrest warrant, NSW police picked up the man in the southwest Sydney suburb of Guildford as part of the joint state and federal police […]

Police swoop on ninth Sydney terrorism suspect, The Australian, 11 November, 2005

Police swoop on ninth Sydney terrorism suspect: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 11 Nov 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract He will become the 18th terror suspect picked up since Australian Federal Police, ASIO and state police launched raids across Sydney and Melbourne early on Tuesday. Miria Mahee, 25, told The Australian she heard a “whooshing, […]

Shots that took suspect to the wild side, The Australian, 10 November, 2005. Page One.

Shots that took suspect to the wild side: [2 All-round First Edition 1] Jonathan Porter, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 10 Nov 2005: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Mr [Baladjam], now in a stable condition, became the latest of 17 terrorist suspects across Sydney and Melbourne to be charged, when magistrate Kevin Flack travelled to […]

Appeals for calm among faithful – TERROR HITS HOME, The Australian, 9 November, 2005.

Appeals for calm among faithful – TERROR HITS HOME: [1 All-round Country Edition] Simon Kearney, John Stapleton, Additional reporting: Ean Higgins, Richard Kerbaj. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 09 Nov 2005: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The Mufti of Australia, Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali, used Islamic radio to plead for patience among the community as Islamic leaders asked […]

Moderate Muslims welcome arrests, The Australian, 9 November, 2005.

Moderate Muslims welcome arrests: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Simon Kearney, John Stapleton, Additional reporting: Ean Higgins, Richard Kerbaj. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 09 Nov 2005: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The president of Islamic Charity Projects Association in Australia, Ghayath Al-Shelh, said it was a mistake for Islamic leaders to complain about the arrests. The Mufti of Australia, […]

Sydney men the ‘bombmakers’- TERROR HITS HOME, The Australian, 9 November, 2005.

Sydney men the `bombmakers’ – TERROR HITS HOME: [1 All-round Country Edition] Simon Kearney, David King, Additional reporting: John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 09 Nov 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract NSW Police and Australian Federal Police agents discovered chemicals during the raids yesterday morning, which NSW Police Commissioner Ken Moroney said could be used in “highly […]

New life in a distant land, The Australian, 8 November, 2005

New life in a distant land: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T]08 Nov 2005: 11. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract The Dreadnought Scheme got its name after a group of patriotic Australians, concerned at German naval expansion in the build-up to World War I, decided to raise money to buy a […]

Use of cocaine crosses class lines, The Australian, 7 November, 2005.

Use of cocaine crosses class lines: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 07 Nov 2005: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Research spearheaded by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre suggests that 3tonnes of cocaine are consumed in Sydney and Melbourne every year, with Sydney users accounting for 90 per cent of […]

Claim of ‘safer cigarette’ draws anger from lobby group, The Australian, 7 November, 2005.

Claim of `safer cigarette’ draws anger from lobby group: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 07 Nov 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “It is a regulative black hole,” she said. “Many Australians will be conned into smoking these products unless we have a national regulatory framework in place that will test […]

Life’s a pitch as Aussies take LA, Weekend Australian, 5 November, 2005.

Life’s a pitch as Aussies take LA: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 Nov 2005: 8. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Also on offer are a golf tournament hosted by one-time British Open winner Ian Baker-Finch, a seminar on the benefits of filming in Australia and briefings on the Australia-US free trade agreement. Mr […]

Carr denies knowing of cabinet leak, Weekend Australian, 5 November, 2005.

Carr denies knowing of cabinet leak: [1 All-round Country Edition] Nick Leys, John Stapleton. Weekend Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 Nov 2005: 11. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract His successor, Morris Iemma, said yesterday Premier’s Department director-general Col Gellatly found in 2003 no grounds for referring the leak to the Independent Commission Against Corruption. Mr Iemma […]

Carr’s man ruled out leak inquiry, Weekend Australian, 5 November, 2006.

Carr’s man ruled out leak inquiry: [O SA Country Edition] Nick Leys, John Stapleton. Weekend Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 Nov 2005: 11. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract His successor, Morris Iemma, said yesterday that Premier’s Department director-general Col Gellatly found in 2003 no grounds for referring the leak to the Independent Commission Against Corruption. The leak was raised in […]

Tunnel work goes on despite cave-in, The Australian, 3 November, 2005. Additional reporting.

Tunnel work goes on despite cave-in: [8 NSW Metro Edition] Ean Higgins, Jonathan Porter, Additional reporting: Annabelle McDonald, John Stapleton, Anthony Klan. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 03 Nov 2005: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Engineers and private road experts told The Australian that the cave-in, which created a 20m deep hole endangering two apartment blocks, reflected the financial pressures facing the privately funded […]

Notes from Sheik al-Hilali of Lakemba Mosque, The Australian, 2 November, 2005.

Locals label ruling a win, Weekend Australian, 29 October, 2005.

Locals label ruling a win: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 29 Oct 2005: 9. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract ALL fresh fruit, vegetables, seafood, nuts, ham and bacon will have to be clearly labelled with their country of origin after Tasmanian farmers scored a victory in their campaign for new […]

Apple art made us pick of the world, Weekend Australian, 29 October, 2005.

Apple art made us pick of the world: [2 All-round First Edition] Matthew Denholm, John Stapleton. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 29 Oct 2005: 9. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Vibrant and distinctively designed labels on apple crates helped drive Australian apples into Europe and Asia from 1914 to the 1960s, giving this country an edge in one of its most […]

Ice heads party list, The Australian, 28 October, 2005.

Ice heads party list: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 28 Oct 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract The research by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre found that 73,000 Australians were addicted to methamphetamines, more than double the number dependent on heroin. Methamphetamine is a stimulant drug sold under various […]

The devastated resort of Cancun, The Australian, 26 October, 2005.

Kearns by daughter’s bedside, The Australian, 24 October, 2005.

Kearns by daughter’s bedside: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Elizabeth Gosch. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 24 Oct 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract RUGBY great Phil Kearns and wife Julie were last night maintaining a vigil by their critically injured daughter’s hospital bed after theformer Wallaby captain accidentally backed over the 19- month-old with […]

Ports fill up as IT crisis worsens, The Australian, 24 October, 2005.

Ports fill up as IT crisis worsens: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, JohnAuthor Information. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 24 Oct 2005: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Qantas Freight yesterday called on freight forwarders to collect their inbound freight as quickly as possible to clear space for incoming cargo at terminals in Perth, […]

Ports forced to stick with troubled IT system, Weekend Australian, 22 October, 2005.

Ports forced to stick with troubled IT system: [1 All-round Country Edition] Simon Hayes, John Stapleton. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 Oct 2005: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Defying furious freight forwarders and Customs brokers, Senator [Chris Ellison] has announced Customs will persevere with the Integrated Cargo System. Senator Ellison said extra Customs staff would be […]

Crisis talks on ports, The Australian, 21 October, 2005. Page One.

Crisis talks on ports: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Simon Hayes. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 21 Oct 2005: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract CUSTOMS Minister Chris Ellison was last night considering shutting down the new $250million computer system at Australia’s major sea freight terminals as delays in shifting goods plunged ports into chaos. Senator Ellison […]

Our winning team dominates the inaugural News Awards, The Australian, 20 October, 2005.

Our winning team dominates the inaugural News Awards: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 20 Oct 2005: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Renee Nowytarger was nominated for Photographer of the Year for her images from Aceh after the tsunami and a warts-and-all portrait of actor Max Cullen. Cartoonist Peter Nicholson and News Limited’s Eric […]

Road death of Fraser’s friend fuelled house attack, The Australian, 20 October, 2005.

Road death of Fraser’s friend fuelled house attack: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Annabelle McDonald. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 20 Oct 2005: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Politicians from Premier Morris Iemma down condemned Mr [Andrew Fraser]’s violent outburst, but the daughter of his late friend said she supported Mr Fraser’s actions. Ms […]

Road death of Fraser’s friend fuelled house attack, The Australian, 20 October, 2005.

Road death of Fraser’s friend fuelled house attack: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Annabelle McDonald. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 20 Oct 2005: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Politicians from Premier Morris Iemma down condemned Mr [Andrew Fraser]’s violent outburst, but the daughter of his late friend said she supported Mr Fraser’s actions. Ms […]

New threats needle supplies of blood, The Australian, 17 October, 2005.

New threats needle supplies of blood: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 17 Oct 2005: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract DESPITE a dramatic improvement in the purity of hospital blood supplies over the past 40 years, new threats to transfusion services, as serious as HIV and hepatitis B and C once were, […]

Andy backs mission to moon, The Australian, 17 October, 2005.

Andy backs mission to moon: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 17 Oct 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Dr Thomas said Mars posed enormous problems, including the difficulty of carrying enough fuel to get there and back, while themoon was a far more accessible option. “When these great explorations to the moon and Mars […]

All smoke in Warne’s Columbian fire, The Australian, 14 October, 2005.

All smoke in Warne’s Colombian fire: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 14 Oct 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract [SHANE Warne], who didn’t play in the one day series, has kept a much lower profile since returning to Melbourne from England a fortnight ago, vowing to fight for his marriage. The 36-year-old split […]

Children dying as officials fail to act, The Australian, 14 October, 2005.

Children dying as officials fail to act: [8 NSW Metro Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 14 Oct 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract In a damning report tabled in state parliament yesterday, NSW Ombudsman Bruce Barbour slammed the performance of DOCS, saying children were dying unnecessarily. Mr Barbour criticised a practice by […]

AFL stars barred by Thailand, The Australian, 13 October, 2005.

AFL stars barred by Thailand: [3 All-round Metro Edition] John Stapleton, Dan Koch. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 13 Oct 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract FOUR players from the Brisbane Lions football club are being flown back to Australia in disgrace after they were refused entry into Thailand over their behaviour on board a flight to […]

Holes in the wall, The Australian, 27 September, 2005.

Holes in the wall: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 27 Sep 2005: 11. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The spate of ATM ram raids shows no sign of decreasing. Last week, in the early hours of Monday morning, a gang reversed a van through the glass doors of a St George Bank branch on a […]

Methadone ‘mix-up’that killed sick child, Weekend Australian, 24 September, 2005. Page One.

Methadone `mix-up’ that killed sick child: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Annabelle McDonald. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 24 Sep 2005: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract [Rose Marie Villanueva-Austin] died on Sunday after a sick, sleepless night during which Austin says she treated her with doses of the painkiller Dymadon. She claims she gave the child a dose […]

Drivers reduce buying at bowsers, The Australian, 23 September, 2005.

Drivers reduce buying at bowsers: [1 All-round Country Edition] Nigel Wilson, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 23 Sep 2005: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Petrol consumption slowed 4.8 per cent in the past two weeks, after falling 2 to 6 per cent in the first week of September. Around the country, prices yesterday were relatively steady at an average […]

A new storm hits oil price, The Australian, 22 September, 2005.

A new storm hits oil price: [1 All-round Country Edition] Nigel Wilson, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 Sep 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Hurricane Rita is building off the Florida coast with experts predicting that by Friday it could be as powerful as Katrina, which flattened New Orleans three weeks ago. Crude oil […]

Skills for life under the big top become a question of degrees, The Australian, 19 September, 2005.

Skills for life under the big top become a question of degrees: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 Sep 2005: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract As they did in Sydney yesterday, young hopefuls will line up in Brisbane today, Adelaide tomorrow and Perth on Wednesday to compete for admission […]

Wall-to-wall publicity may make or break sales – LATHAM DIARIES, The Australian, 19 September, 2005.

Wall-to-wall publicity may make or break sales – LATHAM’S DIARIES: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Natasha Robinson. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 Sep 2005: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Duncan Johnston, chief executive of Collins Booksellers Group, a franchise of 33 stores, said the company was expecting good sales in city stores but not in […]

Wave of publicity can make or break sales – LATHAM’S DIARIES, The Australian, 19 September, 2005.

Wave of publicity can make or break sales – LATHAM’S DIARIES: [2 All-round First Edition] John Stapleton, Natasha Robinson. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 Sep 2005: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Bookshops are reporting healthy numbers of orders. But not everyone is keen to buy what one Melbourne customer called “that [Mark […]

Conroy ‘role’ in MP’s death, The Australian, 16 September, 2005. Page One.

Conroy `role’ in MP’s death: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 16 Sep 2005: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Mr [MARK Latham], 44, said last night that despite Senator [Stephen Conroy] being one of the “culprits” in Wilton’s death he was promoted by the Labor Party. Mr Latham also claimed Senator Conroy became abusive […]

Detainees in hunger strikes, suicide bid, The Australian, 12 September, 2005.

Detainees in hunger strikes, suicide bid: [1 All-round Country Edition] Tom Richardson, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 12 Sep 2005: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract THREE asylum-seekers were in hospital last night after a suicide attempt by a detainee in South Australia and a hunger strike by two Bangladeshis in NSW. “The department has a […]

Distress lingers at Ground Zero, The Australian, 12 September, 2005.

Distress lingers at Ground Zero: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Additional reporting: Annabelle McDonald and Jonathan Porter. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T.[Canberra, A.C.T] 12 Sep 2005: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract His brother [Andrew Knox] was on the 103rd floor of the World Trade Centre’s north tower, working as a construction project manager, when American Airlines Flight […]

Family toasts sheriff for rescuing stricken Aussies – Katrina’s Wake, The Australian, 5 September, 2005. Page One..

Family toasts sheriff for rescuing stricken Aussies – KATRINA’S WAKE: [7 NSW First Edition] Kevin Meade, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 Sep 2005: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract TWENTY Australians remained trapped or missing in the devastated city of New Orleans last night, while another 40 had managed to reach safety in the wake […]

Science backs the good oil, The Australian, 1 September, 2005.

Science backs the good oil: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Leigh Dayton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 01 Sep 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Dr [Paul Breslin]’s group, which includes Russell Keast of the RMIT University in Melbourne, reported last night in the journal Nature that the benefits of theMediterranean diet lay in a compound they discovered in olive oil […]

Shamed Brogden attempts suicide, The Australian, 31 August, 2005. Additional reporting. Page One.

Shamed Brogden attempts suicide: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Brad Norington, Andrew West. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 31 Aug 2005: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Shortly after midnight, Mr [Barry O’Farrell], Peta Seaton and several of [John Brogden]’s staff and close relatives left Royal North Shore Hospital. Last night a former female staffer named as part […]

Deep wounds after preselection battle, The Australian, 29 August, 2005

Deep wounds after preselection battle: [1 All-round Country Edition] Andrew West, John Stapleton. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 29 Aug 2005: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Michael Daley, 39, a corporate lawyer and lifelong resident of the Sydney beachside electorate of Maroubra, defeated branch official Penny Wright. Even with a 20per cent affirmative action loading, […]

Smuggler hears fate, The Australian, 2 August, 2005.

Smuggler hears fate: [1 All-round Country Edition] falseStapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 02 Aug 2005: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract Translate AbstractUndo Translation TranslateUndo Translation Press the Escape key to close FromArabicChinese (Simplified)Chinese (Traditional)EnglishFrenchGerman ItalianJapaneseKoreanPolishPortugueseRussianSpanishTurkishToArabicChinese (Simplified)Chinese (Traditional)FrenchGermanItalianJapaneseKoreanPolishPortugueseRussianSpanishTurkish Translate Translation in progress… [[missing key: loadingAnimation]] The full text may take 40-60 seconds to […]

Faulty sensor cause of Qantas drama, The Australian, 22 August, 2005.

Faulty sensor cause of Qantas drama: [1 All-round Country Edition] Jonathan Porter, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 Aug 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract QANTAS last night blamed a faulty fire sensor in the hold of one of its jets for causing an incident in which nine passengers were hurt evacuating an Airbus A330-300 in Osaka. Passengers […]

PM shuns radical clerics – Moderates only at Muslim terror talks, The Australian, 19 August, 2005. Additional reporting. Page One.

PM shuns radical clerics – Moderates only at Muslim terror talks: [1 All-round Country Edition] Trudy Harris, Dennis Shanahan, Additional reporting: John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 Aug 2005: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Mr [Amir Butler] said Salafist Muslims, who advocate a pure interpretation of the Koran, would be unrepresented at the Canberra summit, even though […]

Bashir’s sentence reduction slammed, The Australian, 18 August, 2005.

Bashir’s sentence reduction slammed: [6 NSW Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 18 Aug 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Friends and relatives of the Bali victims said the 4 1/2-month reduction in Muslim cleric Abu Bakar [Bashir]’s 30-month sentence devalued the lives of the 88 Australian who died in the 2002 bombings. For Erik de Haart of Sydney rugby league club Coogee Dolphins, the leniency […]

Husband lost in crocodile attack, The Australian, 17 August, 2005.

Husband lost in crocodile attack: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 17 Aug 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The man and his wife were fishing at a waterhole on the Normanby River when a large crocodile moved in to attack. The boat capsized when the coupled tried to fend off the animal. Last October a family […]

Painter to help police identify seized artworks, The Australian, 16 August, 2005.

Painter to help police identify seized artworks: [1 All-round Country Edition] Tony Koch, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 16 Aug 2005: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Brisbane police have asked [Joe Furlonger] to help authenticate the art, which is among works that have allegedly gone missing from gallery storerooms in Brisbane and Sydney. The Furlonger material […]

Non-sniffable Petrol across inland Australia, The Australian, Publication 15 August, 2005.

Greens to introduce non-sniff fuel laws: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 15 Aug 2005: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract LEGISLATION to mandate the supply of so-called “non-sniffable petrol” across the entire central desert area of Australia, including Alice Springs, will be introduced to parliament by the Greens. “The plan to introduce this non-sniffable petrol has been […]

Company director charged with cruelty, bestiality, Weekend Australian, 13 August, 2005.

Company director charged with cruelty, bestiality: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, David King. Weekend Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 13 Aug 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The mutilated bodies of the 18 animals were discovered in an office and a nearby laneway in central Sydney over the past month. Police staked out the office block and arrested Mr McMahon […]

Aborted baby born alive, court told, The Australian, 11 August, 2005.

Aborted baby born alive, court told: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Nicola Lipman. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 11 Aug 2005: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The mother, aged 20 at the time of the incident in 2002, was giving evidence in a committal hearing against Suman Sood, the first doctor in NSW to be charged with the manslaughter of a fetus and the first […]

Expats back in hunt for housing, The Australian, 8 August, 2005.

Expats back in hunt for housing: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 08 Aug 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Dennis Kalofonos, of one of Sydney’s leading agents, Sydney Property Finders, said buyers who had deferred or been ambivalent about buying were securing properties. “Buyers, especially expat purchasers, are confidently […]

Tractors cultivate food rage, The Australian, 8 August, 2005.

Tractors cultivate food rage: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 08 Aug 2005: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract It was not a hallucination. Tasmanian farmers — incensed that Coles, Woolworths and McDonald’s are importing vegetables — made their mark on the bridge as a precursor to a rally today at […]

Australia wins papal visit for ‘Catholic Olympics’, The Australian, 1 August, 2005.

Australia wins papal visit for `Catholic Olympics’: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 01 Aug 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract POPE Benedict XVI will visit Australia in 2008 after Sydney won the right to hold World Youth Day, according to a leading Vatican observer. Cardinal George Pell and the Sydney Archdiocese lobbied hard […]

Catholics softer on gays, The Australian, 27 July, 2005.

Catholics softer on gays: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 27 July 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract CATHOLICS are the least homophobic of all religious groups and inner-city Melbourne the most gay-friendly region in the nation, while Baptists and theNorthern Territory are the most hostile. “The Catholic Church may have less doctrinal authority over its congregation than some other […]

HIZB UT-TAHRIR SECURITY CONCERNS IN COVERING

CONCERNS OVER SECURITY ISSUES IN COVERING THE HIZB NOTE TO SECURITY AT NEWS LTD. The presser was held upstairs at 134a Waterloo Street, Greenacre,which is where they held the meeting that the Sun Herald reported.Phil Black at Ch 7 specifically asked his (freelance) cameraman totake a shot of the man filming us. He said he can make this availableto us if we wish.His number is 0409 713 554. […]

Pressure makes us stronger, say local radicals, The Australian, 25 July, 2005.

Pressure makes us stronger, say local radicals: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Jennifer Sexton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 25 July 2005: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract “He is implying we should not advocate an Islam that is a threat to Western capitalism.” Hizb ut-[Tahrir] does not promote violence but ultimately wants the world to convert […]

Detention kids back to school, The Australian, 22 July, 2005.

Detention kids back to school: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 July 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Ian Hwang, 11, and his sister Janie Hwang, 6, were released from Villawood detention centre late on Wednesday, along with their mother, Young Lee, who had been arrested for […]

Schoolboys rule the world in robot wars, The Australian, 18 July, 2005.

Schoolboys rule the world in robot wars: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 18 July 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The win places Cranbrook, which has its own dedicated centre, at the forefront of the development of robotic skills among young people. Robotics is widely seen as a new and rapidly developing frontier for […]

Cameras encounter resistance – Terror in London, The Australian, 18 July, 2005.

Cameras encounter resistance – Terror in London: [1 All-round Country Edition] Anna Hodgekiss, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 18 July 2005: 12. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Associate professor in criminology at the University of Melbourne Adam Sutton, co-author with Monash University’s Dean Wilson of a paper on the politics of public or open-street CCTV in […]

Cornelia ‘treated like an animal’, The Australian, 18 July, 2005.

Cornelia `treated like an animal’: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 18 July 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract NSW Institute of Psychiatry director Louise Newman said unless specific action was taken to ensure that such a situation could never reoccur, “we are all guilty of harming [CORNELIA Rau]”. The 60 […]

Boys’ robotics win, The Australian, 18 July, 2005.

Boys’ robotics win: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 18 July 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The win places Cranbrook, which has its own dedicated centre, at the forefront of the development of robotic skills among young people. Robotics is widely seen as a new and rapidly developing frontier for future scientists. Cranbrook headmaster […]

Harry’s simply magic for bookshop sales, The Australian, 18 July, 2005.

Harry’s simply magic for bookshop sales: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 18 July 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract HARRY Potter has provided a boom to booksellers across the nation, with some stores reporting every third book they sold at the weekend was the latest instalment of the J.K. Rowling epic. With worldwide sales of Harry Potter […]

Beazley stands for nothing: Latham, The Australian, 29 June, 2005. Page One.

Beazley stands for nothing: Latham: [2 All-round First Edition] Samantha Maiden, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 29 June 2005: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract In the extract published in today’s edition of The Bulletin, Mr [Mark Latham] attacked Labor premiers for publicly urging him to resolve the leadership after he disappeared from public life during the tsunami crisis. “People got to […]

Shamed hospitals fight back, The Australian, 27 June, 2005.

Shamed hospitals fight back: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 27 June 2005: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract MANLY and Mona Vale hospitals, in Sydney’s northern beaches, hit back last night at a report shaming them as among the worst healthcare facilities in Australia. Full Text TranslateFull text Turn on search term […]

House blaze hero, 5, in line for medal, The Australian, 24 June, 2005.

House blaze hero, 5, in line for medal: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 24 June 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Harry Haywood woke at 2.30am yesterday to find his house full of smoke. His mother and her boyfriend had fallen asleep on the couch. His two older sisters were asleep […]

Croations The Australian June 22, 2005

JUNE 22Uncertain date.John Stapleton THE nation has split: husband against wife, father against son.With six Croatians on the Australian team and three Australians on the Croatian team, the Croatian community in Australia are suffering from a severe case of divided loyalties. As Croatian clubs around the country flung open their doors at 4am this morning, […]

Naval voyage approaches its end as sailors salute the chief, The Australian, 22 June, 2005.

Naval voyage approaches its end as sailors salute the chief: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 June 2005: 8. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Rear-Admiral [Rowan Moffitt] said Vice-Admiral [Chris Ritchie]’s term as 27th head of the Royal Australian Navy was hectic, with thelast Iraq war involving the service in its most serious conflict since the Vietnam War. Naval […]

Detainees protest in blood after department’s ‘betrayal’, The Australian, 20 June, 2005.

Detainees protest in blood after department’s `betrayal’: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Natasha Robinson. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 20 June 2005: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract A source inside Villawood claimed the detainees, one of whom needed 19 stitches, feared persecution in China, where details provided by the Australian Government would be used against them. […]

Father facing murder charges after rampage, Weekend Australian, 18 June, 2005.

Father facing murder charges after rampage: [1 All-round Country Edition] Annabelle McDonald, John Stapleton. Weekend Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 18 June 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Newcastle Magistrate Richard Wakely formally refused bail as the accused sat silently in the dock with his arms crossed. He will reappear via video-link on August 17. Waratah Local Area […]

Fears grow for tourists lost in national park, The Australian, 13 June, 2005.

Fears grow for tourists lost in national park: [U WA Metro Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 13 June 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Sergeant [Alice Cockram] said police had serious concerns because of the intense cold in the desert at night, and it was unlikely they would have had thechance to dry off. “The water at the bottom of the gorge […]

Defecting family takes plea to TV, The Australian, 13 June, 2005.

Defecting family takes plea to TV: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 13 June 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract CHINESE defector Chen Yonglin has appeared on national television with his wife, Jin Ping, and six-year-old daughter, Fang Rong, to argue his case. Mr Chen, who is in hiding and […]

Stationery stoush a sign of the future, The Australian, 3 June, 2005

Stationery stoush a sign of the future: [2 All-round First Edition] Brad Norington, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 03 June 2005: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract NSW Premier Bob Carr visited workers yesterday at the Banksmeadow warehouse in Sydney’s west in a show of support before today’s Council of Australian Governments meeting in Canberra, at which the Prime Minister […]

Four home-alone children perish in inferno, The Australian, 10 June, 2005. Picture Jeremy Piper.

Four home-alone children perish in inferno: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton Elizabeth Gosch. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 10 June 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract After the boxing, in the early hours of yesterday morning, Ms Ford and her partner Wayne Shepherd decided to kick on from the Wyong Bowls Club on the […]

Labor ‘shame’ at Sartor’s plans for the Block, The Australian, 6 June, 2005.

Labor `shame’ at Sartor’s plans for the Block: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 06 June 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Ten days ago the state Government declared the Block and other parts of [Redfern] to be of “state significance” and gazetted planning controls from Sydney City Council. Mr [Frank Sartor], […]

Second bag handler gone, Weekend Australian, 4 June, 2005.

Second bag handler gone: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 04 June 2005: 9. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Mr [Geoff Dixon] said the airline had been working in close co-operation with the NSW Crime Commission, NSW Police and Australian Federal Police in its investigation and said the man had been under surveillance for some time. The cocaine bust was […]

Carr tells workers: no future in AWAs, The Ausralian, 3 June, 2005

Carr tells workers: no future in AWAs: [1 All-round Country Edition] Brad Norington, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 03 June 2005: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Mr [John Howard] will take control by force if they refuse. He wants to create for the first time a single national system, but Mr [Bob Carr] said he […]

Workers say new IR laws a threat, The Australian, 30 May, 2005.

Workers say new IR laws a threat: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 30 May 2005: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract ACTU secretary Greg Combet released a survey of 600 employees which showed 72 per cent were opposed to the removal of unfair dismissal laws for businesses employing up to 100 people. […]

Political gods-in-waiting appeal to the party faithful, The Australian, 30 May, 2005.

Political gods-in-waiting appeal to the party faithful: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Samantha Maiden. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 30 May 2005: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract TONY Abbott said the ALP and the nation’s political life would be a whole lot better if Labor had a few more Christians in it. And Kevin Rudd accused the Howard Government of […]

Graham Kennedy: A final audience of two friends, The Australian, 26 May, 2005.

A final audience of two friends: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 26 May 2005: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract Translate Abstract A few others kept in touch — Stuart Wagstaff, Bert Newton, John Mangos, the Melbourne journalist Jim Murphy, performer Toni Lamond and his biographer Graeme Blundell. It […]

Euthenasia: Killing Me Softly, is it possible in Australia? The South Sydney Herald, May, 2005.

Volcano in Balmain. Son Sam’s High School Assignment. Might just have helped him. Circa 2005.

News put on ice as hail storm pounds city, The Australian, 20 May, 2005.

News put on ice as hail storm pounds city: [2 All-round First Edition] John Stapleton, Sid Maher. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 20 May 2005: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract A VIOLENT hail storm ripped through central Brisbane last night, blacking out 6500 homes and crippling the ABC’s television studios, as heavy swells continued to […]

O’Shane back with husband after split, The Australian, 19 May, 2005.

O’Shane back with husband after split: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 May 2005: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract A court-imposed 12-month apprehended violence order against Ms O’Shane forbidding her from stalking, assaulting or intimidating Mr [Allan Coles], another woman and two juveniles now appears to be behind the couple. Mr […]

A cure for Cholera. The Australian.2005

Uncertain date.John StapletonAUSTRALIAN scientists believe they may have discovered a cure for life-threatening bacterial diseases such as cholera in an unusual red seaweed found only off the east coast of Australia. The compounds, known as furanones, do not kill microbes, as with traditional antibiotics, but simply “jam” their ability to communicate and colonise. Initial laboratory […]

O’Shane defamation payout to be revised, The Australian, 18 May, 2005.

O’Shane defamation payout to be revised: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 18 May 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract The NSW Court of Appeal ruled that an opinion piece by former Sydney Morning Herald columnist Janet Albrechtsen was defamatory in part of Ms [Pat O’Shane], but that publisher John Fairfax had […]

Stock Exchange The Australian 2005

Uncertain date John StapletonTHE flickering screens which line the public foyer of the Australian Stock Exchange’s headquarters in Sydney were almost all red – indicating falling prices. Only the occasional green line indicated any movement upwards. But the atmosphere amongst those who gathered to watch the screen was more curious than stunned; and while many […]

Aboriginal Housing Redfern, The Australian, 2005.

John StapletonTHE brand new houses built for aboriginal people at the Block inSydney’s inner-city  Redfern, with their gleaming knobs and freshpaint, were a source of much fascination for the poor white residentsin the surrounding streets.“It was Gough Whitlam who was in charge of it,” Joyce Larkin, 80,recalls. “My husband said, they’re building these nice houses […]

Opinion Howard Separated Dads South Sydney Herald 2005

OPINION John Stapleton FIVE years ago the separated fathers of Australia would have died inthe ditch for John Howard. Now they want to lynch him. The Prime Minister took this nation to war on the flimsiest ofevidence – far flimsier than the overwhelming evidence that the FamilyCourt of Australia and the Child Support Agency, along […]

Driver in childcare tragedy cleared, The Australian, 13 May, 2005.

Driver in childcare tragedy cleared: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Annabelle McDonald. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 13 May 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract THE driver who left toddlers Sophie Delezio and Molly Wood with horrific injuries after he crashed into a Sydney childcare centre apologised to them for the first time yesterday after […]

Red Alert: The Story of Redfern’s Fight to Stop Needles Next to Children, Random Material. Project Incomplete.

Needle exchange a bad fit for clean-up community, The Australian, 11 May, 2005.

Needle exchange a bad fit for cleaned-up community: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 11 May 2005: 20. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Project officer at the Aboriginal Housing Company Peter Valilis said they had worked hard with police and public housing officials to evict drug dealers from The Block, which […]

Red Alert: The Story of Redfern’s Fight to Stop Needles Next to Children, Project Incomplete, Pages 1-10, 2005.

I started writing Red Alert and collecting material with the idea of doing a short book on what happened in Redfern.I also wrote most of the press releases involved.The project was never completed.The proposed centre was only two doors from where I was living with my then school aged children. There were more than 50 kids […]

Red Alert: The Story of Redfern’s Fight to Stop Needles Next to Children, Project Incomplete, Pages 11-20, 2005.

Plea from a brother in prayer, The Australian, 9 May, 2005

Plea from a brother in prayer: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, John Kerin. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 09 May 2005: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Sheik Hilali made his video after meeting Mr Wood’s brothers Malcolm and Vernon, who travelled to Sydney’s Lakemba Mosque on Saturday. The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils had suggested such a […]

Red Alert: The Story of Redfern’s Fight to Stop Needles Next to Children, Project Incomplete, Pages 21-30, 2005.

Red Alert: The Story of Redfern’s Fight to Stop Needles Next to Children, Project Incomplete, Pages 31-40, 2005.

Red Alert: The Story of Redfern’s Fight to Stop Needles Next to Children, Project Incomplete, Pages 41-50, 2005.

Red Alert: The Story of Redfern’s Fight to Stop Needles Next to Children, Project Incomplete, Pages 51-60, 2005.

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Pay rise to boost cost of childcare, The Australian, 5 May, 2005.

Red Alert: The Story of Redfern’s Fight to Stop Needles Next to Children, Project Incomplete, Pages 61-69, 2005.

Rivkin’s death ends long fall from grace, The Australian, 2 May, 2005. Page One.

Rivkin’s death ends long fall from grace: [6 NSW Country Edition] Drew Warne-Smith, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 02 May 2005: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract By 5.30pm, his son Jordan, who has assumed the reins of Mr [RENE Rivkin]’s business empire after he was convicted of insider trading, and other family members, had also […]

Euthenasia: Killing Me Softly, is it possible in Australia? South Sydney Herald, May, 2005.

Navel-gazing at News Limited, Crikey, 2005.

Nursing pay rises slated, The Australian, 16 April, 2005.

Nursing pay rises slated, applauded: [1 Preprints Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 16 Apr 2005: C25. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Nursing home operators, largely run by charities and churches, claimed the increase would put financial pressure on more than 900 NSW operators and lead to wage pressures in nursing homes around Australia. […]

Comrades recall four of the finest, Weekend Australian, 9 April, 2005.

Comrades recall four of the finest: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 09 Apr 2005: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Four of the nine personnel who died, lieutenants Matthew Goodall, Paul Kimlin and Jonathan King and Leading Seaman Scott Bennet were also based there as part of Squadron 817. During the service four friends […]

Medic’s three-day countdown to death, The Australian, 7 April, 2005.

Medic’s three-day countdown to death: [6 NSW Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 07 Apr 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract NAVY medic Petty Officer Stephen Slattery, part of the medical team sent to the Indonesian island of Nias to help victims of the Easter Monday earthquake, was told of his deployment only on Wednesday of last week. […]

Falling wall prevents boys’ fire escape, The Australian, 1 April, 2005.

Falling wall prevents boys’ fire escape: [7 NSW First Edition] Annabelle McDonald, John Stapleton. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 01 Apr 2005: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Firefighters donned breathing apparatus and pulled Mathew Davies, 9, and Shane Davies, 6, out of the back of the burning house at about 7.30am yesterday. But ambulance officers […]

Carl Skully immunisation The Australian 2005

John StapletonCLEARLY embarrassed by stories that he was not just some sort of lunatic vegetarian but that he did not believe in immunising his children, NSW leadership contender Carl Scully blamed the brutal ALP machine for the adverse propoganda. He took the unusual step yesterday of issuing a statement rejecting the stories that he did […]

Chinese Dissidents Sydney Writers Festival, The Australian. Uncertain date.

John StapletonTHEIR lives have weaved together in unusual ways; from the days in the late 1980s and early 1990s when as virtual unknowns they used to gather for alcohol fuelled parties at a house near Sydney University. All were Chinese expatriates or descendents distressed by the massacre in Tiananmen Square. This week, after not having […]

Euthenasia Killing Me Softly Philip Nitschke & Fiona Stewart, The Australian, 2005

John StapletonONLY four years ago Alan Plowman, once one of the country’s leading diving and trampoline coaches, won the World Masters Springboard Diving Championship. All his life he had been healthy and active. Then in 2002 disaster struck. He was diagnosed with “multiple-system-atrophy”, a condition similar to Parkinson’s disease. Now he is in a wheelchair […]

Bob Carr Retiring as Premier of NSW, The Australian, 2005

John Stapleton RELAXED, happy and engaged, this was a Bob Carr we had not seen for a very long time.Returning to his old alma mater, Matraville Soldiers Settlement Public School in Sydney’s south yesterday, the soon-to-be former Premier of NSW beamed at reporters, shook hands with teachers and appeared genuinely interested in what students had […]

Four loved ones lost, two families grieve, The Australian, 31 March, 2005.

Four loved ones lost, two families grieve: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 31 Mar 2005: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract For sister Kasey Rose Winter, 3, there was a pale-pink coffin decorated with love-hearts, butterfly stickers and My Little Pony toys. The bodies of [Jake Aden Winter], Kasey, […]

Easter road accidents claim 21 lives, The Australian, 28 March, 2005.

Easter road accidents claim 21 lives: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 28 Mar 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract There have also been five deaths in South Australia. Two people died on Good Friday at Kulpara, north of Adelaide, while another two died and four were critically injured early […]

Arresting accents foil ‘robbers’, Weekend Australian, 26 March, 2005

Arresting accents foil `robbers’: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 26 Mar 2005: 9. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Luke Carroll, 19, and Anthony Prince, also 19, a Kiwi with permanent Australian residency, are accused of robbing a bank in Vail, Colorado, of $US130,000 ($168,000). Working off the tip the robbers could be Australian, police remembered an incident […]

Coalition leader risked lives: Carr, The Australian, 23 March, 2005.

Coalition leader risked lives: Carr: [1 All-round Country Edition] Jonathan Porter, John Stapleton, Additional reporting: Annabelle McDonald. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 03 Mar 2005: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract NSW Opposition Leader John Brogden had endangered police lives by revealing in parliament details of a bugging operation at the house of death-crash driver Jesse Kelly, Premier […]

Two seized over bid to kidnap girl, The Australian, 23 March, 2005.

Two seized over bid to kidnap girl: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 23 Mar 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract What Zhi Ming Jiao was allegedly looking to hire was an assistant for an elaborate plan to kidnap the six-year-old daughter of a wealthy Chinese couple and hold her for $800,000 […]

Girl-in-a-box for $800K ransom, The Australian, 23 March, 2005.

Girl-in-a-box for $800K ransom: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 23 Mar 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Police proceeded to tape telephone conversations between Mr Zhi, a 46-year-old Chinese-born owner of a Sydney-based textile exporting business and a 45-year-old man, from Ashfield in Sydney’s inner- west, who responded to the ad. […]

Habib uses Palm Sunday to offer thanks, The Australian, 21 March, 2005.

Habib uses Palm Sunday to offer thanks: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 21 Mar 2005: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract FORMER Guantanamo Bay inmate Mamdouh Habib was cheered yesterday at a Palm Sunday protest to mark the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Mr Habib did not forget fellow Australian David Hicks, awaiting trial […]

Police probe family tragedy on ‘millionaires row’, The Australian, 21 March, 2005. Additional Reporting.

Police probe family tragedy on `millionaires row’: [1 All-round Country Edition] Natasha Robinson, Elizabeth Gosch, Additional reporting: John Stapleton. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T.[Canberra, A.C.T] 21 Mar 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract NSW police were investigating last night a suspected triple murder-suicide after relatives discovered the bodies of a husband, wife and two young children […]

Lightfoot records withheld, The Australian, 21 March, 2005.

Lightfoot records withheld: [1 All-round Country Edition] Elisabeth Wynhausen, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 21 Mar 2005: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract LIBERAL senator Ross Lightfoot’s companion on the mission to smuggle $US20,000 ($25,200) into Iraq for Woodside Petroleum has refused to produce the records which he says prove it was him, not the West Australian senator, who carried the cash. Mr [Simko Halmet] has […]

Lightfoot’s story has holes: Pm, Weekend Australian, 19 March, 2005

Lightfoot’s story has holes: PM: [3 All-round Metro Edition] John Kerin, John Stapleton. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 Mar 2005: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Senator [Ross Lightfoot] is embroiled in a scandal after News Limited papers reported allegations on Wednesday that he smuggled $US20,000 ($25,000) on behalf of Australian oil giant Woodside Petroleum as a donation to […]

Greens, farmers agree on anti-clearing compo, The Australian, 17 March, 2005.

Greens, farmers agree on anti-clearing compo – ENVIRONMENT – EARTH, AIR, WATER: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 17 Mar 2005: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Mr [Peter Corish] said farmers controlled 60per cent of the Australian landscape, with the present policies requiring them to lock up land to preserve the environment not recognising the real costs to farmers, […]

Police hit back over riots, The Australian, 17 March, 2005.

Police hit back over riots: [6 NSW Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 17 Mar 2005: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract RANK-and-file police in the riot-torn suburb of Macquarie Fields in far-western Sydney have strongly backed their embattled Police Commissioner, Ken Moroney, who was attacked by the NSW Opposition leader John Brogden for his alleged “softly, softly” approach. […]

My job’s crime, not politics, police chief tells critics, The Australian, 14 March, 2005.

My job’s crime, not politics, police chief tells critics: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 14 Mar 2005: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract NSW police chief Ken Moroney has defended his handling of the Macquarie Fields riots, and attacked state Opposition Leader John Brogden for trying to politicise the force. An internal police review of the Macquarie Fields […]

Poisoned sisters awake as parents face charges, The Australian, 14 March, 2005.

Poisoned sisters awake as parents face charges: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Annabelle McDonald. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 14 Mar 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Parramatta Bail Court was told the family came to Australia in August “for the purpose of avoiding a court matter in Singapore”and were on 12-month visas. Police prosecutor Keren […]

Redfern and Macquarie Fields unrest, what’s the difference? Opinion, South Sydney Herald, April, 2005. Page One.

Published South Sydney Herald 2005OPINIONJohn StapletonTHERE is little doubt that if it had been two aboriginal teenagers whohad died in the police pursuit at Macquarie Fields the political andmedia response would have been entirely different.Redfern lessons not learnt, the pundits would have screamed. Seriousquestions would have been raised about the conduct of the police.Calls would […]

Kelly, the ‘hunted animal’ is charged, The Australian, 11 March, 2005.

Kelly, the `hunted animal’, is charged: [2 All-round First Edition] Natasha Robinson, John Stapleton, Additional reporting: Annabelle McDonald. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 11 Mar 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract In court to support Kelly were his mother Donna Kelly, grandmother Barbara Perkins, ex-girlfriend and [Sasha]’s mother Melissa Bailey, and a number of friends […]

Car chase fugitive: police are not to blame I just lost it, The Australian, 10 March, 2005. Additional Reporting. Page One.

Car chase fugitive: police are not to blame I just lost it: [1 All-round Country Edition] Annabelle McDonald, Natasha Robinson, Additional reporting: Andrew West, John Stapleton. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 10 Mar 2005: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Talking to Kelly about 3.15am on Saturday, February 26 — three hours after he […]

Wild night of riots in two cities, The Australian, 7 March, 2005

Wild night of riots in two cities: [1 All-round Country Edition] Andrea Mayes, John Stapleton. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 07 Mar 2005: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract POLICE battled rioters for up to two hours in Sydney and Perth when drunken youths at weekend parties launched full-scale assaults, hurling bottles and rocks and forcing […]

Police bypass funeral, then raid homes, Weekend Australian, 5 March, 2005. Pic Renee Nowytarger.

Police bypass funeral, then raid homes: [7 NSW First Edition] John Stapleton, Annabelle McDonald. Weekend Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 Mar 2005: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract VIOLENCE flared yesterday in Macquarie Fields after the funeral of a teenager killed during a police pursuit last week that triggered four nights of rioting in the southwestern Sydney suburb. […]

Funeral raises riot fears, The Australian, 4 March, 2005.

Funeral raises riot fears: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Annabelle McDonald. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 04 Mar 2005: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Adding to the tension, the driver of the stolen car, Jesse Kelly, on the run from police since the crash on the housing estate at Macquarie Fields, in Sydney’s west, is expected to attend the funeral of close mate, 17-year-old Dylan Rayward. Mr Kelly, […]

Police slam riot-watchers, The Australian, 2 March, 2005.

Police slam riot-watchers: [2 All-round First Edition] Jonathan Porter, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 02 Mar 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract POLICE yesterday lashed out at rubbernecks in Macquarie Fields who were “bringing armchairs to sit in the street and watch the spectacle” in the strife-torn southwestern Sydney suburb. Commissioner Ken Moroney blamed onlookers for treating the riots as “reality […]

YOU CALL THIS A LIFE, The Australian, 1 March, 2005.

YOU CALL THIS A LIFE: [1 All-round Country Edition] Drew Warne-Smith, John Stapleton, Annabelle McDonald. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 01 Mar 2005: 11. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract [Dylan Raywood] and [Matt Robertson] were members of a local gang known as the Kelly Boys or the MFBs — the Macquarie Fields Boys. Members claimed yesterday they had been targeted by police […]

Two children dead in Wodberry house fire, The Australian, March 2005.

Annabelle McDonaldJohn StapletonTHEY were “just loveable little boys” it was said of two children who died in a house fire in the Hunter Valley suburb of Woodberry north of Sydney yesterday morning. The Housing Commission home, which was completely gutted, was well ablaze when fire fighters arrived at 7.30am, shortly after receiving a number of […]

Sydney’s Volunteer Coastguards, The Australian

Not sure of date.John StapletonAS volunteer coastguards, Bob Foster and Harry Parsons have dedicated thousands of hours over many years to work at the old signal station at Sydney’s South Head, helping to rescue any boats that get in trouble off the NSW coast by providing 24 hour radio contact. Now, after being sacked from […]

New riots follow arrests, The Australian, 1 March, 2005. Page One.

New riots follow arrests: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Annabelle McDonald, John Stapleton, Additional reporting: Elizabeth Gosch. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T.[Canberra, A.C.T] 01 Mar 2005: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract GANGS of youths from notorious housing estates across Sydney converged on the far-southwestern suburb of Macquarie Fields last night for the fourth consecutive night of rioting and violence. […]

More riots feared after death of youths, The Australian, 28 February, 2005.

More riots feared after death of youths: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Annabelle McDonald. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 28 Feb 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Crowds of angry and grieving friends who gathered around the tree where Matt Robertson, 19, and Dylan Raywood, 17, died in a stolen car on Friday night […]

100 teens fight police on chase deaths, The Australian, 28 February, 2005.

100 teens fight police on chase deaths: [3 All-round Metro Edition] John Stapleton, Elizabeth Gosch. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 28 Feb 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract More than 50 officers in full riot gear were confronted when the mob set a car alight in Macquarie Fields to avenge the deaths of two popular young men […]

Terror suspect tracked on bail, The Australian, 24 February, 2005.

Terror suspect tracked on bail: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 24 Feb 2005: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Mr [Bilal Khazal], 34, from Lakemba in Sydney’s southwest, appeared in traditional Islamic dress at the Central Local Court in Sydney yesterday. Full Text TranslateFull text Turn on search term navigation FORMER Qantas baggage handler […]

Brothels seek staying power as tenants get restless, The Australian, 23 February, 2005

Brothels seek staying power as tenants get restless: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 23 Feb 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “This is a landmark case and has broad implications for all owners and residents of residential apartments in NSW,” said Liberal councillor for Waverley Kerryn Sloan. […]

Lebanese mourn as accused tells of tests, The Australian, 21 February, 2005.

Lebanese mourn as accused tells of tests: [1 All-round Country Edition] Trudy Harris, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 21 Feb 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Lebanese Muslim Association president Keysar Trad called on Lebanese authorities to apologise to the men, who had been on theHaj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, and were returning to Australia via […]

Mentally ill mum cleared of murdering son, Weekend Australian, 19 February, 2005.

Mentally ill mum cleared of murdering son: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 Feb 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Shan Shan Xu, 35, drowned her son Stephen in 2003 after leaving a note for her mother that said they would not be returning home to their […]

Mother cleared of son’s murder, Weekend Australian, 19 February, 2005.

Mother cleared of son’s murder: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 Feb 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Shanghai-born Ms [Shan Shan Xu] came to Australia in the mid-1990s. She gave birth to [Stephen] in late 1998 after a brief liaison with a construction worker. “There was no one […]

New slug on 4WDs except mayor’s The Australian, 16 February, 2005.

New slug on 4WDs except mayor’s: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Robert Wilson. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 16 Feb 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Volvo spokesman Todd Hallenbeck said Mrs [Genia McCaffery]’s XC70 was technically classed as a 4WD because of its ride height, and attracts 4WD concessions on import duty. For critics […]

No to plaque at TJ’s death site, The Australian, 14 February, 2005.

No to plaque at TJ’s death site: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 14 Feb 2005: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract THE family of 17-year-old Aboriginal boy Thomas “TJ” Hickey, whose death a year ago today sparked the Redfern riots, has been refused permission to place a plaque commemorating his life […]

Tour starts at end of month, Weekend Australian, 12 February, 2005.

Tour starts at end of month: [1 All-round Country Edition] Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 12 Feb 2005: 10. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The prince will attend receptions hosted by Governor-General Michael Jeffery in Canberra, the Governor of Victoria John Landy in Melbourne, and the Governor of NSW Marie Bashir in Sydney. Full Text TranslateFull text Turn on search term navigation […]

First the worse, then the better, The Australian, 10 February, 2005. Page One.

First the worse, then the better: [2 All-round First Edition 1] John Stapleton, Kate Legge, Additional reporting: Rebecca Vonhoff. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 10 Feb 2005: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “A good marriage helps you mentally and physically. You’ve got to put in the hard work, but if I didn’t have [Meree Greenwell], I wouldn’t […]

Labelling modesty a virtue, The Australian, 7 February, 2005.

Labelling modesty a virtue: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 07 Feb 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “The stronger the claim, the higher the level of scrutiny,” said NSW Primary Industries Ian Macdonald. The NSW Government’s proposal for regulating the claims about so- called “bio-markers” such as cholesterol, bone density or blood pressure is the latest move in a protracted process […]

Rabbi Apple spells out core values as he departs after 32 years, The Australian, 7 February, 2005.

Apple spells out core values as he departs after 32 years: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 07 Feb 2005: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract Translate Abstract Rabbi Apple began work at Sydney’s Great Synagogue in in the 1970s and has always been known for his modern ways, and […]

Typical Example of Photo Request Form, The Australian, 6 February, 2005.

‘Copycat’ writer sticks to her story, Jessica Adams, The Australian, 4 February, 2005.

`Copycat’ writer sticks to her story: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Rebecca Vonhoff. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 04 Feb 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract WRITER and astrologer Jessica Adams was guilty of plagiarism for ripping off an Agatha Christie short story, literary critics said yesterday. In what is shaping as Australia’s newest […]

Heat is on, and the pipes are calling, The Australian, 2 February, 2005.

Heat is on, and the pipes are calling: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 02 Feb 2005: 8. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “At Scots, real men play the pipes — there’s no jossing or ribald jokes, quite the reverse.” she said. “It’s a real blokey thing to be in the pipe band and they have the most wonderful […]

Five die as waves pummel coast, The Australian, 31 January, 2005.

Five die as waves pummel coast: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 31 Jan 2005: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Early yesterday a 48-year-old man drowned after his dinghy capsized at Swansea, south of Newcastle. Witnesses told police it looked like the man, presumed to be going fishing shortly after […]

Debate on Multiculturalism, The Australian, publication circa 2005, confirming date

John Stapleton SYDNEY historian Keith Windschuttle has said multiculturalism is damaging Australia and Muslim women should be banned from wearing traditional headscarves in schools. “I am in favour of multiracialism but not I am not in favour of multiculturalism,” Mr Windschuttle said last night in his address to the Sydney Institute about the White Australia […]