Fahey’s daughter dies in crash, The Australian, 27 December 2006. Page One.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/faheys-daughter-dies-in-crash/story-e6frg6nf-1111112743339 Fahey’s daughter dies in crash JOHN STAPLETON AND JAMES MADDEN THE AUSTRALIAN DECEMBER 27, 2006 12:00AM Print Save for later James Madden Deputy National News Editor Sydney A DAUGHTER of former NSW Liberal premier John Fahey has been killed after being thrown from her car in an early-morning road accident. Tiffany Fahey, 27, a mother […]

Boxing Day adds to $33bn festive splurge, The Australian, 27 December, 2006.

Boxing Day adds to $33bn festive splurge: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 27 Dec 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract CROWDS in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne made it almost impossible to move about as some of the nation’s biggest retailers experienced record Boxing Day sales. Huge crowds squeezed into Melbourne shopping […]

Icy weather takes holiday toll to 20, The Australian, 26 December, 2006.

Icy weather takes holiday toll to 20: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 26 Dec 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract NSW has recorded seven fatalities, the highest number of any state, after a 17-year-old female passenger died in an accident near Newcastle. The teenager, from Kilaben Bay, was in the front passenger seat […]

Amid the Embers, The Australian, 26 December 2006. Page One. Additional Reporting

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/amid-the-embers-no-one-dreamed-of-a-white-christmas/story-e6frg6nf-1111112739509 Amid the embers, no one dreamed of a white Christmas RICHARD KERBAJ THE AUSTRALIAN DECEMBER 26, 2006 12:00AM Print Save for later YES, this is Australia. Snow, and plenty of it, doused the alpine bushfires, transforming the blackened landscape in Victoria’s east into a brilliant white. Christmas revellers – enjoying a sweltering 34C – took […]

Let the good times roll, The Australian, 26 December, 2006.

Let the good times roll: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 26 Dec 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Reflecting the good times, [David Jones]’s major stores in NSW, Victoria and the ACT will open their doors at 7am. Myer is promising Australia’s “biggest stock sale” and many of its stores will also open […]

Bashir to seek compo as court clears him over Bali, The Australian, 22 December, 2006. Additional Reporting. Page One.

Bashir to seek compo as court clears him over Bali: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta correspondent, Additional reporting: John Stapleton, Tony Barrass. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 Dec 2006: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract MUSLIM cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has been cleared of involvement in the 2002 Bali bombings, opening the way for the […]

New life for book of death, The Australian, 22 December, 2006.

New life for book of death: [1 All-round Country Edition] Simon Kearney, John Stapleton. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 Dec 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Dr [Philip Nitschke] has now ordered a print run in Australia after the Office of Film and Literature Classification’s board voted on Monday to allow the book to be sold […]

Gallery of great expats, The Australian, 20 December, 2006.

Gallery of great expats: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 20 Dec 2006: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The event was organised by the not-for-profit organisation Advance, which is funded by companies and individuals and encourages links between the Australian diaspora and their homeland. Mr [Margaret Whitlam] said the room contained some of the greatestAustralians. “It is great to see […]

Ian Thorpe The Australian December 2006

web only:John Stapleton A relaxed, happy and very much retired Ian Thorpe posed cheerfully for cameras today as he inspected the new $40 million Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre. Thorpe obligingly stuck his palms into concrete for posterity and signed tiles for the workers on the site to take home. Thorpe agreed to a request from […]

Christmas 2006, The Australian.

John Stapleton FORECASTERS are predicting the first white Christmas in Australia for more than 20 years, with the possibility of snow falls on the central Tasmanian plateau and the higher peaks of the Snowy Mountains. Monday is expected to be cold and wet across southeast Australia, providing the best possible present for thousands of beleaguered […]

Sudanese ‘betrayed’ by mayor’s comments, Weekend Australian, 16 December, 2006

Sudanese `betrayed’ by mayor’s comments: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, James Madden. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 16 Dec 2006: 8. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract He feels betrayed by what he describes as racist comments from Tamworth mayor James Treloar, who said “cultural differences” were why hundreds of locals were opposed to the additional settlement of […]

‘Unknown’ number of ice addicts, say ministers, The Australian, 15 December, 2006.

`Unknown’ number of ice addicts, say ministers: [1 All-round Country Edition] Clara Pirani, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 15 Dec 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Estimates of the number of people in Australia using ice vary from 63,000 to 102,000, a national forum on ice held in Sydney heard yesterday. Mr [Christopher Pyne] said […]

707 calls Australia home once more, The Australian, 15 December, 2006. Story by Ron Hicks, quotes my father.

I arranged for my father to be interviewed for this story. 707 calls Australia home once more: [1 All-round Country Edition] Hicks, RonAuthor Information. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 15 Dec 2006: 34. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Australia’s first Boeing 707 — and the first in the world to operate outside the US — will touch down tomorrow at 9am at Sydney Airport, […]

Petrol boy, Bidura Children’s Court, The Australian, 14 December 2006.

web only:14 DECEMBER 2006John StapletonA 13 year old boy who allegedly poured petrol over a nine year old child and then set him alight was released by the Bidura Children’s Court yesterday under strict bail conditions. The diminutive boy, who had been in custody since the incident yesterday afternoon, sat quietly between his parents through […]

Speed a promising treatment for ice addiction: expert, The Australian, 13 December 2006

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/speed-a-promising-treatment-for-ice-addiction-expert/story-e6frg6nf-1111112681824 Speed a promising treatment for ice addiction: expert JOHN STAPLETON THE AUSTRALIAN DECEMBER 13, 2006 12:00AM THE street drug speed could be the best treatment for abusers of the popular party drug ice, a visiting expert claimed yesterday. John Grabowski, from the University of Texas, will be the keynote speaker at a conference in Sydney […]

Citizenship Tests, The Australian, 12 December 2006

12 DECEMBER John Stapleton Danah Behbehani MOST Australians approached by this newspaper yesterday would have failed a basic citizenship test. They could not cite the citizenship pledge, did not know the five fundamental freedoms of Australians, did not know any of their basic responsibilities as citizens and could not guess the year of Federation. In […]

Drug treatments The Australian 12 December 2006

13 DECEMBER 2006 John StapletonTHE street drug speed could be the best treatment for abusers of the popular party drug Ice, a visiting expert claimed yesterday. Dr John Grabowski, from the University of Texas, will be the keynote speaker at a conference in Sydney today on Ice use. Speed, or dex-amphetamine sulphate, in itself poses […]

Cheryl King, Liam Magill and Dr Jim Macnamara, Interviews, Dads On The Air, 12 December, 2006.

Anniversary of Cronulla race riots The Australian 11 December 2006

11 DECEMBER 2006.John StapletonONE year on from the race riots at Cronulla all was quiet at the beach this weekend.Beyond the extra police, including riot squad and mounted police, and a few members of the Australia First party, there were few signs that the area was once a focus of conflict between local anglo-saxons and […]

A year on, Cronulla has changed but rift remains, The Australian, 9 December, 2006.

A year on, Cronulla has changed but rift remains: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Tracy Ong, Additional reporting: Dan Box. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 09 Dec 2006: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract [Nick Pavlous] was at Cronulla that day, and saw gangs of white men attacking ethnic groups on the beach. He believes the riots brought into the open […]

Stay the course in Iraq: US envoy, The Australian, 7 December, 2006.

Stay the course in Iraq: US envoy: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 07 Dec 2006: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract AUSTRALIA’S involvement in the Iraq war is up for debate as next year’s federal election approaches — but withdrawal would be a disaster, US ambassador Robert McCallum declared yesterday in his […]

Norman’s easy win, The Australian, 7 December, 2006.

Norman’s easy win: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 07 Dec 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Lleyton Hewitt has only one tournament win this year, but he still came in fourth, netting $9million. Boxer Anthony Mundine only had to work one night to earn 10th place on the list. […]

Author laments greedy managers’ triumph, The Australian, 6 December, 2006.

Author laments greedy managers’ triumph: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 06 Dec 2006: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract [David Williamson] suggested that to be considered for an executive job you had to pass personality tests demonstrating yourself as a team player, irrespective of your qualifications. “Psychopaths are very good […]

Black Hawk crash victim was pilot, The Australian 30 November 2006 Additional Reporting

Black Hawk crash victim was pilot MARK DODD AND SIMON KEARNEY, SUVA THE AUSTRALIAN NOVEMBER 30, 2006 12:00AM Print Save for later THE Department of Defence today confirmed the pilot killed in yesterday’s Black Hawk crash off Fiji was 35-year-old Captain Mark Bingley. Captain Bingley, 35, a member of the 171st Squadron based in Townsville, died […]

Exercise’s Litany of Errors Led to Tragedy The Australian 30 November 2006

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/exercises-litany-of-errors-led-to-tragedy/story-e6frg6nf-1111112608462 Exercise’s ‘litany of errors’ led to tragedy JOHN STAPLETON THE AUSTRALIAN NOVEMBER 30, 2006 12:00AM Print Save for later EIGHTEEN soldiers died and 10 others were injured 10 years ago when two Black Hawk helicopters collided during a live-fire counter-terrorism exercise near Townsville. Fifteen soldiers of the Special Air Service Regiment based in Perth and […]

Kernot backs Gillard as the next ALP leader, The Australian, 29 November, 2006.

Kernot backs Gillard as the next ALP leader: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 29 Nov 2006: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract FORMER Australian Democrats leader and Labor convert Cheryl Kernot last night backed Julia Gillard as heir apparent for leadership of the Labor Party, declaring that Kim Beazley could not win […]

Detainees in disturbance, The Australian, 28 November, 2006.

Detainees in disturbance: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 28 Nov 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract One security officer received minor injuries. One asylum-seeker was taken to hospital after feeling faint and another suffered minor injuries to his arm. Full Text TranslateFull text Turn on search term […]

Concerns at P-plate driver toll, The Australian, 27 November, 2006.

Concerns at P-plate driver toll: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 27 Nov 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract THE debate in NSW over the safety of young drivers has intensified after three P-plate drivers were caught under the influence of alcohol in Maitland, northwest of Newcastle, early yesterday. Full […]

3801, The Australian, 26 November 2006

26 NOVEMBER 2006John StapletonNOSTALGIA, excitement, frustration and bitterness, they were all part of the mix as the historic 3801 steam train left Central Station yesterday. It was the locomotive’s last trip under its present ownership structure, with the NSW state government refusing all entreaties to leave the train with the team of volunteers who have […]

Inside trade appeal fails, Weekend Australian, 25 November, 2006.

Inside trade appeal fails: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 25 Nov 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract THE decade-long legal battle by former Macquarie Bank high-flyer Simon Hannes to clear his name ended yesterday when he lost his second appeal in theNSW Supreme Court. Full Text TranslateFull text Turn on search term navigation […]

Braille on bottles grape news for blind, The Australian, 24 November, 2006.

Braille on bottles grape news for blind: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 24 Nov 2006: 10. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Mr [NICK Gleeson], 45, has been blind since the age of seven, after an accident when he ran into a supermarket door. Among his achievements has been climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, but […]

Man driven to possess car of boyhood dreams, The Australian, 20 November 2006.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/man-driven-to-possess-car-of-boyhood-dreams/story-e6frg6nf-1111112551678 Man driven to possess car of boyhood dreams JOHN STAPLETON THE AUSTRALIAN NOVEMBER 20, 2006 12:00AM Print Save for later Obsession: Hayden Howse with the De Lorean. Picture: Britta Campion Source: The Australian EVER since he saw the film Back To The Future as a young boy, Hayden Howse’s dream has been to own a De Lorean, […]

Rove McManus, The Australian, 17 November 2006

17 NOVEMBER 2006 John Stapleton OPPOSITION leader Kim Beazley began his morning media doorstop in western Sydney yesterday by expressing his sympathies to Karl Rove and his family, mistaking one of Australia’s best known television hosts with an adviser to US President George Bush. Rove McManus buried his wife Belinda Emmett yesterday. Her death last […]

John Howard Vietnam, The Australian, 16 November 2006

WEB ONLY: 16 nov 2006 John Stapleton PRIME Minister John Howard is to fly out to Vietnam this afternoon for bilateral talks with some of Australia’s key allies, including US President George Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao at this year’s Asia Pacific. The meetings are part of the Asia Pacific Ecnomic Cooperation (APEC) meeting. […]

Debnam challenged on ‘smear’, The Australian, 16 November, 2006.

Debnam challenged on `smear’: [1 All-round Country Edition] Imre Salusinszky, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 16 Nov 2006: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract NSW Premier Morris Iemma last night challenged Opposition leader Peter Debnam to back up a “serious smear” against an unnamed cabinet minister, or resign. As Mr Orkopoulos recovered in the intensive care […]

Iemma challenges Debnam over ‘serious smear’, The Australian, 16 November, 2006.

Iemma challenges Debnam over `serious smear’: [U WA Metro Edition] Imre Salusinszky, John Stapleton. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 16 Nov 2006: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract In parliament, Mr [Debnam] had asked if any minister other than former Aboriginal affairs minister Milton Orkopoulos — who apparently attempted suicide on Tuesday after being […]

Greenkeeper seeing red on federal switch – IR CHALLENGE FAILS, The Australian, 15 November, 2006.

Greenkeeper seeing red on federal switch – IR CHALLENGE FAILS: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 15 Nov 2006: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract GRENVILLE Kato-Morcom is now a member of John Howard’s workforce. Mr Kato-Morcom is now effectively employed under the Work Choices law because he no longer has the right to take a dispute […]

Dam project rushed in to fight drought, The Australian, 13 November, 2006.

Dam project rushed in to fight drought: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 13 Nov 2006: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract THE Iemma Government will build the first new big dam in NSW in almost 20 years in a $342million project it hopes will drought- proof the central coast and Hunter Valley. Dairy farmer James […]

RSL welcomes equine invasion – MELBOURNE CUP, The Australian, 8 November, 2006.

RSL welcomes equine invasion – MELBOURNE CUP: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 08 Nov 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract At the Clovelly RSL and Airforce Club in Sydney’s east, the reaction was entirely positive: the horses were magnificent, the race was superb, and the win by a Japanese horse would only enhance the Cup’s reputation as a… Full Text TranslateFull […]

From agony in Angaston to Diggers’donkey races in Afghanistan – MELBOURNE CUP, The Australian, 8 November, 2006.

From agony in Angaston to Diggers’ donkey races in Afghanistan – MELBOURNE CUP: [1 All-round Country Edition] Richard Sproull, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 08 Nov 2006: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract STRAPPERS, jockeys and trainers from David Hayes’s Lindsay Park Stud always retreat to the nearby Angaston pub, the Barossa Brauhaus, when their horses are running […]

Brimble evidence ‘hidden’, The Australian, 6 November, 2006.

Brimble evidence `hidden’: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 06 Nov 2006: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract THE family of Dianne Brimble have accused the South Australian and NSW police of concealing evidence, on the eve of theresumption of the inquest into her death aboard a P&O cruise in 2002. Full Text TranslateFull text Turn on search term navigation THE family […]

Rain no damper as Iraqis hit the Aussie streets to celebrate – THE VERDICT, The Australian, 6 November, 2006.

Rain no damper as Iraqis hit the Aussie streets to celebrate – THE VERDICT: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 06 Nov 2006: 13. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract [Ali Doali] al-Ali, 34, a computer technician who came to Australia as a refugee in 1999, said the happiness was plainly visible. Firas al-Jabiri, […]

Elephant heaven, Weekend Australian, 4 November, 2006.

Elephant heaven: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 04 Nov 2006: 11. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract “The elephants are in fantastic condition, which is a tribute to the dedication and expertise of their keepers, who have lived with them for two years in Thailand and the Cocos Islands,” Mr [Bob […]

‘State not under threat of an attack’, The Australian, 3 November, 2006.

`State not under threat of an attack’: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 03 Nov 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Assistant Commissioner Nick Kaldas yesterday called a press conference to refute claims that Sydney’s Kings Cross train station had been the target of a terrorist bomb plot. The reports claimed […]

Jumbo cargo arrives at last, The Australian, 3 November, 2006. Picture Lindsay Moller.

Jumbo cargo arrives at last; [THE on-again, off-again saga over the importation of eight Asian elephants has come to an end, with four of the animals arriving in Sydney yesterday]: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 03 Nov 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract THE on-again, off-again saga over the importation of eight […]

Hilali to stay on as mufti, The Australian, 1 November, 2006.

Hilali to stay on as mufti: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Elizabeth Gosch. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 01 Nov 2006: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract One young Muslim woman who brought flowers to the hospital, Gaysa Fakhari, said Sheik Hilali’s comments had been misinterpreted. “Of course he should stay in the job.” Tom Zreika, president of the Lebanese Muslim […]

Relaxed sheik gets rock start treatment, Weekend Australian, 28 October, 2006.

Relaxed Hilali gets star treatment: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 28 Oct 2006: 9. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Many of those leaving the mosque carried a flyer from radical Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir that described the furore surrounding the sheik’s comments as thelatest chapter in Australia’s demonisation of Islam and the Muslim community. Earlier in the day, Sheik Hilali had […]

Fatal Bathurst crash a blank for survivor The Australian 26 October 2006

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/archive/news/fatal-bathurst-crash-a-blank-for-survivor/story-e6frg6o6-1111112419059 Fatal Bathurst crash a blank for survivor JOHN STAPLETON THE AUSTRALIAN OCTOBER 26, 2006 12:00AM Print Save for later Recovering: V8 Supercars driver David Clark, with Gus the therapy dog in a western Sydney hospital yesterday, says the crash was a ‘freak accident’. Picture: Brad Newman Source: The Australian FROM his hospital bed, V8 Supercars driver David […]

City has the water for growth, The Australian, 23 October, 2006.

City has the water for growth: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 23 Oct 2006: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “Water won’t hinder the growth of the city, simply because the use of water in supporting Adelaide is the highest economic use water can be put to,” Professor [Don Bursill] said. Professor Bursill will be presenting his findings […]

Driver who hit Sophie goes free, Weekend Australian, 21 October, 2006

Driver who hit Sophie goes free: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 21 Oct 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract At Sydney’s Manly Court yesterday, magistrate Andrew George rejected police calls for a custodial sentence for John George Sharman, saying the 81-year-old had led a blameless life, served his country in wartime and expressed […]

BIG SHOT, The Australian, 19 October, 2006.

BIG SHOT: [1 All-round Country Edition] Kevin Andrusiak, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 Oct 2006: 24. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract As the broker roadshow ahead of the $8 billion T3 float winds to a halt, [Sol Trujillo] is getting close to the nub of what Telstra is all about by whipping out his mobile […]

Children of stolen generation part of payout deal, The Australian, 19 October, 2006. Additional reporting.

Children of stolen generation part of payout deal: [1 All-round Country Edition] Matthew Denholm, Additional reporting: John Stapleton, Michael Davis, Alana Buckley-Carr, Jeremy Roberts. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 Oct 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract He joined Aboriginal and reconciliation leaders in urging other states to consider adopting his compensation model, which — […]

More breast cancer, but odds are better, The Australian, 16 October, 2006.

More breast cancer, but odds are better: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 16 Oct 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract A major report to be released by federal Health Minister Tony Abbott today, Breast Cancer in Australia, gives for the first time detail about the number of people surviving after a diagnosis. The report, […]

Methamphetamine The Australian 28 September 2006

28 SEPTEMBERex John StapletonTHE use of methamphetamine, including the potent form of Ice, has become the major drug problem facing Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, according to two new reports released yesterday at the first major Australasian conference focussing on amphetamines. The Australian National Council on Drugs analysis of illicit drugs in the Asia-Pacific region […]

Action urged on alcohol violence, The Australian, 28 September, 2006.

Action urged on alcohol violence: [7 NSW First Edition] Dan Box, John Stapleton. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 28 Sep 2006: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Tony Grabs, director of trauma services at Sydney’s StVincent’s Hospital, joined a chorus of calls for action on alcohol-related crime after an attack on an Irish backpacker […]

Charges await for terror fugitive, The Australian, 27 September, 2006.

Charges await for terror fugitive: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 27 Sep 2006: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract At the time he left Australia, [Jamal] faced a number of charges including firearms-related offences. Two of these related to the shooting at Lakemba police station and another two charges, including one of malicious wounding, […]

Homes lost as fire season comes early, The Australian, 25 September, 2006. Page One.

Homes lost as fire season comes early: [1 All-round Country Edition] Elizabeth Gosch, John Stapleton, Additional reporting: D.D. McNicoll. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 25 Sep 2006: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The worst fires yesterday were around the small towns of Picton and Thirlmere, southwest of Sydney, where four houses were destroyed. In Cattai and […]

Mad dash for flights as footy worlds collide, The Australian, 25 September, 2006. Additional reporting.

Mad dash for flights as footy worlds collide: [6 NSW Country Edition] Chip Le Grand, Paige Taylor, Additional reporting: Jo Prichard, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 25 Sep 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Qantas has also put on an extra 10 flights between Sydney and Melbourne to cater for Swans fans flying south […]

Counterterrorism The Australian 21 September 2006

21 SEPTEMBER 2006.John StapletonTHE NSW and Federal governments have launched a major counter-terrorism exercise at Sydney airport ahead of an APEC meeting of world leaders next year. A public holiday has been declared in NSW for the 2007 APEC leaders forum next September, the largest international meeting ever held in Australia. World leaders are expected […]

Rare chameleons eye a brighter future at zoo, The Australian, 20 September, 2006.

Rare chameleons eye a brighter future at zoo: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 20 Sep 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Sydney’s Taronga Zoo has unveiled the latest additions to its spring baby boom: bright-green veiled chameleons. Taronga took charge of a breeding pair of veiled chameleons, which are native to the oases […]

Shane Dye The Australian 19 September 2006

19 SEPTEMBER 2006.John Stapleton DESPITE all the problems of the past few years, the first wife of jockey Shane Dye remains intensely loyal to him.Revealed on the ABC’s Australian story tonight is a relationship which has eschewed the typical bitterness of separated couples. This is the first major interview by Karla Dye since Shane Dye’s […]

Huge wonderland found under Jenolan caves, Weekend Australian, 16 September, 2006.

Huge wonderland found under Jenolan Caves: [2 All-round First Edition] John Stapleton, James Madden. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 16 Sep 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Hundreds of metres of spectacular caves have been found by an intrepid team from the Sydney University Speleological Society, the first significant find at the cave system for almost 40 […]

Child-killer could be free by month’s end, The Australian, 15 September, 2006.

Child-killer could be free by month’s end: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 15 Sep 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract [John Lewthwaite], 50, was paroled in 1999 after serving 25 years in jail for the stabbing murder of five-year-old Nicole Hanns. Victims of crime advocate Howard Brown, from the group VOCAL, said the Hanns family were […]

Lebanese welfare The Australian 13 September 2006

13 SEPTEMBER 2006.John StapletonLEBANESE Australians should be given help learning English and getting a job, not placed on welfare, the NSW Opposition claimed yesterday following reports that people evacuated from the the Middle East were receiving priority access to welfare and public housing. NSW Liberal Leader Peter Debnam accused NSW Premier Morris Iemma of encouraging […]

Good drinkers turn into worst drunks, The Australian, 11 September, 2006.

Good drinkers turn into worst drunks: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 11 Sep 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract THE ability to “drink anyone under the table” could be the beginning of full-blown alcoholism. One of the world’s leading experts on the link between alcoholism and genetics said in Sydney yesterday […]

‘Shonky methods’ used to sell loans, The Australian, 11 September, 2006.

`Shonky methods’ used to sell loans: [1 All-round Country Edition] Geoffrey Newman, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 11 Sep 2006: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract NSW Premier Morris Iemma also blamed the federal Government. “This is a human tragedy,” he said. “These are the terrible consequences of John Howard’s interest rate policies. We will continue to put the case to Canberra […]

The 3801 train leaves Redfern, The South Sydney Herald, September, 2006.

Interview with Richar’ Farr, founder of US bsaed KRights Radio, Dads On The Air, 6 September, 2006.

Forces must know the people: first lady, The Australian, 4 September, 2006.

Forces must know the people: first lady: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 04 Sep 2006: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Ms [KIRSTY Sword Gusmao] attended a fundraising ball for the Humpty Dumpty Foundation, which buys medical equipment for children’s hospitals, including those in East Timor. Major [Alfredo Reinado] has criticised East […]

First job at 31 … and it’s a winner, Weekend Australian, 2 September, 2006.

First job at 31 … and it’s a winner: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 02 Sep 2006: 8. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Mr [Leonard Ritchie] now works as a car detailer in the Aboriginal-run enterprise Deadly Detailers at Wagga Wagga in southwest NSW. Although his past is chequered, he says the […]

Flunking police passed in re-mark, Weekend Australian, 2 September, 2006.

Flunking police passed in re-mark: [2 All-round First Edition] Steve Barrett, John Stapleton. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 02 Sep 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract POLICE recruits at NSW’s Goulburn training academy who failed a crucial course on police powers had their papers re-marked so they could pass the subject. Premier Morris Iemma attended a graduation […]

Police graduation ceremony The Australian 1 September 2006

1 SEPTEMBER 2006.Yesterday 316 jubilant probationary constables threw their hats in the air as they were officially welcomed into the NSW police force. At the end of the graduation ceremony there were tears and laughter as the new recruits posed for photographs with parents, grandparents and children. Most will begin work on Monday, with a […]

Indigenous Governance Awards The Australian 31 August 2006

31 AUGUST 2006.John StapletonAT the age of 31 Leonard Ritchie has his first job – as a car detailer in the aboriginal-run enterprise Deadly Detailers in Wagga Wagga in central western NSW. Yesterday Gannambarra Enterprises, which owns Deadly Detailers, won the Indigenous Governance Award for Australia’s best run aboriginal enterprise less than 10 years old, […]

Links with DPP lawyer in Einfeld parking case, The Australian, 30 August, 2006.

Links with DPP lawyer in Einfeld parking case: [1 All-round Country Edition] Chris Merritt, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 30 Aug 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Solicitor Gaurav de Fontgalland, who represented Mr Einfeld over a disputed parking ticket yesterday, is related to DPP lawyer Shirani de Fontgalland. Ms de [Fontgalland] is […]

Problems with Dads On The Air Website. Dispute with site manager Glen Burns. 23 August, 2006.

Five-year-old drowned The Australian 22 August 2006

TUESDAY 22 August 2006.John StapletonA woman who allegedly drowned her five-year-old son at his father’s house did so on the anniversary of her own mother’s suicide, family members said yesterday. The alleged incident occurred shortly before 5 pm on Monday evening in an upmarket townhouse overlooking Gosford on the NSW Central Coast. The 37-year-old woman’s […]

Sudanese refugees The Australian 19 August 2006

Sunday 19 August 2006.John StapletonBorn in Sudan in Africa, William Deng, 11, goes very quiet when asked about life before he came to Australia. “It was bad in Sudan, there was fighting,” he mutters into the ground. “There was too much people fighting, I saw that, there were people fighting.” In reality William remembers little […]

Interview with Australian Politician Alby Schultz on his booklet Child Support in Australia – A Heartfelt War of Relationships, Families and Money, the Battle for Balance, Dads On The Air, 14 August, 2006.

Here’s the text with improved paragraph spacing and formatting: Alby Schultz 14th Aug 2006 – Radio Interview – Dads on the Air Host: Alby Schultz is the only politician in Federal Parliament who has had the guts and the integrity to regularly speak up about the Child Support Agency and the catastrophic effects that it’s […]

Cabin bags changed forever – TERROR IN THE SKIES, Weekend Australian, 12 August, 2006.

Cabin bags changed forever – TERROR IN THE SKIES: [1 All-round Country Edition] Steve Creedy, John Stapleton. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 12 Aug 2006: 12. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract AIRLINE cabin baggage has probably changed forever in the wake of the foiled British bomb plot and the emergence of more sophisticated explosives. Travellers flying to and from the US face an indefinite […]

Aiport duty-free sales dry up, Terror in the Skies, Weekend Australian, 12 August, 2006.

Airport duty-free sales dry up – TERROR IN THE SKIES: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 12 Aug 2006: 12. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract As a result of the new restrictions, the company was yesterday urging Australians departing on short holidays to pre-order their duty-free goods. This means that they can have their holidays and pick […]

Tougher security plan for airports, Weekend Australian, 12 August, 2006. Page One. Additional reporting.

Tougher security plan for airports: [8 NSW Metro Edition] Patrick Walters, Steve Creedy, Additional reporting: John Stapleton. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 12 Aug 2006: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract While Australia’s security agencies have no intelligence of any direct threat to Australian aviation, the international scale of the foiled London plot is likely to dictate far-reaching changes in security procedures […]

Police slammed on gang rape tape, The Australian, 10 August, 2006.

Two arrested over gang rape as police slammed on tape delay: [B Qld First Edition] Simon Kearney, John Stapleton. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 10 Aug 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Within hours of distributing the images of the five men wearing white tradesman-style overalls as they walked through Darling Harbour, a 25-year-old man from the southwestern suburb […]

Caves’secret lay in lumps of clay, The Australian, 7 August, 2006.

Caves’ secret lay in lumps of clay: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Leigh Dayton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 07 Aug 2006: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Until 20 years ago, most scientists thought the Jenolan Caves were only a few thousand years old. More recent estimates put them at between 90 million and 100 million […]

Critical mass targets Pell on condoms, The Australian, 7 August, 2006.

Critical mass targets Pell on condoms: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 07 Aug 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Aboriginal deacon Frank Cain received a standing ovation yesterday when he told the congregation he was proud to be involved in the painting of a mural a week ago, on one of […]

Whilwind renovations as tornado raises the roof, Weekend Australian, 5 August, 2006.

Whirlwind renovations as tornado raises the roof: [1 All-round Country Edition] Dan Box, John Stapleton. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 Aug 2006: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract A TORNADO ripped through the southern Sydney suburb of La Perouse yesterday, tearing the roof from a blocks of units and throwing debris up to half a kilometre away as it […]

Court to extradite dad who took kids, The Australian, 4 August, 2006.

Court to extradite dad who took kids: [7 NSW First Edition] John Stapleton, James Madden. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 04 Aug 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Frank Dipalma, 29, will appear in the ACT Magistrates Court this morning after he surrendered to police yesterday and handed over his three children — Angelica, 5, […]

Hunt for dad ends with 3 kids safe, The Australian, 4 August, 2006.

Hunt for dad ends with 3 kids safe: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, James Madden. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 04 Aug 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract NSW police flashed the numberplate of the car, a 1993 blue Commodore, on 24 electronic billboards along a number of prominent Sydney roads on Wednesday evening, only the second time […]

Rose chain braces for trade wilt, The Australian, 2 August, 2006.

Rose chain braces for trade wilt: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 02 Aug 2006: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Mr [James Stevens] said Roses Only was solid enough to ride out the situation, but it was at times like this he was very glad he had chosen an internet-based […]

Mark Latham, The Australian, 2006.

John StapletonFormer Labor leader Mark Latham failed to appear at a Sydney court yesterday for the ongoing progress of his court case deriving from his alleged attack on News Ltd photographer Ross Schultz. Latham is charged with common assault, malicious damage and stealing from a person. He has been accused of destroying a $9,000 digital camera […]

Janette tells of shock at cancer, The Australian, 28 July, 2006.

Janette tells of shock at cancer: [6 NSW Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 28 July 2006: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract At Sydney’s Royal Hospital for Women to promote a campaign by the Women’s Cancer Foundation to raise awareness of ovarian cancer, Mrs [Janette Howard] said her illness, “just after John became Prime Minister”, had […]

Iran to blame for Lebanon war: Jewish leader, The Australian, 24 July, 2006.

Iran to blame for Lebanon war: Jewish leader: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 24 July 2006: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract ONE word — Iran — summed up the escalating war between Israel and the Hezbollah forces in Lebanon, a 2500-strong gathering of Sydney’s Jewish community was told last night. The immediate past president […]

Iran solely to blame for conflict, says Jewish leader, The Australian, 24 July, 2006.

Iran solely to blame for conflict, says Jewish leader: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 24 July 2006: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract ONE word — Iran — summed up the war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, a 2500-strong gathering of Sydney’s Jewish community was told last night. Political analyst Hirsh […]

Dark days return to city’s streets, The Australian, 17 July, 2006. Additional reporting. Page One.

Dark days return to city’s streets: [1 All-round Country Edition] MARTIN CHULOV, BEIRUT, Additional reporting: John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 17 July 2006: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Beirut at its best is a noisy hub of car horns, sub-woofers and Arabic pop songs. Cars of all shapes and sizes usually squeeze into thenarrow […]

The gift of giving, Margaret Olley donates millions in paintings to NSW Arg Gallery, The Australian, 13 July, 2006.

39 years on, Gipsy Moth meets us halfway, The Australian, 10 July 2006.

39 years on, Gipsy Moth meets us halfway: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 10 July 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract A FLOTILLA of vintage craft greeted Gipsy Moth IV, the boat made famous by Francis Chichester when he sailed it single-handedly around the world 39 years ago, as it arrived […]

Calls to axe Big Brother over smut, The Australian, 3 July, 2006.

Calls to axe Big Brother over smut: [1 All-round Country Edition] Kerry Murphy, John Stapleton, Additional reporting: Lisa McNamara. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 03 July 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Contestant Ashley, real name Michael Cox, 20, and 21-year-old John, real name Michael Bric, climbed into the bed of 22-year-old Camilla Halliwell. Boxer short-clad Mr Cox […]

Indonesia helps AFP bust drug syndicate, The Australian, 30 June, 2006.

Indonesia helps AFP bust drug syndicate: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 30 June 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract A MAJOR drug pipeline between Indonesia and Australia has been disrupted after Australian Federal Police and Indonesian authorities busted the largest pseudoephedrine smuggling syndicate ever uncovered. The breakthrough in the case came on Monday last week when […]

BlueScope cans last tin mill, The Australian, 30 June, 2006

BlueScope cans last tin mill: [1 All-round Country Edition] Andrew Trounson, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 30 June 2006: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The mill, the closure of which will result in the loss of 250 jobs, was the only local source of tin plate — thin rolled steel with a coating of tin. The decision to close will force the country’s can […]

Tradition and romance when Nic wed Keith, 26 June, 2006. The Australian. Page One. Additional Reporting.

Tradition and romance when Nic wed Keith: [1 All-round Country Edition] Caroline Overington, Additional reporting: Tracy Ong, John Stapleton, Mariko Fritz-Krockow. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 26 June 2006: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Actor Nicole Kidman married Queensland-born country singer Keith Urban in a romantic twilight ceremony in Sydney yesterday — and […]

Ecstasy Seizures The Australian 22 June 2006

JUNE 22John StapletonTHE price of the popular party drug ecstasy is set to rise in Sydney after police seized 250,000 ecstasy pills with an estimated street value of $12.5 million. Police also confiscated two pill presses, used by gangs to manufacture the tablets, as well as 18 kilograms of the amphetamine based powder used to […]

Sea King Inquiry The Australian 20 June 2006

JUNE 20:John StapletonTHE multi-million dollar inquiry into the Sea King disaster which left nine dead on the island of Nias in Indonesia during aid operations in the wake of the Asian tsunami last year has stalled amidst concerns over potential bias. The inquiry, which raised doubts over the proper maintenance of helicopters within parts of […]

Certified baristas, crema of the crop, The Australian, 19 June, 2006.

Certified baristas, crema of the crop: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 June 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Chairman Robert Forsyth, an international coffee judge, said Australia had evolved in 15 years into one of the most sophisticated coffee-drinking societies in theworld and licencing baristas was the logical next step. “I certainly think […]

Anger as terror cleric is released, The Australian, 15 June, 2006. Page One.

Anger as terror cleric is released: [8 NSW Metro Edition]Stephen Fitzpatrick, Patrick Walters, Additional reporting: John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 15 June 2006: 1.Full textAbstract/DetailsShow highlightingAbstractTranslate Abstract blessing to the October 2002 attacks in the Bali tourist district of Kuta, which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians. [Bashir], 68, made a 12-hour pilgrimage by […]

Young Tim could sniff out a goal, The Australian, 14 June, 2006.

Young Tim could sniff out a goal: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Ray Gatt. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 14 June 2006: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract WHEN Socceroos hero Tim Cahill was playing for Sydney’s Kingsgrove North High School in the mid-90s, his coach, Marco Zammarrelli, gave him free rein. Mr Zammarrelli’s formula […]

Drivers slugged by credit card charge, The Australian, 12 June, 2006.

Drivers slugged by credit card charge: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 12 June 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract “It is bad enough customers are getting ripped off at the pump by the oil companies, we don’t want them ripped off at the cash register as well,” NRMA president Alan Evans […]

Workplace campaign will heat up, unions tell rallies, The Australian, 29 June, 2006

Workplace campaign will heat up, unions tell rallies: [1 All-round Country Edition] Ewin Hannan, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 29 June 2006: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Unions said about 300,000 people attended the rallies, which were also held in Sydney, Perth, Hobart, Adelaide and regional centres. Police estimated the combined turnout at about 150,000. ACTU president […]

Drivers gulp at holiday petrol prices, Weekend Australian, 10 June, 2006.

Drivers gulp at holiday petrol prices: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 10 June 2006: 8. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract There is hope for short-term relief at the petrol bowser, with the international price of crude oil dropping below $US70 a barrel following the killing of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zaqawi. Analysts said his death could […]

A smile as fighter Sophie goes home, The Australian, 9 June, 2006.

A smile as fighter Sophie goes home: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 09 June 2006: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract [Sophie]’s father Ron thanked the many “unsung heroes” who helped to save his daughter’s life and the thousands of Australians who had sent their support. “A lot of people think that we might be the most unlucky […]

Aussies killed in ski resort accident, The Australian, 8 June, 2006.

Aussies killed in ski resort accident: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Paige Taylor. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 08 June 2006: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Mr Bradford’s sister-in-law Maree Bradford, married to his only brother Neil, described him as “bubbly, outgoing, energetic, a big kid at heart, loved by everybody”. She said that […]

Latham gets bond for camera ‘snap’, The Australian, 7 June, 2006.

Latham gets bond for camera `snap’: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 07 June 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Although Mr [Mark Latham] faced two years’ jail, magistrate Michael Stoddart, taking into account that Mr Latham had no prior criminal record and had entered a plea of […]

Carjack crime on the rise, The Australian, 5 June, 2006.

Carjack crime on the rise: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 June 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The crime involves up to four vehicles, all usually stolen — a 4WD for the ramming, a van to take the ATM and two high-performance cars for the getaway. Hence the crime wave in Sydney’s most expensive suburbs as gangs […]

Irrigators hail certainty over their lifeblood – SNOWY BACKDOWN, Weekend Australian, 3 June, 2006.

Irrigators hail certainty over their lifeblood – SNOWY BACKDOWN: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 03 June 2006: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The [WILLIAM Gooden] family of Berembee, outside Wagga Wagga in southern NSW, who have waged a campaign against theprivatisation of the Snowy Hydro, were delighted at the Prime Minister’s scuppering of the plans. […]

Climber’s partner to tell of fall, The Australian, 2 June, 2006.

Climber’s partner to tell of fall: [1 All-round Country Edition] James Madden, John Stapleton, Additional reporting: Liam Cochrane. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 02 June 2006: 9. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Bishnu Gurung, who is said to be deeply traumatised by Fear’s death, agreed to an informal meeting with embassy officials to discuss the tragedy. An embassy […]

Recovering climber fields media bids, The Australian, 1 June, 2006.

Recovering climber fields media bids: [2 All-round First Edition] John Stapleton, James Madden. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 01 June 2006: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Climbing colleagues of another Sydney mountaineer, Sue Fear — who died on Sunday after falling into a snow-covered crevasse while descending from the summit of Nepal’s Mount Manaslu — yesterday paid […]

Rescuers found climber near sheer drop, The Australian, 1 June, 2006.

Rescuers found climber near sheer drop: [3 All-round Metro Edition] James Madden, John Stapleton. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 01 June 2006: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract The climbers — Myles Osborne, Dan Mazur, Andrew Brashe and Jangbu Sherpa — reported that [Hall] had unzipped his suit to his waist and had pulled his arms […]

Woman climber’s death verified, The Australian, 31 May, 2006.

Woman climber’s death verified: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, James Madden, Additional reporting: Liam Cochrane. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 31 May 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract BACK-from-the-dead mountaineer Lincoln Hall celebrated an emotional reunion with his wife in Kathmandu last night as it was confirmed his friend and colleague Sue Fear had […]

I’m well and truly alive, says back-from-dead climber, The Australian, 29 May, 2006.

I’m well and truly alive, says back-from-dead climber: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 29 May 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract More than a dozen sherpas and members of three expeditions, co- ordinated by the 7Summits group, were involved in Hall’s rescue. Thirty-six bottles of oxygen at $US310 ($409) a bottle […]

Aussie Everest climber comes back from the ‘dead’, Weekend Australian, 27 May, 2006. Page One.

Aussie Everest climber comes back from the `dead’: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, D.D. McNicoll, Additional reporting: Tracy Ong, James Madden. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 27 May 2006: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Just days after fellow Australian climber Bob Killip was among a party criticised by Everest’s first conqueror, Edmund Hillary, for leaving an […]

Race to rescue Aussie Everest climber left for dead, Weekend Australian, 27 May, 2006. Page One.

Race to rescue Aussie Everest climber left for dead: [8 NSW Metro Edition] Tracy Ong, John Stapleton, Additional reporting: D.D. McNicoll, James Madden. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 27 May 2006: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Just days after fellow Australian climber Bob Killip was among a party criticised by Everest’s first conqueror, Edmund Hillary, for leaving […]

Writers predict unhappy ending – East Timor, Weekend Australian, 27 May, 2006.

Heavily rewritten. Last line not mine. Writers predict unhappy ending – EAST TIMOR: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 27 May 2006: 8. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “It may seem to the Australian public that because Australia played a fairly big role in the reconstruction, that Australia has a role to play in maintaining the East Timorese […]

Rocker’s $330,000 for crash on drink, The Australian, 26 May, 2006.

Rocker’s $330,000 for crash on drink: [6 NSW Country Edition] Dan Box, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 26 May 2006: 8. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Simon Binks, 49, sued North Sydney Council over the crash at Milsons Point, claiming it was liable for his brain damage and lost earnings because roadworks in the area were poorly lit […]

Illegal workers The Australian 24 May 2006

WED 24 MAY 2006 John StapletonTWENTY ONE illegal workers from Malaysia, including seven illegal non-citizens, were picked up in the Riverina area this week after authorities stopped a bus on the Sturt Highway near the NSW Victorian border. The detentions come against a backdrop of continuing labour shortages in fruit picking districts. Lack of workers […]

Mother’s anti-war message for PM, The Australian, 24 May, 2006.

Mother’s anti-war message for PM: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 24 May 2006: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Her trip to Australia will take in anti-war rallies in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne and has been sponsored by the Medical Association for the Prevention of War, a group of Australian doctors who have campaigned strongly against […]

The whitewashing of Aboriginal Manhood, with Keith Windschuttle, Dads On The Air, 23 May, 2006.

Murder suspect couple extradited, The Australian, 22 May, 2006.

Murder suspect couple extradited: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 May 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract A COUPLE extradited from Perth are due to appear at Sydney’s Central Local Court this morning charged over the murder of boxer Bassam Chami and a friend in Sydney’s western suburbs two […]

Bulldogs Sharks Fears After Cronulla The Australian 21 May 2006

SUNDAY 21 MAY John StapletonFEARS were strong that five months after the race-based Cronulla riots the first match between Western Sydney’s Bulldogs, with their strong Lebanese support base, and Cronulla’s Sharks, would spark riots in the stands at Telstra Stadium yesterday. Instead extremely heavy security, including mounted police, sniffer dogs and riot squad police, ensured […]

Sophie’s on the mend, The Australian, 18 May, 2006.

Sophie’s on the mend: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 18 May 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Sophie was struck by a car after school on May 5 as she was pushed across a zebra crossing in a stroller by a family friend in the north Sydney suburb of Seaforth. The […]

Stars Come Out For Olsen The Australian The Weekend Australian 22 April 2006

http://www.olsenirwin.com/pages/articles_details.php?pressroom_id=68 Stars come out for Olsen The Weekend Australian: The Nation April 22-23, 2006 John Stapleton   Australia’s greatest living artist walked into a retrospective of his work last night and declared: “Haven’t I been busy.”Entering his son Tim’s fashionable Sydney gallery packed with an A-list crowd, John Olsen, 78, said he never expected things […]

Kerry Bartlett Seat of Macquarie The Australian 2006

ohn StapletonPITY Kerry Bartlett. If you can feel pity for any politician. A stroke a a pen has turned the his once comfortable margin of 8.9 per cent into a 0.5 per cent deficit. The Australian Electoral Commission’s redrawing of the boundaries of Macquarie since the last election has changed the once lower Blue Mountains, […]

Christoper Harris Mt Everest The Australian 2006

John StapletonA teenager from Western Sydney is set to become the youngest person in history to climb not just Mount Everest but all seven of the highest peaks on each of the seven continents – the Holy Grail of mountaineering. Christopher Harris, 15, has already climbed four mountains. The record for all seven is presently […]

Sydney public terror fears The Australian 16 May 2006

TUESDAY 16 MAY:John StapletonTHE 600,000 people who live and work in the centre of Sydney would have absolutely no idea what to do in a terror attack, the NSW Opposition claimed yesterday. The claims came at the beginning of a major three day counter-terrorist exercise on Sydney Harbour called “Neptune’s Treasure”. The scenario includes terrorists […]

John Howard at the Blacktown Workers Club The Australian 2006

John StapletonYESTERDAY there were about 80 demonstrators outside the Blacktown Workers Club, social centre of Greenway, the Liberal’s most marginal NSW seat and their third most marginal seat in Australia. Prime Minister John Howard’s arrival was greeted with the by now almost traditional chant of “Hey hey, hoh hoh, Johnny Howard’s got to go”. Well […]

3801 Developments The Australian 2006

John StapletonLIKE many an Australian story, the future of the beloved steam train 3801 is all about money, real estate, bureaucratic intransigence and political manoeuvering. The 3801, greeted by thousands of sightseers and enthusiasts wherever it goes, is regarded as the best working example of a steam locomotive in Australia. But after being cared for […]

Distraught father The Australian 2006

John StapletonA distraught father at the Bidura Children’s Court yesterday claimed the court was putting their 16-year-old ice addicted daughter at risk by constantly releasing her back into the community. The girl was facing charges of aggravated robbery and possession of an illegal drug.But the father, Trevor, who cannot be fully named for legal reasons, […]

Falun Gong, The End of Days, 2006.

Commissioned by The Australian, never run, the criticism being that it was too sympathetic. John Stapleton “When two truths meet the most courageous one wins.” Chinese proverb.THE number one enemy of the Chinese government, the so-called “evil” or “doomsday cult” of Falun Dafa or Falun Gong, has spread rapidly across Australia.Outside the Chinese embassy in […]

Police probe death of farmers’champion, The Australian, 15 May, 2006.

Police probe death of farmers’ champion: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 15 May 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Police said the man helped Mr [Rick Farley] to the top but when he “momentarily” turned around, the wheelchair began to run back down the 15m ramp. Mr Farley fell out of the chair, hitting his head on the concrete. Tributes for […]

Drug Supply Syndicate The Australian 2006

John StapletonA major drug supply syndicate supplying users of the drug Ice in the Queanbeyan area of southern NSW has been broken, police claimed yesterday. Six people were arrested and charged. Strikeforce Northend was established in May by detectives attached to the Monara Local Area Command to investigate the supply of Ice by an organised […]

Vladimir Putin The Australian 2006…

web only:  Not sure of date. John StapletonHEAVY security blanketed Sydney airport as Russian leader Vladimir Putin arrived shortly before 7.30am. He is first serving Russian leader to ever visit Australia. Unlike George Bush, who travelled with three aircraft and an entourage of more than 700, Putin arrived in a single Russian aircraft marked with […]

Small beer the world’s best, Weekend Australian, 13 May, 2006.

Small beer the world’s best: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 13 May 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract “I’ve always loved beer and loved brewing beer. It is a mystery and an art. Every step is exciting. The Special Reserve was fermented for over 12 months and was taken through a […]

Fire destroys famous church, The Australian, 11 May, 2006.

Fire destroys famous church: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 11 May 2006: 9. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract The 149-year-old Anglican church In Sydney’s Broadway was a haven for foreign students attending nearby Sydney university, and yesterday messages of sympathy poured in to the church from around the world. It […]

Talk By Colin Griffiths, Positive Workshop, Green Rock, 11-14 May, 2006. Positive Sexuality: Sexual Life Before and After Diagnosis

I wrote or transcribed this speech for Colin Griffiths while he was staying at my house. We had known each other since we were teenagers. By this stage he was increasingly fragile, and often seriously unwell. He would not last out the decade.  My kids had no idea what to make of this strange, toothless, […]

Detective pays tribute to his slain bikie brother, The Australian, 28 April, 2006.

Detective pays tribute to his slain bikie brother: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 28 Apr 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Choking back tears, NSW detective Brad Monk paid tribute to one of Australia’s most feared bikies, his brother Rodney “Hooks” Monk, head of Sydney’s downtown chapter of the Bandidos. Monk, […]

Jimmy Sharman’s Boxing Troupe The Last Round, The Australian, April, 2006.

John StapletonTREVOR Christian remembers Jimmy Sharman’s “a pound a round” boxing tent as the catalyst for many aboriginal men’s pathway out of poverty, including his own. Christian, who went on to become Australian junior middle weight champion, was only nine when he first had a go in the famous tent, a feature of country and […]

Hart claims spurned, Weekend Australian, 22 April, 2006.

Hart claims spurned: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 Apr 2006: 10. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Broken Hill Mayor Ron Page, a close friend of the family, could not confirm the allegations but said he was aware that a number of agents were selling Hart’s work overseas. He said […]

Leslie welcomed back on catwalk, The Australian, 19 April, 2006.

Leslie welcomed back on catwalk: [G Vic First Edition 2] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 Apr 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract CONVICTED drug user and Muslim convert Michelle Leslie made a triumphant return to the catwalk last night as the final model in the much heralded Azzollini 2006-07 spring-summer swimwear collection. Organisers clearly wanted to […]

Easter Road Toll The Australian 18 April 2006

TUESDAY 18 APRIL: John StapletonWHILE the national road toll of 21 for the Easter holidays was five less than last year, in NSW the figures almost doubled, sparking a political furore. NSW was the worst performing state, with nine dead. Queensland saw four dead, with three of the state’s deaths involving pedestrians aged over 70. Victoria […]

Weather can’t cross out secular Easter, The Australian, 17 April, 2006.

Weather can’t cross out secular Easter: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Andrew Fraser. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 17 Apr 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Mt Buller Ski Lifts general manager Laurie Blampied said 10cm of snow had covered the resort over the weekend, six weeks before the official start of the ski season, and […]

Detention plan stir rebel Libs, The Australian, 17 April, 2006. Page One. Additional Reporting.

Detention plans stir rebel Libs: [2 All-round First Edition] Samantha Maiden, Political correspondent, Additional reporting: John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 17 Apr 2006: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract The Government’s decision to force all illegal arrivals, including children, who reach mainland Australia by boat into offshore immigration detention centres could sideline reforms introduced in June […]

Scots College Bashing The Australian 13 April 2006

WEDNESDAY 13 APRIL:John StapletonElizabeth GoschA STUDENT from up-market Sydney private school Scots College is fighting for his life in hospital after he and two of his mates were bashed with an iron bar by a group of men in nearby Double Bay on Tuesday night. Two men _ an 18-year-old from Rushcutters Bay and an […]

Bashed student fights for life, The Australian, 13 April, 2006.

Bashed student fights for life: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 13 Apr 2006: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Police said the assault on the Scots College students — reportedly close friends Hugh Gordon, 17, Richard Vatner and Sebastian Kesby, both 16, — appeared to have been unprovoked. Full Text TranslateFull text […]

Chinese protestors Villawood Amanda Vanstone The Australian 12 April 2006

TUESDAY 12 APRIL 2006John StapletonThe government was yesterday forced to issue reassurances to a group of Chinese protestors resisting attempts to move them from the Villawood Detention Centre in south-west Sydney. An asbestos scare has prompted Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone to close the centre for at least a month. The closing of the infamous centre […]

Digger’s body on way home from Iraq, The Australian, 24 April, 2006

Digger’s body on way home from Iraq: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 24 Apr 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Private Kovco, a highly trained sniper, was a member of the 110- strong, Baghdad-based security detachment protecting Australianofficials. Private Kovco died in hospital “surrounded by his mates, draped in an Australian flag and with […]

Crime hub emerges amid murder hunt, The Australian, 11 April, 2006.

Crime hub emerges amid murder hunt: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Nick Leys. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 11 Apr 2006: 8. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract In Canterbury-Bankstown, however, robbery without a weapon rose 22 per cent and robbery with a weapon other than a firearm jumped by 47.9per cent. Bankstown had […]

Low brings some highs, The Australian, 10 April, 2006.

Low brings some highs: [1 All-round Country Edition] Kevin Meade, John Stapleton. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 10 Apr 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract A severe low-pressure trough in the Tasman Sea sent huge swells to southern NSW, Victoria and Tasmania, as the monsoonal trough that inundated the Northern Territory town dumped as much as 250mm in 24 […]

Losing battle on firearms, The Australian, 3 April, 2006

Losing battle on firearms: [2 All-round First Edition] D.D. McNicoll, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 03 Apr 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Don Weatherburn, the chief of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics, said the pattern of firearms had made a “horrendous change” for the worse with handguns now responsible for between 50 and 60 per cent of annual gun […]

Child Support Agency contributes to Suicide, The Australian 2006

Not sure of date John Stapleton KATE Stanton admits she cries a lot.Next month is the anniversary of her son Gary’s suicide – she believes as a direct result of the conduct of the Child Support Agency. Gary Stanton was 34 and working at a hotel in Goulburn when he shot himself, leaving a note […]

Jack Darmody, Days, 30 March, 2006.

  It was Jack Darmody’s funeral today. He got a good roll up. Jack was a legend of Australian journalism from the 1960s, 70s and 80s, when he worked as a police reporter on some of the country’s leading tabloids, including the now defunct Daily Mirror in Sydney and The Truth in Melbourne. He broke […]

Struggling writer cracks it at final attempt, The Australian, 29 March, 2006.

Struggling writer cracks it at final attempt: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 29 Mar 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Last night, [William Elliott] was named the winner of the national ABC Fiction Award for Australia’s best unpublished manuscript. One of the four judges, bestselling novelist and literary critic Delia Falconer, described Elliott’s […]

Girl, 11, drowns after being trapped by spa pump, The Australian, 27 March, 2006.

Girl, 11, drowns after being trapped by spa pump: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Tracy Ong. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 27 Mar 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Her parents, David and Donna Rankin, own one of the apartments at Forster on the mid-NSW north coast and are close friends with the complex management. They arrived at the pool […]

Girl drowns after being caught by spa pump, The Australian, 27 March, 2006.

Girl drowns after being caught by spa pump: [2 All-round First Edition] John Stapleton, Tracy Ong. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 27 Mar 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Shannon Rankin, from Forster on the NSW mid-north coast, was caught by the suction pump on the spa’s floor on Saturday afternoon and despite the efforts of poolside guests she could not be prised […]

Police lost 6kg of cocaine, The Australian, 20 March, 2006.

Police lost 6kg of cocaine: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 20 Mar 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract THE NSW Police Integrity Commission has been called on to investigate an undercover police operation in which 7kg of cocaine was sold to a dealer, 6kg of which allegedly ended up “on the street”. […]

Police face cocaine probe, The Australian, 20 March, 2006.

Police face cocaine probe: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 20 Mar 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract THE NSW Police Integrity Commission has been called on to investigate an undercover police operation in which 7kg of cocaine was sold to a dealer, 6kg of which allegedly ended up “on the street”. Police […]

Tegan Lane, The Australian, 17 March 2006

John StapletonPOLICE renewed their appeal for any information on the whereabouts of missing girl Tegan Lane yesterday as a date was set for a two week inquest. Tegan Lane was born on September 12, 1996 at Auburn Hospital in western Sydney but has not been seen since leaving the hospital two days later. Her mother […]

Station at centre of second asbestos scare, The Australian, 16 March, 2006.

Station at centre of second asbestos scare: [6 NSW Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 16 Mar 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The asbestos at Edgecliff station was discovered as a result of an audit of the 302 stations in the Sydney rail network, with surveys of only nine stations completed so far. The audit […]

Sexual abuse allegations The Australian 14 March 2006

WRITTEN TUESDAY MARCH 14. NOT RUN.John Stapleton ONLY eight per cent of allegations of sexual abuse involving children and 10 per cent involving adults result in a sexual offence being proven in court, according to a report released yesterday. The study, titled “The attrition of sexual offences from the NSW criminal justice system”, from the […]

Register puts heat on dodgy doctors, The Australian, 13 March, 2006.

Register puts heat on dodgy doctors: [O SA Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 13 Mar 2006: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The scheme is being set up following a series of medical scandals, including the police recommendation to charge Indian- trained surgeon Jayant Patel with at least 28 criminal counts relating to 13 deaths […]

I’ll go straight: exiled burglar, The Australian, 10 March, 2006.

I’ll go straight: exiled burglar: [1 All-round Country Edition] Rick Wallace, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 10 Mar 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Hide highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone brought Mr [Robert Jovicic] home on compassionate grounds after a three-month campaign for his return that began when he mounted a two-night vigil outside the Australian embassy in […]

Halving of tunnel toll lifts Iemma, The Australian, 6 March, 2006.

Halving of tunnel toll lifts Iemma: [6 NSW Country Edition] Steve Creedy, John Stapleton, Additional reporting: Tracy Ong, Geoffrey Newman. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 06 Mar 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract A THREE-MONTH deal to halve tolls in Sydney’s controversial Cross City Tunnel took some voter pressure off beleagured NSW Premier […]

Soprano glory within Cameron’s range, The Australian, 6 March, 2006.

Soprano glory within Cameron’s range: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 06 Mar 2006: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract IT was Cameron Woodhouse’s kindergarten teacher who first suggested to his surprised family that their son had a truly remarkable voice, and a singing career was a definite option. […]

Keating’s harbour city spray, Weekend Australian, 4 March, 2006.

The end result of this story described here: https://thejournalismofjohnstapleton.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/paul-keating-from-hunting-famous.html Keating’s harbour city spray: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 04 Mar 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract OTHER than the Queen Victoria Building, the Rocks and the Opera House, Sydney’s central business district could be razed and nothing of aesthetic value would be lost, Paul Keating […]

Two men killed in state gun spree, The Australian, 27 February, 2006.

Two men killed in state gun spree: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 27 Feb 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Constable Elizabeth Roth was in a stable condition in Liverpool Hospital in southwestern Sydney last night after undergoing surgery to remove shrapnel. At Kellyville on the city’s northwestern outskirts […]

Climate debate too PC: scientist, The Australian, 23 February, 2006.

Climate debate too PC: scientist: [6 NSW Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 23 Feb 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Climate expert and retired founder of the Antarctic Co-operative Research Centre Garth Paltridge said yesterday he was told to keep quiet in the early 1990s when he suggested there was doubt about the science behind global warming. […]

Call for caring as a third skeleton found, The Australian, 22 February, 2006.

Call for caring as a third skeleton found: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Imre Salusinszky. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 Feb 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract THE discovery of the badly decomposed body of an elderly man in Sydney — the third case in a fortnight — has sparked calls for a return to old-fashioned values of […]

Property markets up, The Australian, 20 February, 2006

Property markets up: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 20 Feb 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Australian Property Monitors research director Louis Christopher said the clearance rate for Adelaide was 73.9 per cent while the rate for Melbourne was 56per cent. Full Text TranslateFull text Turn on search term navigation SIGNS of a property […]

Libs pledge to reclaim tunnel-affected roads, The Australian, 20 February, 2006.

Libs pledge to reclaim tunnel-affected roads: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 20 Feb 2006: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract NSW Opposition Leader Peter Debnam said roads blocked, narrowed or altered to encourage people to use the 2km tollway would be reopened under a Coalition government, regardless of the contractual obligations to […]

On the job, pix, The Australian. With the legendary Gough Whitlam. 2006.

Protecting Muslim Thuggery From Criticism, Free-Market News Network, 17 February, 2006.

Outsiders from Warwick Farm storm home in photo finish, The Australian, 13 February, 2006.

Outsiders from Warwick Farm storm home in photo finish: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 13 Feb 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The jury gave prizes in 10 theme categories to 63 photographers from 25 countries including Bangladesh, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain […]

Aboriginal anger as Block rezoned, The Australian, 10 February, 2006.

Aboriginal anger as Block rezoned: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 10 Feb 2006: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract LONG-STANDING tensions between Sydney’s Redfern Aboriginal community and the NSW Government escalated yesterday after Planning Minister Frank Sartor announced that Redfern’s Block, a centre of Aboriginal activism for more than 30 […]

Locals pour scorn on timing of the find, The Australian, 9 February, 2006.

Locals pour scorn on timing of the find: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 09 Feb 2006: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract George Yanelli, general manager of Leonay’s golf course, which is next to the oval where the drilling took place, said locals were cynical. “I am very happy they found water and can […]

$17.5m haul of ‘ice’ found in speedboat, News, 8 February, 2006.

Dragons still top dog in parade to celebrate Chinese New Year, The Australian, 6 February, 2006.

Dragons still top dog in parade to celebrate Chinese New Year: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 06 Feb 2006: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The Beijing contingent and the Falun Gong had been deliberately kept apart at opposite ends of the march and that there had been no trouble between the two groups. “The parade […]

Libs play race card on beach stabbings,The Australian, 6 February, 2006.

Libs play race card on beach stabbings: [2 All-round First Edition 1] Tracy Ong, John Stapleton. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 06 Feb 2006: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Waverley Deputy Mayor George Newhouse has told Opposition Leader and local member Peter Debnam to butt out of the debate, saying putting more police on the […]

Murder suspect arrested on Norfolk Island after 4 Years, News, 2 February, 2006.

Rodney Hooks Monk Bandidos funeral, The Australian, April, 2006.

John Stapleton  CHOKING back tears, serving NSW police officer Detective Inspector Brad Monk paid tribute to one of the most feared bikies in Australia, his brother Rodney “Hooks” Monk of the infamous outlaw bikie gang the Bandidos. With the coffin lid off, bikies with tears in their eyes had just finished filing past the body. […]

Murder ends ‘sad run’ for cabbie, The Australian, 1 February, 2006.

Murder ends `sad run’ for cabbie: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 01 Feb 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract YOUBERT Hormozi, the Sydney taxi driver bashed to death in the early hours of yesterday morning, was a lonely man suffering severe health problems after a marriage breakdown, neighbours and co- workers […]

Barrel murders: third person hunted, The Australian, 31 January, 2006.

Barrel murders: third person hunted: [1 All-round Country Edition] Dan Box, John Stapleton. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 31 Jan 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Mr [Stacey Lea-Caton] arrived alone at Nowra police station about 2.30am on Sunday and was later taken into custody. Acting on information he provided, homicide detectives arrived […]

Corby linked to ‘drug trafficker’, The Australian, 31 January, 2006.

Corby linked to `drug trafficker’: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 31 Jan 2006: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The man, who could not be named for legal reasons, owned a property off the Bruce Highway north of Brisbane next door to a property owned by Corby’s father, Michael Corby. The man was raided […]

Tear time as school bells toll for wee ones, The Australian, 30 January, 2006.

Tear time as school bells toll for wee ones: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 30 Jan 2006: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract With some variations across the school systems, students from South Australia return today, Victoria, NSW and the Northern Territory return tomorrow, Western Australia on Wednesday and the ACT on Friday. Ellena Peach, 5, […]

Petrol prices The Australian 9 June 2006

JUNE 9:John StapletonJust like everybody else in the country, mum-to-be Belinda Jones, 25, is confused and frustrated by the ever-spiralling price of petrol. Record highs were recorded yesterday ahead of the Queen’s Birthday long weekend. The ever increasing cost of petrol and its flow on effects are impacting on Mrs Jones weekly budget, on her […]