Telstra work culture 17 June 2007 The Australian

17 JUNE 2007:John StapletonA radical revamp of the the work culture at Telstra, which employs 40,000 people, could have contributed to the suicides of at least two people, according to an expose to run tonight on the ABC’s Four Corners program. The program tells of a transformed corporate ethic creating anger and distress amongst employees […]

Flooding plan to save Murray red gums, Weekend Australian, 16 June, 2007.

Flooding plan to save Murray red gums: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 16 June 2007: 12. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “The property is right in the middle of the Perricoota system, with a state forest on one side and the river on the other,” Ms [Wendy Craik] said. “We are proposing to construct a channel and […]

Lamente for romantic corner’s loving couple, Weekend Australian, 16 June, 2007.

This was a particularly difficult story to do. The town had closed ranks and was refusing to speak to the media. No one would come near us at the Bowling Club. Luckily, we ordered lunch, and the cook was talkative. Lament for romantic corner’s loving couple: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, […]

Don’t mention the war: new mufti muzzled by minders, The Australian, 12 June, 2007. Additional reporting.

Don’t mention the war: new mufti muzzled by minders: [7 NSW First Edition] Cameron Stewart, Additional reporting: John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 12 June 2007: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract The extraordinary intervention came during Sheik Fehmi’s inaugural press conference, in which the 79-year-old Melbourne cleric promised not to repeat the “haphazard” public comments of […]

Pioneer black rocker dead at 50, The Australian, 11 June, 2007.

Pioneer black rocker dead at 50: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 11 June 2007: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract HUNDREDS of people gathered on Elcho Island off Arnhem Land last night to mark the passing of renowned indigenous musician George Rrurrumbu Burarrawanga, whose Warumpi Band opened the gates for the success of a string of […]

Overwhelmed emergency workers plead for public patience, The Australian, 11 June, 2007. Picture Renee Nowytarger.

Overwhelmed emergency workers plead for public patience – FLOOD CRISIS: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 11 June 2007: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “People are being very good,” SES spokesman Ian Campbell said. “They understand just how serious this emergency has been.” Eleven NSW Fire Brigade special […]

Searchers recover bodies of 9 victims, The Australian, 11 June, 2007.

Sheik Hilali,The Australian, 11 June 2007.

11 JUNE 2007:By John StapletonMIND, heart and speech are the three elements that make up a mufti, the position as leader of Australia’s muslims. They are qualities that lie within the man, and Australia’s resigning mufti, Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali, said he retained all three. He may no longer technically be mufti but Sheik al-Hilali […]

Four CSL ships will fly Aussie flag The Australian 11 June 2007

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/four-csl-ships-will-fly-aussie-flag/story-e6frg8zx-1111113718864 Four CSL ships will fly Aussie flag JOHN STAPLETON THE AUSTRALIAN JUNE 11, 2007 12:00AM Print Save for later A CANADIAN shipping company has taken over a fleet of three coastal bulk carriers from Cement Australia to put shipping back into the bulk freight business between Queensland, NSW, Victoria and Tasmania. Canadian Steamship Lines Australia, […]

Seven missing after cars washed away, Weekend Australian, 9 June, 2007.

Seven missing after cars washed away: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Sarah Elks, John Stapleton. Weekend Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 09 June 2007: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “We are standing by for the first abatement in weather conditions for rescuers to move in and try and locate the persons who may have been with this vehicle,” Superintendent […]

St George gives staff grandparents’ leave, The Australian, 8 June, 2007.

St George gives staff grandparents’ leave: [2 All-round First Edition] Brad Norington, John Stapleton. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 08 June 2007: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The move marks growing recognition of grandparents’ role in bringing up children. St George already provides 13 weeks’ paid parental leave. The legal minimum is 12 months’ unpaid leave. […]

Cement Australia ships The Australian 7 June 2007

7 JUNE 2007John Stapleton MORE than 70 fulltime crew on board three ships owned by Cement Australia arrived in port yesterday to find they had lost their jobs. The three ships, Goliath, Cementco and the Alcem Calaca, transport cement and gypsum between Queensland, NSW and Tasmanian ports. The union, Australian Institute of of Marine and […]

Church denies links with failed company, The Australian, 4 June, 2007.

Church denies links with failed company: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 04 June 2007: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Members of a group of Christadelphians meeting at Chatswood in Sydney’s north yesterday denied any knowledge of ACR. “There is no involvement with the two gentlemen from ACR in any [Christadelphian] facility, […]

Three ships’ Aussie crews fear sack, The Australian, 4 June, 2007.

Three ships’ Aussie crews fear sack: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 04 June 2007: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract The Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers claimed yesterday the crew of the ships owned by Cement Australia — the Goliath, Cementco and Alcem Calaca — have been told to be […]

Burrow salutes wharfie picket – IR BATTLEGROUND, Weekend Australian, 2 June, 2007

Burrow salutes wharfie picket – IR BATTLEGROUND: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 02 June 2007: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract ACTU president Sharan Burrow yesterday lent her support to picketing wharfies at Wollongong’s Port Kembla, telling them to stand their ground or shipping companies would be encouraged to replace local stevedores […]

Port Kembla The Australian 1 June 2007

JUNE 1 John Stapleton Wharf Six at Port Kembla South of Wollongong has become an unexpected flashpoint for Howard’s industrial relations revolution. President of the ACTU addressed demonstrators addressed hundreds of unionists gathered at the wharf yesterday to support a permanent picket by the Maritme Union of Australia aimed at blocking the use of foreign […]

Jail for drink-driving TV Chief, The Australian, 1 June 2007

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/jail-for-drink-driving-tv-chief/story-e6frg6nf-1111113655553 Jail for drink-driving TV chief JOHN STAPLETON THE AUSTRALIAN JUNE 01, 2007 12:00AM Print Save for later THE current affairs shows he oversees find it hard to say sorry when they overstep the mark, but the Seven Network’s news chief apologised to everyone yesterday when he was sentenced to 14 months of weekend detention following […]

Shipowners take MUA to court – IR BATTLEGROUND, The Australian, 31 May, 2007. Picture Graham Crouch.

Shipowners take MUA to court – IR BATTLEGROUND: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Tracy Ong. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 31 May 2007: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Mr Sorensen said the ship used automated equipment to unload cargo and all that was stopping the crew unloading was the refusal of the MUA to move a […]

Battlers in Kelly country changing their tune, The Australian, 29 May, 2007.

Battlers in Kelly country changing their tune: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 29 May 2007: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract Translate Abstract “Interest rates have gone up, petrol prices have gone up, mortgages, house expenses, everyone is coming in complaining, people don’t have money to spend any more,” […]

Education Geography 28 May 2007 The Australian

MAY 28 2007John StapletonJustine FerrariTHESE eight boys are all alarmed about the future of the planet; their heads full of concerns about climate change, globalisation, terrorism, the impact of of Western development on the Third World, racism, the extinction of plant and animal species and the numerous threats to arid, wetland and urban environments. Amongst […]

Pressure forces Kelly out – Federal MP quits politics for family – HOWARD VS RUDD, Weekend Australian, 26 May, 2997.

Pressure forces Kelly out – Federal MP quits politics for family – HOWARD VS RUDD: [2 All-round First Edition] D.D. McNicoll, John Stapleton. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 26 May 2007: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract CITING pressure on her family from the public spotlight and a desire to spend more time with her children, Jackie Kelly […]

Motel boss’s hell after Gillard attack, The Australian, 25 May, 2007. Page One. Picture Alan Pryke.

Motel boss’s hell after Gillard attack: [2 All-round First Edition] John Stapleton, Cath Hart. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 25 May 2007: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “It is not how I operate as a person,” Ms [JOANN Doolan] said. “We are good people. I need my side of the story to be put, otherwise people would […]

Ray Seidler The Australian 25 May 2007

MAY 25 2007 John StapletonONE of the country’s leading experts on drug addiction, Dr Raymond Seilder, has found himself at the centre of controversy following an expose of the state’s methadone program on the ABC last night. Dr Seilder has been working in the field for more than 25 years, has written widely on the subject […]

Victoria ‘holding NSW farmers to ransom’, The Australian, 24 May, 2007. Picture Richard Cisar-Wright

Victoria `holding NSW farmers to ransom’: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 24 May 2007: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “We are running on empty,” Mr [Doug Miell] said. “We have as bad a problem as has ever been confronted in the [Murray-Darling], and we’ve got Stephen Bracks playing politics.” “The drought has […]

Released boy denies school killings plot, The Australian, 24 May, 2007.

Released boy denies school killings plot: [6 NSW Country Edition] John Stapleton, Tracy Ong, Additional reporting: AAP. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 24 May 2007: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract “I don’t think he (his friend) really sent any emails, he just generally talked about it here and there,” he said. “People took it the […]

Caution: pork barrels ahead, The Australian, 22 May, 2007. Page One. Picture Alan Pryke.

Caution: pork barrels ahead: [2 All-round First Edition] The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 May 2007: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract “Labor should tell the public which of the projects the Australia Government is funding (that) it does not support,” the spokesman said. “It proves Labor just doesn’t understand the economy — the Liberal-Nationals Government is […]

Reward for ‘Aussie Madeleine’, The Australian, 21 May, 2007.

From drought to drenched in two days, The Australian, 18 May, 2007. Page One. Picture Renee Nowytarger.

Whales The Australian 18 May 2007

MAY 18 2007John Stapleton WHALES are being needlessly slaughtered because of the Howard government’s indifference and it’s failure to act on legal advice which could bring whaling to a stop either through the International Court of Justice or the International Tribunal Law of the Sea. Shadow Environment Minister Peter Garrett made the claim after arriving […]

Farm rain reaction The Australian 2007

ex John StapletonJames MaddenCol Thomson, a citrus grower from Mildura, on the NSW-Victoria border, said the 24mm of rain that fell on the town yesterday had come at just the right time for the community’s drought-stricken farmers. “We just hope it continues. I hope this is the beginning of the break in the drought _ […]

Repatriation Ceremony The Australian 2007

Date uncertain John StapletonTWO Australian soldiers missing in action for 42 years after being killed during the Vietnam conflict have been offically welcomed back to Australian soil in a moving repatriation ceremony at Richmond Airbase in Sydney. After being transported on board a Hercules military aircraft from Hanoi via Darwin, the coffins of Lance Corporal […]

Uphill work to preserve mountain huts, The Australian, 9 July, 2007.

Uphill work to preserve mountain huts: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 09 July 2007: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “It is not just the huts — it’s the people as much as anything,” Mr [Harry Hill] said. “I am painfully aware this is heritage that is fast disappearing. Megan Bowden, the senior ranger responsible for the huts, […]

APEC Sydney The Australian 2007

John StapletonWITH international delegates to next month’s APEC meeting confirmed as being a third less than originally predicted, the hotel industry has lashed out at APEC organisers over the debacle which has left them with thousands of empty hotel rooms. The industry is facing the loss of more than 12,000 hotel nights, after the number […]

ETS: Taxing cows for doing what comes naturally The Australian

Destined for front page, pulled at last minute and a cutdown version run on inside page… John StapletonIt all boils down to one simple question: will cows be taxed for burping and farting?The complex debate about the introduction of an emissions trading scheme to tackle climate change is causing panic amongst farmers across the country. […]

Boys step up to fight schoolyard abuse, The Australian, 15 May, 2007.

Boys step up to fight schoolyard abuse: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 15 May 2007: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “When I was in primary school they would ask for money, take my personal stuff, it was probably because I had a funny name,” he said. “I don’t get […]

Typical early morning summons to attend Prime Minister’s Press Conference, 14 May, 2007.

Typical morning summons to appear at a Press Conference for the Prime Minister whenever they were in Sydney. They usually came through about 7am, leaving us and every other organisation scrambling to get to whatever location they were spruiking their wares at. The rationale for such short notice was “security concerns”, but particularly if there […]

Last ovation for ‘little black duck’ Saunders, The Australian, 14 May, 2007.

Last ovation for `little black duck’ Saunders: [6 NSW Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 14 May 2007: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Host, Aboriginal actor Aaron Pedersen, described her as a pioneer of the industry and joked: “I can hear her saying, just get on with it.” A new generation of indigenous actors, […]

I need miracle, says modest Maxine, The Australian, 14 May, 2007.

I need miracle, says modest Maxine: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 14 May 2007: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “[John Howard]’s profile is undoubtedly higher than mine. I’ve got a job ahead of me. I’ll be out and about, and I’ll be doing all sorts of campaigning.” “They have open […]

Hunting in Packs State Election South Sydney Herald 2007

Hunting in Packs John Stapleton The Liberal Coalition was out-spent, out-spun and out-maneuvered. Once again Labor showed just how brilliant they are on the campaign trail. There have now been 26 state and federal elections since there was a change of government in Australia. Iemma used incumbency to full effect, spending $100 million of your […]

Hunting in Packs, South Sydney Herald, 2007.

HUNTING IN PACKSJohn StapletonDuring the last year, in the not so cool depths of the media currents,a giant shoal of fish changed direction all at once, to the right, orwas it the left, they veered sharply, as if controlled by one mind.It’s hard to believe that only a year ago to be green was entirelypasse, […]

PM’s water threat ‘a reality’, Weekend Australian, 12 May, 2007.

PM’s water threat `a reality’: [S WA Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 12 May 2007: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract MURRAY-Darling Basin farmers are running out of time, with only a couple of weeks left to score the “substantial” rainfall that will stop John Howard switching off the taps. Mr Howard warned a month ago that if […]

Fairfax managers run gauntlet of strikers, The Australian, 11 May, 2007 Picture James Croucher.

Fairfax managers run gauntlet of strikers: [2 All-round First Edition] Nick Tabakoff, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 11 May 2007: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The bosses had to run the gauntlet, with staff manning a picket line from 8am. Dozens of angry reporters brandished placards spelling out their grievances: “Sydney Mourning Herald”, “SOSMH Save Our […]

‘I knew Balibo reporters targeted’, The Australian, 10 May, 2007.

`I knew Balibo reporters targeted’: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 10 May 2007: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Mr [Gordon Jockel] said he thought it unusual that raw intelligence in the form of intercepts of Indonesian military communiques was being transmitted directly to the prime minister’s office. “It was our job to evaluate […]

Research suggests dementia reversal, The Australian, 8 May, 2007.

Research suggests dementia reversal: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 08 May 2007: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “Don’t retire, don’t go to live on the Gold Coast and your brain is likely to do much better,” said Professor Ian Hickie, executive director of the Brain and Mind Research Institute in Sydney. “This research […]

Airline’s staff don’t know if they’re coming or going, The Australian, 7 May, 2007.

Airline’s staff `don’t know if they’re coming or going’: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 07 May 2007: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract “Will they get rid of assets, sack staff? We have no idea. I like Qantas, I like working for Qantas, it has been running well for the […]

Staff who fear for the future dead against takeover, The Australian, 7 May, 2007.

Staff who fear for the future dead against takeover: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 07 May 2007: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “It has gone on way too long, everything has been dragged out, the people who work at Qantas don’t know whether they’re coming or going,” said Mr [Ian Sherwood], 49, a […]

Role model for corporate achievers, Future Summit 2007: Shaping the future, Weekend Australian, 5 May, 2007

Role model for corporate achievers – FUTURE SUMMIT 2007: Shaping the future: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 May 2007: 35. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract ADC is an Australian-owned not-for-profit non-political organisation that promotes leadership and business excellence. TheAustralian is the Media Partner for Future Summit 2007. The Leadership Awards are an important part of Future […]

Dad leads TV crew to missing children, The Australian, 4 May, 2007.

Dad leads TV crew to missing children: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 04 May 2007: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “I could never harm my children. In fact, I could never harm anybody,” he told Nine. Nine’s Sydney news director John Chouiefate defended the network’s conduct of the case, saying the federal police had been kept informed […]

Howard Cricket Team The Australian 3 May 2007

MAY 3 2007: Not wanted at last minute:John StapletonTHE Australian cricket team made a triumphant return to Australia yesterday, showered with superlatives by politicians and mobbed by ordinary fans. The team landed in Sydney shortly after five am from their history making third successive World Cup win.After passing through customs at Sydney airport team captain Ricky […]

Safety fears for kids missing with father, The Australian, 3 May, 2007.

Safety fears for kids missing with father: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 03 May 2007: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Their mother, Brisbane journalist Philippa Yelland, took part in several media interviews yesterday in the hope of being reunited with her children. “I still sometimes wake up and think it’s a […]

Refugee protests The Australian 2 May 2007

MAY 2 2007 web only.John Stapleton A dozen refugee activists picketed the Department of Immigration office in Sydney at lunchtime today to bring attention to the fate of four Chinese detainees on a hunger strike who are facing deportation. The four began refusing food on the 28 March after the deportation of a woman Falun […]

Abolition agenda ‘barking up wrong tree’, Weekend Australian, 19 May 2007.

Abolition agenda `barking up wrong tree’: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Sarah Elks. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 May 2007: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “You can make more money this way,” Mr [Stephen Lewis] said. “If you are prepared to put in the hard work, if you look after the boss, he’ll look after you. You […]

Police officer arrested after siege, The Australian, 1 May, 2007.

Police officer arrested after siege: [7 NSW First Edition] John Stapleton, Dan Box. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 01 May 2007: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Dozens of NSW police officers armed with riot gear and automatic weapons were called to Earlwood police station, in Sydney’s inner west, about 2.15pm yesterday. A spokeswoman […]

Libs launch $19m health campaign, The Australian, 30 April, 2007

Libs launch $19m health campaign: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 30 Apr 2007: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Health Minister Tony Abbot said private health products had been a “nightmare” for consumers. He said the system needed to be clearer and more transparent. “As the population ages and demands on the health system increase, a […]

Snoop kept out ‘for good reason’, Weekend Australian, 28 April, 2007

Snoop kept out `for good reason’: [6 NSW Country Edition] Iain Shedden, John Stapleton. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 28 Apr 2007: 9. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract JOHN Howard doesn’t know a lot about American rapper Snoop Dogg, but he knows enough to back the decision to refuse him an entry visa to Australia this weekend. Speaking on […]

Downpours raise farmers’ hopes, Weekend Australian, 28 April, 2007. Additional Reporting. Page One.

Downpours raise farmers’ hopes: [2 All-round First Edition] Ean Higgins, Rick Wallace, Additional reporting: Sarah Elks, John Stapleton. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 28 Apr 2007: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract “The key factor of El Nino has ended,” said Blair Trewin, of the National Climate Centre at the Bureau of Meteorology, referring to the drought-causing weather […]

Former captain of the Wallabies The Australian 27 April 2007

27 APRIL 2007.John StapletonFORMER captain of the Wallabies John Eales told the NSW Supreme Court yesterday he had rung broadcaster Alan Jones to tell him accusations he had made against head of the Australian Olympic Committee John Coates following an incident with rower Sally Robbins during the 2004 Olympics were incorrect. Mr Eales acted as a […]

Anzac Day Ceremony The Australian 26 April 2007

26 APRIL 2007John StapletonDESPITE torrential downpours, thousands of people were crowded into Martin Place for 4am for the dawn service; many families brought their wide-eyed children. Amongst the crowd were few elderly diggers from the Second World War, now fewer and fewer in number. Ronald Hanton, 87, travelled from Adelaide for the occasion but said there […]

Bay to Baghdad, Diggers done proud, The Australian, 26 April, 2007.

Bay to Baghdad, Diggers done proud – ALP CONFERENCE: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stuart Rintoul, Additional reporting: Greg Roberts, Dan Box, Sarah Elks, John Stapleton, Verity Edwards. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 26 Apr 2007: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract At Byron Bay, the dawn service was attended by surfies in boardshorts and bare-footed hippies in sarongs […]

PM praised for $150m ice package’s focus on rehabilitation, The Australian, 23 April, 2007.

PM praised for $150m ice package’s focus on rehabilitation: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 23 Apr 2007: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “Nice to see you,” Mr [JOHN Howard] told one former addict, Paul, wishing him good luck with his recovery. Mr Howard listened while another addict, Cain, told him […]

Gang leader isolated, The Australian, 23 April, 2007.

Gang leader isolated: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 23 Apr 2007: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The NSW Government announced that Bassam Hamzy, 28, serving 21 years for murder, was transferred in the early hours of yesterday in a convoy of specially secured vehicles from the “Supermax” jail in Goulburn, NSW, to a high-security […]

New Zealand Special, Dads On The Air, 17 April, 2007.

New Zealand Special TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 2007 AT 10:30AM With special guests: Celia Lashlie, author, He’ll Be Okay: Growing Gorgeous Boys into Good Men Jim Bailey, outspoken critic of the government-promoted mistreatment of fathers at the hands of the judiciary and the bureacracy Jim Bagnall, chairman of the Separated Fathers Support Network Celia Lashlie was the first woman prison […]

War Treasures Uncovered, The Australian, 9 April, 2007.

George Lambert’s work in Gallipoli and Palestine is part of our psyche, writes John Stapleton THERE are the bright colours of harsh Middle Eastern deserts, riderless horses, empty white tents, and the famous beaches of Gallipoli, where to this day the hills speak of the thousands who died so pointlessly. Somehow, you can still feel the heat and the flies of that long ago war. The Australian War Memorial has […]

We stood at the Crossroads, Dads on The Air, 9 April, 2007.

The changes were not accepted with good heart by the court; and this reluctance to accept reform was no more clearly evidenced than at their great tribal gathering in 2006, the National Family Law Conference held in Perth. The retiring Justice Richard Chisholm, who had done much to set the tone of the court, showed how little […]

Ferris Wheel The Australian 4 April 2007

4 APRIL 2007John StapletonBenjamin MarksAFTER five million dollars and a massively complex shipping operation, the world’s largest transportable ferris wheel will tomorrow  take its first paying customer at the opening of Sydney’s Royal Easter Show. Designed for Australian conditions, the SkyView Wheel is the world’s only ferris wheel with individually air conditioned gondolas. Weighing 200 tonnes […]

Tiger in tank over fracas at Slipper, The Australian, 2 April, 2007.

Tiger in tank over fracas at the Slipper: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 02 Apr 2007: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract WESTS Tigers rugby league forward Bryce Gibbs is expected to continue playing despite being charged with five offences following a fracas with police and security staff at Rosehill […]

Tigers star to play on, The Australian, 2 April, 2007.

Tigers star to play on: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 02 Apr 2007: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract WESTS Tigers rugby league forward Bryce Gibbs is expected to continue playing despite being charged with five offences following a fracas with police and security staff at Rosehill Gardens […]

Driver still in hospital after bus-stop crash, The Australian, 29 March, 2007.

Driver still in hospital after bus-stop crash: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, James Madden. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 29 Mar 2007: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The 42-year-old, who screamed hysterically after the fatal crash at Kogarah, in Sydney’s south, is in a satisfactory condition in St George Hospital, receiving treatment for shock. Ms […]

Indonesian flight alert, The Australian, 26 March, 2007.

Indonesian flight alert: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 26 Mar 2007: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Among airlines to be given three months to improve their standards are Metro Batavia, Kartika Airlines, Trans Wisata Air and AdamSky Connection Airlines. Full Text TranslateFull text A WARNING has been issued to Australian travellers […]

Unemployment amongst the vision impaired The Australian 26 March 2007

26 MARCH 07.John StapletonTHE unemployment level among blind or vision impaired people is more than five times the national average.New research to be released on Monday by Vision Australia shows a staggering 69 per cent of working age vision impaired are unemployed. The survey is the largest ever done on employment levels amongst blind. “Even […]

Industrial heartland’s not the sure thing it used to be – NSW DECIDES, The Australian, 26 March, 2007.

Industrial heartland’s not the sure thing it used to be – NSW DECIDES: [1 All-round Country Edition] Imre Salusinszky, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 26 Mar 2007: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The seat where Labor haemorrhaged least dramatically was Swansea. Robert Coombs, a Sydney union official who grew up in the area, will retain the seat with […]

Little more for Iemma to do against Mr Impossible – ELECTION DAY, Weekend Australian, 24 March, 2007.

Little more for Iemma to do against Mr Impossible – ELECTION DAY: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 24 Mar 2007: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract THE party leaders spent the final day of the election campaign doing what they have been doing for the past five weeks — Peter Debnam working to achieve the seemingly impossible […]

Rail report gives Coalition free ride, The Australian, 22 March, 2007.

Rail report gives Coalition free ride: [6 NSW Country Edition] Imre Salusinszky, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 Mar 2007: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Premier Morris Iemma and his deputy, John Watkins, were forced on to the back foot yesterday by revelations CityRail had buried an expert report that gave Sydney’s rail system failing grades on […]

Robert Black Farmer The Australian 21 March 2007

21 MARCH 2007John StapletonA man accused of bashing Sydney teenager Lauren Huxley, binding her with electrical chord, dousing her in petrol and leaving her for dead in a burning garage has been committed to stand trial. The five charges against Robert Black Farmer which arose the attack included  causing grievous bodily harm with intent to […]

Sword out of hiding as Queen’s woman reopens dream bridge, The Australian, 19 March, 2007.

Sword out of hiding as Queen’s woman reopens dream bridge: [1 All-round Country Edition] Peter Lalor, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 Mar 2007: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract At yesterday’s anniversary celebrations, Premier Morris Iemma set things right, stepping back and asking the Queen’s representative, Governor Marie Bashir, to cut the ceremonial ribbon. After […]

Cultural dimension of tomorrow’s leadership, Future Summit, The Australian, 17 March, 2007.

Cultural dimension of tomorrow’s leadership — FUTURE SUMMIT 2007 – CREATING A BETTER FUTURE: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 17 Mar 2007: 26. Full text Abstract/Details Hide highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Victorian Opera’s general manager [Anne Frankenberg], 39, says technology is helping elite art forms such as opera assume their rightful place in the lives […]

Another headache as thousands are left stranded, The Australian, 15 March, 2007.

Another headache as thousands are left stranded: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 15 Mar 2007: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Last night’s problems, coming just 10 days before the state election, resulted in severe delays for an estimated 35,000 people. A police spokesman said it had been “a nightmare with crowds […]

Whiteley vista sells for $1.5m, The Australian, 14 March, 2007.

Whiteley vista sells for $1.5m: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 14 Mar 2007: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Bidding in the grand ballroom of the Sofitel Wentworth Hotel, in Sydney’s CBD, rose rapidly in $50,000 lots to reach $1.25 million — that’s $1.5 million when the 20 per cent […]

Outside the cities, owners go to town in real estate boom, The Australian, 13 March, 2006.

Outside the cities, owners go to town in real estate boom: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Maurice Dunlevy. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 13 Mar 2006: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The trend is no more apparent than in NSW. Margaret Dixon paid $76,000 for a 0.80ha block outside Otford, just south of Sydney, in […]

Bridge walked booked out, The Australian, 13 March, 2007.

Bridge walk booked out: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 13 Mar 2007: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract ORGANISERS have closed bookings to walk across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday after more than 200,000 people registered online for the opportunity to celebrate the bridge’s 75th anniversary. Full Text TranslateFull […]

Greens mix with Brown to offer vision of hope – NSW DECIDES, The Australian, 12 March, 2007.

Greens mix with Brown to offer vision of hope – NSW DECIDES: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 12 Mar 2007: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract THE grimy, inner-western Sydney suburb of Newtown may seem an odd place for the Greens to launch their NSW election campaign, but the spiritual home of urban greenies gave […]

Reptiles as pets The Australian 11 March 2007

11 MARCH 2007John Stapleton APART from his parents, the one thing in life James Stimson, 6, truly, utterly and completely loves is his bright yellow bearded dragon “Prickle”. Most times, wherever he is in the house, whatever he’s doing, Prickle is sitting on his shoulder taking it all in.James is one of an increasing number […]

Hep C policies failing as drug users fall ill, Weekend Australian, 10 March, 2007.

Hep C policies failing as drug users fall ill: [5 Travel Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 10 Mar 2007: 27. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “We had no idea it was going to be this high,” said professor Lisa Maher from the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research based at theUniversity of NSW. The team studied […]

High cholesterol? Try a Big Mac with fries, The Australian, 7 March, 2007.

High cholesterol? Try a Big Mac with fries: [6 NSW Country Edition] Peter Wilson Lipkoning, Sweden, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 07 Mar 2007: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract In Dr [Fredrik Nystrom]’s experiment, the first to apply laboratory conditions to [Morgan Spurlock]’s experience, the subjects did not suffer depression and on average their cholesterol profiles actually […]

Pru Goward Special, Dads On The Air, 6 March, 2007.

TUESDAY 6 MARCH 2007 11-12.00 AM AND ONLINE – Saturday, February 10, 2007 Our show for the 6 March is a Pru Goward special. The former Sex Discrimination Commissioner is running in this month’s NSW election for the Liberal Party in the seat of Goulburn. We ask why any bloke would vote for Goward. As Commissioner […]

Country lags on baby tests, The Australian, 5 March, 2007.

Country lags on baby tests: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 Mar 2007: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract A study by the University of Queensland and Queensland Health, published today in the Medical Journal of Australia, looked at themother’s place of residence and type of antenatal care for all Down syndrome births […]

Country lagging in baby tests, The Australian, 5 March, 2007.

Country lagging in baby tests: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 Mar 2007: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract “Economic analyses have shown that population-based screening probably represents value for money,” the authors wrote. “When the costs of screening are offset against the lifetime costs of caring for a person […]

One-stop childcare, The Australian, 5 February, 2007.

One-stop childcare: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 Feb 2007: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Labor spokeswoman for childcare Jenny Macklin said parents knew how time-consuming it was to call up numerous childcare centres to go on their waiting lists. Full Text TranslateFull text Turn on search […]

Autism The Australian 4 March 2007

4 MARCH 2007John StapletonMORE than 10,000 Australian children suffer from some form of autism, according to new research.An exhaustive three year study, commissioned by the Australian Advisory Board on Autism Spectrum Disorders and funded by the Commonwealth Government, set out to determine exactly how many people suffer from autism in Australia. The study, led by […]

Big dry ends in hail, lightning and torrential rain, The Australian, 1 March, 2007.

Big dry ends in hail, lightning and torrential rain: [1 All-round Country Edition] Brendan O’Keefe, Additional reporting: Selina Mitchell, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 01 Mar 2007: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Lightning strikes stopped trains on the South Coast line and forced the closure of a pedestrian bridge. More than a dozen international flights were delayed […]

Hawach dad’s long wait to see children, The Australian, 27 February, 2007.

Hawach dad’s long wait to see children: [2 All-round First Edition] falseStapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 27 Feb 2007: 5. 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 […]

Interview with father of Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks, Dads On The Air, 27 February, 2007.

Show: 27 February 2007 Interviewing: Terry Hicks, A special father who loves his child unconditionally, and has dedicated his life to help protect his son David Hicks, from harm and appeals for “a fair go”  for his child.              Click here (MP3)      Terry Hicks, father of David Hicks is this Tuesday’s (27/2) guest on Dads on the Air.http://www.dadsontheair.net Dads On The AirTuesday 27 February 2007 2GLF FM 89.3 11.00-12.00am and ONLINEmailto: [email protected] reborn Dads On The Air is going from strength […]

German tourists following email trail found Hawach children, The Australian, 26 February, 2007.

German tourists following email trail found Hawach children: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 26 Feb 2007: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Melissa Hawach said they had seen Hannah, 6, and Cedar, 3, at her estranged husband Joseph’s villa north of Beirut after being sent an email of their photographs […]

I’d do it again, says mile-high hostie, The Australian, 26 February, 2007.

I’d do it again, says mile-high hostie: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 26 Feb 2007: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract FORMER Qantas stewardess Lisa Robertson says she has few regrets over the “mile-high” tryst in a business-class toilet with movie star Ralph Fiennes. Entranced by the romantic images from Fiennes’s movie The English […]

Family still fear for tug-of-love kids, The Australian, 26 February, 2007.

Family still fear for tug-of-love kids: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 26 Feb 2007: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Mr [Lawyer Chris Jurd] believed the action taken by Ms Hawach in the NSW Supreme Court last year to begin suing the family for emotional distress was in fact a “blind” so she could organise the return of […]

Pilot dies in glider accident The Australian 26 February 2007

Pilot dies in glider accident JOHN STAPLETON THE AUSTRALIAN FEBRUARY 26, 2007 12:00AM Print Save for later A GLIDER pilot was decapitated yesterday when his aircraft hit a barbed-wire fence in northern NSW. The 38-year-old Sydney man was learning to fly and was being towed by another plane when his glider was prematurely released, sending him […]

National Museum takes top honour, Weekend Australian, 24 February, 2007.

National Museum takes top honour: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 24 Feb 2007: 10. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The Northern Territory’s Discovery EcoTours Australia won the Heritage and Cultural Tourism award for its small group tours covering Uluru, the Olgas, theMacDonnell Ranges, Kakadu National Park and the Cobourg Peninsula. Tourism Minister Fran Bailey, who attended last night’s […]

Free holidays for farmers hits snag, Weekend Australian, 24 February, 2007.

Free holidays for farmers hits snag: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 24 Feb 2007: 10. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract The NFF promoted the offer late last year through its state member organisations and commodity councils, including Wool Producers and the Cattle Council of Australia, as well as through the federation’s weekly […]

Islam before nation: Willie’s ex, The Australian, 24 February, 2007.

Islam before nation: Willie’s ex: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 24 Feb 2007: 10. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Ms [Melanie Brown] met and married [Willie Brigitte] in 2003 while he was visiting Australia. He was suspected of planning to bomb Australia’s electricity grid and is reported to have questioned […]

Tunnel to open as polls close – NSW DECIDES, Weekend Australian, 24 February, 2007.

Tunnel to open as polls close – NSW DECIDES: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 24 Feb 2007: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Roads Minister Eric Roozendaal said his Government had wanted the Lane Cove tunnel open “as soon as possible”, that they had never suggested a specific opening date […]

Brough defends housing move, The Australian, 23 February, 2007. Picture Lindsay Moller.

Brough defends housing move: [1 All-round Country Edition] Patricia Karvelas, John Stapleton, Additional reporting: Anthony Klan. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 23 Feb 2007: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract MORE than $100 million a year would be slashed from Aboriginal housing in urban areas under a Howard Government plan aimed at ending corruption by indigenous […]

Disaster plan not quite shipshape, The Australian, 22 February, 2007.

Disaster plan not quite shipshape: [1 All-round Country Edition] Imre Salusinszky, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 Feb 2007: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract The NSW Government, facing an election on March 24, apologised yesterday for the major delays and traffic chaos that locked down Sydney for much of Tuesday after tens of thousands of […]

What the farmer buys, the Government takes away, The Australian, 22 February, 2007. Picture Stuart McEvoy.

What the farmer buys, the Government takes away: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 Feb 2007: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract GIL Ackerly feels thoroughly ripped off. He grows lucerne for a living and after paying for water, the NSW Government first cut what it was giving him by 52 per […]

Iemma’s shipshape state exposed – NSW Decides, The Australian, 22 February, 2007.

Iemma’s shipshape state exposed – NSW Decides: [2 All-round First Edition] Imre Salusinszky, John StapletonAuthor Information. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 Feb 2007: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The NSW Government, facing an election on March 24, apologised yesterday for the major delays and traffic chaos that locked down Sydney for much of Tuesday after tens of […]

Mobiles destroying childhood, parents warned, The Australian, 19 February, 2007.

Mobiles destroying childhood, parents warned: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 Feb 2007: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract WHILE the average parent usually buys their child a mobile telephone with security in mind, researchers at the Australia Institute have condemned the marketing of mobiles to children as promoting consumerism and destroying childhood. Researchers […]

Youngsters call pot black, The Australian, 19 February, 2007.

Youngsters call pot black: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 Feb 2007: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The latest Pfizer Australia Health Research Report, due for release today, shows that 78per cent of those younger than 30 believed there were social problems associated with cannabis and 77 per […]

Corby ‘took the fall’for relative, The Australian, 16 February, 2007.

Corby `took the fall’ for relative: [2 All-round First Edition] John Stapleton, Paige Taylor. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 16 Feb 2007: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract On Monday, Jodie Power betrayed Schapelle and her sister Mercedes, telling Seven’s Today Tonight in a paid interview there was a history of drug use in the[Corby] family before […]

Corby claims light up ratings, The Australian, 16 February, 2007.

Corby claims light up ratings: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 16 Feb 2007: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Today Tonight also featured a woman with her face obscured claiming to be a former Centrelink worker who remembered Schapelle because of her unusual name and the reasons why she was […]

Victims say it’s too little, too late, The Australian, 16 February, 2007.

Victims say it’s too little, too late: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 16 Feb 2007: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Terry Miller, 64, who has spent seven years supporting other asbestos victims, said there was a new generation of sufferers in their 40s dying from mesothelioma, the lethal and […]

Tokyo demands apology for princess book, The Australian, 15 February, 2007.

Tokyo demands apology for princess book: [1 All-round Country Edition] Peter Alford, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 15 Feb 2007: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Hills writes about the travails of Princess Masako — a fast- rising diplomat when she married Crown Prince Naruhito — pressures she suffered, particularly from the Imperial Household Agency, her […]

Flight attendant ‘just doing her job’, The Australian, 15 February, 2007.

Flight attendant `just doing her job’: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 15 Feb 2007: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Graham Robertson said his daughter [Lisa Robertson], 38, was a “good kid” who had done nothing wrong. The Qantas colleagues who claimed to have seen Ms Robertson leaving the same toilet as [Ralph Fiennes] were […]

Family at war over Kovco death ruling, The Australian, 13 February, 2007.

Family at war over Kovco death ruling: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 13 Feb 2007: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Kovco’s mother [Judy Kovco] believes there has been a cover-up over the death of her son in Baghdad in April, and says that, contrary to the finding of a military inquiry, he did […]

Corby The Australian 12 February 2007

FILED FOR WEB AND THEN PULLED FOR LEGAL REASONS 12 FEB 2007John StapletonStephen FitzpatrickTHE CORBY family were by no means the innocents they pretended to be during the Indonesian trials of Schapelle Corby, according to explosive revelations by a former close family friend Jodi Power. The woman has claimed that Schapelle’s sister Mercedes had directly […]

Dust and death comes with eerie glow, The Australian, 12 February, 2007.

Dust and death comes with eerie glow: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 12 Feb 2007: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract WHILE the east coast was yesterday buffetted by rain, leading to flash flooding and the collapse of a shopping centre roof in Sydney, in the central and southern parts of NSW wind and […]

Stem cells used for ‘natural’ boob jobs, The Australian, 12 February, 2007.

Stem cells used for `natural’ boob jobs: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 12 Feb 2007: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract It has no immediate implications for women already diagnosed with breast cancer, but Dr [Chenevix-Trench] said researchers expected to unearth similar genes which women could eventually be screened for. […]

Leaders plan to dump Hilali, The Australian, 8 February, 2007. Additional reporting. Page One.

Leaders plan to dump Hilali: [1 All-round Country Edition 1] Richard Kerbaj, Additional reporting: John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 08 Feb 2007: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract Translate Abstract The talks at the Lakemba Mosque last Thursday came after the Lebanese Muslim Association indefinitely banned Sheik Hilali — whose community support base […]

Aussie photographer killed in Himalaya avalance The Australian 8 February 2007

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/aussie-photographer-killed-in-himalaya-avalanche/story-e6frg6nf-1111112960504 Aussie photographer killed in Himalaya avalanche JOHN STAPLETON AND AGENCIES THE AUSTRALIAN FEBRUARY 08, 2007 12:00AM Print Save for later AUSTRALIAN skiier and mountain climber Shaun Kratzer was killed yesterday pursuing his passion in the Himalayas. Mr Kratzer, 31, died while skiing at Gulmarg, a tourist resort north of the Indian city of Srinagar, renowned […]

Sharks, bluebottles mar weekend swimming, The Australian, 5 February, 2007.

Sharks, bluebottles mar weekend swimming: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 Feb 2007: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Lifesavers herded the shark out to sea before reopening Cottesloe, North Cottesloe and Leighton beaches. Manager of operations for Surf Lifesaving WA Chris Peck said hundreds of people were warned from the water after the Cottesloe shark […]

Pilot killed as plane crashes into sea, The Australian, 5 February, 2007.

Pilot killed as plane crashes into sea: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 Feb 2007: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract “Our rescue centre was notified about 4.30pm by the Coolangatta air-traffic control centre,” she said. “A four-seater twin Comanche that had just taken off from Coolangatta airport had indicated double engine […]

Plane’s engine checked after mid-air ‘backfire’, The Australian, 5 February, 2007.

Plane’s engine checked after mid-air `backfire’: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 Feb 2007: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract QANTAS engineers are inspecting one of its Boeing 747s following the failure of an engine shortly after the plane’s departure from Sydney for Los Angeles. Qantas denied there had been […]

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 […]