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

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

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

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

Croations The Australian June 22, 2005

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A cure for Cholera. The Australian.2005

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

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

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

Stock Exchange The Australian 2005

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

Aboriginal Housing Redfern, The Australian, 2005.

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

Opinion Howard Separated Dads South Sydney Herald 2005

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Navel-gazing at News Limited, Crikey, 2005.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Carl Skully immunisation The Australian 2005

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sydney’s Volunteer Coastguards, The Australian

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cop pleads guilty to possession, The Australian, 17 December, 2004.

Cop pleads guilty to possession: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 17 Dec 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The police fact sheet said [Marek Edward Tarnowski] used his credit card to obtain membership to many pornography sites. There was also evidence he used search engines for words such […]

Freed pedophile lashes out, The Australian, 16 December, 2004.

Freed pedophile lashes out: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 16 Dec 2004: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract [Dennis Ferguson] can spend the next fortnight travelling unchecked within NSW before his next report. He has two weeks to return to his most recent address or inform authorities of a new place of […]

Still the cancer capital, but it’s no death sentence, The Australian, 15 December, 2004,.

Still the cancer capital, but it’s no death sentence: [1 All-round Country Edition] Sid Maher, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 15 Dec 2004: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “This suggests that although we have more cancers, the health system seems to be performing relatively well in early diagnosis and treatment,” said Ian McDermid, author of the report, […]

Man on road rage charges, The Australian, 13 December, 2004.

Man on road rage charges: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Amanda Hodge, Additional reporting: Jennifer Sexton. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T.[Canberra, A.C.T] 13 Dec 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Mr [Ben Sarkis], a father of two who worked as a draftsman, did not regain consciousness and died in hospital at 8.30pm on […]

Location wrong for Lawson St community health facility, The South Sydney Herald, December, 2004. Front Page.

My son Sam with his much loved dog Major and Redfern neighbour Craig Kentell and his two daughters.

Aussie under arrest ‘just seeking wife’, Weekend Australian, 11 December, 2004.

Aussie under arrest `just seeking wife’: [1 All-round Country Edition] Annabelle McDonald, John Stapleton. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 11 Dec 2004: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract He could think of no reason for the arrest. “Maybe he lost his money or his passport,” Mr Jamal said at home before leaving on a pilgrimage overseas. “He does […]

Laptop users in danger of deleting their sperm, The Australian, 10 December, 2004.

Laptop users in danger of deleting their sperm: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 10 Dec 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “For a long time men seeking to have children, especially after some failed attempts, have been encouraged not to wear tight underpants and to allow a more natural […]

Summer arrives early on a blanket of hot air, The Australian, 29 November, 2004.

Summer arrives early on a blanket of hot air: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 29 Nov 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract The hottest parts of the continent yesterday were in South Australia, where Oodnadatta, Woomera and Moomba all notched 43C. Temperatures in northwest Western Australia soared well into the 40s, […]

Mother of all parenting dilemmas, The Australian, 26 November, 2004.

Mother of all parenting dilemmas: [1 All-round Country Edition] Sid Maher, Cindy Tahija, Additional reporting: John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 26 Nov 2004: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The record low 2003-04 figure was down from 78 children a year earlier, and continues a dramatic 30-year decline in the number ofAustralian children being offered for adoption. The author […]

Adoption an option we’re giving up, The Australian, 26 November, 2004 Additional reporting

Adoption, an option we’re giving up: [2 All-round First Edition] Sid Maher, Cindy Tahija. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 26 Nov 2004: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract The record low 2003-04 figure was down from 78 children a year earlier, and continues a dramatic 30-year decline in the number of Australian children being offered for adoption. The […]

Asthma drug a killer, Senate inquiry hears, The Australian, 22 November, 2004.

Asthma drug a killer, Senate inquiry hears: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 Nov 2004: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract A US trial last year involving Serevent and a dummy treatment was halted after 13 people taking Serevent died. GlaxoSmithKline was forced to place a warning on its packaging. Doctors said […]

Free rides for all on city trains, The Australian, 22 November, 2004.

Free rides for all on city trains: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 Nov 2004: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract COMMUTERS on the CityRail network in and around Sydney, from north of Newcastle to Nowra in the south, are getting a free ride today after months of turmoil, including extensive delays […]

Commuters ride rail free, The Australian, 22 November, 2004.

Commuters ride rail free: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 Nov 2004: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Long-suffering train commuters won the fare-free travel after the NSW Government caved in to a protest campaign for a “no-pay day” and Premier Bob Carr overruled rail executives who had threatened to fine fare evaders. Unions […]

In eye of heritage storm, The Australian, 19 November, 2004.

In eye of heritage storm: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 Nov 2004: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The much-loved home of the notoriously cantankerous author, Highbury, in the Sydney suburb of Centennial Park, is expected today to be recommended for listing by the NSW Heritage Council. [Patrick White] lived at Highbury from 1964 until his […]

The Signal Station, Australian Volunteer Coast Guard, Original Copy & Notes, The Australian, 12 November, 2004.

Aussie for firing squad, The Australian, 8 November, 2004.

Aussie for firing squad: [1 All-round Country Edition] falseStapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 08 Nov 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract Translate AbstractUndo Translation TranslateUndo Translation Press the Escape key to close FromArabicChinese (Simplified)Chinese (Traditional)EnglishFrenchGerman ItalianJapaneseKoreanPolishPortugueseRussianSpanishTurkishToArabicChinese (Simplified)Chinese (Traditional)FrenchGermanItalianJapaneseKoreanPolishPortugueseRussianSpanishTurkish Translate Translation in progress… [[missing key: loadingAnimation]] The full text may take 40-60 seconds […]

‘Come home’ plea to our first hostage, The Australian, 17 September, 2004.

`Come home’ plea to our first hostage: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, John Kerin. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 17 Sep 2004: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Word of Sheikh Naji’s kidnapping emerged following an intense effort by the Department of Foreign Affairs to contact all Australiansin Iraq after Monday’s report that an Islamic terror group had […]

The death rate of Child Support payers, Draft, 13 September, 2004.

I wrote this and floated it under the name of two other senior reporters on the paper. My intense dislike of both the Family Court and the Child Support Agency were well known on the paper and there were fears I might be biased.Not to mention that journalists who are not part of the feminist cheer […]

Lucid Rivkin back inside for the weekend, Weekend Australian, 11 September, 2004.

Lucid Rivkin back inside for the weekend: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Drew Warne-Smith. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 11 Sep 2004: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The director of periodic detention with the NSW Department of Corrective Services, Steve D’Silva, met Rivkin as he was inducted back into the hospital. Rivkin spoke lucidly and appeared in reasonable health, […]

G-G spins good line for organ transplant kids, The Australian, 9 September, 2004.

G-G spins good line for organ transplant kids: [1 All-round Country Edition] Jessica Tredinnick, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 09 Sep 2004: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Governor-General Michael Jeffery was providing fishing tips to four special children from his private jetty at the back of Admiralty House in Kirribilli. “This is smelly — that’s […]

The Many Many Deaths Associated with the Child Support Agency, Originally for The Australian, 7 September, 2004.

Orthodox churches here mourn victims, The Australian, 6 September, 2004.

Orthodox churches here mourn victims: [1 All-round Country Edition] James Madden, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 06 Sep 2004: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract At the Russian Orthodox church at Strathfield in western Sydney, a major part of the service was the panikhida, where prayers were said for the victims of Beslan. The unspeakable horror of Beslan may have taken place on the other […]

Olympian hugs for a team of heroes, The Australian, 2 September, 2004. Additional reporting.

Olympian hugs for a team of heroes: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Richard Sproull, additional reporting: Andrew McGarry, Duncan MacFarlane, John Stapleton, Dan Box and Paige Taylor. The Australian[Canberra, A.C.T] 02 Sep 2004: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract TO the strains of Peter Allen’s I Still Call Australia Home, the two Qantas jets carrying the nation’s most successful Olympics team ever pulled […]

Hero’s welcome for our Olympians, The Australian, 2 September, 2004. Additional reporting.

Hero’s welcome for our Olympians: [1 All-round Country Edition] Sproull, Richard. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 02 Sep 2004: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract TO the strains of Peter Allen’s I Still Call Australia Home, the two Qantas jets carrying the nation’s most successful Olympics team ever pulled into theSydney airport hangar. At Adelaide airport, 2 1/2-year-old Jet Newbery waited excitedly for the arrival of mum […]

Libs step up attack on Carr over retail centre, The Australian, 23 August, 2004.

Libs step up attack on Carr over retail centre: [2 All-round First Edition] Drew Warne-Smith, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 23 Aug 2004: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract An upper house inquiry into the Orange Grove centre is investigating whether there was any interference from rival retailer Westfield in the rezoning decision that will close […]

Coroner clears TJ Hickey case cops, The Australian, 18 August, 2004.

Coroner clears TJ Hickey case cops: [1 TC Edition] Louise Milligan, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 18 Aug 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract NSW Coroner John Abernethy found police had followed [TJ Hickey] on his bike shortly before he was impaled on a fence but that they were not responsible for the 17-year-old’s death. Mr Abernethy […]

Premier orders Butler to crisis talks, The Australian, 9 August, 2004. Additional reporting.

Premier orders Butler to crisis talks – Governor in car chase through Hobart in fallout from staff exodus: [1 All-round Country Edition] Richard Gluyas, Matthew Denholm, Additional reporting: John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 09 Aug 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract RICHARD Butler has 24 hours to prepare a convincing argument that he […]

Collette wakes up to a morning rush, The Australian, 9 August, 2004.

Collette wakes up to a morning rush: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 09 Aug 2004: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract TONI Collette the actor became Toni Collette the environmentalist and fitness fan yesterday when she took part in Sydney’s annual City to Surf fun run as part of a Greenpeace team. When asked […]

Hardie ‘did not give court full facts’, The Australian, 5 August, 2004.

Hardie `did not give court full facts’: [1 All-round Country Edition] Ean Higgins, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 Aug 2004: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract The inquiry has heard allegations that [Hardie] misled NSW Supreme Court judge Kim Santow in 2001 when it sought approval to move its corporate operations to The Netherlands. Mr […]

Guard set for murder charge, The Australian 2 August, 2004.

Guard set for murder charge: [2 All-round First Edition 1] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 02 Aug 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Angered by weekend reports on the death, police yesterday issued a dramatic ultimatum to Ms [Karen Brown] to attend the local station by 6pm last night. But she failed to show. Ms Brown shot […]

Called in by elders, 250 police swoop on Redfern’s dealers, Weekend Australian, 31 July, 2004.

Called in by elders, 250 police swoop on Redfern’s dealers: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Drew Warne-Smith. Weekend Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 31 July 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract It was the first operational phase of Strike Force Allunga, formed in January after Aboriginal elders asked for help to rid the neighbourhood of […]

Guard back in hospital, The Australian, 30 July, 2004.

Guard back in hospital: [7 NSW First Edition] Drew Warne-Smith, John Stapleton. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 30 July 2004: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Scans have already revealed Ms [Karen Brown] has a fractured skull and a broken nose, suffered when [William Aquilina], 25, attacked her with knuckle- dusters. Her barrister, Joseph Busuttil, has […]

Fireman lived for children … and died for one, The Australian, 28 July, 2004.

Fireman lived for children … and died for one: [1 All-round Country Edition] Jennifer Sexton, John Stapleton. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 28 July 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract PHILLIP Viles lived for children, his own three boys, the under- 16s he trained in rugby league and the nippers with whom he enjoyed the surf. “He told the paramedics he […]

Critics close book on author, The Australian, 26 July, 2004.

Critics close book on author: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 26 July 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract GINA Yatim knew something was amiss when author Norma Khouri portrayed Jordan in her best-selling book as a country where “honour killings” were common. Doubts have been raised over the authenticity of Forbidden […]

Smoke and Mirrors, Dads on the Air, 26 July, 2004.

Warning to problem gamblers: clock off, Weekend Australian, 24 July, 2004.

Warning to problem gamblers: clock off: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 24 July 2004: 11. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “The problem is that what IPART is seeking, which is a simplification of the assessment procedure, might leave the door open for uncontrolled introduction of poker machines. Disadvantaged people in disadvantaged communities are […]

Surf star ‘concealed murder’, The Australian, 23 July, 2004.

Surf star `concealed murder’: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Stapleton, Caroline Keeping. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 23 July 2004: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract WORLD-RANKED pro surfer Koby [Jai Abberton] helped cover up his brother Jai’s murder of a standover man, a Sydney court was told yesterday. He said [Koby] acted as […]

Kersten feels pain of Eadie’s gain, The Australian, 21 July, 2004.

Kersten feels pain of Eadie’s gain: [1 All-round Country Edition] Peter Kogoy, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 21 July 2004: 18. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract [Ben Kersten], 22, was named as [Sean Eadie]’s replacement in the sprint cycling team when Eadie lost his place pending an investigation into the Customs seizure of illegal substances which were sent […]

Wake-up drug uses causes concern, The Australian, 5 July, 2004.

Wake-up drug use causes concern: [1 All-round Country Edition] Jonathan Leake, Sarah Baxter, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 July 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Australian Medical Association vice-president Mukesh Haikerwal said the drug was available in Australia under the name Modavigil but was not widely prescribed by doctors here. Now the same thing may happen in Britain. The Medicines and […]

Cancer myths clearing, The Australian, 5 July, 2004.

Cancer myths clearing: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 July 2004: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Co-author of the report, Dr Owen Carter from the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer Control in Western Australia, said there was still room for improvement. She also said the proportion of Australians dying from […]

Allergy cure not to be sneezed at, The Australian, 5 July, 2004.

Allergy cure not to be sneezed at: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 July 2004: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract A group of researchers, largely from Stanford University’s School of Medicine in California, argue that while scientists have long known how an allergy attack is triggered, little is known […]

New Green keen to roll rocker, The Australian, 28 June, 2004.

New Green keen to roll rocker: [2 All-round First Edition 1] John Stapleton, Leisa Scott, Elizabeth Colman. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 28 June 2004: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract She said while the Greens welcomed Mr [Peter Garrett] to federal politics, voters should be clear that the former Midnight Oil frontman was now a member of the ALP. “If you […]

‘We won’t give in to butchers’, The Australian, 28 June, 2004.

`We won’t give in to butchers’: [1 All-round Country Edition] John Kerin, Helen Tobler, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 28 June 2004: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract A MULTIPLE mortar attack on Australian soldiers in northern Iraq was the work of “mentally deranged butchers” and only reinforcedthe need to keep the troops in Iraq, Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson warned yesterday. The developments […]

Silence in the time of plague, Weekend Australian, 26 June, 2004.

Silence in the time of plague: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 26 June 2004: 22. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Researchers at the Centre for HIV Epidemiology and AIDS Research suggest that one bright spot, if it can be called that, is that Australia, unlike other countries, is showing low rates of […]

Secret of white whale is revealed, The Australian, 23 June, 2004.

Secret of white whale is revealed: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 23 June 2004: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The regulations follow concern [Migaloo]’s celebrity status was causing it stress. The new viewing conditions, designed to ensure safe migration, mean boats and jet skis will have to stay at least […]

Whoops! Jetstar plane loses door on tarmac, The Australian, 22 June, 2004.

Whoops! Jetstar plane loses door on tarmac: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 June 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract In the dramatic tarmac incident, Jetstar Flight 552, bound for the Gold Coast, started to move away from the terminal at about 7pm while it was still attached to the air bridge. Corporate relations manager for Jetstar […]

I just don’t know how it happened, The Australian, 22 June, 2004.

`I just don’t know how it happened’: [1 All-round Country Edition] Daniel Hoare, John Stapleton. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 June 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract [Kerry], who was driving when she witnessed the accident, was recalling the horror of the previous night when 17-year-old learner driver Brooke Ervin lost control of the family car on the wet road before swerving […]

‘My wife killed my son … she should be in jail’, The Australian, 21 June, 2004.

`My wife killed my son … she should be in jail’: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 21 June 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Despite originally asking the court for leniency, Craig Dawes revealed the extent of their marriage breakdown since the death of their 10-year-old son Jason. Mr Dawes said it would […]

Five dead in smash on rural highway, The Australian, 21 June, 2004.

Five dead in smash on rural highway: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 21 June 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Police said a husband and wife, both 46, and their two children, aged 12 and 17, from Bendigo, died when their car, driven by the teenager, collided head-on with a truck […]

Burns girl Sophie to go home at last, The Australian, 21 June, 2004.

Burns girl Sophie to go home at last: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 21 June 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Yesterday her delighted parents, Ron Delezio and Carolyn Martin, who have been constantly by their daughter’s side, paid tribute to themedical staff who ensured her survival and […]

ABC board chaos at leak, The Australian, 17 June, 2004

ABC board chaos at leak: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Sally Jackson, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 17 June 2004: 15. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract According to Media Watch, the monitoring came about as a result of a “chance” meeting three months ago at Parliament House between [Maurice Newman] and David Quilty, [Richard Alston]’s former adviser. Media […]

Soldiers go beyond call of duty – QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY HONOURS LIST, The Australian, 14 June, 2004.

Soldiers go beyond call of duty – QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY HONOURS LIST: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 14 June 2004: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract His citation notes that his troops conducted more than 1700 patrols in extremely dangerous circumstances. “His achievements in this volatile combat environment have significantly contributed to the […]

Big Brother gets a dose of reality, The Australian, 14 Jun 2004.

Big Brother gets a dose of reality: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Neil Breen, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 14 June 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Instead of taking part in the eviction night discussion with host Gretel Killeen in front of a large audience, he sat in silence with black masking tape over his […]

Flashes and floods wash out big dry, The Australian, 11 June, 2004.

Flashes and floods wash out big dry: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 11 June 2004: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract SPECTACULAR lightning displays, thunder and heavy rain struck centres from Sydney to Perth last night as a series of cold fronts moved across the continent. In Sydney, the comparatively heavy falls — 37mm […]

Teachers unhappy with 12pc pay boost, The Australian, 10 June, 2004.

Teachers unhappy with 12pc pay boost: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 10 June 2004: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The commission yesterday awarded a 6.5per cent increase to be introduced in two tranches of 3per cent and 3.5per cent from July 1 this year and January 1, 2005.. […]

Reclusive Rivkin’s bid to go low-rent, The Australian, 9 June, 2004.

Recluse Rivkin’s bid to go low-rent: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 09 June 2004: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Suffering from severe depression, [Rene Rivkin] has been a virtual recluse since the Australian Securities & Investments Commission began investigating his role in the scandal over Offset Alpine, the Sydney printing company that burnt down in 1993, […]

Killed chef was Aussie resident, The Austrsalian, 1 June, 2004.

The Retirement of Chief Justice of the Family Court Alastair Nicholson, June, 2004.

Despite considerable consultation with the then Editor in Chief of The Australian Chris Mitchell in the end the paper did not run this story.It morphed into The Final Days of Alastair Nicholson: Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia:

Celebrity chef’s death ‘a shock’, The Australian, 31 May, 2004.

Celebrity chef’s death `a shock’: [1 All-round Country Edition] Helen Tobler, John StapletonAuthor Information. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 31 May 2004: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract SYDNEY restaurateur, food consultant and artist Anders Ousback has been found dead in his home at scenic Wombarra, south of Sydney. Ousback, 52, was widely acknowledged as one […]

Daughter on murder counts, The Australian, 28 May, 2004.

Daughter on murder counts: [8 NSW Metro Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 28 May 2004: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The bodies of Tudor Llewellyn Jones, 78, and his wife, Della, 79, were left under the house in Ingleburn for more than a year. Ms [Karen Leslie Kramer] is believed to have lived […]

Sorry Day’s in a sorry state, The Australian, 27 May, 2004.

Sorry Day’s in a sorry state: [1 All-round Country Edition] Misha Schubert, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 27 May 2004: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract The first Sorry Day was held in 1998, acting on a recommendation from Bringing Them Home , which called for a day when the community would acknowledge the suffering caused […]

Volkers evidence ‘was not enough’, The Australian, 27 May, 2004.

Typical Media Alert. This one for Kevin Rudd. 27 May, 2004.

Jane McGrath cancer returns, The Australian, 24 May, 2004.

Jane McGrath cancer returns: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 24 May 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Mrs McGrath, who adheres to a diet of mainly organic food, says everyone in life has challenges. “This is one of mine and I’ll rise to the challenge, though you sometimes feel […]

Fairfax job cuts to ‘gut papers’, The Australian, 19 May, 2004.

Fairfax job cuts to `gut papers’: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 May 2004: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract SENIOR journalists will be offered redundancy at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald as part of an $8 million program that unions said would gut the Fairfax newspapers. Full Text TranslateFull […]

High-powered summit to save Mitsubishi plants, The Australian, 17 May, 2004.

High-powered summit to save Mitsubishi plants: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 17 May 2004: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported that Mitsubishi‘s engine plant or assembly factory, both located in Adelaide’s south, would close under Mitsubishi‘s rehabilitation plan to be detailed next Friday. The report came ahead of a […]

Needle Exchange Redfern The Australian 2004

John StapletonTHE NSW government has met with almost universal opposition to its proposals for a needle exchange and drug service opposite Redfern Station in inner-Sydney, the scene of major riots last year. The proposed multi-million dollar seven day a week service is to be set up in a building next door to where young children […]

Aussie sea crater may explain big extinctions, The Australian, 14 May, 2004. Page One.

Huge Holden recall, The Australian, 13 May, 2004.

Huge Holden recall: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 13 May 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract It affects 115,000 V8 and V6 cars sold in Australia, 11,000 V8s exported to the Middle East and 8500 V8 and V6 vehicles shipped to New Zealand. Full Text TranslateFull text Turn on […]

Lawson Street, South Sydney Herald, 2004.

John Stapleton RESIDENTS, homeowners, police, shopkeepers and the aboriginal community of Lawson Street and the immediate surrounds have slammed the Carr Government’s determination to place an unwanted $1.5 million drug, alcohol and needle exchange service in a residential area to replace the Redfern’s old “needle bus”. News, via an announcement from the Premier Bob Carr, […]

24th gangland killing? The Australian, 11 May, 2004.

24th gangland killing?: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 11 May 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract A MAN shot and dumped in a Melbourne street could be the 24th victim of Melbourne’s underworld killings with detectives from thePurana gangland taskforce called in to investigate. Full Text TranslateFull text Turn on […]

Howard budget disaster for fathers and their children, With Rod Hardwick, John Flanagan, Warwick Marsh, Dads On The Air, 10 May, 2004.

Howard’s Budget disaster for fathers and their children, Dads On The Air, 10 May, 2004.

This is what a Cabcharge looked like, Nationwide News, 10 May, 2004.

Cabcharges were a a vital part of every working day, procuring them, using them, trying to store up an extra one or two for emergencies, justifying to the bosses why you needed them.The company would have periodic crackdowns on Cabcharges, only to realise  that reporters needed to be able to get to jobs one way […]

Most see no hope for democratic Iraq – Voter’s Choice, Weekend Australian, 8 May, 2004 Additional Reporting

Most see no hope for democratic Iraq – VOTER’S VOICE: [1 All-round Country Edition] Bachelard, Michael. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 08 May 2004: 29. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Take Wanda Harris, 43, a management consultant from the marginal seat of Brisbane. She was “absolutely unequivocally against thewar in Iraq”, saying it was contrary to international law and the UN, […]

Woman killed as train hits car on crossing, The Australian, 5 May, 2004.

Woman killed as train hits car on crossing: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 May 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract A NSW ambulance spokesman said several passengers in the front carriage received minor injuries. Countrylink spokesman Helen Willoughby said the train was a two-carriage Xplorer passenger service operating between Sydney […]

John Laws V Alan Jones, The Australian, 4 May, 2004.

Who wants to be a Big brother millionaire? The Australian, 3 May, 2004.

Who wants to be a Big Brother millionaire?: [7 NSW First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 03 May 2004: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract This year’s series, once again to be hosted by Gretel Killeen, is believed to cost $26 million, features 36 cameras, 66 microphones and 24-hour web streaming.The contestants include Aphrodite, […]

Minister to Jones: stay brave and true, The Australian, 30 April, 2004.

Minister to Jones: stay brave and true: [1 All-round Country Edition] Samantha Maiden, John Stapleton, Ian Gerard. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 30 Apr 2004: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Veterans Affairs Minister Danna Vale wrote telling [Alan Jones] to “stay brave and true” yesterday, but faxed it by mistake to rival station 2UE, which […]

Labor honours pioneer leader, The Australian, 27 April, 2004. Page One.

Labor honours pioneer leader: [1 All-round Country Edition] Michael Bachelard, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 27 Apr 2004: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract As [Chris Watson]’s political descendants — including Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke and Paul Keating — gather in Melbourne to celebrate the world’s first national labour government, Jacqueline Dunn, 77, will remember her […]

Watson’s girl goes for Latham, The Australian, 27 April, 2004. Page One.

Watson’s girl goes for Latham: [2 All-round First Edition] Michael Bachelard, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 27 Apr 2004: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract As [Chris Watson]’s political descendants — including Whitlam, Hawke and Keating — gather in Melbourne to celebrate the world’s first national labour government, Jacqueline Dunn, 77, will remember her father and […]

University finds FAST way to put dads int he picture, The Australian, 26 April, 2004.

University finds FAST way to put dads in the picture: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 26 Apr 2004: 16. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract THE pictures all tell a story. Young dads, old dads, hairy dads. Even ones with a few teeth missing. It’s all part of DadPics, coming under the umbrella of […]

4000 pay tribute at new London memorial – Anzac Day 2004, Honouring Our Heroes, The Australian, 26 April, 2004.

4000 pay tribute at new London memorial – ANZAC DAY 2004: HONOURING OUR HEROES: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 26 Apr 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract FOUR thousand Australians from myriad backgrounds — — backpackers, tourists, business people and expatriates — gathered at thenew Australian memorial at Hyde Park Corner yesterday. “To see […]

Thousands Die Government Does Nothing, Dads On The Air, 26 April, 2004.

Defiant nuke whistleblower walks free, The Australian, 22 April, 2004. Page One.

Nice try Pat, but it’s a goal, The Australian, 19 April, 2004.

Nice try Pat, but it’s a goal: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 Apr 2004: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract [PAT Rafter], one of Australia’s most popular sporting figures and a former Australian of the Year, has been struggling with retirement, missing the excitement of international tennis but not wanting to […]

Plumbers unimpressed by election pitch The Australian 2004

John Stapleton AS debate raged in parliament over who would and would not benefit from the Budget; the plumbers being held up as the archetype of the working Joe were largely unimpressed. There is the full range of political views at Mr Drains, from die-hard Howard supporters to die-hard Latham supporters. Most of the 14 […]

Foster takes on Cherie, The Australian, 6 April, 2004.

Foster takes on Cherie: [3 All-round Metro Edition] John Stapleton, David Nason. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 06 Apr 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract FIRST he accused Tony Blair of having an affair with his one- time girlfriend, and now convicted conman Peter Foster has claimed the British Prime Minister’s wife, [Cherie], kept secret […]

MP’S supporters one-eyed, The Australian, 5 April, 2004.

MP’s supporters one-eyed: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 Apr 2004: 16. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Students from a tiny bush school felt so sorry for Liberal backbencher Alby Schultz, who lost the sight in his eye last November, that they decided to do something for their local MP. Now, just […]

Truckies blockade ‘deadly’ highway, The Australian, 31 March, 2004.

Truckies blockade `deadly’ highway: [2 All-round First Edition] Michelle Gilchrist, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 31 Mar 2004: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract MOST road deaths on the Pacific Highway in NSW result from head- on collisions, with almost half of the major link between Sydney and Brisbane still to be upgraded to a four-lane dual carriageway […]

Uranium scare hits mine staff, The Australian, 25 March, 2004. Page One.

Uranium scare hits mine staff: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 25 Mar 2004: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract AUSTRALIA’S most controversial mine, Ranger in Kakadu National Park, was shut down yesterday following a uranium scare affecting 20 staff. The federal Government’s supervising scientist at Ranger, Arthur Johnston, whose field station […]

Faith embraced in times of trouble, The Australian, 24 March, 2004.

Faith embraced in times of trouble Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 24 Mar 2008: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract “Christians don’t believe that Easter is for Christians only, as Catholics don’t believe that Easter only brings salvation to Catholics,” he said. At St Andrew’s Cathedral, Anglican Dean of Sydney Phillip Jensen said: “Being […]

Fugitive Byrne murder ‘witness’ named, The Australian, 22 March, 2004.

Fugitive Byrne murder `witness’ named: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 Mar 2004: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract THE second man believed to have fled Australia after the 1995 death of model Caroline Byrne at a notorious Sydney suicide spot has been confirmed by The Australian as Gary Redding. Police are still trying to speak […]

Cleric named as terror recruiter, The Australian, 22 March, 2004. Page One.

Cleric named as terror recruiter: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Martin Chulov, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 Mar 2004: 1. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract THE Sydney-based Islamic preacher who married alleged terrorist Willie Brigitte and his Australian wife was named last night as thechief recruiter of an informal Australian terror network. Sheikh Abdul Salam Mohammed Zoud, Imam of the Lakemba prayer […]

Land council votes in rogue lawyer, The Australian, 22 March, 2004.

Land council votes in rogue lawyer: [1 All-round Country Edition] Elisabeth Wynhausen, John Stapleton, Steven Scott. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 22 Mar 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract DISGRACED Aboriginal barrister Paul Coe may soon head Sydney’s Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council, less than a decade after an indigenous legal service he ran as […]

Woman ‘paid’ for silence in AFL rape, The Australian, 19 March, 2004.

Woman `paid’ for silence in AFL rape: [3 All-round Metro Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 Mar 2004: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The players are alleged to have belonged to the Sydney Swans, the Brisbane Lions and Port Adelaide. Chief executive of the Port Adelaide Football Club Brian Cunningham last night confirmed that an undisclosed settlement had been […]

Qantas spies out help, The Australian, 19 March, 2004.

Qantas spies out help: [2 All-round First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 19 Mar 2004: 4. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract QANTAS had been forced to seek security intelligence from overseas because Australian agencies could not provide up-to-date information, one of theairline’s most senior security officers claimed yesterday. Full Text TranslateFull text Turn on search term navigation QANTAS had […]

The Secret mass resignation and recommissioning of Family Court judges, 19 March, 2004.

The battle scars of a Chief Justice, The Australian, 26 March, 2004.

The battle scars of a Chief Justice: [1 All-round Country Edition] Louise Milligan, John Stapleton. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 26 Mar 2004: 2. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract As Alistair Nicholson prepares to retire with a farewell ceremony today, The Australian can disclose his battle scars come not just from disagreements with the Howard Government and parent groups, but also […]

Elderly driver injures children, The Australian, 11 March, 2004.

Elderly driver injures children: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 11 Mar 2004: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Yesterday’s accident involved two brothers and a sister, who were sitting outside a shop at Carlingford in Sydney’s north when the woman’s Toyota Corolla mounted the kerb and ploughed into them. The […]

Bashir to be freed within weeks, The Australian, 10 March, 2004. Page One.

Surf star’s link to murder, The Australian, 9 March, 2004.

Surf star’s link to murder: [7 NSW First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 09 Mar 2004: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Abberton, a member of the surfing gang the Bra Boys, from the beachside suburb of Maroubra, was granted bail in Waverley Local Court on charges including being an accessory after the fact of murder. One of the most prominent figures on the professional […]

Surf star linked to murder, The Australian, 9 March, 2004.

Surf star linked to murder: [B Qld First Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 09 Mar 2004: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract One of the most prominent figures on the professional surfing circuit, Abberton is the third person to be charged over the death of Anthony Hines, whose body was found at the bottom of a cliff at Mistral Point, Maroubra, […]

Did Family Court Judges Breach the Constitution en masse? 9 March, 2004.

Conman stands by Blair sex claims, The Australian, 8 March, 2004.

Conman stands by Blair sex claims: [1 All-round Country Edition] Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 08 Mar 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Mr [Peter Foster] said Ms Caplin was pregnant with his child in September 2002 when they had a blazing row over Mr [Tony Blair], and she miscarried the next day. “She and […]

We Stood At The Turning Point, Dads On The Air, 8 March, 2004.

A kind word re spots on the Tony Delroy Nightlife program, The Australian, 7 March, 2004.

As the great unread newspaper of Australia, writing for The Australian was like hitting tennis balls into a soft black sponge wall. There was no echo. While on the Sydney Morning Herald, I would often have to field calls from readers in the morning. There were few such calls after moving to The Australian, basically […]

League players in new sex claims, The Australian, 5 March, 2004.

League players in new sex claims: [3 All-round Metro Edition] John Stapleton, Chris Stedman, Martin Chulov. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 05 Mar 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract With the NRL still reeling over the gang rape investigation that has embroiled the Bulldogs, based in Sydney’s southwest, Victorian police last night revealed they had interviewed two […]

Women’s bodies in river, The Australian, 4 March, 2004.

Women’s bodies in river: [2 All-round First Edition] Martin Chulov, John Stapleton. The Australian; Canberra, A.C.T. [Canberra, A.C.T] 04 Mar 2004: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract THE bodies of two women were yesterday found floating with their hands and feet bound in the Adelaide River, south of Darwin. The women, both of Asian appearance, were thought to be […]