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Thugs, mobsters and gangsters driving up the price of your groceries, The New Daily, 18 December, 2015.

By John Stapleton SHARE TWEETSHAREREDDITPINEMAILCOMMENT Serious and organised crime is costing the community $36 billion a year, according to a new report by the Australian Crime Commission. The cost is equivalent to 24 per cent of Australia’s social security and welfare budget and adds an estimated 6.3 per cent to the average cost of […]

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Figures Show Increase in RAAF Bombings of Islamic State, The New Daily, 16 December 2015

By John Stapleton New figures show Australian air strikes against Islamic State are on the increase. Other aircraft, such as the C-17A Globemaster and the C-130J Hercules have delivered hundreds of tonnes of ammunition and mortar rounds and numerous aid packages to isolated civilians in dangerous territory. Australia’s air-to-air refuelling specialist aircraft, the KC-30A, has […]

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The Class of 2015: Our Teen Jihadis a Rising Threat, The New Daily, 10 December 2015

By John Stapleton The history of Australian teenage jihadists is already long, and getting longer by the day. The arrest on Thursday of a 15-year-old Sydney boy in counter-terrorism operations added to the list. The world has been shocked by the sight of children or young teenagers participating in often ritualised acts of violence. Indeed, […]

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Your private health data could be sold for profit, The New Daily, 8 December, 2015

By John Stapleton Whether you have a heart condition, diabetes, a rare blood disorder or are in fine health, this is all information which could be potentially turned to profit. And now experts fear your private medical records could soon be available to the highest bidder. A scandal has arisen in the wake of the […]

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Drone Wars: Australia’s Dirty Secret, The New Daily, 4 December 2015

By John Stapleton The drones are capable of hovering for days over targets before unleashing their payloads, and are blamed for driving radicalisation in Muslim territories. In the dying days of the Abbott government the Australian Defence Force announced five RAAF personnel were embedded with the US Air Force, performing operational duties including piloting and […]

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Malcolm Turnbull’s doublespeak on encryption, The New Daily, 25 November, 2015.

By John Stapleton Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has advocated the use of encryption technology to protect privacy and circumvent the metadata laws at the same time as his government has brought in new laws so loosely worded numerous high-profile critics fear it could make even the use of smartphones or email illegal. While no one […]

There’s A New and Deadlier Islamic State Coming The New Daily 22 November 2015

By John Stapleton For all the talk of degrading Islamic State (IS), the group has grown even more deadly this year. Despite a whole host of books in 2015 warning of its increasing power and numerous cautionary tales from some of the world’s most gifted analysts, Australians still seem ill-informed on the subject. It is […]

Terror in Australia: Workers’ Paradise Lost, New Book Out Now, PRWeb, 13 November, 2015.

Terror in Australia’: New Book Out Now Share Article ‘Terror in Australia: Workers’ Paradise Lost’, by journalist John Stapleton, is a sidewinding missile into the heart of Australian hypocrisy. ‘Terror in Australia: Workers’ Paradise Lost’, by John Stapleton Well documented, switching through multiple points of view, John Stapleton’s ‘Terror in Australia: Workers’ Paradise Lost’ is […]

The War on Drugs has failed, say experts, The New Daily, 13 November, 2015

By John Stapleton Inappropriately treating drug addiction as a law enforcement issue rather than a medical and personal problem have led to many unnecessary deaths.The approach by Australia’s politicians has been arguably inept, whipping up moral hysteria in the community for electoral gain. The failure of successive government to accept the advice of policy experts […]

FOMO Leading to Depression, Anxiety for Teenagers The New Daily 8 November 2015

http://thenewdaily.com.au/life/2015/11/08/teen-social-media-anxiety-depression/ #FOMO leading to depression, anxiety for teenagers Nov 8, 2015 JOHN STAPLETON Teens worry they’re missing out on events, friends’ in-jokes and showing they’re having fun on social media. Kids need to be reminded that the cyber world is not the real world. More than half of all teenagers 17 years and under access […]

How Baby Boomers are Squeezing Young Families, The New Daily, 4 November 2015

By John Stapleton The impacts of high immigration rates combined with an ageing population have created a housing crisis in Sydney and Melbourne, according to a new report. The Australian Population Research Institute suggests that most first home buyers and renters in Australia’s two largest cities are unable to find housing suitable to their needs […]

The Internal Threat That Has ASIO Worried, The New Daily, 4 November 2015.

By John Stapleton ASIO, the nation’s chief spy agency, has warned of the increased damage malicious insiders could do to Australia’s security as a result of rapid advances in information technology. The warnings come after the Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning cases exposed huge security flaws un US intelligence services (click the owl to find […]

Terrorism Threats Worse than Ever Report, The New Daily, 20 October 2015

By John Stapleton Australia’s lead spy agency the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) identified almost 100 passports of national security concern during the last financial year as well as an escalating security threat to the nation, according to a report tabled in Parliament this week. The report from ASIO showed the increased terror threat globally […]

How Tony Abbott Made Australia More Dangerous The New Daily 7 October, 2015

How Tony Abbott made Australia more dangerous 1inShare By John Stapleton ANALYSIS: Our government’s response to the terror threat has made things worse. The Abbott government’s actions and rhetoric has left Australia vulnerable. Tony Abbott knew perfectly well when he re-entered the conflicts in Iraq and Syria that it would further radicalise Australia’s Muslim minority and […]

Soldiers of God: Extract from Terror in Australia: Workers’ Paradise Lost

The single most contentious segment of Terror in Australia: Workers’ Paradise Lost by the veteran journalist John Stapleton is the section known as Soldiers of God. The name is a play on the fact that Jesuits are known as Soldiers of God. The mujahedeen of Islamic State also see themselves as Soldiers of God. There is […]

Extract from Terror in Australia: Workers’ Paradise Lost

EXTRACT FROM TERROR IN AUSTRALIA: WORKERS’ PARADISE LOST JOHN STAPLETON By May of 2015 the security situation in Australia had deteriorated to an alarming extent. The authorities were scared witless another terror attack was imminent. For more than 12 months they had been putting out spot fires across the country, in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, […]

Murder on Lower Fort Street, December, 2014.

By John Stapleton Whichever celestial being anointed Pru Goward as NSW Planning Minister had a divine sense of humour. You couldn’t have created a bigger debacle at Millers Point in Sydney if you had been planning it since birth. In mid-September of 2014, in a scene being repeated a number of times across the historic […]

Is Thailand the ‘world’s deadliest place to be a tourist’? An interview with John Stapleton, One Weird Globe, 21 November 2014.

We interrupt the usual string of awesome destinations and posts about traveling to offer an interview – and a warning. In case you’re not tuned to the Thai interwebs, a controversial new book has just been released by a British fellow named John Stapleton entitled Thailand: Deadly Destination: (I can’t prove it, obviously, but this […]

Thailand bans Briton’s book that ‘defames monarchy’, The Telegraph, 13 November, 2014.

Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract Translate [unavailable for this document] “In 2014, just as in the years preceding it, there were train, bus, ferry, speedboat, motorbike and car accidents, murders, knifings, unexplained deaths, numerous suicides, diving accidents, robberies gone wrong, anonymous bodies washing up on the shores and a string of alcohol- and drug-related incidents,” […]

Cheap, beautiful and dangerous: the trouble with Thailand, The New Daily, 6 November 2014

By John Stapleton The recent slaying of two young British backpackers on the holiday island of Koh Tao in southern Thailand was remarkable as much for the fact it garnered media coverage around the world as the extreme brutality of the murders themselves. The Thai media is heavily censored, and bad news stories about tourists […]

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PASSPORTS: INTERPOL CLAIMS WORLD’S GREATEST THREAT TO SECURITY, EXTRACTED FROM THAILAND: DEADLY DESTINATION

PASSPORTS Visitors to Thailand are not warned by travel agents, airlines or their own governments that their passports are highly prized in Thailand, and stand a very good chance of being stolen. Depending on the nationality, a passport can fetch thousands of dollars on the black market, several months pay for many Thais. There are […]

Speech for Travels with My Hat, GleeBooks. Sydney. 28 March, 2014.

SPEECH FOR TRAVELS WITH MY HAT I would like to welcome everybody here, and thank you for all for coming on such a cold, wet night; in particular our special guest Ita Buttrose, and of course, the author and photojournalist Christine Osborne. And I would like to thank Gleebooks for hosting this event. […]

Extracts from Thailand: Deadly Destination

FROM CHAPTER ONE FRUIT FOR THE PICKING The daily robbing, bashing, drugging, extortion and murder of foreign tourists on Thai soil, along with numerous scandals involving unsafe facilities and well established scams, has led to frequent predictions that Thailand’s multi-billion dollar tourist industry will self-destruct. Instead tourist numbers more than doubled in the decade […]

Keysar Trad’s Forays of the Heart, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 October, 2013.

POETS AND POLLIES Undercover Susan Wyndham Here are five words you would not expect to see in one cosy sentence: Keysar Trad, Philip Ruddock and poetry. But last Sunday at Gleebooks in Glebe, Ruddock – who was Immigration Minister and Attorney-General in the Howard Government – launched Forays of the Heart, a book of poems by Trad (pictured), […]

Keysar Trad tries hand at love poetry, AAP, Seven News, 6 October, 2013.

With kids at Gleebook launch of Keysar Trad’s Forays of the Heart

VALE ELISABETH WYNHAUSEN 1946 – 2013

By John Stapleton Elisabeth Wynhausen — a battling, campaigning social justice journalist of the old school of whom in the end, despite their occasional disagreements, he had been enormously fond — was dismissed without ceremony from The Australian. Owned by Rupert Murdoch, the paper’s management style and contempt for the working journalists who filled its […]

Old Hacks Write On, Sydney Morning Herald, 27 July, 2013

OLD HACKS WRITE ON The redundancies of recent years have given former newspaper journalists time to work on the books they had daydreamt about at their desks. Undercover knows of many books in progress and is already seeing the fruits of their leisure, some with a nostalgic tone. Jenny Tabakoff, a long-time Sydney Morning Herald journo, and Eleanor Learmonth have […]

The Final Days of Alastair Nicholson: Chief Justice Family Court of Australia, 2013. Pages 1-10.

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DIRK BOGARDE

DIRK BOGARDE JOHN STAPLETON EXTRACT HUNTING THE FAMOUS George Orwell finished writing 1984 in 1948, perhaps partly with the notion that the title depicted a date so far in the future the book would never age. Within a few decades there would be countries where more than half of the population had […]

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Jack Darmody: Legendary Sydney Journalist

By John Stapleton One of the last of the old breed of journalists was Jack Darmody, who died in March of 2006, his wake being held at The Shakespeare, a hotel up the hill from News Limited’s headquarters. There was a good roll-up at his funeral. Jack was a legend of Australian journalism from the […]

The Great Books, From Hunting the Famous.

FROM HUNTING THE FAMOUS John Stapleton A certain rubbing familiarity with the public face of Australia’s leaders was just one of the byproducts of a career as a working journalist. As a single father on the morning shift, in their younger years I would often have to take the kids along on early assignments; a […]

Paul Keating, from Hunting the Famous.

By John Stapleton The successor to Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke was Paul Keating, an entirely different kettle of fish. After a prolonged battle for the leadership the two Labor leaders rarely spoke. Keating, who came to power in 1991, could never see why a lower form of life like Bob Hawke should be top […]

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Leigh Dayton, Science Journalist

By John Stapleton This piece, about the treatment of science writer Leigh Dayton on the national broadsheet The Australian, was originally written as part of Terror in Australia: Worker’s Paradise Lost. It did not fit into the final shape of the book, and so is reproduced separately here: If there was one incident that illustrated […]

Thai rivals unite over insurgency, The Australian, 15 September, 2012

Thai soldiers in Pattani in 2011. Photo Credit: AFP. Not in original story. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/thai-rivals-unite-over-insurgency/story-e6frg6so-1226474394277 Thai rivals unite over insurgency JOHN STAPLETON, BANGKOK THE AUSTRALIAN SEPTEMBER 15, 2012 12:00AM Print Save for later ON Tuesday, political foes Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra of the so-called Red Shirts faction and the opposition leader, deposed prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva of […]

Agent Orange, the Cleanup Begins, The Australian, 5 August, 2012

Agent Orange clean-up, 37 years on Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 04 Aug 2012: 11. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The historic $US450 million ($429m) amelioration effort to destroy the chemicals remaining in the environment and treat those suffering from disabilities begins on Thursday at Vietnam’s worst affected site — the former US military base and now bustling airport of Da […]

In Memoriam, Chris Evans, Bangkok, 2012.

By John Stapleton Bangkok is a city full of expats, and Chris Evans, who had been there for decades living both the high life and the low life, from being one of the city’s most sought after male escorts, at a time when European escorts were highly sought after in the city of black-eyed angels, […]

Bill Leak and Alan Pryke, from Hunting the Famous. 2012.

By John Stapleton In an adroit move The Australian picked up the country’s best known cartoonist Bill Leak from The Sydney Morning Herald at more or less the same time I made the shift to the Evil Empire, as News Limited was commonly nicknamed. Bill had won every major award an Australian cartoonist can win, […]

Chaos at the Crossroads: Family Law Reform in Australia, Online Opinion, 8 December 2010.

The book Chaos at the Crossroads: Family Law Reform in Australia is launched today and fulfils a long held dream of Dads On The Air to include publishing alongside its weekly broadcasts. The book marks another step forward for the community radio program that began in Western Sydney in 2000 with a small group of disgruntled separated men who […]

Chaos at the Crossroads, Interview, Dads On The Air, 7 December, 2010.

Chaos At The Crossroads TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2010 AT 10:30AM With special guest: John Stapleton. Joining us this week is well known and respected Australian Journalist, Author and co-founder of Dads On The Air, John Stapleton, who will launch his new book, ‘Chaos At The Crossroads’, which tells the story of the long struggle for family law reform in […]

Celebrating A Decade Of Dads On The Air, Dads on the Air, 12 October, 2010.

Celebrating A Decade Of Dads On The Air TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2010 AT 10:30AM With special guests: Dr. Stephen Baskerville Sue Price Geoffrey Greene Barry Williams Warwick Marsh John Flannagan and Tony Miller. In a remarkable show of solidarity and a sign that hope can defeat despair, a determined group of fathers and supporters gathered at Sydney […]

Research, Stress, and Contentment, Dads on the Air, 13 July, 2010.

Research, Stress, and Contentment TUESDAY, JULY 13, 2010 AT 10:30PM With special guests: Dr. Bruce Smyth Graeme Campbell and John Stapleton. A diversity of subject matter is covered in the topics of this week’s show. We commence the program with an interesting interview with Dr Bruce Smyth, who is Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Public Health, La […]

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Out & About, The Australian, 27 November, 2009.

I edited this column for several months at the end of 2009. It was a Murdoch idea he had first tried more than 20 years before. It didn’t work back then, and with four different editions across the country, it was a nightmare. I was taken off general news, not even my chief of staff […]

Lanky yank Don Lane Bows out at 75, The Australian, 23 October 2009

Lanky Yank Don Lane bows out at 75 ROSALIE HIGSON, JOHN STAPLETON AND GRAEME BLUNDELL THE AUSTRALIAN OCTOBER 23, 2009 1:00AM Print Save for later OBITUARY: Don Lane. Entertainer. Born New York City, November 13, 1933. Died Sydney, October 22, age 75. DON Lane, the Lanky Yank, was once Australia’s most popular and highest paid television […]

Marriage Matters, Dads On The Air, 25 August, 2009.

Marriage Matters With special guests: Warwick Marsh and Bill Kable. First we speak with the founder of the Dads4Kids Fatherhood Foundation, which is now Australia’s largest pro-father, pro-marriage and pro-family charity, Warwick Marsh. Warwick, together with his wife and daughter, recently attended the Smart Marriages Conference in Florida, USA. During his US tour in July, Warwick met […]

The Menace of Extreme Feminism, Dads On The Air, 11 August, 2009.

The Menace of Extreme Feminism With special guests: Amfortas. This week we look at the struggle of the community to deal with the outrageous effects of extreme feminist dogma on our daily lives. Much of the discourse centers around myths and rogue statistics which paint a very negative picture of the men and boys in our […]

Property clearance rates going strong, The Australian, 13 July, 2009.

Property clearance rates going strong Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 13 July 2009: 6. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Kevin Lee, of Smartline mortgages, said the improved clearance rates were a sign of first-home buyer activity and reaction to thegovernment’s continuation of the first-home buyers grant. Full Text TranslateFull text Turn on search term navigation THE property market continued to […]

No bail for fraud charge AFL star, The Australian, 9 July, 2009.

No bail for fraud charge AFL star Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 09 July 2009: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract THE life of former star footballer with the Sydney Swans and high-profile coach Daryn Cresswell hit a new low yesterday when he was refused bail after appearing in Sydney’s Manly Local Court over fraud charges. Full […]

Tobacco tax hike to make a million quit, The Australian, 6 July, 2009.

Tobacco tax hike to make a million quit Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 06 July 2009: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract Public Health Association of Australia president and deputy chairman of the inquiry, Mike Daube, said the only people opposing the increase were tobacco companies. Since the dangers of smoking became known in the 1950s, […]

Illegal smoke trade has plenty of puff, Weekend Australian, 4 July, 2009.

Illegal smoke trade has plenty of puff Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 04 July 2009: 7. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract Anne Jones, chief executive of anti-smoking lobby group ASH Australia, said selling cigarettes without health warnings was illegal in itself but on top of that the sellers of illegal cigarettes had evaded federal excise duty, […]

Block’s rebirth only $60m away – BRIDGING THE GAP, The Australian, 3 July, 2009.

Block’s rebirth only $60m away – BRIDGING THE GAP Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 03 July 2009: 5. Full text Abstract/Details Abstract TranslateAbstract The NSW government yesterday announced the Pemulwuy Project would go ahead and claimed it could deliver 300 jobs and more than 9000 square metres of commercial uses, shops and community and cultural space […]

Seven arrested over elaborate credit card scam, The Australian, 3 July, 2009.

Seven arrested over elaborate credit card scam Stapleton, John. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 03 July 2009: 3. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract SEVEN people faced court yesterday over a credit card scam involving hundreds of locally manufactured fake cards used by teams of shoppers who promptly sold purchased goods for cash. Full Text TranslateFull text […]

Hotel trio first to approach Work Australia, The Australian, 2 July 2009. Page One.

Hotel trio first to approach Work Australia JOHN STAPLETON JULY 02, 2009 12:00AM Print Save for later THREE Sydney hotel housekeepers have become the first workers to apply for improved wages and condition at the new industrial relations umpire, Fair Work Australia. The trio, who each clear a base $500 a week on a pay rate […]

Howard walks while we say sorry, The Australian, 13 February, 2008.

Howard walks while we say sorry By Samantha Maiden and John Stapleton John Howard was on his morning walk in Wollstonecraft as the nation prepared to say sorry. Photo: James Croucher Source: The Australian FORMER Prime Minister John Howard boycotted today’s historic apology to the Stolen Generations but still found time to go for his traditional morning […]

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 […]

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 […]

Tegan Lane, The Australian, 17 March 2006

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

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

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

When Rats Come Out To Play, The Sydney Morning Herald, Metro Section, 1 April, 1988.

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Overall, it’s still a struggle, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 May, 1987 First ever Front Page

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Next up from the author of Catch-22 … God Knows, Joseph Heller, Interview, The Bulletin, 5 February, 1985.

Anthony Burgess: Clockwork Orange author’s ‘best’ list is an audacious and healthy exercise, The Financial Review, 4 May, 1984.

This is the first half of a story based on an interview with Anthony Burgess. The other half will be put here if found. The backstory behind the interview can be found in a chapter in the memoir Hunting the Famous. The clippings are more than 32 years old, hence their poor condition. If a […]

After midnight a fable of truth and shame, interview with Salman Rushdie, Australian Financial Review, 23 September, 1983.

The background story to this interview with Salman Rushdie is contained in the memoir Hunting the Famous