Inside charity’s big night: Gold Dinner smashes milestone
Sydney philanthropic night of the year went off with a bang, raising more than $3 million for a good cause.
In Depth
Is this Australia’s most generous couple?
Most millionaires scramble to make as much money as possible. But Manly couple Greg Poche and Kay Van Norton Poche can’t give it away quick enough since selling their logistics business Star Track Express for $750 million in 2003.
Why Dungeons & Dragons is even cooler now
They’re not afraid anymore. Once banished to the basements of the world, Dungeons and Dragons fans in Australia have burst forth on the back of a surprising surge in popularity.
Maverick principal’s legacy lives on
From the ashes, Michael Jones transformed a school in Sydney’s east from a few run-down buildings the state government planned to shut down and sell off into a thriving community.
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The greed that led to wife’s brutal murder
MARK Caleo was a young man looking to go places when glamorous Rita Chye walked into his parents’ Blakehurst cafe in 1984. Today the former restaurateur was found guilty of soliciting the brutal murder of his ex-wife.
The Sydney man who inspired The Great Escape
A KEEN love of surfing and the Manly lifestyle greatly helped one of the chief architects of an escape from a German prisoner of war camp, made famous in Hollywood classic, The Great Escape.
Before the build: Parramatta’s light rail troubles
THE lines have been marked, but before the construction crews take to Parramatta’s streets for the light rail build residents, business owners and clubs are asking if this is what is best for the west.
The scary future of air combat
THIS is what the US Air Force sees the future of air combat to be: robotic wingmen, gremlin swarms, power-sapping cruise missiles – and laser cannons.
China’s stealth fighter ‘Trump card’
NEW surprises are in store for the United States, says Beijing, as its first J-20 stealth fighter deploys to confront India and development work starts on an even more advanced model.
$3 billion Showground masterplan
THOUSANDS of homes, commercial space and parklands have been revealed as part of a $3 billion residential project to revolutionise future living in the Castle Hill Showground precinct.
House of deadly diseases
UNCOVER the world of infectious diseases from more than 135 years ago at miraculous Prince Henry Nursing and Medical Museum, where smallpox, leprosy, scarlet fever and polio were once treated by the sea as it became the city’s official destination for the most deadly infectious diseases.
The death of Wentworthville Mall
PEOPLE had high hopes and big dreams for Wenty Mall when it first opened; crowds would line up metres long just to get in. It’s a stark scene from its current state, a relative ghost town that’s been left in shambles.
‘I will have to shoot you if you refuse sex’
MOTHER Hannetjie Ludik was raped by three men after they invaded her home with guns. She is one of many white South Africans, whose loved ones want to come to Australia but can’t under current laws.
MELODY De Pauli was one of several Castle Hill residents negotiating with a developer to sell a group of houses in the Showground station precinct. That was before gazettal saw a mass exodus from residential developers.
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