MORRIS Iemma’s rocky start to his new term as Premier continued yesterday with an outcry over the appointment of Michael Coutts-Trotter – a former heroin addict who spent three years in jail in the 1980s for drug crimes – to the state’s most senior education position.
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NORFOLK Islanders cheered outside the tiny territory’s courthouse yesterday as one of the most divisive chapters in the history of the former penal colony ended in a guilty verdict.
WHAT do you do when you’re paragliding at 2500m and two huge, angry wedge-tailed eagles launch a sustained attack on you and your chute?
MOHAMMAD Ali Elomar was elated. Having allegedly just bought five high-powered rocket launchers stolen from the Australian Defence Force, he began canvassing possible targets such as NSW Parliament House and the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney’s south.
TO the two 15-year-old boys accused of murdering Andrew Farrugia, the 17-year-old schoolboy was the “perfect stranger”.
SCIENCE graduates, many of them headed for teaching careers, are leaving university carrying a HECS debt equal to that of engineers and accountants – despite the vast difference in the salaries they can expect to earn.
A DAUGHTER of former NSW Liberal premier John Fahey has been killed after being thrown from her car in an early-morning road accident.
TWO suspicious mail items – one found yesterday at John Howard’s Sydney office block, the other near his office at Canberra’s Parliament House – caused a stir but not much else after they were found to be harmless.
SINCE moving from Sudan to Australia two years ago, Henry Tombek has tried to live life “the Australian way”.
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