Mimi Macpherson down to her last $8
THE younger sister of multi-millionaire supermodel Elle Macpherson has just $8 in the bank and drives a 1997 Mazda worth $3000.
Milanda Rout
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Battlers look to tomorrow
FROM the day he announced his economic stimulus package, Kevin Rudd has been urging families to spend, spend, spend. Yesterday, as the money began flowing into household bank accounts, the response to the Prime Minister from would-be recession busters was clear: Thanks but no thanks, we’d rather save.
Ambassador’s no-show at first gig
DEPUTY Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s partner, Tim Mathieson, chucked a sickie yesterday, missing his first public appearance as a health ambassador.
Baptism of firepower
WHEN Simon Overland quit the Australian Federal Police after 19 years to take up his role as assistant commissioner in Victoria Police in early 2003, he left an administrative desk job and walked into the middle of Melbourne’s gangland wars. “What we’re dealing with here is a desperately serious situation,” he told reporters the day after Lewis Moran became the 23rd victim of the city’s underworld wars in 2004.
Thomas ‘played naive’ in TV interview
JOSEPH Terrence Thomas deliberately painted himself as a “naïve young boy” in a Four Corners interview, a court has been told.
Britt’s mother tells of agonising wait
THE mother of missing Melbourne backpacker Britt Lapthorne says she still has a glimmer of hope that the RMIT student is alive.
Jury room saboteurs
Are bored or distracted jurors and would-be Sherlock Holmeses undermining our system of justice?
Division of sexes creates feast or famine
THERE is a large group of single men living in Melbourne and looking for love.
Innocent clients launder drug cash
HUNDREDS of unwitting bank customers could have drug money sitting in their accounts after the international crime syndicate behind the world’s largest ecstasy haul this year allegedly laundered at least $6.79 million cash by a method known as “cuckoo smurfing”.
Slump in tollway traffic hits stock
ALMOST $230 million was wiped off the share value of toll road operator ConnectEast yesterday after its Melbourne Eastlink road became the latest tollway to fall drastically short of its traffic projections.
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