Grand Prix’s future in doubt
THE Victorian Government has refused to commit to hosting the Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne beyond 2010, when the event’s contract period expires.
THE Victorian Government has refused to commit to hosting the Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne beyond 2010, when the event’s contract period expires.
LABOR’S chief business advisor Sir Rod Eddington says he was not “bent out of shape” by the Opposition leader and his deputy’s failure to seek his advice on their divisive industrial relations policy.
TED Kenna’s skin hung from his bones and he stank of rotting flesh when Marjorie Rushberry first laid eyes on him in June 1945. For the young nurse, it was not love at first sight, but horror.
A BURGLAR who broke in to Steve Vizard’s house and then tried to run down the former funnyman in his own driveway has been sentenced to almost six years in prison.
AFTER a 15-month international tug-of-war, former Serbian paramilitary commander Dragan Vasiljkovic is set to be extradited to Croatia to face charges over alleged war crimes he committed in the early 1990s.
A POLICE investigation into a man accused of intentionally spreading HIV came close to collapse because of a decision bygovernment lawyers to withhold documents on the basis of laws usually invoked to protect classified information or the identity of spies.
TYRE magnate Bob Jane revealed yesterday he called 000 three times during the domestic dispute with his estranged wife that led him to seek an intervention order against her.
COMMONWEALTH solicitor-general David Bennett was eloquent in his praise of political journalists Gerard McManus and Michael Harvey as they pleaded guilty to contempt charges before the Victorian County Court this week.
CAROL Stingel’s determination to suppress her memories of two gang rapes ironically turned out to be the very reason she could drag the man who once sat at the pinnacle of power in Aboriginal politics through a civil trial.
A VERDICT in Carol Stingel’s favour would place “her life back in her own hands”, but the jury was asked to be “modest” in any award of damages to the alleged rape victim of former Aboriginal leader Geoff Clark.
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