SACKED businessman Ted Sent has lost a wrongful dismissal claim against retirement village giant Primelife, with a judge ruling a series of covert cash payments to Melbourne identity Mick Gatto were “highly irregular” and constituted serious misconduct
LABOR is confident that Health Minister Bronwyn Pike will hold on to her seat of Melbourne but it could be days before a final result is called.
WHILE all polls predicted a Labor victory, Newspoll and Galaxy came the closest to correctly tipping the weekend’s election result.
PROSECUTORS described it as the most serious example of police corruption in Australia, but two former Victorian drug squad detectives received sentences equivalent to only one-fifth of the maximum penalty yesterday for their part in a multi-million-dollar heroin trafficking ring.
METAL barricades to keep up to 10,000 protesters separate from police have been erected around the venue for this weekend’s G20 summit in Melbourne.
CHIEF executives from the world’s most powerful oil and mining companies are flying to Melbourne to help Peter Costello persuade the G20 nations to liberalise trade and investment in the resources industry.
ACTIVISTS are planning to storm Melbourne office buildings as part of guerilla-style protests in the lead-up to the G20 finance ministers meeting at the weekend.
THE Liberal Party has left open the possibility of powering its planned desalination plant with wind energy, despite being opposed to coastal turbines.
HUSBANDS and wives who cheat on their partners have no legal obligation to disclose their infidelity, the High Court has ruled, declaring such matters “should be left to the morality of spouses”.
MOTHERS and fathers would be punished with fines and community service when their children misbehaved at school under a Victorian Liberal plan that would also give parents a say in which teachers got annual performance bonuses.
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