Roger Rogerson charged with murder of Jamie Gao
ABC, PM program MARK COLVIN: The disgraced former Sydney detective Roger Rogerson is in custody in Sydney tonight, charged with murder and supplying large commercial quantities of drugs. He’s accused of murdering a student called Jamie Gao. Police have confirmed...Australians take title of ‘best’ internet pirates to new level
The dubious honour that Australians hold as the world’s most shameless TV internet pirates has reached a new level of sophistication, according to Australia’s struggling independent TV cable providers. In the latest blow for broadcasters, global pirate...Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show request reignites bitter Little River Band feud
One of America’s highest rating TV programs, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, has been caught up in a bitter stoush between the past and present members of the Little River Band. Little River Band member on stage at the 2004 Aria Awards. PHOTO: Glenn...Demand for genital ‘Barbie-plasty’ surgery triples in a decade
It’s known in the cosmetic industry as a Barbie-plasty because it resembles a Barbie doll. An extreme version of female genital surgery, or the labiaplasty, is now so popular that the number of procedures performed in Australia has more than tripled in the past...C-section surge in China as zodiac moves from lucky horse to unfortunate sheep
ELEANOR HALL: There’s a gnawing anxiety among many pregnant women in China in the lead up to the Chinese New Year on February 19th. That’s the day the Chinese zodiac will flip from the highly auspicious Year of the Horse to the deeply unfortunate Year of...Chinese newspaper calls Julie Bishop a ‘complete fool’
ELIZABETH JACKSON: Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is scrambling to defuse a diplomatic crisis with China this week over her reported comments to Fairfax that she planned to take tougher stand on China than her Labor predecessors. The comments have prompted criticism...ICAC inquiry into Margaret Cunneen went too far says appeal court
The country’s most powerful corruption watchdog, the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption, has been ordered to shut down a public inquiry into high profile Crown prosecutor Margaret Cunneen on the grounds her alleged conduct did not amount...Provocation defence reforms don’t go far enough
Over the past decade most states in Australia have abolished or dramatically reformed the defence of provocation for murder. The reforms were aimed squarely at putting an end to men who kill their wives and girlfriends getting away with murder. New South Wales is now...
What a dismal, dour world some wish for us.
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So how does this fit with media's current right to know campaign? All media companies including Seven should protect journalist sources.
Ben Roberts-Smith seeks documents that may disclose journalists' sources via @smh
Ben Roberts-Smith seeks documents that may disclose journalists' sources
The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald are fighting requests from the Victoria Cross recipient for documents generated during investigations for articl...
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If someone attacks a journalist who reported crimes of now-convicted paedophile, naming her 400+ times over 40 months, always defending paedophile, repeating same odd item verbatim, with zero empathy for those whose lives paedophile ruined, is this pathologically weird & creepy?
@janehansen2000 @australian And of course she can’t speak for herself now
Friends say wife who was found curled up and frozen "rock solid" in family freezer "nagged" her "quietly spoken" husband who has fled to China with their two children @australian https://bit.ly/2OuK895