Real estate commentator Louis Christopher was taking a risk when he attacked the powerful Real Estate Institute of Victoria in a Fairfax-owned online publication – and it may have cost him his job.
James Murdoch has staked his colours to the mast when it comes to global warming, and they're a deep shade of green compared to dad. And now the Daily Tele toes the new News Ltd line.
Many Australians learned of the death of Steve Irwin after returning to their desks after lunch yesterday. As the news made its way from a remote reef to the mainland and then around the world, websites collapsed, blogs weighed in and Google was flooded.
Residents of Mutitjulu, the community at the centre of Lateline's broadcast on sexual abuse, have lodged a formal complaint with the ABC accusing the current affairs flagship of an “extraordinary attack on the community”.
After posting security footage of a shoplifter swiping a TV Guide from his store, newsagency-owner-turned-crime-fighter Mark Fletcher closed in on his suspect yesterday afternoon after she tried to steal the Guide for a second time.
Newsagency owner Mark Fletcher is so sick of shoplifters that he has posted security footage on his blog of a customer swiping the TV guide from inside a newspaper under the line, "Do you know this woman stealing from us?"
Magistrates and grannies across Adelaide celebrated the news this morning that radio shock-jock Bob Francis has been sentenced to nine weeks in prison over his comments that a magistrate's face should be "smashed in".
Julian Burnside QC has accused Ted Lapkin of defamation and threatened to take him on at the upcoming Melbourne Writers Festival after Lapkin called the QC "pro-Palestinian".
More than 10% of illegal fishermen apprehended in Australian waters in the last year were children and Crikey understands that unaccompanied minors as young as ten who are found on these vessels are being detained by DIMA and kept in hotel rooms.
The figures released for the six months to December 31, 2003, show newspapers are struggling around the country but it was a strong result for the Melbourne papers with the both The Age and the Herald Sun boosting circulation over all seven days.
