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29 Sep
Documents filed in the Federal Court in Victoria show childcare giant ABC is defending claims it broke an undertaking to off-load childcare centres in Western Australia.
The undertaking was made with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, which took legal action in June this year. The dispute involved two WA centres that remained unsold following the [...]
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14 May
Boston Legal may have been renewed for another season but that doesn’t mean that ABC will run the legal dramedy for a long time. The network has just decided that the show’s fifth season will also be its last.
Though many were shocked by the announcement, McPherson went on to explain the ABC remake of the [...]
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27 Apr
After identifying some 7,000 pages of classified memos, e-mails and other records relating to its forced disappearance, secret detention and torture program, the Central Intelligence Agency has refused to release the documents.
Responding to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed last June in federal district court in New York by Amnesty International USA (AIUSA), [...]
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03 Feb
On her ABC television show The View, veteran broadcast journalist Walters said she spoke with Lufti by phone after he reached out to her.
He said that Britney is suffering from what he describes as mental issues which are treatable, Walters said on The View.
He said that she has been to a psychiatrist and that she, [...]
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31 Jan
US television talk show host “Dr Phil” McGraw says he regrets
talking about Britney Spears’ mental health after visiting her in
the hospital, but did not violate the family’s trust.
“I regret making the statement. It didn’t help. It didn’t work,”
the syndicated TV psychologist said today on ABC’s Good Morning
America.
Spears, 26, was hospitalised in Los Angeles after a [...]
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29 Jan
SINCE former Age editor Creighton Burns died last
weekend, friends and former colleagues have praised him as a rare
and inspiring combination of larrikin and intellectual, journalist
and academic.
At Burns’ memorial service at Ormond College yesterday, such
tributes were heard again. But they were completed by the testimony
of two of his children, Jonathan and Rebecca.
They spoke of a man [...]
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29 Jan
CHARLES AUGUSTINE SWEENEY, QC, CBE, KCSG FEDERAL COURT
JUDGE 27-4-1915 - 22-12-2007
CHARLES Sweeney, who survived the first attacks by Kamikaze
pilots during World War II before rising through the legal ranks to
become a Federal Court judge, has died after a long battle with
Parkinson’s disease. He was 92.
A member of the Australian Navy Volunteer Reserve, he served in
intelligence [...]
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28 Jan
SINCE former Age editor Creighton Burns died last
weekend, friends and former colleagues have praised him as a rare
and inspiring combination of larrikin and intellectual, journalist
and academic.
At Burns’ memorial service at Ormond College yesterday, such
tributes were heard again. But they were completed by the testimony
of two of his children, Jonathan and Rebecca.
They spoke of a man [...]
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28 Jan
CHARLES AUGUSTINE SWEENEY, QC, CBE, KCSG FEDERAL COURT
JUDGE 27-4-1915 - 22-12-2007
CHARLES Sweeney, who survived the first attacks by Kamikaze
pilots during World War II before rising through the legal ranks to
become a Federal Court judge, has died after a long battle with
Parkinson’s disease. He was 92.
A member of the Australian Navy Volunteer Reserve, he served in
intelligence [...]
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27 Jan
SINCE former Age editor Creighton Burns died last
weekend, friends and former colleagues have praised him as a rare
and inspiring combination of larrikin and intellectual, journalist
and academic.
At Burns’ memorial service at Ormond College yesterday, such
tributes were heard again. But they were completed by the testimony
of two of his children, Jonathan and Rebecca.
They spoke of a man [...]