2001
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General News
Niche identified in left-wing publications market
[Edition 43] GLEBE, Thursday: A marxist-feminist activist has discovered a gaping hole in the lucrative left-wing publications market.
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National
4 Corners exposes something or other
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Australian viewers were shocked last month to see the ABC’s flagship current affairs program reveal something they didn’t know Media historians had to scramble to the record books to find the last time when 4 Corners exposed anything resembling new information. “Normally it just summarises a general issue, or buys an old program…
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World
STILL AT LARGE: The chilling tale of how 35,000 British backpackers are still alive and roaming free
[Edition 43] ALICE SPRINGS, Tuesday: Two weeks after the shocking disappearance of British backpacker Peter Falconio, and with the assailant still at large, police have been disappointed by the lack of follow-up attacks against other British backpackers in the country.
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World
MILOSEVIC’S WAR CRIME DEFENCE: “I was just issuing orders”
[Edition 42] THE HAGUE, Monday: Disgraced former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has brushed off against charges for war crimes against humanity and mass genocide. “Look, I’m not to blame. I only issued the orders. You should talk to the people who carried them out.”
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General News Archive
Ruddock defends use of tear gas: ‘I had to appear compassionate somehow’
[Edition 40] CANBERRA, Wednesday: Immigration Minister Phillip Ruddock has defended his use of tear gas to control his worsening problems with Australian detention centres. Ruddock admitted he used the tear gas before a press conference called to respond to claims of beatings in the Curtin detention centre.
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National Archive
Budget woos Labor’s core: huge handouts for deceased voters
[Edition 40] CANBERRA, Thursday: The Federal Government revealed its re-election strategy with a budget aimed at winning back support from older Australians. In his Budget Address, Treasurer Peter Costello announced the government?s plan to make a “special one-off payment for each Australian pensioner in a beautifully presented vintage biscuit tin containing $300 worth of $1…
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World Archive
Aussie republicans plan “study tour” to Nepal
[Edition 40] KATHMANDU, Sunday: The head of the Australian Republican Movement Greg Barnes has arrived in Nepal, where he’s scheduled to meet Crown Prince Dipendra to discuss new strategies for removing royal families. Mr Barnes believes the republican movement has a lot to learn from Prince Dipendra, whose recent massacre of his family demonstrated a…
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National Archive
JAMIE PACKER COMPLETELY IGNORANT: Also didn’t know truth about One.Tel
[Edition 40] SYDNEY, Monday: Jamie Packer’s lawyers today claimed that Jamie was totally ignorant. “I’d even go so far as to call him a fool,” said one. Later when asked about Packer’s role in the collapse of One.Tel they said they hadn’t talked to him about it yet. A spokesperson for ASIC said that the…
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General News
Man grateful to receive spam email
[Edition 38] HOBART, Friday: A lonely Hobart man said he was excited yesterday to receive an email in his Hotmail account. The unpopular man, who has held the account for more than four years, said he’s never received an email before, and was caught completely off guard by its arrival.
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General News
Obituary: Robert Downey Jnr, Actor, Drug Addict and charming womaniser
[Edition 38] Hollywood mourns one of its own today, as controversial actor, Robert Downey Jnr was pronounced DOA at a New York City hospital, following a suspected massive deliberate drug overdose. His death is the subject of rife speculation that he may have been a victim of the so-called “Flockhart Syndrome”.