au-hotdailynews: 2015-02-26 Australia Australia

Slipper cleared of misusing taxpayer funds
Perth Now
THE ACT Supreme Court on Thursday struck out his conviction for using taxpayer-funded taxi vouchers for visits to Canberra region wineries on three occasions in 2010. The decision means he will no longer have to undertake 300 hours of community service ...

Former MP Peter Slipper's dishonesty conviction overturned   Business Insider Australia
Peter Slipper Cabcharge case: Former speaker wins appeal against dishonesty ...   ABC Online
Peter Slipper conviction overturned by Canberra court   Sydney Morning Herald
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Michael Wright's secret daughter Olivia Mead wins $25m
The Australian Financial Review
Olivia Mead has won her argument that a $3 million trust left to her was inadequate. Pic: Philip Gostelow. Julie-anne Sprague. The West Australian Supreme Court has ordered that the “secret daughter” of Perth billionaire Michael Wright be given a $25 million ...

Olivia Mead, daughter of mining heir Michael Wright, awarded $25 million lump ...   Perth Now
Michael Wright's 'secret' daughter Olivia Mead wins $25 million   WA today
Olivia Mead gets $25m in challenge to mining heir father's will   The Australian (blog)
The West Australian
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Labor asks about treatment of Gillian Triggs – question time live
The Guardian
Tony Abbott wants a cabinet submission on food labelling changes and speaks to his Indonesian counterpart to protest against planned executions as the House sits and Senate estimates hearings continue. All the developments from Canberra, live.
George Brandis shows 'open contempt' for 'rule of law'   The Australian Financial Review
Did Brandis break the law in requesting Triggs' resignation?   SBS
National Affairs with Bernard Keane   ABC Online (blog)
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The Daily Telegraph
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King's School headmaster Tim Hawkes gives evidence about Knox to royal ...
Sydney Morning Herald
When a masked man entered a boarding house at Knox Grammar School and sexually assaulted a year 8 student in his bed, the then housemaster Tim Hawkes fully expected the police to be notified. Dr Hawkes, now headmaster of the King's School, told a ...

Knox Grammar sexual assault was 'bizarre and extraordinary'   The Guardian
Arrest warrant issued for missing Knox Grammar witness Christopher Fotis   The Daily Telegraph
The horror at a prestigious school   NEWS.com.au
The Australian
Sky News Australia
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Woman knocked out on train with vicious punch, then sexually assaulted
Sydney Morning Herald
A man who was captured on camera carrying out a "forceful and vicious" attack on a mentally ill woman on a Sydney train has been jailed for at least nine years. Distressing footage has emerged of David Marlin shaking the 34-year-old woman's hand, ...

Woman knocked out on train with vicious punch, then sexually assaulted: video   Illawarra Mercury
David Marlin sentenced to jail after horrific footage emerges of sexual assault on ...   NEWS.com.au
CCTV video captures sickening attack on train   The Queensland Times

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Newman biography rejected in political move by University of Queensland Press ...
ABC Online
Publishing house University of Queensland Press (UQP) has been accused of rejecting a tell-all book on Campbell Newman because of decisions his government made relating to the arts by the author and former MP Gavin King. Mr King is writing the book ...

No Book For You: UQ Press rejects Newman's literary hopes   Whitsunday Times
UQ Press knocks back Campbell Newman book over premier's literary awards ...   WA today
UQ Press refuses to publish Newman's book   4BC

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Sydney locals key to murder case: police
NEWS.com.au
THE final puzzle piece in the case of a gruesome Sydney murder could depend upon inner-city locals coming forward. RODNEY Scarman, 52, was beaten to death and his body stuffed inside an electrical cupboard in inner-city Waterloo in the early hours of ...

Rodney Scarman death: CCTV images released to help solve case in Sydney   ABC Online
Rodney Scarman murder plea: Police release CCTV of three men who may help ...   The Daily Telegraph
Body stuffed in cupboard: Police release images in hunt for Rodney Scarman's ...   Sydney Morning Herald
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Call to tap older workers
The Australian
SOCIAL Services Minister Scott Morrison has challenged the nation to create a “boom'' rather than a bust out of an ageing population by having people stay in the workforce towards 70 and spend accumulated assets to boost their living standards.
Help grandkids, keep working: Morrison   The West Australian
WE SAY: Welfare review poses questions   The Sunshine Coast Daily
Welfare reform will prove hard graft   The Age
Pro Bono Australia
Yahoo!7 News
Radio Australia
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Glenn Lazarus accuses Abbott government of chaos and dysfunction in the Senate
Sydney Morning Herald
Politics live: Stephanie Peatling blogs live from Parliament. Palmer United senator Glenn Lazarus has launched an extraordinary attack on the federal government saying its management of the crossbench is "dysfunctional" and a mess. Senator Lazarus ...

Senator Glenn Lazarus joins the fight against CSG   Gympie Times

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Silverchair's Daniel Johns convicted of drink-driving, fined $880
Sydney Morning Herald
Daniel Johns must have known he was affected by alcohol the night he was picked up by police in Merewether for driving too fast, and if not, he must be a "hardened drinker", he was told on Thursday. For that reason, and with a driving record that was "not ...

Daniel Johns 'sorry' for drink driving: Singer fined and disqualified from driving   The Daily Telegraph
Daniel Johns, of Silverchair fame, loses licence after drink-driving   ABC Online
Daniel Johns sentenced for drink-driving: photos, video   Newcastle Herald
9news.com.au
Daily Mail
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