THE Labor MP Eddie Obeid and the party powerbroker Graham Richardson brought the deal to buy Offset Alpine Printing to Rene Rivkin, the Gordon Wood murder trial heard yesterday.
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Wood ‘offered me bribe for silence’ (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
A jury has been told the man accused of murdering model Caroline Byrne offered company shares to a restaurant owner to keep quiet about where he was the day of her death.
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Rivkin speaks from the grave (Daily Telegraph)
RELAXING aboard his luxury boat with some of his “hangers on”, stockbroker Rene Rivkin was unruffled by the questions from homicide police in 2000.
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D.A.’s Eagle Eye Takes Aim at Shia’s Accident (E! Online)
While Shia LaBeouf remains felony-free for his part in July’s hand-mangling car crash, prosecutors have managed to pull some blame from the literal wreckage. The Los…
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American Terrorism, 1910-Style (Time Magazine)
Howard Blum’s new history takes a look at the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times building, and the early 20th century war between labor and capitalism.
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Zonta Charity Dinner With Joe Bennett (Scoop.co.nz)
Zonta Club of Christchurch- Canterbury invites you to an evening of fun, festive and fundraising at Rydges Hotel Christchurch on Wednesday 12 November.
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Pictured: The treasure trove of art and antiques being auctioned off in £5million mansion sale (Daily Mail)
The antique treasures inside Great Brampton House far outstrip the price of this Regency mansion which will go under the hammer tomorrow along with its contents – with a combined value of £5million.
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Keep The Faith (Sin Chew Jit Poh)
A Balinese woman presents an offering on a Denpasar curbside during Galungan festival. (Photo courtesy: I WAYAN JUNIARTHA/The Jakarta Post) After landing at Denpasar International Airport in Bali after a long tiring flight, all I could think of is rest.
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Can they help? (Akron Beacon Journal)
COLUMBUS: Since March, the Akron Beacon Journal has reported on the mounting financial pressures facing the middle class — fewer good-paying jobs with secure retirement plans and the climbing costs of higher education and health care.
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Letters to the Editor (Kinston Free Press)
This ongoing flurry of concern about the financial fiasco has spurred more of the ho-hum “eight-years-of-failed-policies” rhetoric. Does anybody remember the great Dot.Com bubble of 1995-2000 and the bursting of that bubble in 2000-2002 to the cost of $5 trillion in the technology sector?
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