Fed: New Federal Court judge appointed

AAP General News (Australia)
08-15-2000
Fed: New Federal Court judge appointed

CANBERRA, Aug 15 AAP - Freehills law firm partner Margaret Stone was today appointed
a judge of the Federal Court of Australia.

Federal Attorney-General Daryl Williams said that Ms Stone had been a Freehills partner
since 1993 and was also a part-time professor of law at the University of New South Wales.

She has taught property, equity, contracts, trusts, torts, commercial litigation, legal
theory, appellate judicial process and federal constitutional law.

At Freehills Ms Stone practises mainly in property, contracts, trusts, equity and native title.

Based in Sydney, she will take up her appointment on October 9.

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NSW: Parents urge teachers not to ban literacy tests

AAP General News (Australia)
02-28-2000
NSW: Parents urge teachers not to ban literacy tests

New South Wales parents have asked teachers not to impose bans on high school literacy
tests scheduled for tomorrow.

Teachers are meeting to decide whether to ban the English Language and Learning Assessment
test for year seven students.

The government uses the test to allocate resources for students with special …

SA: Arson suspected in Southern Expressway fire

AAP General News (Australia)
12-25-1999
SA: Arson suspected in Southern Expressway fire

Police say a fire which occurred south of Adelaide this afternoon was believed to have
been deliberately lit.

A spokeswoman says the fire, to earth-moving equipment at the Southern Expressway at
Reyella, began at about 1.30pm.

Fire technicians were at the scene and Metropolitan Fire Service crews says damage
to the equipment was between $25,000 and $30,000.

No one was injured during the incident.

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KEYWORD: EXPRESSWAY (ADELAIDE)

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Vic: Young man to be operated on after machete attack

AAP General News (Australia)
08-12-1999
Vic: Young man to be operated on after machete attack

Doctors will operate later today on a man who staggered into a luxury Melbourne hotel with
eight stab wounds after a gang attack.

The 26-year-old from south-east suburban Mulgrave was left with a slashed chest, back and
arms after being attacked with a machete early this morning.

An ambulance spokeswoman says he was rushed to St Vincent's Hospital in a critical but
stable condition after staggering into a lobby of the Hyatt on Collins Hotel and collapsing.

Detectives believe three men and a woman, all of Asian appearance, are responsible for the
attack in Melbourne Place, near Bourke Street.

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VIC: Esso omitted key part of explosion report: Age

AAP General News (Australia)
02-18-1999
VIC: Esso omitted key part of explosion report: Age

MELBOURNE, Feb 18 AAP - Esso omitted a key finding of its own investigators from a final
report on the cause of an explosion at its Longford gas plant last September that killed two
workers and cut gas supplies to Victoria, The Age reported today.

Esso found that crucial risk assessments to determine potentially dangerous problems at the
plant had not been done, and this was found to be a contributing factor in the explosion, the
paper said.

But the finding was omitted from Esso's final report, it said.

Esso spokesman Ron Webb told the paper it was not unusual for changes to be made between
draft and final reports.

"Obviously the investigators decided after they did their first report that a Hazop (hazard
operability study) assessment would not have identified the problem. You must also remember
the investigation was carried out over a very short space of time," he said.

But a lawyer representing four unions at a royal commission into the explosion said the
apparent sanitising of the report was a matter of concern.

"We are very concerned the findings in the report appear to be sanitised in that critical
parts of the draft are omitted from the final version," lawyer Bernard Murphy said.

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KEYWORD: GAS REPORT

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QLD:Catastrophe threatens Charleville

AAP General News (Australia)
02-04-2012
QLD:Catastrophe threatens Charleville

The Weather Bureau is warning that if the levee banks protecting the southwest Queensland
town of Charleville fail, the town will be engulfed by a catastrophic flood.

The Warrego River is lapping the top of the town's levee banks.

Senior Hydrologist PAUL BIRCH told the ABC if the water gets to high the water tends
to erode out part of the levee fairly quickly so then it would just open up the river
into town, so …

VIC:Des Moran's money was missing, court told

AAP General News (Australia)
02-04-2011
VIC:Des Moran's money was missing, court told

By Melissa Iaria

MELBOURNE, Feb 4 AAP - Murdered man Des Moran told a friend that money his slain brother
Lewis had stashed away for him was gone, a jury has heard.

Marc Rodway came to know Des "Tuppy" Moran because he visited almost daily the Flemington
Racecourse Tabaret he managed.

He told a Victorian Supreme Court jury Mr Moran expressed "hatred" towards his sister-in-law
Judy Moran, but never explained why in detail.

Mr Rodway said Mr Moran told him after his brother Lewis Moran was shot dead in 2004
that he had left him …