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Issue cover date 03 July 2009
THIS WEEK IN THE WEEK
News
Michael Jackson dead at 50
US entertainer Michael Jackson died in Los Angeles after suffering a cardiac arrest. Initial reports suggested the singer had stopped breathing after an injection of the painkiller Demerol. Paramedics were called and he was taken to... Read more »
Business
Watchdogs or watchpoodles?
The wheels of corporate justice in Australia seem to have “seized quite some time ago”, said Ian Verrender in The Age. Take that “boom-time hero” Babcock & Brown. It collapsed in less than four years but all the principals managed to get out before... Read more »
Sport
F1: normal excesses resume
The biggest crisis in the history of Formula 1 appears to be over, said Amol Rajan in The Independent (UK). Battle lines had been drawn between the sport’s governing body, the FIA, and the Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) over severe... Read more »
Culture
Theatre: Lobby Hero
“There is something profoundly moving about Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero,” said Kate Herbert in the Herald Sun. The Oscar-nominated screenwriter sets his play over several nights in the lobby of a Manhattan apartment building, where security guard... Read more »
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