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Study: 55% Of Australian News Is PR Spin
“After analysing a five-day working week in the media, across 10 hard-copy papers, ACIJ and Crikey found that nearly 55% of stories analysed were driven by some form of public relations. The Daily Telegraph came out on top of the league ladder with 70% of stories analysed triggered by public relations. The Sydney Morning Herald gets the wooden spoon with (only) 42% PR-driven stories for that week.” [Link]
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Lara Bingle: Model Sues Soccer Player Ex Brendan Fevola Over Leaked Nude
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“Lara Bingle, bikini and glamour model, says she is suing her former lover, Australian Football star Brendan Fevola, for what she claims is the distribution of a photo of her in a shower. The photo of Lara Bingle, taken on a mobile cell phone camera in 2006 allegedly by her football star lover at the time, somehow made its way to the mainstream media some 4 years later. On Monday popular Woman’s Day magazine printed the picture.” Link
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Mark Robert Stratford: Australian Teacher Pleads Guilty To Planting Spycams On Students
Australian teacher Mark Robert Stratford had pled guilty to installing a spy camera to capture students dressing and undressing. Stratford told kids they were auditioning for a play, then planted the illicit cameras to record their actions. In May, Stratford will return to court for sentencing. [Link]
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Report: Taylor Swift Pulls Diva Act On Australian Chef
“There is apparently a dark side to the pop star – not a bad one, just a dark one – and it emerged in the unlikely setting of a Brisbane teppanyaki restaurant, where chefs cook at the table and have diners take part in the process. ‘The chef asked her if she was ready to catch the egg, she said yes and it fell on her. She completely flipped out and ranted and raved,” our source revealed. ‘After being calmed down the chef asked her if she was ready for some rice, again she said yes, but once she caught it she threw it back at the chef.”” [Link]
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Mother Mary MacKillop Named First Australian Saint
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“Australian Catholics are jubilant over Pope Benedict XVI’s announcement that Mother Mary MacKillop has become the nation’s first saint, The Age newspaper reports. But, the Australian newspaper notes, church leaders are not quite sure how to celebrate in services this weekend, since it’s never happened before.” [Link]
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Miranda Kerr: Australian Banker Shouldn’t Be Fired For Looking At My Pics
VIDEO of Dave Kiely looking at Miranda Kerr pictures
“Miranda Kerr says an Australian banker left red-faced when a live TV broadcast showed him looking at her scantily clad photos at work shouldn’t be fired. Macquarie Bank worker Dave Kiely was at his desk as a colleague was being interviewed about interest rates when the camera showed him apparently opening e-mail attachments of nearly nude photos of the model.” [Link]
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Charlotte Dawson: No Plus Size Models For Australian Top Model
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“Australia’s Next Top Model judge Charlotte Dawson has slammed Australia’s plus-size modelling industry, labelling it ‘non-existent’ and declaring no curvy model wannabes will win the reality show on her watch. Dawson dealt the blow to aspiring plus-size models as hundreds of teenage girls crowded into Chadstone shopping centre in Melbourne’s south east today to audition for the sixth series of the Foxtel show.” Link
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Delta Goodrem Meets Prince William
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Australian singer/actress Delta Goodrem meets with Britain’s Prince William
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Paper Claims Sydney University Students Running Porn & Pirate Movie Club
“Students at Sydney University’s elite residential colleges are running a secret computer network for sharing pornography and pirated movies and music. And despite changes to disciplinary procedures promised after last year’s ”pro-rape” Facebook site scandal at St Paul’s College, the university is still unable, under its code of conduct, to discipline students living in the colleges.” Link
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Maria Sharapova Opens TAG Heuer Boutique In Melbourne
Maria Sharapova appears at the opening of a TAG Heuer Boutique in Melbourne, Australia.
