Portfolio

Business stories

Posted: April 2nd, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: My highlights | Comments Off

Read the rest of this entry »

Workplace 

Qantas loses fight with Falun Gong flight attendant

QANTAS has been ordered to reinstate a flight attendant banned from international duties over her practise of Falun Gong.

Sheridan Genrich, of Sydney’s Lane Cove, was demoted to short-haul after she was threatened by authorities during a 2008 Beijing stopover and deported due to her spiritual belief.

Qantas passengers exposed to toxic air, alleges book
Law firms ban workplace gossip site Firm Spy
Casino stood by as clerk lost stolen millions


Crime stories

Posted: April 2nd, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: My highlights | Comments Off

Front page of Sydney Morning Herald April 12, 2008. Story about murder of Jody Galante. Edmund TadrosThe murder of Jody Galante

Book: What the Mother Knew, the true story of the murder of Jody Galante

On January 7, 2006, pregnant mother-of-one Jody Galante was reported missing by her husband Mark.

A week later Jody’s body was found in bushland and Mark was later arrested over her murder.

 

Whistleblower Gillian Sneddon exposes child sex allegations about NSW minister Milton Orkopoulos
Crisis in care series
NSW prisons, a captive State: A Special Investigation
Rougher-than-usual justice
Dead at 19: killed by a drug cocktail in his cell
The high cost of being a police officer


Technology stories

Posted: April 2nd, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: My highlights | Comments Off
Technology key to rebuilding Christchurch 

The massive earthquake that destroyed large parts of New Zealand’s second biggest city struck at 12:51pm on an overcast Tuesday in February  killed 181 people and destroyed or badly damaged about 900 buildings in Christchurch city.

The government and residents are now using a mix of high- and low-tech methods to reimagine how a rebuilt Christchurch could look and to remember what they have lost.

Ad agency cribbed my lecture notes: professor

Stolen photos from laptop tell a tawdry tale


Qantas loses fight with Falun Gong flight attendant

Posted: November 18th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Business, My highlights | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

QANTAS has been ordered to reinstate a flight attendant banned from international duties over her practise of Falun Gong.

Sheridan Genrich, from Sydney’s Lane Cove, was demoted to a short-haul attendant after she was threatened by authorities during a 2008 stopover in Beijing and deported because of her spiritual beliefs

Read more about Qantas at news.com.au.

September 01, 2010: Qantas ‘demoted me for being Falun Gong’

A QANTAS employee says she lost her job as an international flight attendant after being deported from China for practising Falun Gong.

Counsel for Sheridan Genrich, of Lane Cove, told a workplace relations tribunal that Qantas demoted her after she was threatened by Chinese authorities during a stopover in Beijing.

She said that authorities singled her out from the crew, interrogated her over her beliefs and told her never to come back or there would be “serious consequences”.

Read more about Sheridan Genrich at news.com.au.


Costco pumps $140m into Aussie growth

Posted: September 24th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Business, My highlights | Tags: , , , , , | No Comments »

COSTCO’s only Australian store made $8.9 million in sales and membership fees in its first two weeks of operation, as customers flocked to the warehouse discount outlet.

But Costco Wholesale Australia made an overall loss of $14 million in the year to August 31, 2009, due to the costs of establishing its second store and headquarters in New South Wales, its special purpose annual report revealed.

PhotoAlt

April 15, 2010: Green light for second Australian Costco

April 6, 2010: Shopping centre owners fight planned $60m Auburn Costco