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David Leckie does Machiavelli with AFL’s top boss

August 12, 2009
Channel 7 boss David Leckie

Talk about the health of Channel Seven’s David Leckie has been in the news lately, but the television executive looked in fine form dining with Aussie Rules boss Andrew Demetriou at Machiavelli today. Also at the table were Seven’s director, Bruce McWilliam, and another AFL man. Clearly, given they were dining at Sydney’s power trattoria, […]

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The show goes on for Vic Davies

August 7, 2009
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If  I said Ian Moss, Dragon, Mikey Robins, Amanda & Jonesy and Doug Mulray, would you think Vic Davies? Well,maybe not you, but the rest of the radio world did and they were out in force last night for the Not Too Foul fund-raiser for the former radio funny man (former for radio, not former […]

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Paralympian Kelly Cartwright breaks her foot

August 4, 2009
Kelly Cartwright in action before taking on Humpty Dumpty's

World champion sprinter and Paralympian, Kelly Cartwright, has broken her foot while climbing Mt Kilimanjaro for an Australian children’s charity. The 20-year-old from Victoria was on a six-hour trek to the Karanga Camp 4000m above sea level on the highest peak in Africa on Monday when the foot on her prosthetic leg, which has been fitted with a hydraulic […]

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Sydney kids charity climbs Mt Kilimanjaro

August 3, 2009
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Right now 21 Australians are camped in sub-zero temperatures at 3950m above sea level on Mt Kilimanjaro in a bid to raise $2 million for a children’s charity. Among the climbers are Paul Francis, the man who started the Humpty Dumpty Foundation in 1996, Federal Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey (who had the bright idea to climb Kili […]

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Steve Irwin of Dog whisperers moves into Sydney’s Centennial Bark

August 1, 2009
Happy washed dog

The Steve Irwin-lookalike of dog whisperers has moved his business into Sydney’s Centennial Park and is doing what park management hasn’t done – putting doggie-do bins in strategically located places for easy access for owners. Dog lovers who exercise their pampered pooches in the park have long had to negotiate around steaming piles of you […]

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Sarah Murdoch’s Next Top Documentary?

July 31, 2009
Sarah Murdoch at auditions for 2009 reality TV show, Australia's Next Top Model

The TV career of Sarah Murdoch has gone from strength to strength since she made her grown-up debut as co-host of Channel Nine’s Today show over the summer holidays in 2007. And now with the success of Australia’s Next Top Model tucked under her fashionable belt, the willowy blonde is branching out again. Murdoch (she […]

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