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Estate planning
Battle of wills plays out over high-flyer’s $20 million estate
A mystery former lover, family feuds, a trophy home named Camelot and a tragedy which gripped the city all featured during the hearing played out in Courtroom 10D at Queens Square.
- by Andrew Hornery
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Point Piper millionaire loses latest fee battle against her own lawyers
Wealthy Point Piper identity Diane Maloney has been ordered to pay $350,000 to her lawyers after already forking out $15 million in legal fees.
- by Andrew Hornery
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Kyle Sandilands
Mad Witches target advertisers in push to ditch ‘VileKyle’ Sandilands
An online activist group is pushing for an advertising boycott of Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O as the shock jocks expand their show into Melbourne.
- by Andrew Hornery
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Courts
Sydney podiatrist sues over ex-partner’s $20m eastern suburbs estate
Businessman Andrew Findlay was killed by a freak wave on Sydney Harbour. Now his former partner, Liz Kemp, and their children face a legal battle over his multimillion-dollar fortune and a trophy home in Centennial Park.
- by Andrew Hornery
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Web culture
‘I have to live with it’: The people trying to hide from Google
Australians are paying big money to online reputation management experts to manipulate search engines and remove content – but with mixed success.
- by Andrew Hornery
‘Quite overwhelming’: Tears and trauma as NSW apologises for anti-gay laws
“We are sorry,” Premier Chris Minns told a packed public gallery on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the scrapping of homosexual criminalisation.
- by Andrew Hornery
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Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch’s new wife, Elena Zhukova, excited about Australian visit
Those who have met the Russian expat describe her as intelligent and someone “who knows her way around the corridors of extreme wealth and power”.
- by Andrew Hornery
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LGBTQ
Terry was arrested when he was 21. Next week the premier will say sorry
Terry Goulden has lived with the shame of a crime for most of his life. Chris Minns is about to make a formal state apology.
- by Andrew Hornery
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Private schools
Exclusive NSW girls’ school embroiled in ugly dispute
The fate of Australia’s oldest and most respected “creative community” looks uncertain, with long-term staff set to lose their jobs.
- by Andrew Hornery
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HIV
Revealed: The new front in Sydney’s 40-year HIV battle
Australia’s oldest AIDS charity is taking the battle against HIV, homophobia and discrimination to western Sydney as the virus affects a new generation.
- by Andrew Hornery
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LGBTQ
Dark side of the rainbow: Drugged, shocked and jailed for being gay
Almost 40 years after homosexuality was decriminalised in NSW, the Minns government has agreed to apologise to a generation of men who were treated appallingly.
- by Andrew Hornery