Daily Archive for January 29th, 2010

We Are the World redo for Haiti

QUINCY Jones is re-recording the charity song We Are the World and sending the proceeds to Haiti.

Music fest raids lead to ice arrests

INTELLIGENCE picked up in drug raids on Sydney music and dance festivals has helped police charge seven people over an alleged ice syndicate.

Midnight Juggernauts Replace Echo & The Bunnymen At Laneway

Midnight Juggernauts are the last minute replacement for Echo & Bunnymen for the Laneway Festival tomorrow (Saturday, January 30).

‘Borrowers might be spared big rises’

THE major lenders are unlikely to lift mortgage rates by an amount greater than next week’s expected rate rise by the Reserve Bank of Australia, analysts say.

Echo & the Bunnymen Cancel Laneway Tomorrow

The Laneway Festival tomorrow has lost one of its headliners. Echo & The Bunnymen have been taken off the bill after singer Ian McCulloch missed the flight from London.

Sailor denies kicking asylum seeker

AN RAN sailor accused of kicking an asylum seeker in the head has told a coronial inquest his foot did not connect with the man.

Schools data in paper breaks law: MP

NEWSPAPERS that published data from the My School website have been condemned amid claims at least one broke the law.

Liam Gallagher To Release Post-Oasis Album Mid Year

The first non-Oasis album from Liam Gallagher will be released mid year the singer hopes. He says he will start recording in April.

Tax rebates fell in 2008-9: report

FEDERAL tax rebates declined as the world economic meltdown hit superannuation funds and the housing market, a report shows.

The look that saved me

SIX years on from the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, Elizabeth Auffenberg takes nothing for granted.