Retiring Beattie proud of track record
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Outgoing Queensland Premier Peter Beattie says achievements in education and record low unemployment levels are highlights of his time in office.
Mr Beattie today announced his retirement, effective from Thursday.
He has been in the top job for more than nine years and is the longest serving of all current state and territory leaders in Australia.
He will [...]
Spoilers and hysteria as Harry Potter’s end nears
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Millions of Harry Potter fans around the world are just hours away from learning the fate of the fictional boy wizard and his Hogwarts friends as the final instalment in the seven-book series hits shelves this morning.
Readers young and old lined up outside book stores in major cities on Friday, many dressed like their heroes, [...]
Pete Doherty releases personal journal
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British rock star Pete Doherty lays bare his drug addiction, “unbearable and intolerable” relationship with supermodel Kate Moss and hopes of marrying her within months, in a journal published overnight.
The Books of Albion: The Collected Writings of Peter Doherty is an often rambling account of the Babyshambles and former Libertines frontman’s rise from would-be popstar [...]
Beatles’ Sgt Pepper celebrates 40 years
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Mae West said: “No, I won’t be in it - what would I be doing in a lonely hearts club?”
So the Beatles personally wrote to the Hollywood vamp who then agreed to join Fred Astaire and Karl Marx on the cover for Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which celebrates its 40th anniversary today. [...]
‘Sopranos’ filming locations draw mobs of fans
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Every Saturday afternoon, the staff at the Satin Dolls go-go lounge clears the bar of matchbooks, coasters, napkins and anything else not nailed down because a sold-out tour bus is on the way from New York.
But the luxury coach heading for the nondescript, windowless building on a busy stretch of New Jersey highway is [...]
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