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ABBOTT TO AXE JOBS CANBERRA: Federal Opposit- ion Leader Tony Abbott yesterday indicated public servant job cuts under a Coalition government may Smiling be even larger than the 12,000 previously targeted, sparking an angry response from unions and disbelief from the government. FLOODWATERS PEAK assassin MELBOURNE: Residents in the flood-besieged Victorian town of Nathalia are increas- ingly confident they can beat the wall of water threaten- ing them, with flooding de- clared to have peaked. About gets life 90 per cent of the town’s 1400 residents have stayed to defend their properties. By AMY DALE — but after ‘‘observing her’’ for some time, he was forced RINEHART LOSES BID SYDNEY: Former US Marine to abandon this plan. SYDNEY: The High Court has Walter Marsh stared past the The 51-year-old then went knocked back Gina Rinehart’s relieved cheers of Michelle on to his former boss bid to challenge orders al- Beets’ family and friends yes- in a ‘‘brutal attack’’. lowing her family trust battle terday to greet with a smile In sentencing him yester- to be made public. The court the news that he will spend day, Justice Derek Price yesterday refused to grant the rest of his life in jail. described the murder of Ms Australia’s richest person But behind the grin yester- Beets as ‘‘cruel, merciless leave to appeal against a de- day was the startling revel- and abhorrent’’. cision revoking suppression ation of just how close he The emergency nursing orders made in the NSW came to allegedly murdering unit manager at Sydney’s Supreme Court legal dispute. his ex-wife Tammy. Royal North Shore Hospital With yesterday’s publish- was ambushed by Marsh on INSURER CUTS STAFF ing of two judgments made April 27, 2010, on the veranda MELBOURNE: Insurer IAG will before his Supreme Court of her Chatswood home. cut 600 jobs across Australia trial last year, the NT News He stabbed her in the chest and close some offices as can now reveal Marsh nearly and cut her throat after she part of a restructure of its fulfilled his ‘‘intention’’ to promised to stop screaming. CGU business. murder Tammy as a means of Marsh calmly accepted the ‘‘alleviating’’ his troubles news that he will die behind QANTAS DEAL OFF with a $50,000 unpaid child bars, with no non-parole SYDNEY: Qantas has suf- support bill — only abandon- period handed down. fered a major setback as ing it when he discovered Friends and family of Ms plans for its premium airline that her new husband carried Beets erupted in applause. in Kuala Lumpur officially hit a firearm. The jury at Marsh’s trial the skids yesterday, follow- Marsh allegedly ‘‘secreted were told his motivation for ing a breakdown in talks with Former US Marine Walter Marsh grinned for the cameras yesterday before beginning his himself’’ outside Tammy’s killing his boss was that she Malaysian Airlines. sentence, which he will serve at Goulburn’s high-tech Supermax jail for dangerous inmates home with an intention to kill had provided bad references. Port Arthur art prize uproar

By NICK CLARK Pople said he was living in Sydney on April 28, A SYDNEY artist won ’s ric- 1996, when 35 people were hest landscape art prize yesterday murdered. with a controversial work featuring His win outraged for- Port Arthur gunman Martin Bryant. mer detective in- Rodney Pople, who won the $35,000 Rodney Pople spector John Warren. Glover Art Prize, defended his paint- ‘‘I can’t comprehend how someone ing saying that as an artist he saw it as can be so insensitive to all the victims his role to sometimes bring issues up and people who have been scarred for that were uncomfortable. life,’’ he said. ‘‘They would be outraged ‘‘There are too many artists just and so am I.’’ doing things for the market and I tend But Pople said he was aware of to want to do work that has a bit more how deeply hurt Tasmanians were by of an edge to it,’’ he said. the massacre.

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