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$2.20 TUESDAY June 3, 2014 PRICE INCLUDES GST FREIGHT EXTRA NEWS { P3 } 50 YEARS IN 50 DA Y S AUSTRALIAN IT { P32 } In the HOW WE Is this the Lorde’s future SAW 1978 The Aussie footsteps • The Mardi Gras is born of TV? start-up • Sydney Hilton bombed revolutionising The latest Kiwi We review the video searches pop sensation • Robert Menzies dies $49 Chromecast { P29 } FIRST BITE John Lethlean’s gourmand gossip { P10 } •S o JUDITHon we wi lSLOANl all be C Unravellingaptain Kirk the super system { P12 } • NICK CATER The mob has spoken, and it’s ugly { P12 } After 16 months, we still don’t know if Bombers used banned drugs most pressing question in the FFA fears cup its failed $43 million bid if For the 2018 World Cup, the ing charges against the Canberra sin’’ in January 2012. Mr Alavi, the EXCLUSIVE Essendon saga — whether any allegations of corruption are joint bid from Spain and winger. The trafficking offence proprietor of Como Compound- were given a banned form of Thy- will go to US proven but FIFA upholds its Portugal was second to Russia. EXCLUSIVE against Earl, which related to alle- ing Pharmacy, has provided CHIP LE GRAND mosin — remains unanswered. if bids corrupt decision to stage the event in the Qatar beat the US by 14 votes to WITH its new charter, the gations he had taken the banned ASADA with extensive testimony It appears ASADA may never Middle East. eight for the 2022 event. drug CJC1295 he received from Mr in the past six months. He told SIXTEEN months after the so- know the precise chemical make- AUSTRALIAN soccer officials A FIFA official described new Jack Reilly, an FFA director AFL Commission has ruled Dank to the doctor treating a ASADA that: called “blackest day in Australian up of a Thymosin peptide it sus- fear the 2022 World Cup will be votes on the 2018 and 2022 at the time of the bid, said: “The that the game must stay shoulder injury in 2011, were • Mr Dank placed an order for sport’’, anti-doping investigators pects was administered to at least a awarded directly to the US if World Cup venues as “a time has come for there to be a much the same dropped late last week. the peptides. have been unable to establish dozen players at the club during Qatar is stripped of its hosting possibility”. FFA is concerned dose of some good old-fashioned as it is now The Australian can reveal the • Raw materials for Thymosin whether any Essendon players the 2012 season. There is also dis- rights. FIFA will deliver tournaments to honesty in football.” most substantial development in and Hexarelin were provided to were given banned substances pute over whether a particular Football Federation Australia the second-placed nations from ASADA’s Essendon investigation the pharmacy by an Australian im- under sports scientist Stephen batch of the peptide was adminis- plans to seek compensation for the allegedly rigged 2010 ballots. FULL REPORT P5 PATRICK since the distribution of its interim port/export company used by Dank’s supplements regime. tered at Essendon. SMITH P36 report 10 months ago is the evi- Shane Charter, ASADA’s star With the Australian Sports ASADA suspects players were dence of Nima Alavi, a Toorak- witness at the time of the interim Anti-Doping Authority close to given Thymosin Beta-4, a peptide were given Thymomodulin, a legal pointed chief executive Ben taken anti-doping investigators to as the lawyer representing sus- based compounding pharmacist report. completing a final report of its in- banned by the World Anti-Doping form of Thymosin. Both peptides McDevitt will appear tonight be- complete their work. pended rugby league player San- who billed Essendon for 21 vials of Continued on Page 2 vestigation into the AFL club, no Agency. Mr Dank maintains — are extracted from the thymus fore Senate estimates, where he The difficulties in ASADA’s in- dor Earl revealed the anti-doping Hexarelin, a banned substance, players have been charged and the and Essendon believes — players gland of cows. ASADA’s newly ap- will be quizzed on the time it has vestigation of Essendon emerged agency had dropped the traffick- and 26 vials of “peptide Thymo- SPORT P36 CAMPAIGN TO CUT RATES Hail Fellows, breaker of media barriers Abbott pinned Business down by budget PRIMARY VOTE push on May May 30- % 16-18 Jun 1 COALITION 36 36 LABOR 38 37 GREENS 11 12 Sunday OTHERS 15 15 TWO-PARTY-PREFERRED COALITION 45 46 LABOR 55 54 BETTER PM penalties ABBOTT 34 35 SHORTEN 44 45 FULL TABLES P4 EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE SID MAHER PHILLIP HUDSON NATIONAL AFFAIRS EDITOR MAJOR business groups will A TWO-WEEK campaign to embark on a community and sell what Tony Abbott insists is industrial campaign to cut Sun- “the right budget for this time” day penalty rates across a range of has failed to deliver any boost for sectors, arguing it will increase the government after it handed consumer access to weekend down the worst received federal trading and provide more youth budget in more than 20 years. employment. The push has Coalition back- The latest Newspoll, conduc- Australian Chamber of Com- bench support. ted exclusively for The Austra- merce and Industry chief execu- Victorian Liberal MP Dan lian, shows the Coalition’s tive Kate Carnell argued that if Tehan told The Australian last primary vote remains stuck at a people wanted shopping con- month’s Fair Work Commission 4½-year low of 36 per cent venience on Sundays they had to ruling “conceded to the facts that DAVID GERAGHTY despite the efforts of the Prime acknowledge that high penalty many small business owners New REA Group chief executive Tracey Fellows, at her home in Melbourne yesterday, aims to maintain the realestate.com.au website’s No 1 position Minister and Joe Hockey to sell rates — of up to 200 per cent — already know: penalty rates are the need for the controversial were stopping some businesses hindering employment oppor- Australia’s biggest ASX-listed media and online companies challenges brought on by digital something without stereotyping measures in the budget. opening and limiting the trading tunities’’. DARREN DAVIDSON Market capitalisation ($bn) media and the growing influence that means women are not as like- Labor continues to have a hours of others. While the tribunal’s full bench 10 of giants such as Google. ly to put ourselves forward for a higher primary vote than the “We all expect to shop, eat and rejected the push to cut Sunday IN the ego-driven, male-domi- Barely a decade ago, REA and job in a given situation.” Coalition, with its support virtu- get pharmaceuticals on week- penalty rates from 50 to 25 per nated world of Australian media, 8 fellow online advertising opera- At Microsoft, the Canadian- ally unchanged, dipping from ends,’’ Ms Carnell said. “But we cent, it ruled that an additional newly appointed REA Group tors Carsales.com.au and Seek did born 49-year-old became the first 38 per cent to 37 per cent. The need to address the profit issue for 25 per cent casual loading should chief executive Tracey Fellows is 6 not exist. Today they are the three female leader of an entire region, Greens edged up from 11 per cent businesses that want to trade on no longer be paid to introductory sure to stand out. most valuable media companies a major step for a company with to 12 per cent. Independents and weekends. level restaurant employees on She is the first woman to head 4 on the Australian Securities Ex- its roots in the male-dominated minor parties, including the “I think Australians are Sundays. a major listed media company 2 change behind News, Corp pub- world of Silicon Valley. Palmer United Party, were accepting that penalty rates need “The hope remains that more since Maureen Plavsic at Seven lisher of The Australian, The Wall When she was first asked to steady on 15 per cent. to be addressed to help small-to- industries, such as tourism and more than a decade ago. 0 Street Journal and a 62 per cent become vice-president for Micro- In two-party terms the medium mum-and-dad business- agriculture, with similar needs as And she’s not running a small Ten shareholder in REA. soft’s Asia-Pacific region based in Coalition improved by one point Seek Nine APN Seven Prime es create more jobs for our kids.’’ restaurateurs and cafe owners, outfit; with a value of $5.9 billion, Fairfax West Having accepted the job of Singapore, she had reservations but it still trails Labor by a signifi- com.au Carsales.com.au Media Media Ms Carnell has flagged the will be able to use the institution the company behind the nation’s News CorpRealestate. Network running a company that has used about taking on a position that in- cant 46 per cent to 54 per cent, campaign in the wake of a Fair of the Fair Work Commission to No 1 residential property website, innovation to exploit Australia’s volved leading 3000 people. based on preference flows from Work Commission decision last resolve their obstacles to growth Realestate.com.au, is second only broadcasters and newspaper pub- her status as the only female lead- love affair with property, helped “I said I don’t think I can’t do September’s election. month that limited Sunday pen- and jobs,’’ Mr Tehan said. to the international News Cor- lishers, Ms Fellows did not learn er of a listed media company — along by the financial support and it,” she says.

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