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Kyle Sandilands arrived in a Rolls-Royce for the case management hearing into allegations he breached his radio contract.
ARN has alleged Sandilands repeatedly berated Kiis FM executives, the radio station’s censors, critics of the Kyle and Jackie O Show and the Melbourne audience in expletive-laden rants which amount to serious misconduct.
“If you buy Kyle, you get Kyle,” Sandilands’ barrister Scott Robertson SC said. “The kind of conduct in which he engaged was conduct that was desired.”
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In pictures
What started as a routine trip to the bathroom ended in horror after a long-drop toilet collapsed in the Northern Territory, stranding a tourist waist-deep in excrement for several hours before she was rescued by a tradesman.
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“In an industry that has made excuses for some spectacularly bad behaviour in the name of talent, James Valentine was proof that you don’t have to choose between being extraordinary at your job and being good to the people around you.” – Jess McGuire
The host of the ABC NSW Drive radio show remembered her colleague, James Valentine, who she describes as having a “huge influence” on the way she makes radio. Valentine died this week, aged 64.
Podcast
It has been almost two months since the US and Israel launched a war on Iran, unleashing violence across the region and chaos in the global economy. But one of the strange and definitely unintended consequences of this war has been a renewed focus on green energy.
Josephine Tovey sits down with Gabrielle Jackson and Adam Morton to discuss whether this crisis will energise or end the renewables revolution.
Listen to the episode here.
Before bed read
As a career-spanning documentary hits cinemas and the band eye two nights at Knebworth, Iron Maiden revisit their path from pubs to stadiums – but how did they get through their crisis-filled 1990s?
Daily word game
Today’s starter word is: ERK. You have five goes to get the longest word including the starter word. Play Wordiply.
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