A REPORT published on The Australian’s website on October 17 (“Australia’s envoy `not named’ for war crimes”) reported that the UN panel of experts had found there “was credible evidence that both the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam were guilty of war crimes”. The Australian accepts that the UN report [...]
AN article by Barry Cohen in The Australian yesterday (“The experts have got it wrong: Gillard was not disloyal to Rudd”, Page 14) stated that Kevin Rudd was 34 in 1998. In fact, he was 41. And the special minister of state cited should have been Joe Ludwig, not John Faulkner. Report an error
AN item published in The Australian on November 15 (Strewth, “Losing the threads'', page 13) referred to a report in The Zimbabwe Guardian that Jacqueline Zwambila, the Zimbabwean ambassador to Australia, stripped to her underwear in front of three male embassy officials. Ms Zwambila denies the allegations, and a governmental investigation in Zimbabwe has cleared [...]
A REPORT in The Australian on Thursday ("Boat horror kills up to 50'', page 1) incorrectly attributed quotes to Allison Millcock, as a contractor with the Shire of Christmas Island. Ms Millcock is not a contractor for the shire. The comments describing the tragedy as "bloody carnage'' and attacking people-smugglers as "bastards'' should have been [...]
The story "Ageing population won't burden system'' last week incorrectly stated the 1991-92 and current expenditure on health care as $8 billion and $10bn. It should have read 8 and 10 per cent. Report an error
A REPORT in The Weekend Australian on Saturday (“Soldiers’ despair confronts Defence”, page 1), mentioned “the death from a suspected illegal drug overdose of a young Australian army commando in Afghanistan last month”. This was incorrect. The soldier did not die. Report an error
In articles in The Weekend Australian last week, there were references to a property developer who was operating on the Gold Coast after moving from Victoria, and who was described as “Mr A”. For legal reasons, The Weekend Australian cannot disclose Mr A’s name, however the newspaper can confirm that Mr A is not Mr [...]
DURING March and April, The Australian published a number of articles about Paragon Printing Limited and its owner Amir Hyster. Paragon was put into administration on March 5 and Mr Hyster left for overseas on March 9. The Australian accepts that Mr Hyster did not leave for the purpose of avoiding his responsibilities and understands [...]
A REPORT in The Weekend Australian on May 8-9, (“Newk puts his finger on his big mistake”, Page 5), may have given some readers the impression that former tennis great John Newcombe was battling terminal cancer. In fact, the basal cell carcinoma removed from his face was found to be non-malignant. Mr Newcombe is also [...]
A REPORT in The Weekend Australian on Saturday (“Deripaska’s hard stare has vision”, Page 25) made reference to Russian businessman Oleg Derispaska and links to organised crime. The Australian accepts it has no evidence whatsoever to support the allegation, it withdraws any implication to that effect and unreservedly apologises to Mr Derispaska for any harm [...]
IN a report in The Australian yesterday (“States revolt on health plan”, Page 1) NSW Premier Kristina Keneally was quoted as saying state bureaucrats were “livid” over lack of consultation on health reforms, and that their first hint of the reforms was the cancellation of bilateral discussions. In fact, these comments were not made by [...]
LAST week we said Time magazine had a readership of 30,000, when it should have been 302,000, which is really quite a substantial difference so we apologise for the mistake. Link Thanks, Steve! Report an error
THE headline on an article in The Australian yesterday (“Minister was a lobbyist for homes project”, page 6) may have implied that NSW Emergency Services Minister Steve Whan was employed to lobby on behalf of the Tralee project, near Canberra airport. In fact, as the article made clear, Mr Whan’s work for Endeavour Consulting, before [...]
THE headline on an article on Page 4 of yesterday’s edition of The Australian, which read “Bank bonuses OK: Hockey”, could have been read as suggesting opposition Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey favoured extravagant bonuses for bank executives. In fact, as was clear in the article, Mr Hockey questioned the role of the G20 in regulating [...]
ON June 18, 2009 The Australian published a story, `MYOB tsar link to investor scam’. Readers may have inferred that Mr Bradley Shofer was linked to an investor scam whereby South African investors lost up to $1.5billion. The Australian accepts that Frankel International (Australia) was not a local arm of the South African company of [...]
AN article published in The Weekend Australian on July 22, 2006, (MP with stars in his eyes for killers, page 1) referred to former MP Peter Breen’s support for, and feelings towards, two men jailed for their part in the rape and murder of Janine Balding. Any inference that this support was based on a [...]
ON July 24, 2008, The Diary published an item about Jamie Durie alleging that his services with The Oprah Winfrey Show had been terminated as a result of certain behaviour on his part. The Diary acknowledges that the allegations were unfounded and that Harpo Productions Inc strongly denied the allegations and looks forward to continuing [...]
LAST Thursday Diary reported Andrew Bourke’s departure from the Seven Network and that he was asked to resign by Seven executives because they blamed him for the result in the Mercedes Corby defamation case. The report was incorrect. Mr Bourke’s decision to resign from the network had been in place for some time and was [...]
ON November 3 and 4, 2005, The Australian published two prominent articles which made serious allegations against Sheik Abdul Salam Zoud on the basis of a speech the articles claimed he delivered. That speech was, in fact, delivered by someone else. The Australian accepts that these allegations had seriously damaging effects on Sheik Abdul Salam [...]
In a report on page 3 of The Australian on April 10, “Girl from the Gong to take on the world”, it was stated that a contestant at the Miss World Australia beauty pageant had said she “believed in injustice and inequality”. This was incorrect. The contestant said: “I believe in justice, equality and integrity.” [...]
A HOUSE pictured in a photograph accompanying an article in The Weekend Australian last Saturday (“He made just $3000 in 13 years but accused fraudster finds $5m for bail”, page 1) was incorrectly identified as belonging to Michael John Milne. The occupants of the house in the photograph have no connection with Mr Milne. The [...]
AN article about National Indigenous TV appeared in The Weekend Australian on July 28-29, 2007. Any inference in that article that either NITV chief executive Patricia Turner or chairwoman Larissa Behrendt had, in association with the Howard government, attempted to deprive the indigenous community of a satellite television service, is incorrect. The Weekend Australian apologises [...]
Correction: In an article entitled “Allegiance unsure of Jinchuan in Zinifex fight”, published on page 23 of  The Australian on Friday, January 18, Allegiance chairman Tony Howland-Rose was quoted as referring to major shareholder Jinchuan as a “right bunch of cookies.” The quote should have been “a bright bunch of cookies.” The Australian apologises for [...]
A SEPARATE article yesterday (“Knox refocuses on value to revive Downer EDI”, page 31) implied that incoming Downer chief executive Geoff Knox had referred to BHP’s performance under former chief executive John Prescott as disastrous. He described it as an era of difficulties for BHP. The Australian also acknowledges that Mr Knox did not refer [...]
ON Saturday morning, November 24, 2007, Caroline Overington had an encounter with the Labor candidate for Wentworth, Mr George Newhouse, in circumstances that she sincerely regrets. She hopes that she and Mr Newhouse can put this incident behind them and she wishes him all the best. The Australian regrets any embarrassment Mr Newhouse has endured [...]
