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THE Australian Press Council has dismissed a complaint by Alistair Kerr against an article published in the Herald gossip column PSand on its website, smh.com.au, on February 21.

IT HAS often been noted that Melbourne is swarming with arts festivals, so much so that the tag "festival" has virtually mutated into a banal marketing term, an all-too-easy word to slap onto a cultural event. But it is not often that a festival is so good or different or..read more

CRICKET Australia needs to stiffen its backbone. Certainly it ought to reconsider its rejection of past players like Michael Kasprowicz and Jason Gillespie, whose only offence has been to spend winter months going to India to play 20-over cricket in an unsanctioned league.