Priest's Allies Slam 'trial By Media'

AS PETER DYWER, a Vincentian priest, emerged from Bathurst District Court yesterday he was surrounded by about 20 people who shielded him from the media and bemused onlookers.

Families Mourn As Four Die In Plane Crash

FOUR people - including Melbourne policewoman Erin Condon and her nine-year-old son Matthew - died when the twin-engine plane carrying them to an athletics event in New South Wales crashed into a hill and burst into flames near Bathurst.

Whincup Runs Hot As Rivals Wilt

TRIPLE Bathurst hero Jamie Whincup has put himself in a perfect position to claim his first V8 Supercar drivers crown after a dominant display in the opening two heats of the Desert 400 in Bahrain put him well clear of his nearest challengers, defending champion Garth Tander and fellow Ford driver Mark Winterbottom.

Ambition Drives Lowndes

HE is the master of Mount Panorama with four Bathurst titles to his name, but he has not won a V8 driver's title in nearly a decade.

Four People Killed In Plane Crash Near Bathurst

FOUR people, including a child, died when their aircraft crashed into a hillside at Kelso, near Bathurst, in the state's central west, last night.

Four Die In Plane Crash At Bathurst

FOUR people, including a child, died when a plane owned and operated by a Melbourne pilot crashed in NSW last night.

Unearthing Our History

THE first time Bob Ellis saw his father cry was when Ben Chifley lost office in 1949. Ellis was seven years old. The author, speechwriter and Labor Party historian has since written or co-written one film featuring the Labor icon, Newsfront; one mini-series, The True Believers; and a one-man play, A Local Man, re-creating Chifley's last night in Bathurst before he died. So when director Geoff Burton was looking for a co-writer on his dramatised documentary about the time prime minister Chifley ...