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Sydney’s top radio broadcaster Alan Jones is retiring at the end of May, following the advice of his doctors.
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Jack Mundey, a tough union leader who brought a new dimension to environmental activism through green bans, has died. He was 90.
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Ayers House managing director Richard McLeod is no stranger to tough economic times after cutting his teeth as a hospitality industry insolvency consultant during the 1990 recession. Following almost 30 years at the helm of one of the city’s favourite historic event spaces, McLeod is looking to reboot his consultancy career to help struggling hospitality businesses reset on the other side of the COVID-19 shutdown.
Florian Schneider-Esleben – co-founder of German electronic-music pioneers Kraftwerk, one of the most influential music groups of the past 50 years – has died. He was 73.
Dave Greenfield, the keyboard player who penned the music to British band The Stranglers’ hit Golden Brown, has died after testing positive for coronavirus. He was 71.
South Australia’s unemployment rate remains the nation’s worst after the release of March figures – with the full impact of coronavirus job cuts, business closures and social distancing regulations still to be measured.
A former session musician was “taken aback” after his guitar, once owned by John Lennon and George Harrison, was valued at STG400,000 ($A786,325) on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow.
