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NZ Herald
6 days ago
- Business
- NZ Herald
Department of Conservation backtracks after decision that could have cost 700 jobs at Otago mine
The Department of Conservation has backtracked on a decision to decline a permit under the Wildlife Act for Macraes gold mine in Otago, New Zealand's largest. Macraes mine, owned by Oceana Gold, a Canadian-Australian firm, applied for a permit to use additional land mainly required for tailings, the material left
Daily Telegraph
24-04-2025
- Daily Telegraph
Lawyer's link to famous Lebanese kid-snatch
Don't miss out on the headlines from Lifestyle. Followed categories will be added to My News. EXCLUSIVE As a divorce lawyer Pierre Hawach, estranged husband of Sally Singleton-Hawach, knows well the workings of the court system. It was his appearance as a witness in the NSW Supreme Court in 2006 however that stands today as perhaps his most famous court appearance. Hawach is the brother of Joseph Hawach who, in July 2006, during a custody visit with his two young children, fled to Lebanon taking the children without their mother Melissa's permission. The story of Canadian-born mother Melissa Hawach's battle to recover her two daughters made headlines around the world inspiring first a website, and later a book, Flight of the Dragonfly, after the courageous mother executed a daring operation to recover her daughters from Lebanon. Sally Singleton-Hawach to her wedding to Pierre Hawach in Rome. Instagram. Melissa Hawach outside Supreme Court in Sydney with parents Jim and Judy Engdahl 30 Nov 2006. The girls, Hannah and Cedar, who have dual Canadian-Australian citizenship, lived in Calgary, Canada, with their parents from 2003. When Joseph and Melissa's six-year marriage failed in 2005, Joseph moved home to Australia but Melissa remained in Canada with her daughters, of whom she retained sole custody. The girls were aged just five and three when their mother agreed they could spend three weeks in Australia with their father in July 2006 on a custody visit. The Hawach family is a Lebanese-Australian family from Sydney's Rose Hill. It was then that father Joseph disappeared with the girls and cut off communication with his ex-wife. Joseph Hawach, Lebanese-Australian who abducted his two daughters Hannah and Cedar from estranged Canadian wife Melissa. Melissa Hawach leaves the NSW Supreme Court in Sydney. It would take the determined mother seven months to recover her children in an operation involving four former members of elite Australian and New Zealand special forces who ran an undercover surveillance exercise established outside Beirut where the girls' father had them secreted at a resort. Two of the operatives would be jailed for obstructing justice for their part in the operation while another two ex-soldiers would escape. They were released from jail in 2007. Melissa Hawach's story, and the terrifying seven-week recovery mission, took mother and daughters through a series of safe houses in Lebanon before the trio fled home to Canada via Syria and Jordan. Once home, they went into hiding. Prior to the successful retrieval operation, Melissa Hawach launched legal action in the NSW Supreme Court seeking information from her ex-husband's family about her daughter's whereabouts. In December 2006, Pierre Hawach told the Supreme Court he did not know where his brother and the children were located in Lebanon. He revealed he had spoken to Joseph on the phone and his brother had told him he was not planning to return from Lebanon. Mr Hawach's father Elias Hawach, speaking through an Arabic interpreter, informed the court his wife Gladys had been visiting family in the Lebanese village Harf-Miziara for a three-month period. Sally Singleton-Hawach pictured right with father John Singleton Pierre Hawach and Sally Singleton at the Magic Millions Joseph Hawach was later charged with two counts of child abduction by the Lebanese court and international warrants issued for his arrest. No adverse findings were made by the Supreme Court against Pierre and Elias Hawach. Joseph Hawach's relatives got on with their lives. His brother, Pierre, married singer Sally Singleton-Hawach in a lavish ceremony in Rome in 2015. Among wedding guests were her high profile parents, multi-millionaire retired ad boss John Singleton and his ex wife, 1972 Miss World Belinda Green. The couple are parents to three young children - Lewis, seven, Mirabel, six and four-year-old Johnny, named after his grandfather. On March 25 Parramatta court issued an interim domestic apprehended violence order preventing Pierre Hawach from approaching Sally. The DVO matter returns to court on Tuesday. No charges have been laid. Mr Hawach is not accused of any wrongdoing. He has been approached for comment. Originally published as Top lawyer is linked to infamous Lebanese child-snatching case
News.com.au
24-04-2025
- News.com.au
Top lawyer is linked to infamous Lebanese child-snatching case
EXCLUSIVE As a divorce lawyer Pierre Hawach, estranged husband of Sally Singleton-Hawach, knows well the workings of the court system. It was his appearance as a witness in the NSW Supreme Court in 2006 however that stands today as perhaps his most famous court appearance. Hawach is the brother of Joseph Hawach who, in July 2006, during a custody visit with his two young children, fled to Lebanon taking the children without their mother Melissa's permission. The story of Canadian-born mother Melissa Hawach's battle to recover her two daughters made headlines around the world inspiring first a website, and later a book, Flight of the Dragonfly, after the courageous mother executed a daring operation to recover her daughters from Lebanon. The girls, Hannah and Cedar, who have dual Canadian-Australian citizenship, lived in Calgary, Canada, with their parents from 2003. When Joseph and Melissa's six-year marriage failed in 2005, Joseph moved home to Australia but Melissa remained in Canada with her daughters, of whom she retained sole custody. The girls were aged just five and three when their mother agreed they could spend three weeks in Australia with their father in July 2006 on a custody visit. The Hawach family is a Lebanese-Australian family from Sydney's Rose Hill. It was then that father Joseph disappeared with the girls and cut off communication with his ex-wife. It would take the determined mother seven months to recover her children in an operation involving four former members of elite Australian and New Zealand special forces who ran an undercover surveillance exercise established outside Beirut where the girls' father had them secreted at a resort. Two of the operatives would be jailed for obstructing justice for their part in the operation while another two ex-soldiers would escape. They were released from jail in 2007. Melissa Hawach's story, and the terrifying seven-week recovery mission, took mother and daughters through a series of safe houses in Lebanon before the trio fled home to Canada via Syria and Jordan. Once home, they went into hiding. Prior to the successful retrieval operation, Melissa Hawach launched legal action in the NSW Supreme Court seeking information from her ex-husband's family about her daughter's whereabouts. In December 2006, Pierre Hawach told the Supreme Court he did not know where his brother and the children were located in Lebanon. He revealed he had spoken to Joseph on the phone and his brother had told him he was not planning to return from Lebanon. Mr Hawach's father Elias Hawach, speaking through an Arabic interpreter, informed the court his wife Gladys had been visiting family in the Lebanese village Harf-Miziara for a three-month period. Joseph Hawach was later charged with two counts of child abduction by the Lebanese court and international warrants issued for his arrest. No adverse findings were made by the Supreme Court against Pierre and Elias Hawach. Joseph Hawach's relatives got on with their lives. His brother, Pierre, married singer Sally Singleton-Hawach in a lavish ceremony in Rome in 2015. Among wedding guests were her high profile parents, multi-millionaire retired ad boss John Singleton and his ex wife, 1972 Miss World Belinda Green. The couple are parents to three young children - Lewis, seven, Mirabel, six and four-year-old Johnny, named after his grandfather. On March 25 Parramatta court issued an interim domestic apprehended violence order preventing Pierre Hawach from approaching Sally. The DVO matter returns to court on Tuesday. No charges have been laid. Mr Hawach is not accused of any wrongdoing.
The Independent
08-04-2025
- Business
- The Independent
The only business on Australia's Norfolk Island to face US tariffs
A Canadian couple on Australia 's Norfolk Island are likely the only business owners on the South Pacific outpost that will be directly affected by the Trump administration's tariffs. The island, which has a remote population of 2,000 people 1,600 kilometers northeast of Sydney, exports nothing to the United States but was singled out with a 29 per cent tariff. Jesse Schiller and Rachel Evans, both 41, own a business on the island that makes plastic-free hair accessories under the brand Kooshoo, which means 'feeling good' in the English-Tahitian creole known as Norf'k or Norfuk. Schiller said he and his Norfolk Island -born wife are likely the only business owners on the island that will pay elevated tariffs — and they will pay at the rates imposed on Japan and India, where the goods are manufactured. Around 80 per cent of Kooshoo's business is with the United States. 'We're probably the most affected business' on Norfolk Island, Schiller said. Norfolk Island was a shock inclusion in the Trump administration's list of global tariffs announced last week that was intended to redress U.S. trade deficits with the world - after Australia and its external territories were assigned the global minimum 10% tariff, including the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands in the Antarctic region. 'I think Norfolk became a parable of sorts for the lack of nuance with which these tariffs went out in the world,' Schiller said. Schiller and Evans, a Canadian-Australian dual national, have the consolation of being dealt slightly lower tariffs: Japan has been assigned a 24 per cent tariff and India 26 per cent. Why Norfolk Island came in for such severe and apparently futile tariff treatment has been a popular topic of conversation among locals. 'It's been a question of great intrigue locally,' Schiller said. 'An early theory — and it seems to be proving right — is that there are other notable Norfolks in the world. Norfolk, of course, in the U.K., Norfolk in Virginia in the U.S., and it seems as though some improperly labeled customs paperwork may have contributed to the … error,' Schiller said. 'That could've been very easily fact-checked,' he added. His wife, Evans, has an impressive Norfolk Islander lineage. She is a 9th-generation descendant of a crewman of the British naval ship HMS Bounty who mutinied in 1789, although her mother is Canadian. The mutineers, whose exploits have been dramatised in Hollywood movies, established a settlement on Pitcairn Islands and their descendants later settled the former British penal colony of Norfolk Island. She said the sustainable lifestyle she had learned from growing up on such an isolated island around 8 kilometers (5 miles) long and 5 kilometers (3 miles) wide had been part of the brand since they started their business in Vancouver 15 years ago. She was confident their business would survive the latest trade barriers. 'Definitely for the short-term we'll figure out a way to bridge this,' Evans said.
Boston Globe
08-04-2025
- Business
- Boston Globe
Canadian couple likely the only business owners on Australia's Norfolk Island to face US tariffs
Advertisement 'We're probably the most affected business' on Norfolk Island, Schiller said. Norfolk Island was a shock inclusion in the Trump administration's list of global tariffs announced last week that was intended to redress U.S. trade deficits with the world. While Australia and its external territories were assigned the global minimum 10% tariff, including the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands in the Antarctic region, Norfolk Island was singled out for a 29% tariff. 'I think Norfolk became a parable of sorts for the lack of nuance with which these tariffs went out in the world,' Schiller said. Schiller and Evans, a Canadian-Australian dual national, have the consolation of being dealt slightly lower tariffs: Japan has been assigned a 24% tariff and India 26%. Advertisement Why Norfolk Island came in for such severe and apparently futile tariff treatment has been a popular topic of conversation among locals. 'It's been a question of great intrigue locally,' Schiller said. 'An early theory — and it seems to be proving right — is that there are other notable Norfolks in the world. Norfolk, of course, in the U.K., Norfolk in Virginia in the U.S., and it seems as though some improperly labeled customs paperwork may have contributed to the … error,' Schiller said. 'That could've been very easily fact-checked,' he added. His wife, Evans, has an impressive Norfolk Islander lineage. She is a 9th generation descendant of a crewman of the British naval ship HMS Bounty who mutinied in 1789, although her mother is Canadian. The mutineers, whose exploits have been dramatized in Hollywood movies, established a settlement on Pitcairn Islands and their descendants later settled the former British penal colony of Norfolk Island. She said the sustainable lifestyle she had learned from growing up on such an isolated island around 8 kilometers (5 miles) long and 5 kilometers (3 miles) wide had been part of the brand since they started their business in Vancouver 15 years ago. She was confident their business would survive the latest trade barriers. 'Definitely for the short-term we'll figure out a way to bridge this,' Evans said.
