Re. the list of management, so far I've not found any dirt on them.
I see one lawsuit in Australia in which Jeffrey Muller was a plaintiff:
Muller & Ors v Australian Rugby Football League Ltd & Anor [1996] QSC 14 (29 February 1996)
Last Updated: 22 March 1999
IN THE SUPREME COURT
OF QUEENSLAND
No.1140 of 1996
[Muller & Ors v. Australian Rugby Football League Ltd & Anor]
BETWEEN:
JEFFREY MULLER
First Plaintiff
AND:
G.C.G. RUGBY LEAGUE LIMITED
(A.C.N. 072 711 365)
Second Plaintiff
AND:
COASTVEST LIMITED
(A.C.N. 072 590 875)
Second Respondent
AND:
AUSTRALIAN RUGBY FOOTBALL LEAGUE LIMITED
(A.C.N. 003 713 933)
First Defendant
AND:
NEW SOUTH WALES RUGBY LEAGUE LIMITED
Second Defendant
JUDGMENT - DERRINGTON J.
Delivered: 29 February 1996
...
This is an application for an interlocutory injunction by the plaintiffs, who are in effect the owners of a rugby league club, against the defendants, which control the rugby league football competition in Australia. The injunction is sought in support of a claim in the action for the specific performance by the defendants of an alleged agreement to permit the plaintiffs' team to participate in the defendants' Australian competition for the coming year.
Denying the agreement, the defendants claim that the plaintiffs cannot make out a sufficiently clear case to support an interlocutory injunction of this kind; that because of the close ongoing personal relationships involved, this is not a suitable case for specific performance or an interlocutory injunction of a mandatory nature; and that in any case damages would be an adequate and just remedy if the plaintiffs are successful in the action.
The essential history of the matter is fairly simple. The parties came to a satisfactory accord on what may be described as the broad heads of agreement on the terms of the grant of a licence to the plaintiffs' club. Their solicitors were then to proceed with the negotiation of details, to be followed by suitable documentation. This was pursued to the point where agreement was reached on all the details, and the spokesman for the defendants made a public announcement that in effect full agreement had been reached and that the plaintiffs had been granted the licence. A few days later, and before the intended documents reflecting the agreed terms had been drafted, the plaintiff, Mr Muller, by inept interference in the club's affairs created such instability that its chief executive officer and some other important personnel associated with it resigned.
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As for Pro (Kevin) Hart, while he appears to be quite eccentric, he also seems to be quite popular and respected in Australia. Aside from being a prolific painter, he's also quite the tinkerer. A search of Australian newspapers for "Pro Hart" yields the following:
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*** Blues banished with a Hart to art
Pro Hart, the artist who has slid through spaghetti, fired cannons and dropped paint out of hot air balloons in the name of art, is still at it. At 72, the prolific Broken Hill artist is as strong as a bullock and is still painting murals that would prom ...
Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 2000 (378 words)
*** Show paints pretty picture
Roll up, roll up ... it's time for the annual Centacare art and craft exhibition and sale. The exhibition, in the Bert Lillye Lounge at the Illawarra Turf Club at Kembla Grange, opens tonight. Spokeswoman Margaret Rowan said it was hoped the 20th annual ...
Illawarra Mercury, Jun 2000 (194 words)
*** STAY IN TOUCH
And so the story goes ... Myths? We've had a few. Today's first urban myth comes courtesy of Judith Whelan, our Health Writer, and C. Valdman who received emails detailing a horrific story of a woman who began the evening with an innocent drink and woke ...
Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 2000 (1733 words)
*** Centacare exhibition moves to beat GST
Centacare's annual charity exhibition has changed dates to beat the GST - the organisers hoping the public will unchain their hearts. Normally held in July, the event is to have a shake-up with a change of date and venue. Centacare director Kath McCorma ...
Illawarra Mercury, Jun 2000 (318 words)
*** Selling Sydney: gold-medal arrogance
Come to beautiful Sydney for an Olympic Games organised by a bunch of ``buffoons" and a minister ``who would win a gold medal hands down if there was an event for arrogance". It is not much of a sales pitch, even if some may find it difficult ...
Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 2000 (464 words)
*** Today in history
1431 - After being handed over by the church, who judged her a heretic, Saint Joan of Arc is burned at the stake at Rouen, France, by the English and their French collaborators. 1606 - Sikh Guru Arjun is tortured to death in Lahore, now Pakistan, on the ...
Newcastle Herald, May 2000 (360 words)
*** Stay in touch
Dane to reply Having found the Swedes and Norwegians enjoying a complex relationship, we now hear that the Danes can complicate matters also. Uno Grevberg writes with another brief history lesson that has a sting in its tail. "During the last 1,000 ...
Sydney Morning Herald, May 2000 (1731 words)
*** Events
BIRTHDAYS 1909-1986: Benny Goodman, US musician. 1928: Pro Hart, artist 1933: Jill Perryman, actress-singer. 1936: Keir Dullea, US actor. 1936: Ruta Lee, US actress. 1939: Michael J. Pollard, US actor. ANNIVERSARIES 1431: After being handed over b ...
The Age, May 2000 (330 words)
*** Tuesday 30 MAY
6 days until World Environment Day. Birthdays of Peter the Great, Pro Hart and Jill Perryman. 569 years since Saint Joan of Arc was burned at the stake at Rouen, France. "I can't help it. I like things clean. Blame it on my mother. I was toilet-trai ...
The Age, May 2000 (371 words)
*** Readers' Letters
Just do it In response to Ron Haering's letter in Traveller's Checks about how to get from Syria's Damascus airport into town. Ron, don't be so bloody lazy. Buy a book, or go to your library and do some research about your destination. How did you think ...
Sydney Morning Herald, May 2000 (1073 words)
*** STAY IN TOUCH
Lockheed lounge puts designer on the runway to fame Talented expat Sydney designer Marc Newson's striking Lockheed lounge continues to excite, with one sold last week in New York for $185,000, double its estimate in spirited bidding at Christie's 20th ce ...
Sydney Morning Herald, May 2000 (1376 words)
*** Beach baptism comes to life
A David Hart painting of a baptism on North Beach has prompted organisers of a major Wollongong evangelical event to conduct a baptism for up to 1000 people at Belmore Basin. The painting was born from a conversation between Harvest 2000 fund-raising cha ...
Illawarra Mercury, May 2000 (527 words)
*** Big business
Sydney builder Simon Symond has switched from housing people to hanging art. SEBASTIAN SMEE meets the man behind the biggest commercial art gallery in Australia. You have to see this place. You have probably already seen the sign - The Sydney Art Gallery ...
Sydney Morning Herald, May 2000 (479 words)
*** Electoral funding D-day for Hanson
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is facing further court action over her $500,000 debt to the Queensland Electoral Commission. Queensland Electoral Commissioner Des O'Shea reissued his warning to Ms Hanson that he would take her back to court to recover ...
Illawarra Mercury, May 2000 (279 words)
*** Keep your hands off my Hanson, says Hart
A PAINTING called The Persecution Of Pauline was not for sale and would not be used to help the former MP pay off a $502,000 debt to the Electoral Commission, artist Pro Hart said yesterday. Ms Hanson has until Tuesday to come up with the money after the ...
Sun Herald, Apr 2000 (424 words)
*** Hanson wins cash reprieve but faces fresh challenge
BRISBANE Pauline Hanson has been given a reprieve after failing to meet a deadline to repay $502,000 in Queensland electoral funds. But the New South Wales Electoral Commission has signalled that her One Nation party may be deregistered in NSW. Ms Hanso ...
The Age, Apr 2000 (353 words)
*** Hanson fails to meet deadline
One Nation founder Ms Pauline Hanson faces bankruptcy today after failing to meet a deadline to repay more than $500,000 in funding to the Queensland Electoral Commission. Ms Hanson is understood to have raised about $300,000 but will today seek an exten ...
Australian Financial Review, Apr 2000 (327 words)
*** Sotheby's loses art in its chase for $10m Harold Mertz collection
One of the leading bidders for the biggest single-owner collection of art to be offered for sale in Australia has pulled out because the competition has become too rich. Sotheby's Australia has withdrawn its bid for the Harold Mertz collection after a bo ...
Australian Financial Review, Apr 2000 (290 words)
*** REAR WINDOW
Keeping the scrutiny in-house A majority of Australian companies believe the performances of directors should be regularly reviewed but they're less willing to subject themselves to scrutiny by third parties. The finding emerged in a new survey by a com ...
Australian Financial Review, Apr 2000 (1098 words)
*** Hanson `milking debt publicity'
Ex-supporters of embattled One Nation leader Pauline Hanson yesterday accused her of deliberately milking publicity to gain sympathy over her party's electoral debt crisis. Former One Nation candidates questioned Ms Hanson's pleas of dire financial stra ...
Illawarra Mercury, Mar 2000 (426 words)
*** Hanson faces writ in battle for party funding
CANBERRA One Nation's leader, Mrs Pauline Hanson, is expected to be served with a writ today, forcing her to repay $502,000 of public money owed to the Queensland Electoral Commission. Mrs Hanson, as a signed guarantor of One Nation, must repay the mone ...
The Age, Mar 2000 (519 words)
*** Pro has art for Pauline
World-renowned Australian artist Pro Hart has pledged his art to help rescue One Nation president Pauline Hanson from financial disaster. The flamboyant painter, known for his unorthodox haphazard style, has proposed an auction or sale of prints of a on ...
Illawarra Mercury, Mar 2000 (311 words)
*** Race day a worthwhile bet
Towradgi artist Paul Dorin has donated one of his paintings to benefit the Illawarra Melanoma Foundation's race day at Kembla Grange this weekend. The painting, valued at $1000, was specially commissioned for Melanoma Cup day and will be raffled at Satur ...
Illawarra Mercury, Mar 2000 (904 words)
*** Seeing Australia
``I RECKON you're in one place long enough when you die," says entertainer Lucky Grills. ``So get out there!" Lucky Grills is one of the ``wandering stars" featured in Get Up & Go Australian Travel Guide for Seniors 2000. The first Aust ...
The Sunday Age, Mar 2000 (274 words)
*** At the galleries
Threads of Humanity, multi-media presentation of contemporary local, national and international artists exploring existence of human rights. Opening night March 24. Wollongong City Gallery, cnr Kembla and Burelli streets. Runs until May 7. Ph 42287500. P ...
Illawarra Mercury, Mar 2000 (685 words)
*** Closing in on Clover's open space
Clover Moore has called on the State Government to undertake a regional open-space audit in the Paddington-Woollahra-Edgecliff area before Woollahra Council decides on the rezoning application for White City. In a letter to Planning Minister Andrew Refsh ...
Sydney Morning Herald, Mar 2000 (916 words)
*** Strokes of Brilliance
There was more to Hermannsburg than Namatjira, writes Tim Bonyhady, starting with the artist who painted this landscape. WHEN Albert Namatjira was still a camel-boy in the 1920s, the journey from Hermannsburg east of Alice Springs to the nearest railhead ...
Sydney Morning Herald, Mar 2000 (1951 words)
*** Hart the soul of the west a real Pro
THE landscapes of western NSW have inspired some of Australia's best-known painters. In Broken Hill alone, there are more than 20 art galleries, and around 50 painters who make a living from their work. Even if you can't paint like Pro Hart (pictured), a ...
Sun Herald, Mar 2000 (397 words)
*** AT THE GALLERIES
20th anniversary, Articles Fine Art Gallery, will include demonstrations by cartoonist Paul Dorin, potter Malcolm Cooke. Also paintings, jewellery, works by Norman Lindsay, Pro Hart, Max Mannix and much more. Sat, Mar 18 from noon, 111 Lawrence Hargrave D ...
Illawarra Mercury, Mar 2000 (591 words)
*** Mertz art collection sets sale for home
The most important collection of Australian art outside Australia is to come home to be sold. The University of Texas in Austin has called for presentations from Australian auction houses for the dispersal of the almost legendary collection given to it i ...
Australian Financial Review, Feb 2000 (220 words)
*** Out the back of beyond
THERE'S a lot of Australia à and, if you know the way to go, you can see a lot of its Outback attractions in less than a week. Dakota National Air has a six-day Great Outback tour which can show you some of the most fascinating features of outdoor Austra ...
Newcastle Herald, Feb 2000 (351 words)
*** Bush to bask in light, but some feel in the dark
If it takes the Olympic Games to put Sydney in the glare of world attention, then the Torch Relay is the chance for towns and villages around Australia to bask in some of the reflected glory. From Blandford, NSW, to Broome, WA, from Nuriootpa, SA, to Nar ...
Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 2000 (577 words)
*** There was no escaping the gobbling turkeys of midnight excess
ANYBODY recognise that dopey smiling face on the Harbour Bridge the other night? Was it Eddie McGuire or Richard Wilkins? I'm betting on Lochie Daddo. It was too WASP for Vince Sorrenti, and too sober for Sam Newman. Of course, I should be thinking global ...
Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 2000 (1831 words)
*** The galleries
ENTER SILLY SEASON Tis that season to be jolly or, if you run a gallery, jolly concerned. Across the board, commercial galleries, artist-run spaces, dealers and institutions alike are all proffering their variations of the curatorial peculiarity called t ...
Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 1999 (812 words)
*** Deluge didn't keep auction fodder away
Buyers baulked at a pig's head on a plate in the first round of end-of-year auctions held at Royal Randwick Racecourse on Monday. But the rush to spend even on highly uncommercial pictures occasionally reached Gadarene proportions. Still Life-Pig, Tank ...
Australian Financial Review, Nov 1999 (1043 words)
*** It's a flashy republic or a dowdy monarchy
Both sides of the republic referendum have recruited a chorus line of famous Australians to capture the hearts and minds of voters on November 6. The Australian Republic Movement's ranks are filled with a mixture of popular culture celebrities and a scat ...
Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 1999 (580 words)
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