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'''Andrew John Clyde Landeryou''' (born 1969)<ref name=tycoon/> is an [[Australian]] political [[blogger]],<ref name=wiki/><ref name=blogger/><ref name=blogs/> and online [[business consultant]]<ref name=emerges>{{cite news|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/another-online-iconoclast-emerges/story-e6frg996-1225936860974|title=Another online iconoclast emerges|last=Jackson|first=Sally|date=11 October 2010|work=The Australian|accessdate=25 August 2011}}</ref>. In recent years, he has attracted attention initially through his blog ''"The Other Cheek: Andrew Landeryou's Blog of Freedom"'' and more recently VEXNEWS.<ref name=world>{{
'''Andrew John Clyde Landeryou''' (born 1970)<ref name=tycoon/> is an [[Australian]] political [[blogger]],<ref name=wiki/><ref name=blogger/><ref name=blogs/> and online [[business consultant]]<ref name=emerges>{{cite news|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/another-online-iconoclast-emerges/story-e6frg996-1225936860974|title=Another online iconoclast emerges|last=Jackson|first=Sally|date=11 October 2010|work=The Australian|accessdate=25 August 2011}}</ref>. In recent years, he has attracted attention initially through his blog ''"The Other Cheek: Andrew Landeryou's Blog of Freedom"'' and more recently VEXNEWS.<ref name=world>{{
cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1359986.htm|title=Landeryou takes aim at enemies with blog|last=Caldwell|first=Alison|date=4 May 2005|work=The World Today| publisher = ABC Radio|accessdate=12 December 2009}}</ref><ref>{{
cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1359986.htm|title=Landeryou takes aim at enemies with blog|last=Caldwell|first=Alison|date=4 May 2005|work=The World Today| publisher = ABC Radio|accessdate=12 December 2009}}</ref><ref>{{
cite web | url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/roger-franklin-dirty-war-of-old-and-new-labor/story-e6frf7kx-1111114877163 | title = 'Dirty' war of old and new Labor | last=Franklin | first = Roger | date=15 November 2007 | work=Herald Sun | publisher = News Limited | accessdate=12 December 2009}}</ref><ref name=emerges/>
cite web | url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/roger-franklin-dirty-war-of-old-and-new-labor/story-e6frf7kx-1111114877163 | title = 'Dirty' war of old and new Labor | last=Franklin | first = Roger | date=15 November 2007 | work=Herald Sun | publisher = News Limited | accessdate=12 December 2009}}</ref><ref name=emerges/>
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cite web |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/go-to-burke/story-e6frgcz6-1111113108243|title=Go to Burke|date=7 March 2007|work=The Australian | publisher = News Limited|accessdate=24 February 2010}}</ref> He has said he is not a member of a political party.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://andrewlanderyou.blogspot.com/2005/05/goodbye-to-all-that-one-last-spray.html|title=Goodbye to all that - One Last Spray From Inside the Tent|last=Landeryou|first=Andrew|date= 31 May 2005|work=The Other Cheek|accessdate=26 February 2010}}</ref>
cite web |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/go-to-burke/story-e6frgcz6-1111113108243|title=Go to Burke|date=7 March 2007|work=The Australian | publisher = News Limited|accessdate=24 February 2010}}</ref> He has said he is not a member of a political party.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://andrewlanderyou.blogspot.com/2005/05/goodbye-to-all-that-one-last-spray.html|title=Goodbye to all that - One Last Spray From Inside the Tent|last=Landeryou|first=Andrew|date= 31 May 2005|work=The Other Cheek|accessdate=26 February 2010}}</ref>


Landeryou was elected as President of Melbourne University Student Union, taking office in January 1991.<ref>{{cite book|last=Poynter|first=John Riddoch|coauthors=Carolyn Rasmussen|title=A place apart: the University of Melbourne : decades of challenge|publisher=Melbourne University Publishing|date=1996|chapter=Officers of the University, 1935-1995|isbn=0522845843|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yKEfrmr_OykC&pg=PA467}}</ref> A referendum of union members removed him after five months when he proposed commercialising the union's services.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greenleft.org.au/1991/10/1426|title='Labor Inc' alleged at Melbourne Uni|last=Davidson|first=Rjurik|coauthors=Jolyon Campbell|date=1 May 1991|work=Green Left Online|accessdate=12 December 2009}}</ref><ref name=tycoon/>
Landeryou was President of [[University of Melbourne Student Union|Melbourne University Student Union]] during 1991,<ref name=tycoon/><ref>{{cite book|last=Poynter|first=John Riddoch|coauthors=Carolyn Rasmussen|title=A place apart: the University of Melbourne: decades of challenge|publisher=Melbourne University Publishing|year=1996|chapter=Officers of the University, 1935-1995|isbn=0522845843|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yKEfrmr_OykC&pg=PA467}}</ref> He was managing director of IQ Corporation, a sports statistics company, which was invested in by [[Solomon Lew]] until it went into liquidation in 2003.<ref>{{

Landeryou was managing director of IQ Corporation, a sports statistics company, which was invested in by [[Solomon Lew]] until it went into liquidation in 2003.<ref>{{
cite web |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/13/1092340457935.html
cite web |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/13/1092340457935.html
|title= IQ records vanish: was it more than a dot-bomb? | date=14 August 2004
|title= IQ records vanish: was it more than a dot-bomb? | date=14 August 2004
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cite web | url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Landeryou-disappeared-on-business/2005/05/05/1115092612611.html
cite web | url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Landeryou-disappeared-on-business/2005/05/05/1115092612611.html
| title=Landeryou disappeared 'on business'
| title=Landeryou disappeared 'on business'
| last = Wood | first = Leonie | date = 5 May 2005 | work=The Age | publisher = Fairfax | accessdate=26 February 2010}}</ref>
| last = Wood | first = Leonie | date = 5 May 2005 | work=The Age | publisher = Fairfax | accessdate=26 February 2010}}</ref> Landeryou spent five months in [[Costa Rica]] from December 2004,<ref name=tycoon>{{
cite web | url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/The-tycoon-the-missing-husband-and-the-millions/2005/04/22/1114152319764.html
| title = The tycoon, the missing husband and the millions
|last = Wood | first = Leonie | coauthors = David Elias | date = 23 April 2005
| work=The Age | publisher = Fairfax | accessdate=12 December 2009}}</ref><ref name=world/> on business relating to online gaming.<ref name=business/> On returning to Australia in May 2005 he was required to attend a liquidator's examination of the affairs of MUSU for one day.<ref>{{
cite web | url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Landeryou-returns-and-opts-to-stay-in-custody/2005/04/29/1114635752383.html
| title=Landeryou returns and opts to stay in custody|last=Wood|first=Leonie|date=30 April 2005 | work = The Age | publisher = Fairfax | accessdate=12 December 2009}}</ref><ref name=court>{{
cite web | url=http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2005/s1360998.htm|title=Landeryou appears in court|last=Caldwell|first=Alison|date=5 May 2005|work=ABC News|accessdate=12 December 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/vic/VSC/2006/205.html|title=Melbourne University Student Union Inc (in liq) v Ray [2006] VSC 205 (14 June 2006)|date=14 June 2006|work=Supreme Court of Victoria Decisions|publisher=Australasian Legal Information Institute|accessdate=12 December 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Elias | first=David | coauthors= Wood, Leonie |date=26 May 2005
| url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Landeryou-threatened-me-says-liquidator/2005/05/25/1116950754154.html?oneclick=true
| title=Landeryou threatened me, says liquidator | work = The Age | publisher = Fairfax | accessdate=12 December 2009}}</ref>


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==Blogging==
Landeryou spent five months in [[Costa Rica]], after he failed to answer a court summons in December 2004.<ref name=world/><ref name=tycoon>{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/The-tycoon-the-missing-husband-and-the-millions/2005/04/22/1114152319764.html|title=The tycoon, the missing husband and the millions|last=Wood|first=Leonie|coauthors=David Elias|date=23 April 2005|work=The Age|accessdate=12 December 2009}}</ref> In May 2005, he was arrested on his return to Australia and required to attend at a liquidator's examination of the affairs of MUSU.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Landeryou-returns-and-opts-to-stay-in-custody/2005/04/29/1114635752383.html|title=Landeryou returns and opts to stay in custody|last=Wood|first=Leonie|date=30 April 2005|work=The Age|accessdate=12 December 2009}}</ref> <ref name=court>{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2005/s1360998.htm|title=Landeryou appears in court|last=Caldwell|first=Alison|date=5 May 2005|work=ABC News|accessdate=12 December 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/vic/VSC/2006/205.html|title=Melbourne University Student Union Inc (in liq) v Ray [2006] VSC 205 (14 June 2006)|date=14 June 2006|work=Supreme Court of Victoria Decisions|publisher=Australasian Legal Information Institute|accessdate=12 December 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Landeryou-threatened-me-says-liquidator/2005/05/25/1116950754154.html?oneclick=true|title=Landeryou threatened me, says liquidator|last=Elias|first=David|coauthors=Leonie Wood|date=26 May 2005|work=The Age|accessdate=12 December 2009}}</ref>
{{quote box|width=25%|align=right|quote="Landeryou has some purchase in the mainstream media with a News Limited column, but essentially he's working in the blogging space, using his political, business and media contacts to embarrass, harass and hold to account the state's worthies and not-so-worthies, and his own enemies, through open publishing.


Whatever you think of his politics, Landeryou is a lively and engaging writer who find things out - one whose "inquisitive" approach allows him to uncover and share new information."|source=Jason Wilson, ABC News, 2008<ref name=blogs/>}}
Landeryou was declared bankrupt by the Federal Magistrates Court in May 2006.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1645663.htm|title=Businessman Landeryou declared bankrupt|date=23 May 2006|work=ABC News Online|accessdate=12 December 2009}}</ref> This bankruptcy was discharged on 13 July 2009.


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==Blogging==
In 2005, Landeryou established a [[weblog]] commenting on Australian party politics called ''The Other Cheek - Andrew Landeryou's Blog of Freedom''. According to ninemsn, it was a "popular" website and to ABC News it was a "gleefully-muckraking, tabloid-style blog",<ref name=blogs>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/15/2245684.htm|title=Baillieu and the blogs of war|last=Wilson|first=Jason|coauthors=Axel Bruns and Barry Saunders|date=15 May 2008|work=ABC News|accessdate=12 December 2009}}</ref><ref>{{
In 2005, Landeryou established a [[weblog]] commenting on Australian party politics called ''The Other Cheek - Andrew Landeryou's Blog of Freedom''. According to ninemsn, it was a "popular" website and to ABC News it was a "gleefully-muckraking, tabloid-style blog",<ref name=blogs>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/15/2245684.htm|title=Baillieu and the blogs of war|last=Wilson|first=Jason|coauthors=Axel Bruns and Barry Saunders|date=15 May 2008|work=ABC News|accessdate=12 December 2009}}</ref><ref>{{
cite web |url=http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22298840-911,00.html
cite web |url=http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22298840-911,00.html
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==VEXNEWS==
==VEXNEWS==
{{quotebox|align=right|width=20%|quote=Controversy is what gives life to Vexnews and it has been vigorously stirring the pot since its launch in August 2008|source=—<small>Sally Jackson, ''The Australian'', 2010</small><ref name=emerges/>}}
Landeryou launched VEXNEWS in August 2008. Landeryou is helped by 10 other pseudonymous contributors.<ref name=emerges/> [[Andrew Bolt]] from the Herald Sun refers to Landeryou as "always entertaining"<ref>{{
Landeryou launched VEXNEWS in August 2008. It nows gets 200,000 hits per month and is slightly profitable. Landeryou is helped by 10 other pseudonymous contributors.<ref name=emerges/> [[Andrew Bolt]] from the Herald Sun refers to Landeryou as "always entertaining"<ref>{{
cite web | url=http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_court_of_hulls_opinion | title=The court of Hulls’ opinion
cite web | url=http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_court_of_hulls_opinion | title=The court of Hulls’ opinion
|last=Bolt |first=Andrew|date=5 November 2009
|last=Bolt |first=Andrew|date=5 November 2009
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cite web|url=http://andrewlanderyou.blogspot.com/2008/07/victory-for-patriots-les-twentyman.html|title=VICTORY FOR PATRIOTS: Les Twentyman Withdraws Intervention Order Application // Freedom 2 Twentyman 0|last=Landeryou|first=Andrew|date=31 July 2008|work=The Other Cheek|accessdate=26 February 2010}}</ref>
cite web|url=http://andrewlanderyou.blogspot.com/2008/07/victory-for-patriots-les-twentyman.html|title=VICTORY FOR PATRIOTS: Les Twentyman Withdraws Intervention Order Application // Freedom 2 Twentyman 0|last=Landeryou|first=Andrew|date=31 July 2008|work=The Other Cheek|accessdate=26 February 2010}}</ref>


VEXNEWS broke a story revealing AFL footballer Brendan Fevola's attack on a Melbourne journalist.<ref>{{
VEXNEWS and Landeryou's blog predecessor has regularly pre-empted mainstream media on a wide variety of stories, sometimes prompting front page news, as it did when it revealed AFL footballer Brendan Fevola's attack on a Melbourne journalist.<ref>{{
cite web |url=http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/873597/fevola-harassed-reporter-at-brownlow|title=Fevola 'harassed reporter at Brownlow'|date=9 October 2009|work=Ninemsn|accessdate=24 February 2010}}</ref> Landeryou also broke a story drawing on Liberal party sources when he revealed that the authors of an anti-[[Ted Baillieu]] website were employees of Baillieu's own party.<ref>{{
cite web |url=http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/873597/fevola-harassed-reporter-at-brownlow|title=Fevola 'harassed reporter at Brownlow'|date=9 October 2009|work=Ninemsn|accessdate=24 February 2010}}</ref> Landeryou also broke a major story drawing on Liberal party sources when he revealed that the authors of an anti-[[Ted Baillieu]] website were employees of Baillieu's own party.<ref>{{
cite web | url = http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/traitors-sacked-over-baillieu-mud/story-e6frf7kx-1111116304813
cite web | url = http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/traitors-sacked-over-baillieu-mud/story-e6frf7kx-1111116304813
| title =Traitors sacked over Baillieu mud | last=Campbell|first=James | date=11 May 2008
| title =Traitors sacked over Baillieu mud | last=Campbell|first=James | date=11 May 2008
| work=Sunday Herald Sun | publisher = News Limited |accessdate=24 February 2010}}</ref>
| work=Sunday Herald Sun | publisher = News Limited |accessdate=24 February 2010}}</ref>


Other front-page stories prompted by Landeryou include a Fairfax story about Australian politicians sanitising their Wikipedia articles<ref name=wiki>{{
Other front-page stories prompted by Landeryou's investigative reporting include a Fairfax story about Australian politicians sanitising their Wikipedia articles<ref name=wiki>{{
cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/politicians-wiki-entries-altered/2008/07/24/1216492681447.html
cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/politicians-wiki-entries-altered/2008/07/24/1216492681447.html
| title=Politicians' Wiki entries altered
| title=Politicians' Wiki entries altered
| last=Moses|first=Asher|date=25 July 2008
| last=Moses|first=Asher|date=25 July 2008
| work=Sydney Morning Herald | publisher = Fairfax | accessdate=24 February 2010}}</ref> and a story about a Christian [[Family First Party|Family First]] candidate who had exposed himself in photographs. Landeryou declared him 'Australia's smallest loser', an epithet repeated by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann when he covered the story for US cable news.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lexd1ASnTUg]</ref>
| work=Sydney Morning Herald | publisher = Fairfax | accessdate=24 February 2010}}</ref> and a story about a Christian [[Family First Party|Family First]] candidate who had exposed himself in photographs. Landeryou declared him 'Australia's smallest loser', an epithet repeated by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann when he covered the story for US cable news.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lexd1ASnTUg]</ref>

VEXNEWS is featured as part of Google News service.<ref>http://news.google.com.au/news?rlz=1C1GGLS_enAU326AU326&sourceid=chrome&q=vexnews&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wn</ref>


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Revision as of 00:32, 4 December 2011

Andrew Landeryou
Born1970
Australia
OccupationJournalist, businessman
GenrePolitics

Andrew John Clyde Landeryou (born 1970)[1] is an Australian political blogger,[2][3][4] and online business consultant[5]. In recent years, he has attracted attention initially through his blog "The Other Cheek: Andrew Landeryou's Blog of Freedom" and more recently VEXNEWS.[6][7][5]

Background

Landeryou is the son of Bill Landeryou,[6] a former Leader of the Opposition and then the Government in the Victorian Legislative Council and a minister in the Australian Labor Party Victorian state government of John Cain. Andrew Landeryou has been active in the past in the Labor Party, and particularly the Labor Right faction.[8] Subsequently he has been described as a "Liberal blogger."[9] He has said he is not a member of a political party.[10]

Landeryou was President of Melbourne University Student Union during 1991,[1][11] He was managing director of IQ Corporation, a sports statistics company, which was invested in by Solomon Lew until it went into liquidation in 2003.[12][13][14] He was also a co-owner of Marbain, a company with a contract with MUSU.[15] Landeryou spent five months in Costa Rica from December 2004,[1][6] on business relating to online gaming.[15] On returning to Australia in May 2005 he was required to attend a liquidator's examination of the affairs of MUSU for one day.[16][17][18][19]

Blogging

"Landeryou has some purchase in the mainstream media with a News Limited column, but essentially he's working in the blogging space, using his political, business and media contacts to embarrass, harass and hold to account the state's worthies and not-so-worthies, and his own enemies, through open publishing.

Whatever you think of his politics, Landeryou is a lively and engaging writer who find things out - one whose "inquisitive" approach allows him to uncover and share new information."

Jason Wilson, ABC News, 2008[4]

In 2005, Landeryou established a weblog commenting on Australian party politics called The Other Cheek - Andrew Landeryou's Blog of Freedom. According to ninemsn, it was a "popular" website and to ABC News it was a "gleefully-muckraking, tabloid-style blog",[4][20] His blog focussed on internal political events and exclusive reports rather than political analysis and opinion.[21] He also publishes VEXNEWS.[22] Lucy Saunders, a political activist linked to the Socialist Left who had been criticised by Landeryou, wrote on ABC News Online that "The overwhelming majority of what Landeryou prints is vague rumour, personal vendettas and outright fiction. Very occasionally, though, some actual facts sneak through."[23]

Landeryou regularly accused the Melbourne newspaper The Age of politically-motivated left-wing bias, including against himself.[24] He clashed with another political blogger, Stephen Mayne, in 2006 when they accused each other of being spivs.[25]

Landeryou's blog has been archived by the National Library of Australia[26][27]

VEXNEWS

Controversy is what gives life to Vexnews and it has been vigorously stirring the pot since its launch in August 2008

—Sally Jackson, The Australian, 2010[5]

Landeryou launched VEXNEWS in August 2008. It nows gets 200,000 hits per month and is slightly profitable. Landeryou is helped by 10 other pseudonymous contributors.[5] Andrew Bolt from the Herald Sun refers to Landeryou as "always entertaining"[28] and "often compelling."[29]

Independent political candidate Les Twentyman applied for a court intervention order in 2008 after VEXNEWS published a series of stories on him suggesting that he was wealthier than was public knowledge, including publishing photographs of his house.[3][30] Twentyman later withdrew the application.[31]

VEXNEWS and Landeryou's blog predecessor has regularly pre-empted mainstream media on a wide variety of stories, sometimes prompting front page news, as it did when it revealed AFL footballer Brendan Fevola's attack on a Melbourne journalist.[32] Landeryou also broke a major story drawing on Liberal party sources when he revealed that the authors of an anti-Ted Baillieu website were employees of Baillieu's own party.[33]

Other front-page stories prompted by Landeryou's investigative reporting include a Fairfax story about Australian politicians sanitising their Wikipedia articles[2] and a story about a Christian Family First candidate who had exposed himself in photographs. Landeryou declared him 'Australia's smallest loser', an epithet repeated by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann when he covered the story for US cable news.[34]

VEXNEWS is featured as part of Google News service.[35]

References

  1. ^ a b c Wood, Leonie (23 April 2005). "The tycoon, the missing husband and the millions". The Age. Fairfax. Retrieved 12 December 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ a b Moses, Asher (25 July 2008). "Politicians' Wiki entries altered". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax. Retrieved 24 February 2010.
  3. ^ a b Higginbottom, Nick (11 July 2008). "Youth worker Les Twentyman wins ban on blogger". Herald Sun. News Limited. Retrieved 12 December 2009. [dead link‍]
  4. ^ a b c Wilson, Jason (15 May 2008). "Baillieu and the blogs of war". ABC News. Retrieved 12 December 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ a b c d Jackson, Sally (11 October 2010). "Another online iconoclast emerges". The Australian. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
  6. ^ a b c Caldwell, Alison (4 May 2005). "Landeryou takes aim at enemies with blog". The World Today. ABC Radio. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
  7. ^ Franklin, Roger (15 November 2007). "'Dirty' war of old and new Labor". Herald Sun. News Limited. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
  8. ^ Wood, Leonie (4 May 2005). "Landeryou promises to tell it how it is". The Age. Fairfax. Retrieved 12 December 2009.
  9. ^ "Go to Burke". The Australian. News Limited. 7 March 2007. Retrieved 24 February 2010.
  10. ^ Landeryou, Andrew (31 May 2005). "Goodbye to all that - One Last Spray From Inside the Tent". The Other Cheek. Retrieved 26 February 2010.
  11. ^ Poynter, John Riddoch (1996). "Officers of the University, 1935-1995". A place apart: the University of Melbourne: decades of challenge. Melbourne University Publishing. ISBN 0522845843. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  12. ^ "IQ records vanish: was it more than a dot-bomb?". The Age. Fairfax. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 24 February 2010.
  13. ^ Wood, Leonie (28 August 2004). "Battle over IQ's liquidation no longer in public view". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax. Retrieved 24 February 2010.
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