NSW State Coroner Mary Jerram found Mrs Rendaric did not commit suicide or take the chemical by accident.
But while Ms Jerram said Mrs Rendaric’s death was suspicious, she said there was not enough evidence to indicate how she came to have ingested the poison.
The court heard Mrs Rendaric told family GP Jerzy Cywinsky that her son had talked about “putting someone on” to his parents because he had “connections”, not long before she died.
But Dr Cywinsky said he believed the threat came during a heated argument and was not serious.
“(Steven’s) talking about a hitman, but I don’t think he was connected to a hitman to do it,” he said.
Mrs Rendaric and her son clashed over his former girlfriend, who his parents believed was a prostitute, and a house he was building on the property.

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BERESFORD HOTEL – Beresford Sundays, Happy Hour 5-7pm with DJs from 3 with free entry.
COLOMBIAN – DJ Sandi Hotrod & guests from 8pm.
DYKES ON BIKES – Meet every week from 5pm at the Hampshire Hotel in Camperdown. All welcome.
HEADQUARTERS – Fist Party 2-7pm
IMPERIAL – Beer Bust 3-8pm with great drinks specials. Plus Pretty Peepers cabaret.
IVY – Freemasons and Katherine Ellis DJ and perform with local supports. Tix through Moshtix.
KEN’S OF KENSINGTON – Sex-on-site venue. Sunday arvo session.
LOOSE ENDS -  @ Phoenix, 10pm-late, free entry. DJ Matt Vaughan and guests.
LORD ROBERTS HOTEL – Bears on Sunday from 4pm on the sundeck. $12 jugs of beer & HCB members cash draw.
MIDNIGHT SHIFT – Call Girls with Maxi Shield, Verushka Darling, Tora Hymen, free entry. Plus Freemasons official after-party.

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After that, she’ll go straight into a two-month run in Truck Stop, a new play by award-winning playwright Lachlan Philpott debuting in May at Sydney’s Q Theatre Company. It’s roughly based on the true story of two high school girls who dabble in prostitution, which Tovey, who plays one of the girls, laughingly admits, “doesn’t sound like a very fun story”.
“But there’s a lot of joy in it, as well as showing the darker side of these girls’ lives. It’s more of a comment on what kind of world young women are growing up in.

Tovey describes her own childhood as “incredibly lucky and wonderful”. She grew up in Sydney’s inner west, with her mum, author Libby Gleeson; dad Euan Tovey, a medical research scientist; and two elder sisters, Amelia and Josephine. “We’re very strong, loud women,” she says.

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In late 1985, Kalajzich asked his disco manager Warren James Elkins to obtain a weapon for him because he felt threatened. Elkins, whose only criminal record comprised a juvenile conviction for theft, obliged, and provided Kalajzich with three weapons. Kalajzich then told him he needed to ”bump someone off”. Elkins, who was in awe of Kalajzich, contacted a Kings Cross prostitute who ”knew someone”, but the man did not appear at a rendezvous. Elkins then contacted a friend, Trevor Hayden, who shared a flat with Franciscus Wilhelmus (Bill) Vandenberg, a sometime grocer and foundry worker. Hayden asked Vandenberg if he knew anyone, and Vandenberg in turn asked Kerry Neil Orrock, at Kurri Kurri, in the Hunter Valley, if he knew anyone. Orrock put him onto a reputed hitman, George Canellis, otherwise known as Noel Sherry.

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SYDNEY call girl Madison Ashton, who goes by her professional nom de plume, Christine McQueen, when she’s ”on duty”, has been left with a legal bill estimated at $500,000 following the failure of her $10 million lawsuit against the estate of late billionaire and client Richard Pratt. She was reportedly seen leaving her apartment in Woolloomooloo on Monday and was not present when her lawsuit was being dismissed in the Supreme Court. PS can report she has been taking bookings all week for her variety of, ahem, services, for which she charges $1500 an hour. Interestingly, McQueen’s hourly rate is roughly the same as Sydney’s top barristers, but with the promise of a much happier ending than Ashton faced this week. Ashton has remained silent about her story, so far, but PS hears that may be about to change.

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PATRONS leaving Misty’s Brothel in Ebley St, Bondi Junction, are waking neighbours as they leave, a nearby resident claims.
The timing of the noise also suggests the brothel is operating after midnight – outside its trading hours – the resident claimed.
A Waverley Council spokeswoman said there were no standard hours for brothels in Bondi Junction.
“The Land and Environment Court approved the application for Misty’s brothel subject to a number of conditions,” she said.
“This includes restricting operating hours between 10am to midnight, seven days a week.”
Last year Misty’s applied to extend its hours to 3am.
The owner of Misty’s said then that she would take her application to the Land and Environment Court if it was not successful.
Another Ebley St brothel operates until 3am.

Waverley Council has received five complaints about Misty’s brothel since 2006. Four of these complaints were anonymous.

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Rupe, who died of kidney failure at age 75, was buried at Sydney’s Rookwood Maori Cemetery on December 20.
Friends and family in New Zealand can now farewell her at a public memorial service on February 11 at St-Matthew-in-the-City church.

Jordan Harris, an organiser of the service, said many friends and family in Sydney have already said goodbye to her and that people in New Zealand will be able to do the same.
“Some of her close friends from Sydney are coming too and they will be bringing her portrait which was used at the tangi in Sydney,” Harris said.

After returning to New Zealand she ran for Wellington mayor in 1977, campaigning for a number of changes including hotel bars to be open till midnight or later, the drinking age to be lowered to 18, prostitution to be made legal and abortion to be decriminalised.

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Carmen, 75, died from kidney failure in Sydney in December last year.

“Some of her close friends from Sydney are coming too and they will be bringing her portrait which was used at the tangi in Sydney.”
Born in Taumarunui in 1935 as Trevor Rupe, it was after a move to Sydney in the 1950s that Carmen took on the first name that would see her become an icon and heroine to the gay community.
The entrepreneur and entertainer made an unsuccessful bid for the Wellington mayoralty in 1977, on a platform promising gay marriage and legalised prostitution.
Carmen ran Wellington sex venues in the 1970s, where patrons met for coffee and sexual liaisons at a time when both homosexuality and prostitution were still illegal.
At her funeral in Sydney, Carmen was credited with paving the way for social reform.
Carmen was buried at Sydney’s Rookwood Cemetery.

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Carmen, 75, died from kidney failure in Sydney in December last year.

“Some of her close friends from Sydney are coming too and they will be bringing her portrait which was used at the tangi in Sydney.”
Born in Taumarunui in 1935 as Trevor Rupe, it was after a move to Sydney in the 1950s that Carmen took on the first name that would see her become an icon and heroine to the gay community.
The entrepreneur and entertainer made an unsuccessful bid for the Wellington mayoralty in 1977, on a platform promising gay marriage and legalised prostitution.
Carmen ran Wellington sex venues in the 1970s, where patrons met for coffee and sexual liaisons at a time when both homosexuality and prostitution were still illegal.
At her funeral in Sydney, Carmen was credited with paving the way for social reform.
Carmen was buried at Sydney’s Rookwood Cemetery.

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The controversial proposal was approved after commissioner Linda Pearson upheld an appeal against a decision by Camden Council last June to knock back an application to establish a brothel at 1 Kibble Place, Narellan.
The judgment included a 12-month trial of opening hours for the premises of 9am to 3am. Camden Council will consider winding back the trading hours to 9am to 10pm after the trial period if there are any issues.
Mr Patterson there was “not much” he could do now but he blamed the ability of the applicant to establish a sex premises on the site on the “one-size-fits-all” local environment plan enacted by the former state government in 2009.
“I will raise this as a specific example with the minister as part of this government’s review of the planning system,” Mr Patterson said.
The application for the brothel was refused last year.

See the full article from “Macarthur Chronicle Camden”