Sydney could thwart Laneway Festival EXCLUSIVE: One of Australia's few expanding music festivals, the hipster-focused St Jerome's Laneway event, could find its ambitions thwarted by a conservation group, despite having the nod from the NSW Police. | Jackie French named kids laureate Dyslexic children's author Jackie French plans to use her laureateship to encourage reading, saying to children 'whose work always looks like a wombat has sat on it, never feel that you are dumb'. |