Category Archives: Australia
Protesters threaten legal action over ‘police brutality’
[ABC] Occupy Melbourne protesters are threatening legal action after yesterday’s eviction from the City Square. What had started out as a peaceful protest against corporate greed turned violent when up to 400 police were called in to remove demonstrators who had been camped there since last weekend. Police used capsicum spray, horses and dogs to […]
Merino milestone | ABC
[ABC Landline] One of Australia’s most famous sheep studs, Wanganella in the Riverina region of southern New South Wales, has just celebrated its 150th birthday. The story of how the Peppin family developed a merino that could thrive in the harsh, dry inland is an epic indeed. Until recent years more than 80 per cent […]
Squatter takes Land | Daily Advertiser
[DailyAdvertiser] Wagga City Council and police are powerless to stop one of the city’s public facilities from turning into a squatter’s paradise. They do not have the ability to move squatters on due to a bizarre loophole in Crown land legislation. The issue of campers at Wilks Park was reignited after complaints surfaced against a man […]
Aust court decision on Google clarifies misleading advertisements
[ACCC media release] The Australian Federal Court has dismissed allegations by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission that internet search engine Google engaged in practices likely to mislead consumers. The ACCC alleged that by failing to adequately distinguish advertisements from search results, Google had engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct. Justice Nicholas found that the […]
Berry’s legacy
[The Conversation/Ross L Jones] In Britain Richard Berry continued to preach his uncompromising theory of “rotten heredity”. In 1934 he would argue that to eliminate mental deficiency would require the sterilisation of twenty-five per cent of the population. At the same time he also advocated the “kindly euthanasia” of the unfit. But his legacy in […]
Disappointment over death in custody fine
[ABC] The Deaths in Custody Watch Committee says it is disappointed with the fine handed down to a former prison security guard over the death of Aboriginal elder Mr Ward. Former G4S guard Graham Powell was fined $9,000 in the Kalgoorlie Magistrates Court yesterday after changing his plea to guilty. Mr Ward, 46, died from […]
Background Briefing: Nowhere to live
[Background Briefing] Rents are rising even in country towns, and more people are forced into caravan parks, the back rooms of old pubs – or the river bank – even with young children. It can happen to anyone. It will get worse. Various attempts to create more places for people to live at cheap rent […]
Bones identified as Daniel Morcombe’s
Queensland police have announced bones found at a crime scene in Sunshine Coast bushland belong to missing teenager Daniel Morcombe. Further details have been confirmed in relation to human remains in the form of three bones that were found at the site which police and SES have been searching in Beerwah. DNA testing has confirmed […]
Man charged after Gmail account led kidnap police to Kentucky | SMH
[SMH/Nick Miller, Peter Mitchell, Anne Davies, Saffron Howden] Chilling details of the fake bomb hoax enacted on Sydney schoolgirl Madeleine Pulver were revealed this morning as the man accused of the crime faced a US court. Successful businessman Paul “Doug” Peters, 50, was arrested yesterday after a raid on a house in Kentucky, US, by […]
Man arrested over collar-bomb threat
[NSWPolice - Tuesday, 16 August 2011 09:11:49 AM] A man has been arrested in the USA following a bomb hoax which targeted an 18-year-old woman on Sydney’s Lower North Shore two weeks ago. United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents arrested the 50-year-old man at Louisville, Kentucky, about 5.45am AEST today (Tuesday 16 August 2011), […]
Man shoots himself in police van at Wagga
[ABC] An investigation is underway into a how a man managed to shoot himself in the head in the back of a police van in south-western New South Wales. The man was arrested over a domestic incident in Wagga Wagga, in the Riverina region, around 9.00pm (AEST) on Saturday night. He was taken to the […]
Des Moran’s killers jailed for 26 years
Gangland matriarch Judy Moran, and her gun for hire Geoffrey Armour, have each been sentenced to 26 years in jail for the “appalling” murder of her brother-in-law Desmond Moran. Moran, 66, ordered the killing of Des “Tuppence” Moran at a Moonee Ponds coffee shop in June 2009 after a bitter falling out between the two […]
Australia’s high-speed rail link
Australia’s federal Department of Infrastructure and Transport has released an initial report into the prospects of building a high-speed rail link joining the eastern states. The report (which may be found here) lists a number of potential corridors joining Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane, and gives the total cost of building the system at AUD100bn. The resulting […]
NSW rabbis brawl over child abuse
One of New South Wales’ most high profile Jewish leaders is fighting off calls for his resignation after he urged rabbis not to report allegations of child abuse to the police. Rabbi Yosef Feldman, president of the Rabbinical Council of NSW and based at the Southern Sydney Synagogue, has sparked outrage in a series of […]
Troopertrek 2011
Jacob French (TK-6283) is walking from Perth (Western Australia) to Sydney (NSW) to raise awareness and money for the Starlight Children’s Foundation. Over the course of the trek, he will cross 4 states and cover approximately 5,000 kilometres in modified stormtrooper armour. Jacob says he’s a member of the worldwide “501st Legion”, a volunteer organisation that wears quality star wars […]
