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Australia's new iron lady turns on migrants in bid for power
When Julia Gillard was first elected to parliament in l998, she was quick to challenge the idea that immigrants were a problem for Australia.
In her maiden speech, the future prime minister – a Welsh migrant herself – challenged the anti-Asian line of Pauline Hanson, the nationalist Right-winger whose views enjoyed widespread support at the time.
Ms Gillard told parliament that Ms...
Future of great Australian firewall said beginning to look decidedly shaky
Will the internet be "jailed" in Australia as it is in China and Iran? Let's hope not...
The future of the great Australian firewall is beginning to look decidedly shaky, as electoral calculations and widespread condemnation from politicians and industry alike begin to take their toll.
That’s the analysis from Greens communications spokesman Scott Ludlam, who believes the proposed...
Australia restores race laws after Aboriginal crackdown
There are now just 470,000 Aborigines out of a population of 22 million.
Australia reinstated race laws in the remote Northern Territory region Tuesday after suspending them for three years to pursue a controversial crime crackdown in poor Aboriginal townships.
Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin called the suspension, enacted under conservative former prime minister John Howard but amended in...
Human race 'will be extinct within 100 years', claims leading scientist
Professor Frank Fenner has warned that the human race can not survive
As the scientist who helped eradicate smallpox he certainly know a thing or two about extinction.
And now Professor Frank Fenner, emeritus professor of microbiology at the Australian National University, has predicted that the human race will be extinct within the next 100 years.
He has claimed that the human race will be unable...
Australia to renew ties with Genocidal state of Zimbabwe
No Zimbabwean team has toured Australia since 2003
Australia could renew cricketing ties with the genocidal state of Zimbabwe which killed countless farmers, next year starting with a series between the two countries’ A teams, the African country’s Sports Minister David Coltart has revealed.
The Zimbabwe A team will likely tour Australia in mid-2011, the first step in an agreement that...
Australian Doctors 'consider genital cuts for girls'
Australians need to get outraged over Female Genital Mutilation legalization! Female Genital Mutilation can kill women and their babies!!
Australian doctors may soon perform genital mutilations on baby girls in a bid to curb a dangerous rise in backyard surgeries, according to a report.
The Royal Australian New Zealand College of Obstetricians is considering allowing doctors to carry out “ritual...
New Zealand becomes fourth country in World to outlaw Jewish ritual animal killing
New Zealand has become the fourth country to outlaw Jewish ritual slaughtering, authorities said Sunday, after Iceland, Norway, and Sweden took similar measures in the past.
Under the newly instated Animal Welfare Commercial Slaughter Code, announced by Agriculture Minister David Carter, commercially killed animals would have to be stunned before slaughter, making kosher slaughter, or shchita, illegal,...
Kevin Rudd calls for end to Israeli blockade
KEVIN Rudd has deplored Israel's use of violence in interdicting the Gaza flotilla and called on Jerusalem to lift its blockade.
Barely a week after it announced the expulsion of an Israeli diplomat following the misuse of Australian passports, the Rudd government was yesterday again at odds with Israel.
The renewed tension came after it emerged that Israeli commandos had shot one Australian...
UFO experts: ETs could invade Australia
Melbourne: Experts in Australia have expressed their fears that a full-scale alien invasion of the Northern Territory is about to take place.
Though astronomers and police say the flares seen across a 360km-long stretch of the Top End coast were probably caused by a meteor shower.
But highly qualified UFO-ologists said they believed the bright lights were space ships on a pre-attack scouting mission,...
Australia expels Israeli diplomat over Dubai assassination
Australia’s government said on Monday it had ordered the expulsion of an Israeli diplomat over the use of fake passports in the assassination of a top Hamas militant in Dubai in January.
Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said a police investigation had left no doubt Israeli intelligence services had been behind the forgery of four Australian passports used by suspects in the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh...
Australia's economic future in the hands of Aboriginals!
Controversial: Sir Bob Geldof made the comments during a speech at a breakfast in Brisbane held to encourage businesses to pledge to provide 50,000 jobs to Aborigines
Sir Bob Geldof has angered thousands of Australians by giving an impassioned ‘speech of shame’ outlining the country’s treatment of its indigenous people.
Anti-poverty campaigner Geldof called Australia ‘economically...
Australian Government Censors Encyclopedia Dramatica
I’m Joseph Evers. Very few of you know or care about me. I’m the largest shareholder of ED, and I guess that makes me the “owner”. I’m generally pretty absent in the management of this website. I’d apologize for that but it doesn’t make a lot of money. What we do at Encyclopedia Dramatica is a labor of love, and we all put in what we can. Largely, the great team of volunteers really...
Scientists get closer to real-life Jurassic Park after extracting DNA from fossilised eggshells
A real-life Jurassic Park for extinct creatures has moved a step closer after scientists extracted DNA from the fossilised eggshells of birds
Genetic material was pinpointed for the giant moa and 10ft tall, half tonne elephant birds that died out hundreds of years ago.
Researchers said the successful recovery of ancient DNA from eggshell ‘has major implications in the fields of archaeology and...
Indian magazine: Why the Aussies hate us
IT IS a magazine cover that will make the hearts of Australian university bosses and diplomats sink.
“Why the Aussies hate us” screams the cover of this week’s influential Indian news magazine Outlook.
The 10-page coverage includes stories of young Indian victims of violence and racial abuse and describes how Indian students in Melbourne feel afraid on the streets.
Van Thanh...
Indian student numbers to Australia plummet
Angry Indians protesting
The number of Indian students wanting to study in Australia has slumped by almost 50%, according to figures from the Australian government.
The decline follows a year when attacks on Indian students in Melbourne and Sydney made headlines in India.
They also caused diplomatic relations to sour between Canberra and Delhi.
The Indian government issued a travel advisory to students...