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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...
Denmark frees nearly 1,000 climate protesters
Danish police on Sunday released hundreds of activists who were detained during a mass rally demanding strong action from delegates at the U.N. climate conference.
Police said only 13 of the 968 people detained during and after the demonstration in Copenhagen remained in custody Sunday. Of those, three — two Danes and a Frenchman — were set to be arraigned in court on preliminary charges of fighting...
Australia an Asian nation, say Chinese
That perennial and uniquely Australian debate – are we an Asian country or not – has finally been settled. By the Chinese.
A Lowy Institute poll of Chinese public opinion on world affairs, to be released today, shows Australia is accepted as an Asian nation, with an important role to play in regional organisations, attractive values and a good political system.
But the Chinese are wary...
Australian parliament holds first Chanukah party
Chanukah was celebrated at the New South Wales Parliament House for the first time since the house was established in 1856.
Attendees at Tuesday’s historic event in Sydney, initiated and hosted by the New South Wales Chabad under the auspices of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies, included Premier Nathan Rees, opposition leader Barry O’Farrell and more than 70 lawmakers, a dozen...
Holocaust denier Fredrick Toben jailed in Australia
Fredrick Toben, an Australian man who was convicted earlier this year of publishing anti-Semitic material on the internet, has started a three-month jail term after his appeal was quashed.
Toben who is wanted in Germany on charges of denying the Holocaust was found guilty in May of 24 counts of contempt of a 2002 court ruling that barred him from publishing anti-Semitic material on the website...
NASA Marks Apollo 11 Anniversary With Restored Video Footage
The Saturn V carrying Apollo 11 lifts off from Cape Canaveral on July 16, 1969.
Forty years ago Thursday, Apollo 11 blasted off on its 280,000-mile journey, fulfilling President Kennedy’s 1961 call to reach the moon by the end of the decade.
To commemorate the anniversary, NASA released newly restored video footage of the Apollo 11 moon landings — but the fabled “lost” moon tapes...
Pacific Islander and Maori youths feared in Australia's Gold Coast
Pacific Islander and Maori youths are forming gangs in schools and have been identified by the Gold Coast City Council as an emerging social problem.
Large populations of New Zealanders and Polynesians have migrated to the northern end of the Gold Coast, forcing a re-think of the city’s social inclusion program.
Tweed Heads resident Jack Berryman, a Maori heavily involved with local Waitangi...
Sudanese youths in court over cop attack at rugby union club
Four Sudanese nationals seriously injured two senior off-duty police officers at a Brisbane football club after having first threatened to rape their wives and children, a jury has been told.
UPDATE! The four Sudanese accused of assaulting two cops were found NOT GUILTY.
A Brisbane District Court jury was told the four also allegedly assaulted the manager of the Southern Districts Rugby Union Club...
Asian migrants slashed the throat of a one legged man in Gold Coast, Australia
WITH dried blood in his hair and 11 stitches across his throat Gold Coaster Jack Donnelly considers himself lucky.
The Surfers Paradise local was the victim of a ‘racially motivated’ attack on Saturday night while walking home from the Blues on Broadbeach festivities.
Mr Donnelly contacted the Gold Coast Bulletin yesterday hours after being rushed to Gold Coast Hospital for treatment.
Mr...
Facebook refuses to ban all Holocaust-denial groups
SOCIAL-NETWORKING site Facebook is facing mounting criticism in Australia and overseas after refusing to ban Holocaust-denial groups from its site.
Despite international pressure calling for the popular website to block Holocaust-denial groups, Facebook said it does not take down groups that “speak out against countries, political entities, or ideas”.
The popular site, however, has recently begun...
Australian man from Perth city Arrested for YouTube "race-hate" video
A so-called racist video posted on US-based internet site YouTube is yet to be removed, despite a Perth man being charged for allegedly uploading the “anti-Semitic” film.
Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan today said his officers had so far been unsuccessful in their negotiations with YouTube to have the controversial video pulled from the site, but inquiries were continuing.
Maylands...
Australian Dr. Frederick Töben Arrested for "Holocaust denial"
Gerald Frederick Toben, 64, was convicted in the Federal Court on 24 counts of contempt of court after continuing to publish material about Jews and the Holocaust on his Adelaide Institute website, despite 2002 orders to stop.
Judge Bruce Lander said Toben, who will be sentenced later this month, had steadfastly refused to comply with the law.
He did not accept that freedom of speech “does not...
Asianisation of Australia
Asianisation of Australia (Asia will fully conquer & colonize Australia in less than 100 years)
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Immigrants Caught Beating Australian Male At Melbourne Train Station on Film
Graphic footage of a youth’s brutal bashing at a train station shows three attackers taking turns to kick him in the head.
Detectives investigating the vicious assault say they are appalled by the level of violence, which left the 23-year-old man from Sunshine in Melbourne’s west with serious head injuries.
The man was beaten even after he handed over the backpack that appeared to be...
Thousands march against racism in Australia
Protesters are even calling the Australian flag a “Symbol of Racism”
Thousands of migrants and green communists in Sydney and Newcastle have rallied against racism after a week of violence on and near Sydney’s beaches.
About 2,000 people have marched through the streets of Sydney’s central business district calling for racial harmony and understanding.
The march has been organised...