Peter Gray flings his shoes at John Howard after demanding former leader defend sending troops to Iraq. A man protesting against the Iraq war hurled his shoes at Australia’s former prime minister during a live TV show, mimicking the shoe-throwing protest aimed at former President George Bush in Baghdad two years ago. Peter Gray flung his shoes at John Howard, a Bush ally in the Iraq war, after... 

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...