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The latest two-yearly study of the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission damningly reveals that indigenous children are six times more likely to suffer abuse or neglect than non-indigenous children and 28 times more likely to wind up in...

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Byron Clark, Christchurch
Age Concern New Zealand, an advocacy group for people over 65, says moves to cut tertiary education for senior citizens are ageist and counter-productive....
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Vincent Van Ross, New Delhi
With the attack on Mir Kazim Ali Khan in Melbourne on Monday (reported in the Delhi edition of The Hindustan Times on June 24, 2009), the number of attacks in the...
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Daniel, Brisbane
There have been two more attacks against Indians in Melbourne. While a student from Hyderabad was mugged, an Indian taxi driver was attacked by passengers. Earlier, a...
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The police came to Aye Aye Thant’s home late one night soon after the ruling Myanmar junta had declared her a dangerous political dissident. The officer was a...
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Troels, Brisbane
An e-mail at the centre of opposition attempts to oust Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is a fake, according to police. The e-mail was purported to have been sent...
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Byron Clark, Christchurch
After successive governments campaigning on and then implementing “tough on crime” policies, New Zealand has achieved one of the highest per-capita incarceration...
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New Zeakand and Australian trade ministers met with their Pacific counterparts in Samoa yesterday to negotiate an “enhanced version” of the Pacific Agreement on...
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Pat, Sydney
It is a tale worthy of a Scorsese script: warring factions and families embark a bloody battle to reign over a city’s organised crime scene, spanning two decades and...
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Michael Kerjman, The Earth
It is hard to wonder a world with Australia’s researches. Just released, results of survey on how ethnic names affect employment opportunities in Australia hardly...
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Byron Clark, Christchurch
Research at Massey University has shown that agricultural workers have the highest incidence of leukaemia of all New Zealand occupation groups. The cause is expected to...
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May 4 2009 by AP0 Comments

Southern hemisphere countries that have largely escaped swine flu infections could soon become more vulnerable, experts warn, as the approaching winter brings with it an elevated risk of the virus spreading and mutating.

 
 
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Australia plans to buy 100 state-of-the-art U.S. jet fighters and double the size of its modest submarine fleet in a bid to keep pace with an Asian military buildup.

 
 
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Fiji’s military ruler defied international pressure to announce elections by Friday, confirming that he would not hold them for at least five years and setting the stage for his country’s ouster from a South Pacific bloc.

 
 
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A pack of mice mauled a bedridden 89-year-old man at an Australian nursing home, shredding parts of his ears and prompting the government Thursday to launch an investigation into the facility.

 
 
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A jetliner carrying more than 225 people slammed its tail into the runway during takeoff from Australia because someone programmed the wrong weight for the plane into a flight computer, investigators said Thursday.

 
 
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The International Olympic Committee is concerned that moves to restrict media coverage of sports will erode free speech, former IOC vice president Kevan Gosper told an Australian Senate hearing Wednesday.

 
 
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For 22 New Zealand teenagers, it was the trip of a lifetime: three weeks in Mexico practicing Spanish and visiting the pyramids of Oaxaca and other famous sites.

 
 
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Australia announced Wednesday it will increase by almost one half its troops in Afghanistan to about 1,550 as part of the U.S.-led surge of international forces to bolster the faltering fight against Taliban insurgents.

 
 
Apr 29 2009 by AP0 Comments

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says Australia will send 280 additional troops to Afghanistan, increasing the overall Australian deployment there to about 1,380.

 
 
Apr 28 2009 by AP0 Comments

New Zealand’s health minister and an Israeli hospital are reporting the first confirmed cases of swine flu to hit the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific regions.

 
 
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