A BOATLOAD of 77 suspected asylum seekers has been intercepted near Ashmore Reef off Australia’s northwest coast.
The vessel is believed to be carrying 73 passengers and four crew – the group will be transferred to Christmas Island where they will undergo health and security checks.
It is the 13th boat carrying suspected asylum seekers to be [...]
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Navy intercepts packed asylum boat
Posted in News, Political news, tagged asylum, Australia, navy, security on May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First HIFiRE hypersonic test flight
Posted in News, Uncategorized, tagged HIFiRE, hypersonic, science, scramjet, space on May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
AUSTRALIAN and US defence scientists have conducted the first successful test flight of a hypersonic aircraft in the HIFiRE program, at the Woomera testing range in South Australia. The series of 10 hypersonic flight experiments are designated as the Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation (HIFiRE), and are being carried out by the Australian Defence Science [...]
Clover Moore’s alcohol clampdown in Sydney
Posted in News, tagged alcohol, Clover Moore, Drinking, drunk, George st, Kings Cross, Oxford St, responsible drinking, Sydney on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sydney City Council is pushing for a freeze on any new nightclubs and late-night pubs in the city’s hot spots around the CBD, Kings Cross and Oxford St.
The plan comes as the council moved towards making George Street an alcohol free zone on New Year’s Eve for the first time.
As part of the proposed measures [...]
Receivers called in to ABC Learning
Posted in News, tagged abc, abc childcare, ABC Learning, ABCLearning, Australia, childcare, collapse, mychild on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Recievers have been appointed to ABC Learning Centres, with the childcare chain’s bankers believed to be owed more than $1 billion.
The company said it had appointed voluntary administrators after a “careful review” of its future. .. whilst most of us know this has been a long time coming.
Education Minister Julia Gillard said the Federal Government had [...]
Grant Hackett retires from swimming
Posted in News, Sport, tagged Australian politics, cabinet Minister, Grant Hackett retires, hackett, olympics, Sport, swimming on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Grant Hackett will announce his retirement from the greatest of swimming careers.
The Australian national swimming team captain will announce his retirement at Swimming Australia’s swimmer of the year awards in Sydney tonight. HGrant Hackett, 28, has spent the last two months weighing up his future after just missing out on a history-making third straight Olympic 1500m freestyle [...]
Diggers remains damaged at Gallipoli
Posted in News, tagged anzac, Australian, bulldozer, Gallipoli, remains, rememberance, sacriledge, soldier, Turkey, war on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Australian officials have requested roadworks on the Gallipoli Peninsula be stopped after reports diggers remains had been damaged.
Road crews have been widening Second Ridge Road, which runs along what was the “no man’s land” between Anzac and Turkish troops during World War I, and is now an unmarked grave for thousands of soldiers, the ABC [...]
ELLE’s new man was cocaine smuggler
Posted in Entertainment, News on October 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
ELLE Macpherson’s new man Brian Burgess has a criminal past, including a botched bid to smuggle cocaine according to the Daily Telegraph.
Burgess, 56, who owns his own removalist company in London called Aussie Man&Van came into Elle’s life recently after he helped her move from Notting Hill, West London, to nearby Ladbroke Grove.
Burgess was found [...]
Student leaped to death to escape rape
Posted in News, tagged Australia, jumped to death, rape attack, Sydney, Waterloo on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sydney Police are investigating the theory that two young naked Asian students fell from a third-floor balcony in Sydney on Sunday, as they tried to escape an armed rapist.
The Daily Telegraph revealed early today that police insiders suspect a knife-wielding intruder to the Waterloo apartment had intended or had already committed sexual assault, forcing the teenage woman and man to [...]
It’s all hitting the fan at Hotel that served crappy ice-cream
Posted in News, tagged Australia, Coogee Bay, Coogee Bay Hotel, crap, crappy, excrement, faeces, food, ice-cream, Sydney on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Have you ever complained at a hotel or restaurant?
The Coogee Bay Hotel in Sydney Australia are alleged to have served up a dessert containing human faeces, and have accused the family behind the claims of demanding $1 million “shut-up money” as it emerged they also had links to a rival pub company.
A second family has now claimed [...]
