australia incidents

Top Scientologist charged with perverting course of justice Updated Tue May 31, 2011 3:07pm AEST One of the Church of Scientology's most senior figures, Jan Eastgate, has been arrested and charged in Sydney. She has been charged with perverting the course of justice in relation to allegations...

Split from Australia So I understand that Queensland is pretty much a gihugic lake right now... Is everybody okay?

http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/11/26/the-torture-of-writing-about-climate-change-at-the-oz-one-journos-story/ Not only is he censoring journalists, he is going to sue an ex employee who says he is.

Police in the Australian state of Victoria have used, for the first time, Facebook to serve notice of a court order upon a defendant. Finding the man, who is accused of harassing his ex-wife, proved too difficult so the police decided to use the woman's Facebook account to officially serve the...

Last year a Canadian tourist was killed outside a pub in Melbourne when his head was stomped on. I heard the judge, who, unusually, allowed his sentencing to be recorded, say that this sort of crime required a harsh response. Seven years...

In 1987 a young, Australian army cadet with no criminal record murdered seven people and injured 19 in Melbourne's Hoddle Street. I remember it like it was yesterday, as I caught the train past the murder site daily. He was sentenced to life with a 27 year non-parole period, which expires in...

The UFO was seen by thousands of people moving through the sky just before Saturday's sunrise in New South Wales, Queensland and the ACT. pJL03T0FROk A privately-owned rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on its first test flight is believed to be responsible. But Doug Moffett...

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A Sydney store was robbed yesterday by a gunman wearing a burqa, leading to a senator to call for it's ban for security reasons: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/1049472/senator-calls-for-burqa-ban-after-robbery Whatever the motive for the Senator's comment, I think security concerns are...

Judge declares that Marriage is not a right for all. Only in Australia it seems....

After a long trial five Sydney men were today sentenced of between 23 and 28 years for conspiring to commit a terrorist act. http://www.theage.com.au/national/five-sydney-terrorists-jailed-20100215-o1fo.html Of course, it has not stopped their supporters playing the "discrimination against...

In what has been termed a landmark decision (the first time a case like this has gone to judgment) the Australian Federal Court has decided that a major ISP, iinet, is not liable for it's members downloading movies and so on. It's significant in that all the major studios and a large Australian...

Prince William has just finished a visit to Sydney and Melbourne lasting three whole days, and the whole nation seems to have gone troppo. A normally pro-republic radio shock jock today said that "Australia needs royalty". People are banging on about "the future king" (which is a bit of a joke...

This is the first time I have seen a bush circumcision that went wrong reported in the media. http://www.news.com.au/national/teen-boys-in-hospital-after-botched-circumcision/story-e6frfkvr-1225817889024

A storm in a chicken bucket? http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jan/06/kfc-advertisement-accused-of-racism Having seen the advert (watch here, I wouldn't for one moment assumed any racial sterotypes - it seemed to be simply a chap offering some fast food to people...... maybe it's...

Outrage over racist anti-Dandenong flyers Springvale Dandenong Leader (followed a link at news.com.au) Interesting. I would have thought indigenous people. I didn't know there were a significant number of Africans in Australia. Recent refugees? From what countries? Some searching around...

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/822038/dive-victims-husband-pleads-guilty Australia's "justice" system is fast becoming a joke.

I'm not sure what sort of coverage the Victorian bushfires are receiving overseas so thought I would start this thread as the region I live in has been very badly hit. Bushfires (or wildfires) are a fact of life in Australia, but I never thought I would experience anything to match the "Ash...

Ah, those Aussies. They've tried to steal Phar Lap and the pavlova - but failed miserably. Now, they've claimed Russell Crowe, making him one of four Aussie legends to appear on postage stamps. The big difference between Crowe and Big Red is that in Crowe's case, you can have him!

It seems that a racially-inspired murder may have occured in Sydney on Boxing Day. Jim Tautari, who was a fairly imposing Maori bloke, appears to have been murdered by a white teenage gang. Racial tension in Sydney hasn't been too flash in recent times, but this would be a new twist as most of...

Doing the right thing, he tells the cops what is going on, so that they will prevent a tragedy from happening. The cops said thank you very much, let the deal go through in Bali, and now his son faces the death sentence. Now, the son was very stupid, was doing something that does carry the...

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16361609-29277,00.html Mamdouh Habib, the Australian released from Gitmo without charge has been stabbed.....No evidence yet that his attack was targeted or he was a victim of random crime. Injuries appear relatively minor. more to follow as the story...

Cited from here:http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/muslims-in-row-over-pms-talks/2005/08/18/1123958182093.html?oneclick=true PM defends radicals summit decision - 18:15 AEST Fri Aug 19 2005 Prime Minister John Howard has defended his decision to leave radical Islamic groups out of next week's...

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9869458%255E421,00.html hmmm, I don't know much about this subject but I would think a house-sized meteorite hitting the ground would be quite an event and evidence to find the point of impact wouldn't be that hard. from the...

From the article: I don't know how to judge this one; on one hand it's a person's right to do whatever with their bodies on the other the person in question is a 13 year old child and although it doesn't become irreversible till 16 it still doesn't seem right.

Perth school defends caging of child Consent or not, is locking someone in a cage outdoors a method of behavour improvement that should be encouraged? Do the illegal imprisonment laws not work in WA for some reason?

Speed camera traps WA cops in KKK prank I've always said Western Aussies were dumb@$$ redneck sh!theads, but do they have to make it so easy for me? C'mon, guys, stick to hanging Aborigines in jail cells or making sure they 'accidentally fall down the stairs'. Geez.

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Thou shalt not commit electoral fraud, or Pauline gets 3 years (damned double posts) Hanson jailed for 3 years Backstory for non-Aussies Memorable Pauline quotes