Tamil refugees forced into sex rackets

Sri Lankan military is alleged running prostitution ring using women kept in the Camp. It is further alleged, no action was taken by the senior government officials although it was brought to their attention. "...

Britney announces Australian Tour

Pop star Britney Spears has announced she will tour Australia in November for the first time in her career. This is the best method to increase fans in all countries. Now she will be popular in Australia also....

Don't lose what the homelands have gained

Australian government policies continue to push Aboriginal culture to the brink of annihilation. See the report on Ethnocide –which defines policies and processes designed to destroy the separate identity of a group, with or without the physical destruction of its members....

New Australian Art Auction House

New Australian Art Auction House - australianartmarket.com Melbourne based auction house Mossgreen recently announced that they would be joining forces with Sydney and Melbourne based art auctioneers Deutscher and Hackett to start a new auction house called Artemis...

16,000 evacuated in New South Wales as flood waters rise

Evacuations continuted in New South Wales as 16,000 have now been evacuated, and over 100 have been rescued as the flood waters have continued to rise in this region of Australia. Two people have been reported...

14,200 people evacuated from New South Wales due to flooding

14,200 people have been evacuated from coastal New South Wales due to severe flooding as wild weather continues to batter the area and it has also disrupted the world's largest coal-export harbor located in the...

Black Saturday: Follow-up to the 2009 Raging Inferno in Australia

An inquiry begins today on the causes of the fires and performance of the fire fighters who fought the inferno that was Melbourne in Australia. I sincerely hope that the fire fighters will be glowing with all the...

Austria Starts Issuing New Fingerprint Passports

Starting today (March 30, 2009) all Austrian citizens receiving new passports will get a new, more sophisticated version with a chip that stores personal information and fingerprints. The new passport will take as much time to make as a regular one, and all children 12 years...

Australian oil spill reaches the beaches: endangers wildlife

Oil and fertiliser that spilled out from a cargo ship off the coast of Australia yesterday have now reached the beaches on Australia's northeast coast. Moreton Island is most affected as well as the beaches on the...

Thailand frees Australian writer

Thai authority have released the Australian writer, who was facing charges for the defamatory writing about the monarchy. " Harry Nicolaides, an Australian writer jailed in Thailand for defaming its monarch, has...

Suspect charged with arson and child porn in Australian wildfire

A man has been charged with arson in the case of the Australian Wildfires, but he has also been charged with one count of child pornography.  Police have put him in protective custody as firefighters are still...

Australian bush fires: man charged with arson

At last police in Australia have cought, arrested and charged a man with "arson causing death" over fires that have killed around 21 people. " Australian police have charged a man with "arson causing death" over one of the country's deadly bushfires. The reports said the man...

Australia Bushfire Survivors Tell Stories of Heroism in Hell

As the Australian bushfires continue to ravage the Southern part of the country, with some counts showing as many as 171 people dead, stories of heroism in the hell fires are starting to emerge.  Survivors of...

Australia cancel Pakistan tour over security fears

In a big setback to Pakistan Cricket board, after India, Australia has also decided not to tour Pakistan on security fears. Australia was supposed to tour Pakistan to play a five-match one-day series and a Twenty20 game but canceled its proposed tour because of lingering...

Australia's coral reef growth is slowest ever

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has experienced the slowest coral growth ever in the past 400 years. This decline of growth rate puts the species that the reef supports in danger of not being able to sustain them...

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