Serial Scammer at Work Again

A warning to Australian shareholders - serial scammer David Tweed is doing the rounds again. Today I received a letter from his company, Direct Share Purchasing Corporation, offering to buy my shares for half their market value. This man has made millions by mainly taking...

20-year term for power grid plot - CNN International

" Australian sentenced for scheme targeting nation's electricity supply SPECIAL REPORT •Timeline: Chasing al Qaeda •Timeline: Al Qaeda attacks •Timeline: Bin Laden's messages • Graphic: U.S. intelligence • Special Report YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Australia...

Jump for Opposition Labor Party in Australia

"The opposition Australian Labor Party (ALP) is the top political organization in the country, according to a poll by Roy Morgan International. 41.5 per cent of respondents would vote for the ALP in the next federal election, while 40.5 per cent would support the governing...

3M a year leave developing countries (AP)

" WASHINGTON - Nearly 3 million people a year migrate from developing countries to industrialized nations, including 1 million to the United States, a population research group said Thursday. Almost half — 1.4 million — move to Europe, which is nevertheless facing...

Japan proposes 16-nation Asian trade bloc (AFP)

" 1 hour, 45 minutes ago KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Japanese officials have proposed a sprawling 16-nation free-trade grouping with China, South Korea " /> SEARCH News | News Photos | Images | Web " /> South Korea , Australia, India, New Zealand and the 10-nation Southeast Asian...

Blue whale ancestor was no gentle giant (Reuters)

" OSLO (Reuters) - A ferocious-looking fossil with sharp teeth found in Australia shows that ancestors of today's toothless blue whales were not all "gentle giants," a report said on Wednesday. The 25 million-year-old fossil is of an early type of baleen whale, a group...

Australian farmers called to report ugly sheep (Reuters)

" SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian scientists have called on the country's farmers to report any ugly sheep found in their flocks. A campaign called "Xtreme sheep" aims to study sheep with undesirable wool features to unlock the genetic makeup of the prized merino and ensure...

Don't bow to Indonesia, says Labor - Daily Telegraph

" August 15, 2006 12:00 Article from: AAP Font size: + - Send this article: Print Email LABOR immigration spokesman Tony Burke said today it was unlikely the dumping of tough asylum seeker laws would open the flood gates to refugees. The Indonesian Foreign Ministry has...

Australia offers incentives to run cars on LPG (Reuters)

" CANBERRA (Reuters) - Car-loving Australians on Monday were offered cash rebates to convert their vehicles to run on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) rather than petrol in a government move to reduce the country's dependence on Middle East oil. Prime Minister John Howard...

Terror pipeline flows to Pakistan - San Jose Mercury News

" By Cam Simpson Chicago Tribune (MCT) WASHINGTON - A small group of American "jihadists" uses paintball guns to conduct weapons training in the woods of northern Virginia. A 23-year-old Lodi, Calif., man is convicted of providing material support to terrorists. Extremists...

Seriously ill? Get off your lazy ass and get a job

Being severely ill is no excuse for a government handout. That was the message the Pierce family essentially received from Centrelink, when it deemed Matthew Pierce, a 16 year-old with leukaemia, to be ineligible for a disability support pension. In its bureaucratic wisdom,...

Solar Tower can Power Small City

""The tower will be over there," Davey says, pointing to a spot a mile distant where a 1,600-foot structure will rise from the ocher-colored earth. Picture a 260-foot-diameter cylinder taller than the Sears Tower encircled by a two-mile-diameter transparent canopy...