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Oct 29 2009
AN eight-year-old boy has been hailed a hero after he hot-wired a two-way radio to call for help as his dad lay trapped in the wreckage of a horror truck rollover. Michael Bowron stripped the radio wires and connected them to a spare battery he found...
Aug 27 2009
A United Nations envoy slammed Australia’s military-led intervention in remote Aboriginal communities and said racism was “entrenched” in the country, in a damning assessment on Thursday. UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Rights...
Aug 4 2009
Police in Australia foiled a plot for commando-style suicide attacks on at least one army base, arresting four men Tuesday with suspected links to a Somali Islamist group, senior officers said. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the plot was a “sober...
Jun 22 2009
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 to a treasury official by Mr Rudd’s office, to help his car dealer friend get a...
May 21 2009
The latest defence White Paper recommends buying 100 advanced F-35 jet fighters and 12 powerful submarines equipped with cruise missiles, a capability which no other country in the region is believed to possess. The “potential instability”...
Mar 24 2008
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