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France 24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jarmila Groth will become eligible to play for Australia after she is officially granted citizenship this week, Tennis Australia said on Sunday. The Slovak-born Groth, 22, who is married to Australian tennis professional Sam Groth, will be sworn in during a special ceremony in Canberra on Monday, TA said. "It's a dream come true and I am incredibly excited and proud to become a citizen of this...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Canberra is set for another day of high fire danger after emerging unscathed from Thursday's scorching conditions. Temperatures reached 38.2 degrees at Canberra airport on Thursday, just one degree shy of the hottest November day on record. A total fire ban for the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has been extended to Saturday, and according to the Bureau of Meteorology, low cloud cover could lead...
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Kevin Rudd says sorry for a past evil CEREMONIES in the Great Hall of Parliament House in Canberra are typically attended by visiting royals, heads of state and other dignitaries. On November 16th several hundred ordinary, middle-aged Australians, with pain in their faces and tears in their eyes, packed the hall to witness a ceremony devoted to them. It seemed a miracle that many were there at all....
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BBC NEWS | Nick Bryant's Australia (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Foreign correspondents often like to boast that they watch the world unfold from a front row seat on history, but at the national apology in Canberra on Monday it was standing room only. It was a rare privilege to be in the Great Hall of Parliament House, as Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull sought to right some appalling wrongs. It was an extraordinarily rich experience, and I hope we did not intrude...
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The Blog of Walker (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
So it looks like the Church of Scientology is going to be investigated by Australian authorities over claims from several former Scientologists regarding torture, embezzlement, and forcing members to have abortions. The Times Online has the story : Nick Xenophon, an independent senator, presented letters to the Australian Parliament from seven former Scientologists which he said showed that the secretive...
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Suzlon has celebrated the official opening of Infigen Energy’s Capital Wind Farm in Bungendore in New South Wales by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. The 67 turbine wind farm, located just outside Australia’s capital Canberra, was delivered by Suzlon through a client-friendly turnkey contract that covered Engineering, Procurement and Construction. Dan Hansen, CEO of Suzlon Energy [...]...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia must abolish policies that discriminate against Aborigines in its quest to lift its indigenous population out of Third World poverty, the head of an international human rights group said Wednesday.
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JURIST - Paper Chase (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
[JURIST] Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Monday issued an apology to poor and underprivileged British children who were sent to Australia and other former British colonies over the last century with the supposed intention of giving them a better life, but were instead subjected to childhood of abuse and hard labor. It is believed that there are currently around 7,000 people living in Australia...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
In defiance of claims that the world is going to hell in a handcart, most people still apologise when they do something wrong. Contrary to another myth, however, the same cannot be said about corporations, professions and nations that break society's norms. There are notable exceptions, of course – among them the Vatican's apology to Galileo, the United States' apology to the victims of radiation...
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Fiji Times (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
THE University of the South Pacific team will representative Fiji to the Good Neighbour Volleyball tournament in Canberra, Australia at the end of the month.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
CANBERRA, Australia -- When John Hennessey was 10 years old, he was sent from a war-weary Britain to an orphanage in Australia, where he was told food was plentiful and children rode kangaroos to school.
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
CANBERRA, Australia — Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a historic apology Monday to thousands of impoverished British children shipped to Australia with the promise of a better life. But his government ruled out paying compensation for the abuse and neglect that many suffered. The British government has estimated 150,000 British children may have been shipped abroad between 1618 and 1967, most...
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Disgusted with the system (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Ten-year-old twins Brian Thomas, left, and Kevin James Sullivan carry their luggage as they leave London bound for Auckland, New Zealand, in October 1950. Children As Young as 3 Were Sent to the Colonies. CANBERRA, Australia (Nov. 15) - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a historic apology Monday to thousands of impoverished British children shipped to Australia with the promise of a better life, only...
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Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
CANBERRA, Australia - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a historic apology Monday to thousands of impoverished British children shipped to Australia with the promise of a better...
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