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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  6 days ago

• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
  1 week ago

• Fruitloops on parade

  
  The Sir Robert Bond Papers — Authority: 437
  So if there really had been a cultural genocide, as the Societe St-Jean Baptiste claims, there wouldn’t be anyone speaking French in Quebec , would there? Some people just need to portray themselves as victims for some unfathomable reason. -srbp-
  2 weeks ago

• Are Liberals suffering from a millstone named Quebec?

  
  ThePolitic.com — Authority: 472
  It’s debatable I think. The main comparison I’d make is that Liberal fortune is so dependent upon the good graces of Quebec and the Conservatives are not. Liberals can’t obtain a majority government without Quebec and that’s mostly because they don’t have The West, whereas the Conservatives can technically ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chinese leader says fight against Tibetans remains ‘very serious’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Islamabad, Oct 27 (ANI): Reacting to comments made by overseas activist groups that Chinese soldiers had executed up to four Tibetans for their role in anti-Chinese riots in the region in March 2008, China’s top Communist Party leader in Tibet said the fight against separatism remains “very serious”.According to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hautala “outraged by brutal assasination” of Maksharip Aushev

  
  FINROSFORUM — Authority: 126
  PRESS STATEMENT by Mrs Heidi Hautala, Chair of the EP sub-committee on Human RightsIt is with great sadness and a sense of outrage that I have learned of the brutal assassination yesterday of Mr. Maksharip Aushev, yet another human rights activist shot dead in Ingushetia.Mr. Aushev was a popular opposition figure in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Harbour Bridge picnic may become annual

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  This mornings massive breakfast picnic which closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge could become an annual event. Sydneys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a city-wide food festival, has been hailed a success, with about 6,000 picnic goers in attendance. The eight lanes of bitumen were given a temporary ...
  2 weeks ago

• 6,000 eat brekkie on Harbour Bridge

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Six thousand people have found the best picnic spot in Sydney this morning - sitting down to breakfast on the Harbour Bridge. The citys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a Sydney-wide food festival, was hailed a success. Picnickers say the event was well organised and there have been very few ...
  2 weeks ago

• Australia faces famine, expert warns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A food production expert says Australia may face a massive famine if governments fail to address an impending global food shortage. A conference of food productivity experts in Sydney this week heard the greatest threat to the world is not climate change, but food production on land and in the water. Science ...
  3 weeks ago

• Swindler Madoff king of ‘wild sex and drug parties’

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Convicted Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff presided over an office fuelled by sex and drugs, with wild late night parties that included topless entertainers, a lawsuit said. His "affinity for escorts, masseuses, and attractive female employees was well known in the office culture," said the suit which was filed in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sailor remembered for ‘living twice as hard’

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Sailing veteran Andrew Short is being remembered as a brave adventurer, a keen businessman and a devoted father at his funeral in Sydney. More than 2,500 people have gathered at the service at St Marys Cathedral to farewell the 48-year-old sailing veteran who was killed when his yacht ran aground during a night race ...
  3 weeks ago

• Derailing (and Re-Railing) The Train of Public Virtue

  
  The Nexus of Assholery — Authority: 430
  Time for the Conservative Party to offer its own model of public virtue Writing in an op/ed in the Ottawa Citizen , David Warren offers his take on Barry Coopers recent opus Its the Regime, Stupid! . Cooper is one of the better-kept secrets of Canadian political science: a paleo-conservative with one eye on ...
  3 weeks ago

• Brimble jury split on Wilhelm verdict

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  The jury in the Sydney trial of a man accused of killing cruise ship passenger Dianne Brimble has reached a verdict on one of two charges. Mark Wilhelm, 37, was charged with manslaughter and supplying a prohibited drug after Ms Brimbles body was found in his cabin on board the Pacific Sky cruise ship in September ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Demise of Off Our Backs

  
  Daisy's Dead Air — Authority: 527
  Off Our Backs (known colloquially as OOB), the longest-running feminist periodical in the USA, began publishing in 1970. I began reading it around 1975-76. Confession: I used to fantasize about being in the Off Our Backs collective. I mean, in-depth fantasies. I imagined it as a feminist heaven, a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pakistan army advances on Taliban

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  The Pakistani military has suffered its first casualties in the opening exchanges of a major offensive launched against Taliban militants in their stronghold of South Waziristan. Four soldiers were killed and a dozen wounded as about 30,000 troops supported by tanks, artillery , fighter jets and helicopter gunships ...
  3 weeks ago

• Consumers push to penalise tardy telcos

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  If you have ever stayed home all day to wait for that telephone repair technician who never turned up, you may have wanted some redress. Now a new consumer advocacy group has called on the Federal Government to make telcos pay automatic compensation payments to consumers when workers are late or fail to show up. The ...
  4 weeks ago

• Australian premier criticised for snubbing Dalai Lama

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Sydney, Oct 3 (DPA) Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was Saturday accused of kowtowing to China over his decision not to meet the Dalai Lama when the exiled Tibetan leader visits Australia in December.Rudd braved Beijing’s displeasure and met the Dalai Lama in 2007 when he was leader of the opposition Labour Party but has ...
  6 weeks ago

• Wrongful detention was ’serious error’

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith has described the three year wrongful detention of a Vietnamese man as a "serious administrative error". Van Phuc Nguyen was detained in 2002 and held in Sydneys Villawood Detention Centre for more than three years. He is a permanent resident of Australia but immigration ...
  6 weeks ago

• Israel to Seal Off West Bank Border for 9 Days

  
  Atheo News — Authority:
  Press TV - October 3, 2009 Israel has announced plans to shut down the West Bank border for almost ten days so that Jewish Israelis can celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot). The closure will begin on Thursday, October 1 and will end at sunset on Saturday, October 10, the Israeli military spokesman announced. ...
  6 weeks ago

• £50m plan for first US-style Jewish centre

  
  Atheo News — Authority:
  Mira Bar-Hillel, Property Correspondent 15.09.09 ...
  8 weeks ago

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