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UN Vote: Australia Backs Israeli War Crimes
World  (tags: Palestine, Israel, colonialism, imperialism, u.s., usa, Australia, UnitedNations, unitednations, UN, U.N., Goldstone Report, Goldstone Commission, war crimes, warcrimes, war crime, oppression, occupation, massacre, murder, war, military, cover-up )

Simon
- 2 days ago - greenleft.org.au
SHAME: Australia & the USA were among 18 countries that voted AGAINST the U.N. Goldstone report into Israel�s war on Gaza. Over 1400 Palestinians & 13 Israelis (including 10 soldiers), were killed in the massacre. The report showed most were civilians.
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Sri Lanka: Australian Complicity in Genocide
World  (tags: Sri Lanka, Sinhalese, Tamil, Tamils, HumanRights, humanrights, conflict, asia, Australia, government, capitalism, racism, abuse, politics, corruption, freedoms, disease, hunger, internment camps, concentration camps, death camps, genocide, holocaust )

Simon
- 2 days ago - greenleft.org.au
Sri Lanka's war against the Tamil people has not ended. 250,000 Tamil people face nightmare conditions detained behind barbed wire in violation of international law, in concentration camps where they are killed, or subjected to torture, rape, disease, etc
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Giant Iceberg Spotted Off Australia.
World  (tags: News, world, Australia, environment, iceberg )

Katie
- 11 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The ice chunk, measuring some 2,300 feet long with an estimated depth of more than 1,000 feet, caused a stir when it was sighted by experts based on Australia's remote Macquarie Island.
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Aussie Birds Shrinking, Heading Poleward
World  (tags: Animals, bird, australia, temperatures )

Katie
- 14 days ago - livescience.com
Australia's average surface temperature has risen more than 1 Fahrenheit degree since 1900. During roughly the same period, the body size of Australian passerine (perching) birds has declined by as much as 3.6 percent.
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Breaking The Australian Silence - John Pilger: "How Many More Wars Are We to Be Suckered Into Before We Break Our Silence?"
World  (tags: Australia, John Pilger, war, terrorism, crime, death, humanrights, politics, world, freedoms, ethics )

David
- 14 days ago - globalresearch.ca
"In Ausralia invasion is not an invasion if "we" do it. Terror is not terror if "we" do it. A crime is not a crime if "we" commit it. It didn't happen. Even while it was happening it didn't happen. It didn't matter. It was of no interest". Oh really? :-)
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W Australia Sea Level Rising Fast
World  (tags: News, environmental, sea levels, australia, rising sea levels )

Katie
- 14 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
New figures have revealed that sea levels along the coast of Western Australia are rising at a rate double that of the world average.Statistics from Australia's National Tidal Centre show levels have increased by 8.6mm a year off the coast.....
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Pope's Gambit Could See Thousands Quit Church of England - Brainwashed Sheeple Change Sides
World  (tags: brainwashed sheeple, Rome, USA, UK, Australia, politics, money, foolishness, catholic corporate greed, ethics )

David
- 34 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
As many as 1,000 priests could quit the Church of England and thousands more may leave churches in America and Australia under bold proposals to welcome Anglicans to Rome. Entire parishes and even dioceses could be tempted to defect. Gimme more money?
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Maralinga - Our Own Shame - UK Nuclear Bomb Tests in Australia
World  (tags: UK, australia, maralinga, nuclear testing, exposure, fallout, troops, aborigines, crime, ethics )

David
- 36 days ago - sea-us.org.au
Britain actively used Australian soil and people to conduct it's nuclear testing program during the 1950s and 1960s. During the mainland tests many army personnel were deliberately exposed to the blasts just to see what effect radiation had on troops.
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Treatment of Aborigines Is Abusive - UN - World - NZ Herald News
World  (tags: Aboriginees, Australia, abuse?, society, UN, racism )

Karen
- 86 days ago - nzherald.co.nz
CANBERRA: The continuing federal intervention in the Northern Territory's Aboriginal communities has been criticised by the United Nations' special rapporteur on indigenous human rights and freedoms.
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Appalling Levels of Child Abuse Found in Aborigine Communities
World  (tags: world, Australia, Aboriginal, women, indigenous, people, genocide, imperialism, colonialism, rights, women, children, abuse, rape, violence, prime, minister, john, howard, politics, government, racism )

Tom
- 140 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
Children in Australia's aboriginal communities are six times more likely to be abused or neglected than the country's non-indigenous children. Young girls are also routinely raped, often by packs of men, amidst an entrenched culture of silence.
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Wallabies Get High in Australian Opium Poppy Fields, Make Crop Circles | Weird True Freaky | News.Com.Au
World  (tags: australia, tasmania, wallabies, mini kangaroos, drugs, drunk, interesting, opium poppys, stoned, terrorism, violence, world, war, goodnews, lots of fun! )

David
- 151 days ago - news.com.au
In true X-Files-style, Attorney-General Lara Giddings said the drugged out wallabies had been found hopping around in circles squashing the poppies, creating the formations - and hence solving the mystery.
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Floods Transform Lake Eyre - Australia
World  (tags: australia, sa, south australia, lake eyre, salt water, floods, queensland, birds, wildlife )

Chrissy
- 188 days ago - abc.net.au
Queensland's summer floods have transformed parts of the outback landscape, enticing huge bird colonies to Lake Eyre in outback SA. This is a phenomenon that only occurs every 10 years or so .....
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On This Day : 1770. : Captain James Cook Discovers and Names Queenland's Glass House Mountains.
World  (tags: on this day, queensland, australia, captain cook, glass house mountains, sunshine coast )

Chrissy
- 190 days ago - today.wmit.net
Captain James Cook was not the first to discover Australia, as he was preceded by numerous Portuguese and Dutch explorers. However, he was the first to sight and map the eastern coastline. Cook's ship, the 'Endeavour', departed Plymouth, England, on 26
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Asylum Seeker Boat 'Doused in Petrol' - Australia
World  (tags: australia, Western Australia, wa, refugees, afghanis, afghanistan, explosion, christmas island )

Chrissy
- 221 days ago - abc.net.au
Authorities are investigating whether a fatal explosion on a boat carrying 49 Afghanis off Australia's north-west coast was an act of sabotage. The fire, which started about 8.15am as the boat was being escorted to Christmas Island, has left at least 3
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Outback Homestead Gets Twist of Luxury - Western Australia
World  (tags: australia, western australia, wa, travel, holiday, vacation, home valley, luxury )

Chrissy
- 221 days ago - news.com.au
AFTER setting up a couple of chairs, David Legge uncorks the champagne and lays out the cheese platter - for us to enjoy a spectacular sunset. We're at Home Valley, 120km north-west of Kununurra in the East Kimberley, and the red, orange and yellow hues
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