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World News tagged with Australia

Underground Hotel
World  (tags: travel, hotel, underground, australia, image )

Veljko
- 47 days ago - bored-space.com
Coober Pedy is a place where people like to live underground.
GetUp! Campaign Actions - Immigration Detention
World  (tags: detention, Australia, inhumane, children, HumanRights, humans, freedoms, ethics )

Kelli
- 78 days ago - getup.org.au
We call upon you to close a sorry chapter in Australia's history by bringing to an end Australia's inhumane detention regime. We believe that detention should never be mandatory, indefinite or unreviewable. Now is the time to right over a decade of wrongs
Outrage at Light Kid-Porn Sentence | The Australian
World  (tags: children, Australia, child pornography, child sex offences, HumanRights, violence, crime, ethics )

Kelli
- 100 days ago - theaustralian.news.com.au
THE first man sentenced as part of Australia's largest online child pornography sting will be free in 12 months despite being previously jailed for child sex offences, raising fresh concerns about lenient child porn sentences.
Children of Nigeria: Not Giving Up on Nigeria
World  (tags: children, conflict, corruption, death, ethics, crime, freedoms, HumanRights, Refugees&Relief, violence, Nigeria, Wanted Children Foundation, orphanage, French humanitarian, foreign aid workers, Canadian Foreign Affairs, Australia, fundraiser, bureaucracy )

Kelli
- 110 days ago - childwitches.blogspot.com
Courtney Anderson has never experienced so much heartache as she has with Nigeria. A friend was beaten to death by Nigerian police. Another so-called friend tried swindling her. An orphaned baby in her care died because the Nigerian governmen
UN to Meet Over Myanmar
World  (tags: Refugees&Relief, australia, asia, ethics, United Nations, china )

Jeff
- 145 days ago - tvnz.co.nz
The United Nations has estimated those affected by the Myanmar cyclone at up to 2.5 million and called an urgent meeting of big donors and Asian states as the Myanmar junta continued to limit foreign aid.
Canberra, Sydney Protests Over Torch Relay
World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', australia, government, tibet, HumanRights )

Glenda
- 166 days ago - news.com.au
PROTESTERS have amassed outside the Chinese embassy in Canberra over the Beijing Olympics torch relay, demonstrators have targetted the Harbour Bridge and police have arrested four people in Sydney.
Petition: Contact Olympic Organizations: Tell the IOC to Play Fair
World  (tags: petitions, china, tibet, Olympics 2008, Olympics 2008, Olympic committee, IOC, sweatshops, child labor, wages, poor wages, Tibet-Chinese-Oppression, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', HumanRights, humanrights, freedoms, conflict, asia, australia, wo )

Terrah
- 179 days ago - playfair2008.org
The Beijing Olympics may be THE most profitable Olympics in the Games' history. Meanwhile the workers that actually make the goods that bear the Olympic logo aren't profiting at all. Research into conditions at factories producing Olympic-licensed
Rudd Repeats Tibet Human Rights Concerns
World  (tags: australia, china, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', politics, tibet )

Glenda
- 181 days ago - abc.net.au
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has repeated his belief that there are significant human rights problems in Tibet, in a speech delivered to university students in Beijing at the start of a four-day trip to China.
This Is Dropping Knowledge
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World  (tags: tibet, society, usa, conflict, children, australia, africa, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', humans, news, world, unitednations, Refugees&Relief, GoodNews, death, europe )

AB
- 191 days ago - youtube.com
100 questions ..many answers a "must see" youtube video. A meeting of people from all over the world ..a table of voices....watch it...Global Importance
Help Stop the Violence in Tibet
World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', australia, politics )

Glenda
- 194 days ago - getup.org.au
This Monday at midday please join us for peaceful 'Stand Up for Tibet' rallies in Sydney (Martin Place Ampitheatre), Melbourne (outside State Library Swanston St) and Brisbane (Redacliff Place (aka Brisbane Square), Cnr Queen and George Streets)
China Wants Army to Oversee Torch Relay in Australia
World  (tags: China Olympics, HumanRights, tibet, violence, australia, conflict )

Bea
- 195 days ago - news.com.au
CHINA wants its army to oversee the Australian leg of the Olympic torch relay to ensure protests do not mar the event. The move, which has been rebuffed by the Australian Federal Police, comes as Beijing reels from an embarrassing relay launch in Athen
Nuclear War Is Happening!! Without the EXPLOSION! DEPLETED URANIUM ALERT!
World  (tags: 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', africa, asia, australia, children, china, conflict, corruption, crime, death, ethics, europe, freedoms, government, HumanRights, humanrights, humans, india, iran, iraq, israel, middle-east, news, pakistan, palestine, pol )

Michael
- 196 days ago - dailymotion.com
Here is the estimate of the tons of DU the US used in Iraq: 1000-2000 tons - more than three times the amount used in the first Gulf War...only this time it was primarily spread in Iraq's cities, not on the battlefield.
Tibetans Storm China's Sydney Consulate
World  (tags: Sydney, Australia, fifty, Tibetans, protest, China, consulate )

Eric
- 205 days ago - news.monstersandcritics.com
Fifty Tibetans showing solidarity with protesters in their homeland stormed the Chinese consulate in Sydney. There were seven arrests as demonstrators clashed with police after scaling the three-metre wall that surrounds the diplomatic compound.
TAKE ACTION - Contact Australian Minister Foreign Affairs RE China & Recent Arrests of Tibetans
World  (tags: Tibet, human rights, China, Australia )

Live
- 207 days ago - atc.org.au
With the Beijing Olympics only months away, this is a rare moment of opportunity for the international community to put real pressure on China to observe basic human rights standards, including the rights to freedom of assembly and speech
Australia's Hidden Empire
World  (tags: australia, aboriginals, east timor, indonesia )

Rosie
- 212 days ago - newstatesman.com
That Canberra runs an imperial network is unmentionable, yet the chain of control stretches from the Aboriginal slums of Sydney to the South Pacific
 

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