βWe are human beings, why are we ignored?β, a Tamil refugee inside the Christmas Island detention centre told ΒιΆΉΣ³» Weekly on the night of January 28.
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The article below is abridged from Aporea.org. It has been translated by Kiraz Janicke.
On December 16, the Victorian state government passed the Summary Offences and Control of Weapons Acts Amendment Bill 2009.
On January 14, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that Google had removed links to Encyclopedia Dramatica, a user-editable, βsatiricalβ website that uses the same MediaWiki software as Wikipedia.
More than 1000 gathered on January 17 to protest the enforced closure of the Tote hotel, a victim of changes to Victoriaβs liquor licensing laws that have seen the popular inner-city music venue upgraded to a βhigh riskβ venue.
Child detention Congratulations to Sue Gilbey for winning the International Bremen Peace Award and working to end Australia's shameful treatment of asylum seekers. (Suffering in the 'lucky country', GLW #822). My country, Scotland, also treats
Avatar is real: the fictional planet of Pandora exists in South and Central America, and the Na'vi peoples are being displaced and killed right now. The names are different, but the facts are almost the same.
Politicians and newspapers love to revere a war hero from Afghanistan. Itβs strange, then, that they havenβt got round to Lance-Corporal Joe Glenton, the British soldier who has been arrested for addressing an anti-war protest in October.
The recent murder of Nitin Garg highlighted continuing violence against Indian students. It has led some to ask βIs Australia a racist country?β and put others on the defensive about Australiaβs racist image.
On June 10, 2006, the commander of US-run Guantanamo Bay military camp, Rear Admiral Harry Harris, said three detainees, Salah Al-Aslami, Yasser Talal al-Zahrani and Mani Shaman al-Utaybi, had committed suicide the night before in an act of βasymmetrical warfareβ.
A nightclub in Singapore held an event on January 16 encouraging women to have their breast size judged in exchange for alcohol. Material for the event titled Fill my Cups invited women to βstep right up to the Boobie Booth and flaunt what youβve gotβ.
Children are the biggest victims of the war in Afghanistan, a January 6 AFP article said. It quoted an Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) report, which said more than 1050 people under 18 years of age were killed in 2009 alone.
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