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1.1KAsylum Seeker Myth Buster
*Picture: Christmas Island wreck, from ABC News online. Myth: Asylum seekers are illegal immigrants FACT: Asylum seekers are neither illegal nor are...
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Dream over for boat people back in Sri Lanka
On a beach in the midday breeze fishermen stitch their nets and smoke, waiting for the wind and weather to turn favourable....
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Abbott the boatie
In an additional policy release on Asylum Seekers on part of the policy offer was a $20M boat buyback scheme for Indonesia....
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Riots and suicide attempts are very likely
A response to: Loosing the dogs of Xenophobia Tony Abbott plans to assess the almost 32.000 people waiting in detention centres using...
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Tax Dodgers Sans Frontières
It is more truly global than the “global war on terrorism”, more quixotic than the global war on the drug trade, and...
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UK GM wheat trial boss joins CSIRO
It has recently been announced that Professor Maurice Moloney, previously working for the Rothamsted Research in the UK, is leaving his post...
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Former Gunns boss John Gay avoids jail for insider trading
The former chairman of the failed Tasmanian timber company Gunns has avoided jail for insider trading and has instead been fined $50,000....
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Greens compassionate refugee plan will save billions
The Australian Greens have released costing details of their election policy on asylum seekers which will save taxpayers $3.2 billion over the...
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It’s all lies
Picture by Tom Ellison I don’t remember their names. I just recall worrying, that aged 17 and 18 respectively, they might be...
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Misled! How Hydro-Tasmania Played Down Its “Essential” Role In Sarawak
Hydro-Tasmania’s tantrums over the recent Dateline Australia film ‘Last Frontier’ have been exposed as entirely misleading. A report by Sarawak Energy Bhd...
