Nov 23 2010
WASHINGTON — In the first comprehensive global survey of temperature trends in major lakes, NASA researchers determined Earth’s largest lakes have warmed during the past 25 years in response to climate change. Researchers Philipp Schneider...
Nov 23 2010
AUSTRALIAN women are increasingly putting off motherhood until well into their 30s because of economic pressures and technology that helps to slow a ticking biological clock.
Nov 22 2010
MORE than 80 per cent of university students are struggling with psychological distress, a new study has found. University of Queensland researchers polled 6500 Australian uni students and found 83.9 per cent were mentally distressed, far outstripping...
Nov 14 2010
It’s been revealed that foreign investors have bought up tens of billions of dollars worth of Australia’s prime agricultural land and rural enterprises. A Daily Telegraph investigation has revealed that a swag of government-backed...
Nov 12 2010
THE Australian Government could be forced to abandon offshore processing of asylum seekers following the country’s High Court ruling declaring that the government had been treating asylum seekers unfairly and illegally. The country’s entire...
Nov 12 2010
Some method in the government’s madness is becoming apparent on the issue of skilled migration. A new points test for skilled migration applicants was released yesterday by Immigration Minister Chris Bowen, that confirms a multi-billion dollar...
Nov 12 2010
A VICTORIAN judge has suggested some youths be “put in a dark cupboard at 16 and brought out again at age 25″ after hearing how two teenagers terrorised Indian victims in a four-day racist rampage. County Court Judge Liz Gaynor rebuked...
Sep 23 2010
AUSTRALIA received a $125,000 kickback after India won the Commonwealth Games rights with a $10 million palm-greasing exercise that has spectacularly backfired. Delhi sealed the right to host the Games when its delegates emerged at the final...
May 12 2010
BENIGNO Aquino was set today to become the new Philippine president, pledging to fight corruption after riding on a wave of support from the People Power movement of his democracy hero parents.
May 12 2010
The Government is tightening its belt by limiting real spending growth to just 2 per cent and it will stay that way until the Budget is back well into surplus. So any extra money from income or company tax will go to pay off debt rather than be spent.