Sydney : Nauru’s government is promising to open up its regional centre for asylum seekers, effectively ending detention.Justice Minister David Adeang says some 600 outstanding asylum seekers’ refugee claims would be processed within the next week.It means asylum seekers will be free to move around the island, something that has been welcomed by rights groups.All […]
Melbourne : Rosie Batty has said she has “a degree of closure” after an inquest found her son’s death at the hands of his father could not have been foreseen. Luke, 11, was bashed with a bat and stabbed to death by his father Greg Anderson at a public cricket ground in Tyabb, outside Melbourne in […]
Melbourne :For decades, Peter Blenkiron remained silent about the abuse he had suffered at age 11 at the hands of his Catholic Christian Brother teacher. Earlier this year, Mr Blenkiron relived the horror of his school days, telling an inquiry into child abuse about how he would be pressed against the wall at the back of […]
Melbourne, Sept. 26 : Hard work always pays off and so did it for a 105-year-old Japanese sprinter who defied his age to script his name in the Guinness World Records book. Hidekichi Miyazaki raised many eyebrows as he set a fresh 100 metres world record in the over-105 age category by clocking 42.22 seconds […]
Sydney, Sept. 24 : The search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 will revisit more than 30 sites that were earlier ruled out, to ensure that nothing has been missed. According to News.com.au, the latest update on the underwater search reveals the decision to revisit “Classification 2” sites where search vessels have previously made “sonar […]