Contributor ReportsScreams before taxi driver stabbed
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Tue Dec 08 16:50:51 -0800 2009 | political-news
The 28-year-old Indian student parked his taxi outside his girlfriend’s home on Collier Crescent. He then rang her on his mobile to get her to bring out his dinner when someone approached his vehicle. His girlfriend heard the driver scream...
Union spat over election of new ACTU boss
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Mon Dec 07 15:46:55 -0800 2009 | political-news
Ged Kearney is confident the union will move on from a spat over its election process. The former head of the Nursing Federation was elected president last night. But some right wing unions are angry about the factional voting system....
Australian teenager stabs man 14 times in 20 cent robbery
Source: Xinhuanet.com
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Mon Dec 07 00:00:14 -0800 2009 | political-news
A teenage boy was charged on Monday after he allegedly stabbed a man 14 times after robbing him of 20 cents in Melbourne. The 15-year-old was one of the two youths who approached the man as he was walking back...
Bob Hawke turns 80
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Tue Dec 08 13:43:00 -0800 2009 | political-news
Mr Hawke, one of the country's most popular leaders, has remained active in political life since he retired from parliament soon after losing the prime ministership to Paul Keating in December 1991. Labor figures gathered to celebrate his birthday last...
Boy's hand stuck in escalator
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Tue Dec 08 01:06:44 -0800 2009 | political-news
An Ambulance Victoria spokeswoman said the boy, believed to be three or four years old, became stuck while riding an escalator at Westfield Doncaster about 12.30pm. He is being treated in the Royal Children’s Hospital. More to come Join the...
Thousands of crimes at Crown
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Mon Dec 07 16:31:09 -0800 2009 | political-news
Melbourne's ''world of entertainment'' Crown casino than roulette and blackjack. A police report has highlighted money laundering, prostitution, cheating and thousands of other offences, including robbery and assault, over a three-period at Victoria's monopoly casino.
Construction activity shrinks in November
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Sun Dec 06 16:31:32 -0800 2009 | political-news
The Australian Industry Group (AI)/Housing Industry Association Performance of Construction Index (PCI) shrank by 3.3 points to 47.6 points in November. This is below the 50-point level separating expansion and contraction. The November reading followed two months of growth in...
3 arrested in Aussie Palestinian protest
Source: United Press International
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Sun Dec 06 15:48:30 -0800 2009 | political-news
Three people were arrested Sunday when dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators stormed a Melbourne hotel, officials said. The arrests came when about 100 protesters jammed against a side door at the Park Hyatt Hotel, where Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard...
Australian government isn't saying when Canadian on hunger strike will ...
Source: Macleans
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Sun Dec 06 18:42:36 -0800 2009 | political-news
The Australian government said doctors were watching a Canadian citizen who is on a hunger strike to protest his imminent deportation from the country over visa problems. Ziad Chebib was in a detention centre in Melbourne on Monday awaiting his...
Missing man feared slain
Source: The Age
Melbourne :: Australia | updated Sun Dec 06 04:56:56 -0800 2009 | political-news
The first made him an adoring father and a caring uncle and brother...It is the side his sister, Stella McNaughton, yesterday described as a misguided desire to be a big-time gangster and a longing to be noticed. She said the...
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