News Source: The Age
| 14 days ago
Rudd has launched a full frontal assault on global warming sceptics, lumping Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull in with a ''new league of world government conspiracy theorists'' he accuses of sabotaging progress on a climate treaty. The attack came...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| 14 days ago
Australia and abroad, accusing them of a systematic campaign to sabotage global talks in Copenhagen and of being contemptuous towards the interests of the world's children. An angry Prime Minister lashed out at politicians and commentators around the...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| 14 days ago
Sri Lankans aboard the Oceanic Viking to step onto Indonesian soil and accept a deal that will see them resettled in Australia or another country. The security permit for the Viking was extended until Friday. The head of the Indonesian Foreign...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| 14 days ago
It's time for some fresh thinking on this asylum-seeker issue. We're running disastrously short of ideas on how to dissuade displaced Sri Lankans from pointing their boats towards the Australian mainland. At the same time, those of us who already...
News Source: Sify News
| 14 days ago
The leader of a boat of Sri Lankan asylum seekers held in Indonesia on their way to Australia is a known people smuggler previously deported from Canada, the government here said Friday. Alex, who emerged as the spokesman for the 255 Sri Lankans...
News Source: Sify News
| 14 days ago
Australian and Sri Lankan officials will hold high-level talks on Monday in Colombo on ways to combat people smuggling and illegal immigration, a foreign ministry official said. Australian diplomats here say Sri Lanka has overtaken Afghanistan and...