Friday, September 23, 2016

Tony Abbott says Europe is facing 'peaceful invasion' of asylum seekers and other top stories.

  • Tony Abbott says Europe is facing 'peaceful invasion' of asylum seekers

    Tony Abbott says Europe is facing 'peaceful invasion' of asylum seekers
    The former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has urged Europe to adopt harsh Australian-style border protection policies to avoid “losing control” in the face of record numbers of people seeking asylum. Abbott said the large numbers of people entering Europe “looks like a peaceful invasion” and said European countries risked losing their character if they allowed people he labeled “would-be economic migrants” to settle there. The comments to a gathering of centre-right members of the ­Europ..
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  • Sydney University reveals real ATAR admissions scores

    Sydney University reveals real ATAR admissions scores
    The University of Sydney has become the second major NSW university to fully disclose its admissions scores after Fairfax Media revealed the practice of admitting students below the advertised cut-off was rife throughout the sector. The move towards transparency from the nation's oldest tertiary institution follows rival UNSW's decision to do the same in June. It comes as thousands of future students prepare to submit their applications to the Universities Admissions Centre for this year's inta..
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  • Cyber attack threats to be focus of Australia's intelligence agencies review

    Cyber attack threats to be focus of Australia's intelligence agencies review
    Cyber attack threats to be focus of Australia's intelligence agencies review Posted September 19, 2016 13:29:57 The rising threat posed by cyber attacks is set to be the focus of a review of Australia's intelligence agencies. Key points:China and Russia stepping up cyber warfare activities, targeting Australia and othersAdvances in technology make cyberspace most likely realm for security threats to emergeTerrorist groups use cyberspace to radicalise followers and pl..
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  • Man 'drugged, stabbed and killed' over girlfriend's debt, court hears

    Man 'drugged, stabbed and killed' over girlfriend's debt, court hears
    Man 'drugged, stabbed and killed' over girlfriend's debt, court hears Posted September 19, 2016 17:51:52 A Sydney court has heard a man who was allegedly drugged, stabbed and then set alight by two brothers was killed because his girlfriend owed the pair money.Azam Charbaji, 25, and his brother Haysam, 24, are standing trial for the murder of Dane McNeill, 20, whose charred remains were found in a suitcase in a park at Picnic Point in July 2014.He was allegedly subdue..
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  • Scrutinise food makers instead of taxing sugar

    Scrutinise food makers instead of taxing sugar
    Barnaby Joyce has shot down calls for a sugar tax, which Michelle Landry says would lead to massive job losses in her electorate. Peter Rae A push for a new sugar tax from the backbench has been shot down by Acting Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, but one Nationals "sugar belt" MP says food manufacturers might need to come under more scrutiny over how much sugar they add to food. On Monday Victorian MP Russell Broadbent challenged his colleagues t..
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  • Former HSU boss Kathy Jackson confronted outside court

    Former HSU boss Kathy Jackson confronted outside court
    The sister of a man who died at the home of former Health Services Union secretary Kathy Jackson has demanded she return his belongings, including his Bible.Ms Jackson appeared before Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday after she was last month charged with 70 offences - 52 counts of obtaining property by deception and 18 of theft Kathy Jackson (in blue) arrives at Melbourne Magistrates Court. Photo: Vince Caligiuri Outside the hearing, the former union powerbroker was confronted by th..
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  • Paedophile priest said children 'enjoyed' sexual activity: royal commission

    Paedophile priest said children 'enjoyed' sexual activity: royal commission
    A paedophile priest told a bishop children "enjoyed" sexual activity and asked the Catholic Church for a $25,000 loan at the same time he was being blackmailed by one of his victims, according to documents tendered in evidence to a royal commission.John Joseph Farrell, who was jailed in May after pleading guilty over a string of sexual offences against youngsters, "never expressed any regret for his actions" according to former Parramatta bishop Kevin Manning. John Joseph Farrell, who was ..
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  • our Garden of Eden has values from the dawn of time

    our Garden of Eden has values from the dawn of time
    I've often described it as an Eden. I've meant it as a compliment about Australia and our idyllic lifestyle, but I wonder, now, as Parliament wastes more time stalling to legalise same-sex marriage, if this country has really evolved much further beyond the days of Adam and Eve.When marriage equality isn't considered a human rights issue but is instead twisted by career politicians into an issue of religion and moral corruption, I have to wonder if these are in fact the biblical dark ages we're..
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  • Man dead, six injured on Vic roads in 3hrs

    Man dead, six injured on Vic roads in 3hrs
    Australian Associated PressA man aged in his 60s has died and six others have been injured in two separate car crashes in Victoria in the last three hours.The man died when his car crossed to the wrong side of the road and crashed into a truck at Ledcort in the Grampians region at around 3pm on Monday, Victoria Police say.The man died at the scene, while the truck driver suffered minor injuries and was taken to hospital.Two hours earlier, five people were taken to hospital after a two-car crash ..
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  • West Australian premier Colin Barnett's tough road to a third term

    West Australian premier Colin Barnett's tough road to a third term
    WA Premier Colin Barnett is confident he will still be leader if there is a party room spill. Philip Gostelow Australian political history isn't littered with too many third term governments in recent times.In Western Australia, the last time a government survived for three terms was during the so-called WA Inc era and even then there was a change of premier from Brian Burke to Peter Dowding to Carmen Lawrence, who was defeated in 1993 after La..
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Blues win race for wantaway GWS backman .Labor promises $40 million to add 68 nurses and mobile dental centres .
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