A three-week search by police for the remains of murdered anti-drugs campaigner Donald Mackay has failed to locate anything of interest. Police began excavating in a field on a lettuce farm near Hay in the NSW Riverina district on June 12 in response to a tip-off they received after police offered a $200,000 reward for…
DetailsKevin Rudd, faced with turning around Labor’s electoral fortunes, has pleaded with young Australia, “Please come back!” In a late-night press conference at Parliament House on Wednesday, speaking to the media for the first time after the leadership spill, Mr Rudd said many young people do not respect politics, and promised to reinvigorate their interest in politics.…
DetailsKEVIN RUDD: 57 VOTES JULIA GILLARD: 45 VOTES Kevin Rudd has settled the score with Julia Gillard. He’s taken back the Labor leadership after Ms Gillard called for a leadership spill…
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What drives people to put their lives in the hands of a people smuggler they’ve never met before and jump on a boat? With that question in mind, The Newsroom spoke to one courageous woman who travelled from war torn Afghanistan to Australia. Mariam Sarajsada fled Afghanistan in 1996 with her family in search of a safe haven.…
DetailsThe leaders of eight of the world’s wealthiest nations – Russia, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom – were all present at the G8 Summit on Wednesday. Hosted for the first time in Northern Ireland, the ceremony lasted two days and was opened on 17 June by Belfast school-girl…
DetailsA man who bashed his 18-year-old girlfriend to death in an Ultimo apartment two years ago will spend at least 25-and-a-half years behind bars. Sentencing Sean Lee King today, Justice Geoffrey Bellew described the attack on Jazmin-Jean Ajbschitz as vicious and inhumane. The terror King had instilled in his victim was “unimaginable”, Justice Bellew said.…
DetailsAfter battling each other in Afghanistan for 12 years, the Taliban and U.S. Government were willing to meet and negotiate peace. In a press conference on Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama described the talks as an “important first step towards reconciliation. He later admitted that, “there will be a lot of bumps in the road.” They…
DetailsBrazil police clash with protesters Brazilian police last night clashed with hundreds of thousands of people rallying against poor public services and government corruption. Many in Brazil complain that scarce government resources are being diverted to fund grandiose schemes such as expensive stadiums for the Soccer World Cup in 2014, a Catholic Church World Youth…
DetailsInstagram has revealed its latest update to let users post and share videos. Facebook added a video option to the photo sharing service, which it bought for $1 billion in April this year. Instagram’s feature allows you to post clips up to 15 seconds long in direct competition to Twitter’s app Vine where you can only post six…
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