Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Iranian refugee in Australian detention centre awarded cartooning prize and other top stories.

  • Iranian refugee in Australian detention centre awarded cartooning prize

    Iranian refugee in Australian detention centre awarded cartooning prize
    Iranian refugee in Australian detention centre awarded cartooning prize Protesters hold signs at a rally to demand all asylum seekers and refugees be brought to Australia following PNG government's decision to close the refugee camp on Manus.Image: LightRocket via Getty Images By Ariel BogleAustralia2016-08-28 05:56:14 UTC While he may live isolated in Australia's Manus Island detention centre, the cartoonist Eaten Fish's powerful images are travelling the world. The Iranian asylum seeker ..
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  • Australia's biggest ever disaster training event hits Sydney's Barangaroo

    Australia's biggest ever disaster training event hits Sydney's Barangaroo
    Australia's biggest ever disaster training event hits Sydney's Barangaroo Posted August 28, 2016 10:18:16 Smoke billows out of the fuselage of a Boeing 777 as hundreds of passengers lay injured on the ground. Police, firefighters and paramedics scramble to pull victims out of the wreckage, as more emergency crews try to contain an aviation fuel spill in Sydney Harbour.That is the scenario confronting hundreds of emergency personnel and volunteers as they take part in ..
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  • Labor, Bill Shorten set to block same-sex marriage plebiscite

    Labor, Bill Shorten set to block same-sex marriage plebiscite
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  • Man allegedly added hydrochloric acid to lubricant dispenser in Sydney gay club

    Man allegedly added hydrochloric acid to lubricant dispenser in Sydney gay club
    Man allegedly added hydrochloric acid to lubricant dispenser in Sydney gay club Updated August 28, 2016 15:53:03 A man has been arrested and charged after allegedly putting hydrochloric acid inside what is understood to be a lubricant dispenser at a gay club in Sydney's north-west.Police said the 62-year-old man went into the Bridge Street premises in Rydalmere on Saturday, filling a dispenser inside a room with the highly corrosive acid.The ABC understands the club in ..
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  • Qld bikie debate flares ahead of new laws

    Qld bikie debate flares ahead of new laws
    Jamie McKinnellAustralian Associated PressQueensland bikies would be banned from wearing club colours anywhere in public under Labor reforms to anti-gang legislation.Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk revealed the plan on Sunday, saying it would ensure bikies weren't able to intimidate people."This is not just a Queensland first, this is a national first," she said in Brisbane.The existing Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment (VLAD) Act, introduced by the former Newman government following 20..
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  • Queensland backpacker killing: Wounded man's father praises son's bravery in trying to stop attack

    Queensland backpacker killing: Wounded man's father praises son's bravery in trying to stop attack
    Queensland backpacker killing: Wounded man's father praises son's bravery in trying to stop attack By Nancy Notzon and Matt Eaton Updated August 28, 2016 15:28:15 The father of a British man critically wounded in a frenzied backpacker hostel stabbing attack in north Queensland has praised his son's bravery and sent his sympathies to the family of Mia Ayliffe-Chung, who was killed in the attack. Les Jackson flew into Townsville on Thursday night to be at the bedsid..
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  • Armed man on run in Gold Coast forest after violent home invasions

    Armed man on run in Gold Coast forest after violent home invasions
    Armed man on run in Gold Coast forest after violent home invasions Posted August 28, 2016 15:04:38 Police are searching bushland in the Gold Coast hinterland for an armed and dangerous man wanted over a series of home invasions and robberies.Ben Andrew Goreng is believed to have abandoned a stolen BMW X5 off the road near Advancetown in the Numinbah Valley.Police released a picture Goreng, saying he was believed to be travelling alone in the vehicle, and warning that ..
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Tomorrow's weather: Top of 24C and gale-force winds .Keeping global warming to 1.5C, not 2C, will make a crucial difference to Australia, report says .
Adelaide councillor Anne Moran 'shocked' by CBD high school plans .1900 killed in Philippines war on drugs .

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