Ben Pobjie's hot tips on how to avoid annoying Catholics during World Youth Day Catholics are people who believe that the entire universe was created just for us by a loving and benevolent and all-knowing God who came to earth in human form in order to sacrifice himself to himse …
Police say they could investigate an assault by television presenter Tony Veitch on his former partner without an official complaint, but it would be difficult. Veitch's assault on his former partner was so vicious that he broke her back in four places.
Tony Veitch today admitted assaulting his former partner, saying the incident happened when he was at his "lowest ebb". He blamed work stress at the time for the incident and said he had been on medication.
Tony Veitch is to break his silence this afternoon about allegations he assaulted his former partner.
ABC News' Jan Simmonds reports: Two of Sen. John McCain' campaign aides resigned this weekend after media reports brought to light their ties to a lobbying group that once represented the military junta of Burma, which the regime calls Myanmar.
The number of people whose work is touched by the internet these days is hard to imagine. Many of us have been working full-time online for a while, but for the vast majority of people online today that's not the case.
If the United Nations is not prepared to lead a coalition to invade Burma, it should be closed down for the farce that it is, writes Tony Ryan The more gullible of us grew up believing that the United Nations was created to stifle aggression, prevent genocide and bring peace to …
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Sam Newman's latest demeaning stunt is the tip of an ugly but lucrative iceberg.
So the lemmings at the Labor Party conference have given the Premier and the Treasurer a bruising. Well may they come to regret it.
WHEN, in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's GOD entitle th …
The conservative double-think on education goes a little like this: such has been the breakdown in discipline in the school system that teachers have lost control over classrooms.
Nick Minchin wields a fair bit of influence within the federal parliamentary Liberal Party, especially with John Howard out of the way.
NATALIE Karam, a second-year university law student, recently changed classes because she was so uncomfortable about the ideological stance of one of her lecturers.
Whenever I read something that I think is particularly alarmist, a little voice goes off in my head, writes Jessica Friedmann. It belongs to Helen Lovejoy from The Simpsons... And it shrieks, "Won't somebody please think of the children?"
ON THE Thursday before Christmas, a judge sentenced a Melbourne man convicted of raping a woman to 11 years' jail.
The online pornography debate is not helped by making light of the subject, write Maree Crabbe and David Corlett, in response to a previous article in newmatilda. (Warning: explicit content)
Federal Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson has denied any suggestion of the federal member for North Sydney Joe Hockey taking over leadership of the NSW Liberal Party. Mr Hockey also confirmed on ABC Radio this morning he would not be leaving Federal Parliament.
My office is a cluttered mess and always has been. You can't see my desktop, and my books are not alphabetized. I rarely file anything, though I do make neat piles on the windowsills and floor.
A study from the Global Terrorism Research Centre at Monash University suggests that Australia's approach to stopping terrorism might actually be encouraging it.
STUDENTS are recording their university lecturers and school teachers to catch them preaching politically biased material in class.
"What! What did you say? Anyone can do it too!"
LONDON: Changing Britain's drinking laws by letting pubs stay open later has failed to curb binge drinking, government officials acknowledged Tuesday.
BEIRUT: Several Arab leaders say they may boycott the annual Arab summit meeting scheduled for this month in Damascus because of anger at Syria over its role in Lebanon and ongoing links to Iran.
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