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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Thailand slowly returns to normal

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Bangkok and surrounding districts are slowly returning to normal despite enduring a fifth successive day of emergency rule. The government h...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

The Hillsborough Disaster: “They're killing us, Bruce, they're killing us”

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Today’s article commemorates the 20th anniversary of Britain’s worst football disaster: the Hillsborough tragedy which claimed the lives of ...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Amazon: a catalogue of fails and glitches

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Amazon has publicly apologised overnight for blacklisting gay and lesbian books. Amazon spokesman Drew Herdener said it was an error and ca...
Monday, April 13, 2009

Mark Scott, the ABC and the future of Australian media

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On Good Friday, Melbourne documentary maker John Safran went to the Philippines and emulated the feat of a more famous Jew when he had hims...
Friday, April 10, 2009

Something rotten in the state of Fiji

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Political matters are moving with bewildering speed in Fiji, something that was not apparent to me as recently as last weekend. I was there ...
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Thursday, April 09, 2009

CanWest, bankruptcy and Channel Ten

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The CanWest Global Communications Corp has extended a bank deadline to renegotiate a $243 million (all amounts in this article are USD) cre...
Wednesday, April 08, 2009

The demise of El Chino: Peruvian court jails Fujimori for 25 years

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A special court in Lima has sentenced former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori to 25 years imprisonment for human rights. A three-judge p...
Tuesday, April 07, 2009

AP threatens web users who quote their articles

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The world’s biggest newswire agency Associated Press said yesterday it would sue websites that use its members' articles without permis...
Monday, April 06, 2009

Australian Press Council throws out Fiji judge’s "main burden"

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Today’s edition of the Fiji Times had an article about a recent Australian Press Council (APC) judgement of interest to the troubled island...
Friday, April 03, 2009

weddings and anniversaries

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Just a quick note to say there will be no posting at Woolly Days until Tuesday as I am off today for a whistle-stop visit to Fiji for friend...
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Thursday, April 02, 2009

Najib replaces Badawi as Malaysian Prime Minister

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Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi officially stepped down today leaving the way open for his deputy Najib Razak to be appointed in h...
Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Uzbekistan’s Australian goal

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Australia’s 2-0 defeat of Uzbekistan in tonight’s World Cup qualifier was not the only meeting between the countries in the last 24 hours. W...

Arab League Summit ends in Gaddafy chaos

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The troubled Arab League Summit has ended in disarray after Libyan leader Muamar Gaddafy launched a blistering attack on the Saudi King Abd...
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Monday, March 30, 2009

Anti-Bikie laws and moral panic

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State and territory governments across Australia are rushing new and dangerous laws onto the statute books to combat what has been deemed th...
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