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SMOKING causes hundreds of thousands more deaths each year than previously thought, dramatic scientific research has revealed.
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Rape is a crime that can never be condoned. Yet women and girls in conflict situations around the world have been subjected to widespread and deliberate acts of sexual violence.
They died 10 days ago but their deaths were only brought to the attention of authorities on Monday.
The twins were not known to child protection agencies in Queensland, but questions are being asked about why no-one acted sooner.
And people are asking...
Robert Mugabe has been threatening Civil War if he loses the looming Zimbabwe run-off election. What he means is that he is just itching for an excuse to kill everyone who doesn’t like him. That’s probably almost everyone in that...
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I would usually try to say something witty. Something clever or penetrating. This topic is just a little too serious for my usual intellectual flippancy.
I do not know who it is that keeps their eyes on these things. There are a million different...
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The arrest of one of Australia’s top police investigators over an alleged drug conspiracy charge has sent shock waves through the nation’s law enforcement community.
Many of us would be familiar with some of Lockheed Martin’s greatest hits: the F22, the F35, the F117, the Trident missile, the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System and many other complex and nasty tools of death, defense and destruction. It...
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The media maelstrom created by Bill Henson’s recent attempted exhibition reveals much more than just the most obvious issues relating to the contemporary cultural sensitivity of the presentation of images of young adolescents.
If one was to...
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Way back in the deep dark digital past of 1995 and 1996 and long before it was trendy I participated in the then nascent human social activity of an “online relationship”. I was inspired to recall these relatively distant memories by a...
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So, Robert Mugabe wants to kill someone who opposes him and who is clearly more popular than him ? No big surprise, I am sorry to say. You have to wonder why the country has not just been flatly declared a dictatorship.
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