Child support debt is tripled by adding penalties in Hobbit-world. You think America is the only place where non-custodial parents (read, Dads) are rorted by money seeking officials? GovernOrcs swarm everywhere.
Child support debt is tripled by adding penalties in Hobbit-world. You think America is the only place where non-custodial parents (read, Dads) are rorted by money seeking officials? GovernOrcs swarm everywhere.
173 people have been killed in fires raging through Australia, making this the deadliest bushfire in Australian history. Nearly 815,447 acres (330,000 hectares) have been burned and 750 homes have been burned to the ground. In 1983, 75 people were killed on what was dubbed the Ash Wednesday fires. 71 people were killed in...
Michael Ray Aquino, a former Philippines National Police officer serving six years imprisonment in McRae, Georgia for espionage could now be eligible for immediate release after a United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit judge panel Friday modified a United States District Court for the District of New Jersey’s judgment, ordering a...
Severe flooding in the island nation of Fiji have killed eight people and have forced thousands to evacuate the area. The flooding was mainly in the western part of the country’s main island, Viti Levu, where most of the resorts hosting international travelers are located. Fiji’s National Disaster Office has advised all tourists still...
South Australia’s Department of Environment and Heritage has announced that the Simpson Desert in Central Australia will close annually from December 15 through to March 1. The department says a risk assessment showed temperatures of 40 to 50ºC (104 to 122ºF were dangerous for people crossing the desert. The closure will affect the Simpson...
The three Islamic militants found guilty of the 2002 Bali bombing have been executed on the island of Nusakambangan. Huda bin Abdul Haq, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim and Imam Samudra were executed by firing squad shortly after midnight. It had been announced that the three would be killed in November but no date was given...
Bart Cummings wins his 12th Melbourne Cup with Viewed ridden by Blake Shin. Bauer ridden by C W Brown was second after the photo finish, with C’est La Guerre ridden by B Prebble coming third. Honolulu was the last placed horse. Cummings began training in 1953. His first Cup win was with Light Fingers...
A police officer at the annual Bathurst 1000 motorsport event in Bathurst, New South Wales has been assaulted by a dildo, with another man arrested for publically displaying pornography. Police allege that a 22-year-old man from Moss Vale approached a male police officer seated inside a police vehicle. It is alleged the man launched...
Christian Pastor for the Planetshakers youth movement in Australia Michael Guglielmucci has admitted that his cancer is a hoax. Wikinews has also learned that one of the churches he preached at has had videos showing his claims of cancer removed from YouTube, claiming copyright infringement. He has also admitted to being addicted to pornography...
After auctioning off his entire life on eBay for $399,300 Australian dollars, Ian Usher says he is “a little bit disappointed” at the final selling price. The 44-year-old British immigrant living in Perth, Australia, put all of his worldly belongings up for sale on the popular auction website, including his three-bedroom house and all...
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) conference, held in Canberra, Australia, received mixed messages on Tuesday about the health of Australians. While average life expectancy is 81.4 years, second only to Japan’s 82.2, and rates of cancer, heart disease and stroke are dropping, incidence of obesity, alcohol-related diseases, and sexually transmitted infections...
Australian economic growth forecast for 2008/09 have been reduced by 2.75% as the impact of the gas crisis ripples through the economy. Federal Resources Minister Martin Ferguson said today that disruption to economic activity is expected as Western Australian companies layoff thousands of works with mining and industrial companies forced to cut back production....
The gas crisis in Western Australia deepens with more business standing people down without pay. Businesses have been instructed to turn off non-essential items including limiting the number of lifts and reduced lighting, domestic customers are urged to reduce energy use. In the Federal parliament today Resources Minister Martin Ferguson raised the prospect of...
A drug trial in Sydney, Australia was aborted yesterday after several jurors were found to be playing sudoku puzzles during proceedings. The Crown trial, in which Andrew Daniel Lonsdale and Kane Holland were accused of conspiracy to manufacture a commercial quantity of amphetamines, had been running for over three months, involved 105 witnesses and...
by Steve Farrell first published Feb. 21, 2003 in NewsMax.com Every now and then a book comes along that is a must-read for its frank, fearless, no-nonsense approach to uncomfortable political questions, questions the mainstream media would rather you and I never ask – questions not only about the left, mind you, but about...
In the New South Wales today, thousands of people joined a protest including 15 Labor Members of Parliament about the State Government’s plans to privatize the electricity industry. The MPs included Paul Gibson, Upper House president Peter Primrose, and former MPs Kerry Hickey and Grant McBride. Mr Gibson was reported as saying, “I’m a...
Discontent with parliament having to sit on a Friday without question time, the Australian opposition parties (comprising the Liberal/National coalition) vowed to continue disrupting Friday sittings until the government bows to its demands. The vow follows a sitting on Friday where the House of Representatives descended into chaos. The opposition says it is protesting...
A 33-year-old Somalian woman was arrested after she stabbed two pilots in an attempt to hijack a New Zealand passenger plane. The 19-seater on Eagle Airways Flight NZ2279, was travelling from Blenheim to Christchurch when the incident occurred. Eagle is a regional commuter carrier division of Air New Zealand. According to media reports, the...
Australia will press on with plans to withdraw its troops from Iraq in June this year, although promises were made by the nation’s foreign minister that relations with the United States will not be affected by the move. Foreign minister Stephen Smith said that the withdrawal will be conducted in an orderly fashion to...
Monsoonal rains in Queensland, Australia have caused massive flooding over two thirds of the state, and led Emergency Services Minister Neil Roberts to declare the town of Emerald a disaster zone. The floods, which first hit the north part of the state a week ago, have since spread as far south as Charleville, where...
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