European security officials expressed alarm at the weekend about what they considered an aggressive, go-it-alone stance staked out by the retarded monkey boy in his State of the Union address last week
Telstra’s internet price hikes have angered the Queensland Government and may have taken it out of the running for a major Internet service contract in northern Queensland
Laws that outlaw men kissing in public and criminalise homosexual behaviour in private homes will be repealed by the Government in a revamp of legislation against sexual offences. Ministers are preparing to announce that the Victorian criminal offence of gross indecency, which singles out gay men and which was used to prosecute Oscar Wilde, will be scrapped. They will also repeal the offence of buggery, as well as the crime of soliciting for an immoral purpose
, which only applies to men
America’s puritanical Attorney-General, John Ashcroft, has had a half-naked statue of the Spirit of Justice covered up because he does not like being photographed in front of its exposed right breast
The NSW Labour Council may have a tough time convincing Australian IT workers to carry union cards despite a recent surge of job losses through the industry
Transport Minister Carl Scully admitted using his ministerial car to chauffeur his dog, Belle, from house to house
California’s attorney general sued Squaw Valley USA on Thursday, demanding that the popular ski resort comply with environmental laws aimed at protecting the Sierra Nevada ecosystem
One of the Howard Government’s most senior advisers on immigration resigned in disgust at the Government’s treatment of asylum seekers.
Neville Roach, appointed by the Immigration Minister, Philip Ruddock, to chair the Council for Multicultural Australia, said compassion seem[ed] to have been thrown out the door
Your access to the web is being censored by the Government but it refuses to reveal exactly what it is we are not allowed to see
The Korean government is to buy 120,000 copies of Hancom Linux Deluxe this year, enough to switch 23% of its installed base Microsoft user to open-source equivalents. By standardising on Linux and HancomOffice, the Korean government expects to make savings of 80%, compared with buying Microsoft products
The CIA has recruited British defence and hi-tech companies in an attempt to acquire the latest technology for its spying missions and intelligence-gathering — Labour MPs protest that this would give the CIA the power to snoop on any house in Britain
Pakistan has banned internet access in certain areas including border belt with neighbouring India as a security measure in the wake of war threats emanating from India
Britain will be the world’s first country to use the Internet for voting as part of radical changes to the political system, according to Robin Cook, the leader of the Commons
Is a drunk, rowdy passenger on an aeroplane a terrorist? Is a man who pushes a judge? They are according to annual reports from the Department of Justice. An investigation found that the department routinely overstates the number of terrorist arrests and convictions it makes every year. It does so, apparently, to cook the numbers for Congress, as a way to justify its annual $22-billion budget of which counter-terrorism is a part
A secret group of developed nations conspired to limit the effectiveness of the UN’s first conference on the environment, held in Stockholm in 1972. The existence of this cabal, known as the Brussels group, is revealed in 30-year-old British government records that were kept secret until this week
Zambian High Court judge Peter Chitengi has barred the government from declaring a winner in the presidential election until he can rule on an opposition appeal after being forced to abandon the Supreme Court in Lusaka because of violent protests outside. Demonstrators and opposition groups are calling for fresh presidential elections, claiming last week’s poll was rigged
Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has launched a stern crackdown on Cambodia’s night life, unveiled a new punishment Wednesday for rogue karaoke bars — destruction by tanks
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has denounced as a crime Israel’s decision to ban him from a highly symbolic xmas eve Mass in the West Bank town of Bethlehem
New counter-terrorism measures pushed by a government run out of control
will see more Australian agencies able to intercept e-mails for routine investigations, according to civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers of Australia. Australia’s NSW Council for Civil Liberties has described the move as reminiscent of the Soviet Secret Police, the KGB
Every person in the world would be fingerprinted and registered under a universal identification scheme to fight illegal immigration and people smuggling outlined at a United Nations meeting
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