Australia has been branded a nation of racists by a US rap band who claim they were made to feel uncomfortable while visiting Down Under.
Tyler, The Creator, frontman for the group Odd Future which is touring Australia, made the claim while writing on his Twitter page.
People out here are racist, he said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In the wake of the UN report which described disconnecting citizens from the Internet as a breach of human rights, an anti-piracy group has made a somewhat surprising statement. Music Industry Piracy Investigations, which acts for dozens of labels including the Big Four, today said that while they support measures for dealing with infringement, that does not include termination of Internet accounts
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Meatworkers and the newly-formed Animal Justice Party may seem like strange bedfellows, but they are united on wanting to ban live animal exports.
The Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union has backed an export ban and thinks it would create thousands of jobs in regional Australia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Brisbane woman who claims to have been drugged and raped by coworkers in Dubai plans to sue the Commonwealth of Australia after she was jailed for adultery.
Alicia Gali, 29, has already been granted leave to sue the Le Meridien Al Aqah Beach Resort in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, alleging her employer breached its workplace obligations by failing to have systems in place to protect workers against assault — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Cancer doctors are on a collision course with a Catholic health organisation over new religion-based rules which prohibit them recommending contraception to patients taking a drug derived from thalidomide, which can cause severe birth defects.
Under a clampdown at Newcastle’s Calvary Mater Hospital, doctors recruiting patients into clinical trials may no longer distribute information about contraception. Instead they are allowed to offer a statement of reproductive risks
, which advises participants to avoid pregnancy but gives no information on how to achieve this — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy went in to bat for the Labor Government’s mandatory internet filter again, reaffirming the commitment to the unpopular policy. Nothing has changed since earlier debates; the filter still has the same problems it has always had -– it’s useless, unworkable and expensive. It still won’t help anybody — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Gay and lesbian advocates have named the head of the Australian Christian Lobby as having the most outrageous and ignorant attitudes towards gay issues.
The GLORIA awards is an event organised by gay and lesbian advocates in Sydney, aimed at exposing homophobic comments in the Australian media.
Australian Christian Lobby managing director Jim Wallace was awarded the Golden GLORIA for his Anzac Day tweet that said Australia’s servicemen and women had not fought for gay marriage or Islam — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Nigerian police have raided a hospital in the south-eastern city of Aba, rescuing 32 pregnant girls allegedly held by a human-trafficking ring — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Hackers in China have compromised personal email accounts of hundreds of top US officials, military personnel and journalists, Google has said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A bill moving through the US Senate that would grant the government greater power to shutter Web sites that host copyright-infringing content is under fire from security researchers, who say the legislation raises serious technical and security concerns
. Meanwhile, hacktivists protested by attacking the Web site of the industry group that most actively supports the proposal
The federal government has suspended exports of live cattle to a number of killing facilities in Indonesia following last night’s exposure of brutal practices in some of the country’s abattoirs.
Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig said the decision was based on footage collected by Animals Australia that showed cattle being mistreated before slaughter.
I have decided to halt the trade of live animals to the facilities identified by the footage,
he said in a statement today — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A textmessage costs about 25 cents — but for retailer Modestie Boutique it cost it nearly $10,000.
In what was described as a pretty appalling
way to fire someone, Sedina Sokolovic was sacked by text message after her boss complained she had swapped shifts without permission and was late for work — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Imagine for a moment that you are going through divorce or separation and you fear that your ex-partner is harming your children.
You seek help from community services who advise you to remove your children from harm’s way, but you are prevented from doing so because your ex-partner has shared custody ordered by the Family Court. You go back to court to review shared parenting, but a lack of evidence results in your ex-partner retaining unsupervised access. Your children remain at risk of ongoing harm. Unfortunately, this scenario is not an isolated case.
That’s why three major inquiries into the ability of the family law system to respond to family violence were conducted by the Australian Institute of Family Studies, Family Law Council and Family Law Reform Professor Richard Chisholm. They concluded that the Family Law Act and its principle of equal shared parenting were unintentionally undermining the legislation’s clear aim to protect children from child abuse, neglect and exposure to domestic violence — via redwolf.newsvine.com
As a prisoner at the Jixi labour camp, Liu Dali would slog through tough days breaking rocks and digging trenches in the open cast coalmines of north-east China. By night, he would slay demons, battle goblins and cast spells.
Liu says he was one of scores of prisoners forced to play online games to build up credits that prison guards would then trade for real money. The 54-year-old, a former prison guard who was jailed for three years in 2004 for illegally petitioning
the central government about corruption in his hometown, reckons the operation was even more lucrative than the physical labour that prisoners were also forced to do — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The personal data of millions of passengers who fly between the US and Europe, including credit card details, phone numbers and home addresses, may be stored by the US department of homeland security for 15 years, according to a draft agreement between Washington and Brussels leaked to the Guardian — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The United Nations’s top human rights watchdog has attacked Australia’s tough refugee policies and the treatment of outback Aborigines, saying there was a strong undercurrent of racism in the country.
Long-standing policies of locking up asylum seekers had cast a shadow over Australia’s human rights record
, and appeared to be completely arbitrary, UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A prominent Brazilian conservationist and his wife have been killed in the Amazon region, police have said.
They said Joao Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and Maria do Espirito Santo were ambushed in Para state, near the city of Maraba.
The environmentalist had repeatedly warned of death threats against him by loggers and cattle ranchers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A north-west Queensland resident says kilometre-long trains are blocking access to his property for hours at a time.
Jay Mackenzie has to cross a rail line to enter his property at Cloncurry, in north-west Queensland, but he says a kilometre-long train has regularly blocked the road since late last month — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The attempt to use super-injunctions to gag the media in the internet age reached new levels of absurdity yesterday.
A Scottish newspaper became the first mainstream British publication to identify the Premier League footballer who is attempting to prevent discussion on Twitter about his affair with the former Big Brother star Imogen Thomas. Meanwhile it was reported that a High Court judge had referred an unidentified journalist to the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, to consider a criminal prosecution for breaching a privacy injunction with a tweet about another footballer.
The move could potentially mean that criminal proceedings would be brought against 30,000 people who have broken one or other of the contested injunctions by tweeting in recent days the identities of those involved — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The New South Wales Government says it will introduce legislation into Parliament this week making life sentences compulsory for people who murder police officers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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