One of the Church of Scientology’s most senior figures, Jan Eastgate, has been arrested and charged in Sydney.
She has been charged with perverting the course of justice in relation to allegations she coached an 11-year-old girl to lie to police and community services about the sexual abuse she suffered from her stepfather who was a member of the Church of Scientology — via redwolf.newsvine.com
For at least two centuries, it has been standard practice in the United States to place commas and periods inside of quotation marks. This rule still holds for professionally edited prose: what you’ll find in Slate, the New York Times, the Washington Post—almost any place adhering to Modern Language Association (MLA) or AP guidelines. But in copy-editor-free zones—the Web and emails, student papers, business memos—with increasing frequency, commas and periods find themselves on the outside of quotation marks, looking in. A punctuation paradigm is shifting.
Indeed, unless you associate exclusively with editors and prescriptivists, you can find copious examples of the “outside” technique—which readers of Virginia Woolf and The Guardian will recognize as the British style—no further away than your Twitter or Facebook feed. I certainly can — via redwolf.newsvine.com
These days the pretence of fair play is all but gone. The default position of the Opposition is to smear and traduce anyone who has the temerity to disagree with them or express any sympathy with a government policy. One wonders what Joyce would have said if Blanchett’s name was Gina Hancock. You suspect her free enterprise spirit and entrepreneurial flair would have been proclaimed loudly and long.
The dumbed-down populism of the tabloid press is nothing new but it has about it now a vehemence and viciousness that can still surprise, especially in its casual, off-hand dismissal of an Australian citizen’s right to speak her mind — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The New South Wales Government is following through on its promise to reduce the price for longer-term tickets for Sydney train commuters — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A police officer is fighting for his life in hospital after being shot in the face during an armed hold-up on Queensland’s Gold Coast.
Senior Constable Damian Leeding, 34, from Coomera was responding to a triple-0 call at the Pacific Pines Tavern when he was shot in the face as he approached the tavern — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Key players behind the Australian-New Zealand joint bid to host the $2.1 billion Square Kilometre Array radio telescope will launch a grid Cloud computing initiative by September with the aim of potentially harvesting the computing and storage power of desktops worldwide.
The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), along with iVEC, the company running the $80 million high performance computing Pawsey Centre at CSIRO in Western Australia, are set to launch a citizen science
application this year based on the open source Nereus V Cloud computing technology developed at Oxford University. The application, dubbed theskynet
by Australian researchers, would grant anyone not affiliated with the global telescope project access to the datasets formed out of the array’s work — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google made headlines when it went public with the fact that Chinese hackers had penetrated some of its services, such as Gmail, in a politically motivated attempt at intelligence gathering. The news here isn’t that Chinese hackers engage in these activities or that their attempts are technically sophisticated — we knew that already — it’s that the US government inadvertently aided the hackers.
In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts. This feature is what the Chinese hackers exploited to gain access — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Marshfield man who told authorities he came to town with a gun, bullets and plans to kill an abortion doctor was charged Friday with attempted first-degree intentional homicide in Dane County Circuit Court — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Internet powerhouse Google has launched an ambitious project to collect panoramic images across India’s chaotic jumble of traffic jams and shanty towns to add to its Street View service — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Three elderly women have fought off a would-be robber at Malvern in Melbourne’s east after the man threatened one of them with a knife — 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 world’s second aircraft storage facility will be set up on a site adjacent to the terminal at Alice Springs Airport — 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 shortage of pet-friendly accommodation in Sydney is a significant contributor to the high pet death toll, according to Kristina Vesk of the NSW Cat Protection Society — 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
The government is to be urged to relax UK intellectual property laws to make it easier for people’s work to be parodied, potentially paving the way for the more robust humour seen in US programmes such as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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