Some of Australia’s most senior media professionals, including bosses of major newspapers, television networks and websites, have written to Prime Minister Julia Gillard to express their support for WikiLeaks.
The letter was initiated by the board of the Walkley Foundation, Australia’s professional journalism organisation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Legendary ABC TV newsreader James Dibble has died from cancer aged 87 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Historic Scotland has issued a list of the most important battle sites located around the country.
The first phase of the Inventory of Historic Battlefields contains a total of 17 different ocations.
It includes sites in the Borders, Aberdeenshire, the Highlands, North Lanarkshire, Stirling and East Lothian — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Cincinnati police are investigating three cases in which the butchered head of a goat was left on doorsteps of Hyde Park homes — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Former whistleblower and independent MP Andrew Wilkie has issued a scathing attack against the Prime Minister’s handling of the WikiLeaks affair — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australian-born human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, QC, has cut short his summer holiday in Sydney to represent WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after he turns himself in to British police — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australia’s foreign minister has said the US is to blame for the release of thousands of diplomatic cables on WikiLeaks, not its Australian founder, Julian Assange — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Picture the scene: An intelligent young American reporter and her able cameraman are on assignment deep the heart of the old Cold War super power. Their story: Ten thousand protestors, led by a priest, outside a military school that has been proven to train death squads, rapists and high ranking war criminals. Each year some of the protesters deliberately cross into the base and are arrested, in an effort to draw attention to the plight of those killed and have the school closed.
This year, however, the police are more aggressive than usual, and they arrest protestors who remained outside. The journalists are arrested too. They are held for 32 hours then released after paying a fine.
It’s the kind of story that you’d expect to see in the hourly headlines on CNN — and every other western 24 hour news channel for each of those 32 hours. Afterward, there would have been extended exclusive interviews, maybe even on Oprah or Larry King.
And it might well have been — if it weren’t for the fact that the old Cold War superpower in question wasn’t Russia but the US — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The latest document release by WikiLeaks has attracted predictable condemnation from those who have a vested interest in maintaining a veil of secrecy over their activities. To a large extent the Australian media have missed the point of the document disclosures — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The US regards the Foreign Affairs Minister, Kevin Rudd, as an abrasive, impulsive ”control freak” who presided over a series of foreign policy blunders during his time as prime minister, according to a series of secret diplomatic cables.
The scathing assessment, detailed in messages sent by the US embassy in Canberra to the secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton over several years, are among hundreds of US State Department cables relating to Australia obtained by WikiLeaks and made available exclusively to the Herald. — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has been arrested by the Metropolitan Police — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Actor Gus Mercurio has died in Melbourne aged 82 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A poll of 1,200 Australians to find out what issues people are most interested in has found science outranks sport — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A group of almost 200 prominent names have appealed to Prime Minister Julia Gillard to defend WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has again been unable to name any Australian laws broken by the controversial WikiLeaks website or its founder Julian Assange — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Israeli police say they have arrested the prime suspect
in the nation’s worst wildfire – a 14-year-old boy who says the blaze was an accident — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been accused of possibly prejudicing any future case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by claiming he is guilty of illegality
for leaking US diplomatic cables — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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