I spent a chunk of my 20s living elsewhere. London, Berlin and Glasgow – genuinely hard, complex and sometimes troubled cities. They had their fair share of blokes out looking for trouble, but like most big cities you always felt safe, despite the edgy undercurrent.
You’d go out at night and there would be drunks and arguments, but the overwhelming impression was of people enjoying themselves.
Like most expats, I read emails, articles and third-hand accounts of my home city of Melbourne, which apparently had gone to the dogs — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Royal pardon for Harry Breaker
Morant has been refused in a modern-day appeal that is as mysterious as the century-old case that saw the Australian soldier executed — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A nuclear cooperation agreement which will see Australia sell uranium to Russia has been ratified by the countries’ two leaders at the G20 summit in South Korea — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The RSPCA has described a sentence given to a man who beat, kicked and threw a puppy as inadequate — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Remember the old saying about being innocent until proven guilty
? Well, the latest version of New Zealand’s Copyright Amendment Bill has a farcical reversal of this, which has created rightful outrage — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The amount of unpaid overtime Australians work is again in the spotlight, with a new survey revealing four in five overtime workers want to work fewer hours — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Roman Catholic monks in Switzerland have placed job advertisements in newspapers as part of a recruitment drive — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An 11-year-old country Victorian girl who was abused for years has had a baby.
Police last night confirmed they charged a 30-year-old man in September with 18 offences relating to rape, sexual penetration of a child under 16 and assault with intent to rape — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The NSW Greens have called for a full inquiry into NSW laws that allow religious schools to discriminate against students and teachers on the basis of sexual orientation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
South Australia is the latest state to make a move towards legislating for same-sex marriage — via redwolf.newsvine.com
South Africa’s largest hospital group has admitted it received millions of dollars for illegal kidney transplant operations performed at one of its facilities — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Opinions are divided over whether the High Court’s ruling on South Australia’s anti-bikie laws will have implications for other states with similar legislation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australia’s deadly red-back spider has established itself in New Zealand, posing a significant risk to humans as it threatens to colonise major cities, researchers have found — via ABC News
The Somali gang members, with nicknames like Fatboy
, Forehead
and Pinky
, passed the girls around like chattel for sex with other gang members or with paying customers. One girl they sold for liquor. Another they pimped for a blunt. Sometimes, they picked the girls up from school, to have sex in apartments or abandoned garages or even in a restroom stall in a suburban shopping mall.
Twenty-nine people, mostly from the Twin Cities, are accused of running an interstate human trafficking ring that sold Somali girls — one as young as 12 — into prostitution. In a federal indictment made public in Nashville on Monday, officials accused gang members of running a decade-long prostitution business that included credit card fraud and burglary totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. Their alleged crimes crossed state lines, as investigators say girls were driven from the Twin Cities to Nashville and Columbus, Ohio. Another victim was allegedly sexually assaulted in Seattle — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australian governments implementing smart card systems for public transport must include contactless payment methods in their roll-out, according to Visa’s ANZ general manager Chris Clark — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Today, on World Contraception Day, the Surya clinic in Patna city in the Indian state of Bihar will, as always, be full of women, their children and their travel companions, waiting to see the doctors for family planning services. The female doctors are young, many recent graduates of the medical colleges, and sometimes pairing up to counsel clients on contraceptive methods. The government of India has accredited this private clinic run by the Janani network so that women opting for birth control pills, a 10-year IUD, or a three-month injectable contraceptive pay nothing. The government reimburses private clinics offering these services — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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