A prominent Catholic prelate warned the West is facing a crisis caused by failure to produce enough babies which results in non-Christian nations gaining an advantage in the race to see which religious group comes out on top in the baby derby. According to Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell, “there is a crisis in the […]

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A court in the New South Wales, Australia, ruled if a man honestly believed and could reasonably conclude the girl with whom he was having sex was not underage, then it was a legal action. Until the Australian parliament five years ago changed the law, in NSW it was not an illegal underage sex encounter […]

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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of Australia raised an interesting and far reaching proposal by calling for nations of Asia and the Pacific to envision their own version of the European Union. He noted how the EU has enabled nations that formerly were enemies to come together in friendship and cooperation. “I believe it is time […]

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Australia’s recently elec ted prime minister, Keven Rudd, ripped into his predecessor for misleading the nation regarding the threat of Iraq to world peace. He accused John Howard of deliberately placing Australian troops at risk for listening to the words of President George Bush that WMD existed in Iraq. Rudd asked some basic questions. “Hav […]

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After a five year tour of duty assisting American forces in iraq, the Australian government has withdrawn all of its combat troops from Iraq and they will be returning home. There was not a single Australian fatality during their entire time in the war zone. As an American official told a Washington Post journalist, “except […]

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Australian pollice raided two homes in Sydney allegedly containing two men who were planning or maybe planning or the police assumed were planning some terrorist action. The men were believed to have extreme “Islamic views” which undoubtedly made them targets of a police search for terrorists. The police have been monitoring the two men for […]

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The International Olympic Committee warned athletes their behavior must be appropriate or they will face the consequences. In a strict intepretation of Olympic rules, they were told, “their actions, reactions, and attitudes will be scrutinized right down to appearance, clothng, gestures and any written or oral statements.” For the first time since the 1968 Olympics […]

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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has criticized the previous government of John Howard for failure to stand up for gay rights, but, apparently, the same holds true for his government. Chief Minister John Stanhople launched a scathing attack on the Rudd government for its opposition to the ACT Government’s Civil Unions Bill which recognizes […]

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The Fiji islands have been taken over by members of the military who are contnuing their effort to end democracy on the islands. The military government defied an order from the High Court and deported the Australian publsiher of the nation’s leading newspaper. The oup-installed gov ernment claimed publisher Evan Hannah was a threat to […]

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New pictures reveal the gory reality of Japan’s so called “scientific” whale hunt in the Southern Ocean. The pictures show in stark reality a slaughtered adult mink whale and its calf being hauled aboard a ship. The pictures were not taken by activists who are interested in protecting whales, but by officials of the […]

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