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Submitted by Yun Lou on November 7, 2008 - 8:45am.
Acquittal
You might remember about a month ago, a 7-year-old boy fed 13 animals to a crocodile at the Alice Springs Reptile Centre. During his 30-minute killing spree, the boy beat animals to death with a rock, then threw them to the croc to finish off.
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Submitted by Feifei Guo on November 3, 2008 - 9:56pm.
When the purpose of overseas study becomes immigration
As an international student, it’s time for me to make a decision as to whether I should stay in Australia or go back to China. International students who study full time for two years can apply for Skilled Migration, but ... although I enjoy my life here, however, I am still struggling because I miss my parents so much and I really want to go back.
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Submitted by Xin Ma on November 3, 2008 - 4:18pm.
Fianna Lin: My cross-strait relationship
For over 30 years, the 180km-wide Taiwan Strait had been the largest barrier separating people on two sides, physically, culturally and politically. However, it never separates lovers living on two sides of the strait.
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Submitted by Fiona Yip on November 3, 2008 - 12:36pm.
The best of both worlds: When reality becomes fantasy
Games have been around for ages. They appear in different forms such as riddles to charades, tick-tack-toe to hang-man, snakes and ladders to chess ... But all that has been digitized now and converted into online computer games that allow you not only to be able to play with friends and family on game night, but to connect online and compete with the players worldwide.
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Submitted by Julia Stolzenberg on November 3, 2008 - 12:22pm.
Generation Y – bored brats or brilliant businesspeople?
They seem to be the ultimate nuisance of modern society with their cool, self-focussed and pleasure-oriented lifestyle. They are criticised for being financially immature and unwilling to take on responsibility ... there is a common perception that Generation Y tends towards serial job-hopping and lacks practical workplace skills and realistic expectations about salary, promotions and job requirements.
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Submitted by Bianka Morgen on November 2, 2008 - 9:19pm.
A long Way to the End of the World
It is said that you can only reach the end of the Camino de Santiago, one of the world‘s most famous pilgrimages, if you have a good reason to do so. Tobias Rosen, a German student, set out for the long way to Santiago de Compostela to find something he lost.
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Submitted by Heidi Cassell on November 2, 2008 - 5:37pm.
Comedy Campaign
There has been a long-term shift of how the public gets its news. In the past several months, more young adults are tuning-in to the late-night television parodies and satirizations of the 2008 US Presidential election than the “real” news broadcast coverage.
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Submitted by Lisa Knox on October 31, 2008 - 4:19pm.
Performance or politics?
This election the candidates are becoming the celebrities themselves. With appearances on popular television shows, such as Saturday Night Live, the David Letterman Show and the Oprah Winfrey Show, Presidential candidates need not to be worried if their political careers fall through because they now have acting as a back-up profession.
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Submitted by Jingjing Zhang on October 31, 2008 - 3:45pm.
Dead-gorgeous jewellery
Forget the dead tiny mouse with a pair of diamond eyes and the brooch with a real bird wing, this time is ossuarium, a container for holding the bones of the dead. Macabre is the forever theme in Julia DeVille’s works. Whenever you feel gruesome or attractive, Julia DeVille is always there.
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Submitted by Zhang Xiaojia on October 23, 2008 - 12:27pm.
Greed Kills
Four babies were killed and more than 12,600 were hospitalized by the melamine-tainted infant formula produced by SanLu earlier last month. At first glance, people thought it was only a random incident. But when further investigations were undertaken, it was revealed that almost every milk product sold on the Chinese market contained excessive melamine.
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Submitted by Liv Proud on September 30, 2008 - 5:42pm.
"Blinded" by binge drinking
Smashed. Plastered. Blind. Hammered. Legless. It almost sounds like a car accident. Pissed. Blotto. Shit-faced. Just the response we hear so often when we ask how a mate was last Saturday night. Only for a country that seems to take such pleasure in getting drunk, we sure don’t make it sound like too much fun.
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Submitted by Zhang Xiaojia on September 30, 2008 - 5:41pm.
Is this a legal hunt?
Animal cruelty cases are not new in Australia. Just under a month ago a koala was found bashed, dead and mutilated in Brisbane’s north-western suburbs. Although the people are searching for the ones who are responsible for these actions, the process is often slow.
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Submitted by Amanda Hawke on September 30, 2008 - 5:41pm.
Bad apples continue to spoil it for female fans
If the code is serious about bringing a female audience to the game, it will need to ask itself whether it’s a few bad apples in the bunch, or if it’s the sport’s culture that needs to be turfed.
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Submitted by Jaya Myler on September 30, 2008 - 5:39pm.
Mind the gap: 9 out of 10 women call for gender wage gap reporting
Survey results released today by The Heat Group, marketer to Australian women, show there’s been a huge groundswell of support for the demand issued by the ACTU for greater transparency by employers of gender pay data.
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Submitted by Katja Lieb on September 30, 2008 - 5:37pm.
The luxury car tax: Hardly fair, unjust and not smart
Family First Senator Stephen Fielding has become a surprise power player in the proposed increase to the luxury car tax (LCT), with the Rudd government expected to reintroduce the bill to the Senate this week with changes that both the Family First Senator and the Greens have lobbied for.
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Submitted by Nicola Mele on September 30, 2008 - 5:36pm.
Sydney Biennale: A real success?
On 7th September the 16th Sydney Biennale came to an end. As I am originally from Italy, a country where art is a substantial part of everyday’s life, I was interested in seeing how this important event could affect the approach of Sydneysiders towards contemporary and visual art.
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Submitted by Catherine Yu Zhao on September 28, 2008 - 2:38pm.
No Papal Chase in Sydney
Nothing happened. Did the pope have better security protection than George W. Bush? Or the Chaser was afraid of religion? Julian’s answer in the public lecture showed the other side of the program’s logic. It is an international event; it’s religion; the police got preparation this time; and it would have been more or less the same plot if we did it again.
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Submitted by Kate Hersey on September 28, 2008 - 2:28pm.
The remote vote – Does it count?
Every time the USA elects a new President, it seems that the whole world is voting. Everyone has an opinion and the media is full of headlines on the topic. On November 4, however, the final decision will be made solely by US citizens. And in an election that looks to be a tight race up until the very end, every vote counts. Including my own.
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Submitted by Maurizio Corda on September 28, 2008 - 2:20pm.
When selling coffee is not enough
On 3rd August, American giant Starbucks closed 61 of its 85 shops in Australia. After over a month and hundreds of jobs lost, I and many other coffee lovers still think about what went wrong and why did Starbucks fail to break the Australian market.
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Submitted by Sarah Jessup on September 28, 2008 - 2:09pm.
Taking on Kokoda
One of my friends is walking the Kokoda trail this year to raise money for breast cancer research. I’ve seen her fundraising efforts, and that of the other women walking, and I have been really blown away. Viona Young had an idea for raising money for breast cancer research, and in her first year of trying raised so much money that only corporate sponsors raised more than she did. This is one of the few things in recent memory that I have been really impressed by. Good luck to all the women walking.
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Submitted by Feifei Guo on September 28, 2008 - 1:36pm.
Are the Olympics all about gold medals?
We watch the Games day and night, share athletes’ pain and pride. We want to know how good our county’s sport is. We hold high expectation for our Olympians. We do care about how much gold medals our athletes can win. But the Olympic Games are a global party. They are truly about participation and enjoying sports.
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Submitted by Jill Burdett on September 28, 2008 - 1:35pm.
Mother blame
Acts of incest that produce offspring have sparked inquiry into the personality of accused perpetrators and the psychological and physical effects on victims and their offspring. In considering the extreme and extended nature of these cases I believe it is fair to speculate on the mother’s role in the incest family dynamic.
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Submitted by Yuhui Yang on September 28, 2008 - 1:35pm.
The battle just began
Some of the Socceroos supporters think Australia will have a comfortable journey to the World Cup finals. However in my opinion there still have some tough games on the way. When the qualifying games get underway again, any small mistakes would put the Socceroos’ ticket to the World Cup finals at risk.
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Submitted by Xin Ma on September 28, 2008 - 1:34pm.
Sydney-Melbourne
Melbourne is on track to take over from Sydney as Australia’s city of the future. While Melbourne is planning to cut the number of cars, introduce a city bicycle rental system, built more affordable housing and increase public transport, the NSW government is abandoning Sydney’s infrastructure improvement. Economic growth in Melbourne has been double that of Sydney in the past 12 months...
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Submitted by Simon Harris on September 28, 2008 - 1:15pm.
Is Qantas too old?
Even though 747’s have been around since the late 60’s they have kept the record for the safest aircraft in history so far. They have flown more than half the world’s population in the last 40 years with 3.5 billion people at the end of 2005. The bottom line is the 747, despite its great safety record, is an aging aircraft.
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Submitted by Jingjing Zhang on September 28, 2008 - 1:04pm.
More reasons keep Generation Y housebound
After the result of a Housing Industry Association survey being announced two months ago, Bernard Salt, a demographer in Sydney, says there are some other reasons besides expensive house rental keep the trend that Generation Y live with their family going up.
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Submitted by Bianca Birdsall on September 25, 2008 - 7:07pm.
Politicians join BHP blockade
Since I began watching this issue a few months ago, coverage has certainly increased, but public interest largely has not. Even if the effect on agricultural supply and pricing is ignored, if nothing more this is a case study of the needs for appropriate oversight of the planning and development process, and the rights of landowners and the state when it comes to resources.
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Submitted by Bianka Morgen on September 25, 2008 - 12:55pm.
Urban hunting
Every Saturday the same: stressed people run through Sydney, armed with the Sydney Morning Herald‘s Domain section. It is hunting season - house hunting season! A month ago I was one of them.
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Submitted by Darren Boon on September 23, 2008 - 3:21pm.
Television food advertising targets children
Child obesity is hardly surprising nowadays. Half the food ads shown during children’s television timeslots were for “non-core” foods like chocolate and fast food, according to a new study by obesity researchers.
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Submitted by soharni tennekoon on September 23, 2008 - 2:35pm.
Blowing hot and cold
Summer’s on its way. And just as the weather picks up and we flock outdoors to our local beer gardens, a dark cloud looms over us. Is it smoke from our cigarettes? No. Ironically, it’s the potential lack thereof. Those who relish the idea of a drink in one hand and a cigarette in the other, your days may be numbered.
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