Category: Australia

Water: Australia Running Dry

28 Jul 2006 @ 09:16 GMT | Permalink | Comments (2)

An Australian city will be completely out of water in four months. Another is looking into recycled sewage water. Politicians have largely ignored the issue and admit in private that they are scared to lose their jobs for supporting recycled sewage water.

Only 0.01 percent of 1.4 billion cubic kilometers of water on the planet is easily accessible. And even that is dwindling.

When resources are scarce, ignorant people fight over it. Opportunists profit from the shortage. And both are happening right now.

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TAGGED: Australia | Development | Shortage | Sustainability | Water

Timor-Leste: Trouble in Paradise

15 Jun 2006 @ 13:56 GMT | Permalink | Comments

This paradise could go up in flames again without long-term international help. (Photo: Courtesy Timor-Leste Tourism Ministry)

East Timor is another lesson for the United Nations as well as Australia that stability and democracy do not develop overnight -- even in this paradise.

Kofi Annan wants U.N. peacekeepers to get back in there at East Timor's request. But Australia, like the United States, told the world body to stay out of its backyard and to concentrate on only humanitarian and development projects.

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Psyop: Barry Manilow vs. Car 'Hoons'

06 Jun 2006 @ 15:31 GMT | Permalink | Comments

Barry Manilow's music is being enlisted as the weapon of choice in a psychological warfare against Australian youths who are revving the engines of their souped-up cars and playing ground-thumping music at a neighborhood parking lot. Officials are hoping the crooner's tunes are just as repulsive to them as Bing Crosby's "My Heart Is Taking Lessons" was to mall-going teenagers. General Noriega and the Vatican might appreciate the effects of music from loudspeakers.

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Mr. Howard: Remember the Tampa

12 Dec 2005 @ 15:16 GMT | Permalink | Comments

A dark-skinned male, who appears to be of Indian descent, is beaten up by a flash mob of white Australians. (Photo: The Age)

Australian Prime Minister John Howard's response to Cronulla, the country's worst race riots since the 1860-1861 Lambing Flat rebellion, amounted to a denial of the closet racism that guts through this former penal colony. Instead of addressing the seeds of violence, Mr. Howard passed on the problems -- just like he did with MV Tampa in 2001. Mr. Howard did everything in his power, including force, to keep 430 mostly Afghan asylum seekers from reaching Australia and, under the "Pacific Solution," paid other countries to accept them.

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