Christmas Island is filling up, but Port Hedland won’t be an option for housing any asylum seeker overflow — unless authorities can do a deal with Kevin Rudd’s brother.
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Caesareans and other unhealthy contradictions
The SMH series sounding the alarm on rising rates of elective caesarean surgery also highlights some of the peculiar contradictions of our health system, writes Melissa Sweet.
Tips and rumours
The rumour out Bennelong way is that the Exclusive Brethren have given their members special permission to vote at this election. Might at the very least help John Howard’s salvation locally. In contrast to the experiences of other ex-pats regarding absentee voting, the High Commission in Wellington New Zealand were well prepared and I voted […]
Exclusive footage: detention centres, riots, refugees. Remember them?
So far in this election campaign the only r word employed by politicians has been peppered through the treasurer’s press conferences. But the following footage, which has never been released to the public, concerns a subject that has featured promimently in elections past: refugees. The video, which includes footage of the Port Hedland detention centre riots from May 2001, was leaked by an anonymous guard shortly after the riot occurred and has never been aired.
