According to the latest HREOC report, minors continue to be detained in detention centres, and all of them are children who've been picked up by customs on illegal fishing boats.
Finally, after years of speculation, Bill's better half has officially thrown her hat in the ring, with Senator Hillary Clinton officially announcing on her website : "I'm in. And I'm in to win."
Crikey has obtained previously unreleased copies of internal reports that give a damning indication of the poisonous culture within the NSW police force.
The latest West Australian rumour doing the rounds in Perth is that controversial editor Paul Armstrong's days at the paper are numbered.
It's the face of Tourism Australia and Channel Nine ice skater's summer of love, as the smirky media reports refer to Lara Bingle as a "keen sports fan." But is there a not-so-subtle hint of moral outrage about all this coverage of the 19-year-olds love life?
The work area dubbed Nappy Alley by West Australian staff because it’s made up of mums who’ve returned from maternity leave has halved from six to three employees after three female senior journalists resigned this week, accusing editor Paul Armstrong of making their positions untenable.
In a May profile, an industry observer told Good Weekend magazine, "‘There’s a saying in Melbourne, ‘Don’t cross the fat man.'” Now Harold Mitchell, the big man of Australia's advertising industry, is about to get a whole lot bigger.
Did the Tele know about Iktimal Hage-Ali's 22 November arrest and release without charge when they dubbed her the state's most promising young Muslim leader?
It looks like Fairfax could finally be getting serious about this thing they called the world wide web. This morning The Oz is reporting that Fairfax is believed to be planning a launch of internet-only titles in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth early next year.
Western Australian Attorney General Jim McGinty has launched a scathing attack on The West Australian and its editor and the Director of Public Prosecutions will soon commence contempt of court proceedings against Paul Armstrong and his paper after information published in the The West on Monday led to a manslaughter trial being aborted on its final day.
