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Paige Taylor; 23/11/09 Phosphate mining sustained Adijah Bingham and her seven siblings as they grew up on the remote Australian territory of Christmas Island. Now Ms Bingham’s work replanting native trees is paid for by a...
Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum seekers at an Australian detention centre on Christmas Island have been separated after riots broke out over the weekend. The clashes come amid a surge in the number of asylum seekers attempting to...
November 9, the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin wall, was the occasion for self-congratulation by supporters of the capitalist system. They talked of the wall’s fall as heralding a new era of freedom.
The Christmas Island Shire Council says there is not enough housing to cope with an influx of officials and contractors working at the immigration detention centre. Last month the Federal Government announced the facility would...
A boat carrying 53 asylum seekers has been intercepted off north-west Australia. The boat - with two crew on board - was stopped by the ACV Roebuck Bay south-west of Ashmore Island about 10.30am. They asylum seekers will now be...
Some very big issues are now circling the ditching of a very small jet, a Pel-Air Westwind, off Norfolk Island while doing a CareFlight medivac from Apia to Melbourne on Wednesday night. They include failures of public...
Competition was keen at the Christmas Island Style golf outing in Saturday. “It as a beautiful day for golf at Lely Mustang and only two strokes separated first and third places,” Dick Shanahan, co-chairmen of the event said.
The plane, carrying a medical patient and four others, had been unable to refuel due to stormy weather An Australian pilot has been hailed as a hero after safely guiding his plane – carrying a medical patient and four others –...
CANBERRA (Reuters) - The global economic crisis must not be used as an excuse to unwind human rights for the millions of people now thrown back into poverty, Amnesty International's Secretary General Irene Khan said Thursday.
Sri Lankan refugees are transferred by dinghy to Indonesian ferries from the Australian customs vessel Oceanic Viking near Tamborah Laut, about 14km (8.2 miles) from the port of Kijang and the city of Tanjung Pinang on the...
