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Australia expands sanctions on Iran
SYDNEY — Australia expanded sanctions against Iran to restrict business with the country’s petroleum and financial sectors as concern mounts over Tehran’s suspected nuclear weapons programme. Britain, Canada and the United States slapped fresh sanctions last month on Iran following a UN agency report that strongly suggests the country is…
Australia plans world’s largest marine reserve
The Australian government has said it plans to establish the world’s biggest marine protection zone to safeguard a huge swathe of the Coral Sea, a biodiversity hotspot brimming with life. The proposed Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve off the northeast coast of Australia would cover about 990,000 square kilometres (380,000…
Australia to make forced marriage illegal
Australia on Wednesday announced plans to make forced marriage and “slavery-like” practices prevalent in the sex industry illegal. Minister for the Status of Women Kate Ellis said the draft legislation was part of the country’s response to combat people-trafficking and slavery. “Every person has a right to choose whether to marry and who to marry,”…
Australia probes Obama security slip
SYDNEY — Australian officials were working Sunday to trace how a top-secret dossier containing detailed plans for US President Barack Obama’s recent visit to Australia came to be found in a gutter. The 125-page booklet, classified “In Confidence” and containing the phone numbers and contact details of senior personnel from…
Ghana 1-1 Australia
How many more of these will I have to post? Kewell blocked a sure goal with his upper arm. As @georgina_turner noted, his bicep was a-wigglin’ as he turned the ball away. Yes, it was close to the shoulder, but there seems to be little argument that there was a…
Das boots
Yeah, this sort of sums it up. Yes, the German feet were ready for a battle today, and I imagine the Aussies at times might have preferred to be trapped in a submarine. The 4-0 rout by the European side was surely painful for Socceroos fans, but you can’t say…
More martyrs
The men who killed a friend of mine were executed yesterday. Maria Kotronakis of Sydney, Australia, whose two sisters were killed [in the Bali bombings], said she was angry that the men never showed remorse, but with the executions, “justice has been served.” By executing them, the Indonesian government has…
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