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Asylum Seekers
Kristina Keneally to make own way to Christmas Island after…
Labor senator Kristina Keneally will make her own way to Christmas Island to visit a Tamil family who have been held in immigration detention since 2019, after Peter Dutton cancelled…
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Democracy
Diaspora Greeks: Voting rights and other issues
The right to be able to vote in a Greek election from the place and from the country of your permanent residency, if you are a Greek citizen, was a…
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Democracy
Ireland to probe Facebook following massive data leak
The Irish Data Protection Commission on Wednesday opened an investigation into Facebook after data on more than half a billion of the platform’s users appeared online. Vincent Manancourt Politico The…
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Central America
Mexico: Online Free Speech at Risk
(Washington, DC) – Mexican Senate Majority Leader Ricardo Monreal’s proposed bill to regulate social media networks could severely restrict free speech in Mexico, Human… HRW The bill would require companies to…
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Features
The UN’s “My Body is My Own” study looked at…
The authors of the report by the United Nations Population Fund addressed for the first time women’s bodily autonomy. AFP – SBS The study entitled “My Body is My Own”…
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Activism
Australia’s ‘lowest priority’: The men waiting a decade to reunite…
Some have now been waiting, alone, for more than 10 years. Rebekah Holt SBS News The rural city of Swan Hill is a four-hour drive north of Melbourne and ……
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Arms Race
Why the F-35 Stealth Fighter Jet Is Such a Game…
It depends on how you wish to fight. Wallace C. Gregson The National Interest The F-35 Lightning II airplane, adopted in different variants by the U.S. Air Force, Navy and…
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Analysis
Shoeshops, tailors, TV repairs: a photographic homage to Melbourne’s vanishing…
Small Business, his new book of photographs, transports us to Melbourne’s vanishing architecture of interior workplaces created by largely working-class, post-war immigrants from Europe. Daniel Palmer The Conversation It forms…
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Central America
Guillermo Lasso: Conservative ex-banker elected Ecuador president
His opponent, the left-wing economist Andrés Arauz, conceded defeat hours after polls closed on Sunday. BBC With almost all the ballots counted, Mr Lasso had won 52.4% of the vote…
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Analysis
More kids are being diagnosed with ADHD for borderline (yet…
During my daughter’s challenging first year of school, we discovered how much effort it took her to sit and learn. Luise Kazda The Conversation She was the youngest in her…
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Aggression
Officer ‘mistook handgun for taser’ in fatal US shooting of…
The policewoman who fatally shot a 20-year-old black man in a Minneapolis suburb accidentally confused her handgun with her taser, police said on Monday, fuelling tensions in a city already…
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Asia
Is Turkey’s idea of a Muslim Middle Zone more than…
Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) officials and pro-government news outlets denounced the admirals as coup-plotters, as authorities took 10 of them into custody, while… David Lepeska The National “They…