Australian art gallery raided by police; photographer faces possible indecency charge

16 November, 2021

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Monday, May 26, 2008 The Rosley Oxley9 Gallery in Sydney, Australia was raided by police over the weekend following complaints of child pornography. The complaints related to an exhibition of works by photographer Bill Henson, which included several photographs of naked pubescent children. Twenty-one of the forty photographs in the exhibition were seized during the […]

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Carbon trading scheme proposed by British MP

16 November, 2021

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Thursday, July 20, 2006 The UK Environment Secretary, David Miliband proposed a carbon trading scheme for private citizens during the Audit Commission‘s annual lecture. Under the scheme all individuals will receive equal carbon points and can trade electricity, gas, petrol and air travel for carbon points. Mr. Miliband argues that the government could set limits […]

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Australian National Archives release Loans Affair documents

16 November, 2021

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Saturday, January 1, 2005 The National Archives of Australia have, as part of their standarddocument release cycle, released thirty year old documents from theWhitlam government. The centre piece of the 1974 archives are a series of documents fromthe Australian Cabinet and the Treasury pertaining to the attempt toobtain a $US4 billion loan by the Whitlam […]

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Demystified: Fixed Rate Mortgage And Variable Rate Mortgage

16 November, 2021

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Find Out More About: Allied Leasing Submitted by: Chris Mcguire Fixed mortgage rates are decided by the price of government bonds and the bond yield. Investing in bonds are in general considered safer than stocks, and as soon as there is financial turmoil, investors normally will unload equities in preference to bonds, particularly Government bonds, […]

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National Museum of Scotland reopens after three-year redevelopment

15 November, 2021

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Friday, July 29, 2011 Today sees the reopening of the National Museum of Scotland following a three-year renovation costing £47.4 million (US$ 77.3 million). Edinburgh’s Chambers Street was closed to traffic for the morning, with the 10am reopening by eleven-year-old Bryony Hare, who took her first steps in the museum, and won a competition organised […]

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Scientists say excess cerebrospinal fluid may serve as early sign of autism

13 November, 2021

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Thursday, March 9, 2017 In a study that appeared on Monday in Biological Psychiatry, scientists from the Universities of California and North Carolina, with several other universities in the United States and Canada, report a strong correlation between abnormal distribution of cerebrospinal fluid in infants and later development of autistic symptoms. “The more extra-axial CSF […]

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Tips To Follow When Sport Betting Online

12 November, 2021

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Find Out More About: Nfl Futures Odds Sports betting is a great enhancement to the lives of people watching sports. Not only do you get excited about your favorite team winning, you also have the chance of making profit. Sports betting even enhances satisfaction because of the introduction of sports betting online. With sports betting […]

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French workers use threats in compensation demand

9 November, 2021

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Friday, July 17, 2009Following similar threats by workers at New Fabris and Nortel, workers at JLG in Tonneins, France, threatened to blow up several platform cranes. The JLG factory announced in April 2009 that it will fire 53 of its 163 workers by the end of 2009, while the remaining 110 jobs will not be […]

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Wikinews interviews 2020 Melbourne Lord Mayor Candidate Wayne Tseng

9 November, 2021

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This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Thursday, October 22, 2020 2020 Melbourne Lord Mayor candidate Wayne Tseng answered some questions about his campaign for the upcoming election from Wikinews. The Lord Mayor election in the Australian city is […]

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“Woofstock” dog festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

7 November, 2021

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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 North America’s largest outdoor dog festival came back to Toronto last weekend for its fifth year. It ran from the 9th of June to the 10th of June at Toronto’s historical St. Lawrence Market. A Wikinews reporter was there on Sunday to report on some of the events that happened on […]

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