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Australian Senator Bob Brown calls for ban on junk food ads

26 November, 2020

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Tuesday, March 7, 2006 Australian Greens Senator Bob Brown today called for a ban on junk food advertisements during times that children are watching TV. In a press release, the Senator referred specifically to the previous night’s episode of Four Corners. “The extensive use of psychologists to analyse little children’s responsiveness to TV advertising, including […]

Bat for Lashes plays the Bowery Ballroom: an Interview with Natasha Khan

26 November, 2020

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Friday, September 28, 2007 Bat for Lashes is the doppelgänger band ego of one of the leading millennial lights in British music, Natasha Khan. Caroline Weeks, Abi Fry and Lizzy Carey comprise the aurora borealis that backs this haunting, shimmering zither and glockenspiel peacock, and the only complaint coming from the audience at the Bowery […]

Influential rock drummer Ginger Baker dies at age 80

26 November, 2020

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Monday, October 7, 2019 Yesterday morning, English drummer Ginger Baker died in a hospital at the age of 80. The news came from the Twitter account in his name and was independently confirmed by Associated Press with his daughter Nettie Baker. On September 25, it was reported Baker was hospitalized in critical condition. Baker was […]

Edmund White on writing, incest, life and Larry Kramer

26 November, 2020

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Thursday, November 8, 2007 What you are about to read is an American life as lived by renowned author Edmund White. His life has been a crossroads, the fulcrum of high-brow Classicism and low-brow Brett Easton Ellisism. It is not for the faint. He has been the toast of the literary elite in New York, […]

Controversial Queensland Premier of 19 years dies at 94

26 November, 2020

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Saturday, April 23, 2005Queensland Australia’s Sir Joh Bjelke Petersen, a controversial figure who served as the State’s Premier for 19 years and reigned over the government that later became the subject of the Fitzgerald Inquiry, has died in hospital at Kingaroy, aged 94. “By any measurement, Sir Joh was an exceptional state builder who will […]

Representative for ACLU tells Wikinews their opinion on lifting of Wikileaks court injunction

26 November, 2020

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Monday, March 3, 2008 The website wikileaks.org has recently been brought back online following the lifting of a court injunction forcing the site to be taken down. A representative of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which supported Wikileaks, has told Wikinews their opinion of the court injunction. They have claimed that the lifting of […]

Representative for ACLU tells Wikinews their opinion on lifting of Wikileaks court injunction

26 November, 2020

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Church of Scientology does not see humor in website dedicated to Tom Cruise

26 November, 2020

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Sunday, September 25, 2005 The Church of Scientology has threatened legal action in order to take over ownership of the domain name of a web site which links to the odd behaviour of one of the world’s most famous scientologists: Tom Cruise. http://ScienTOMogy.info has apparently received a fax and at least 6 emails in the […]

Paramedics protest outside New South Wales parliament

24 November, 2020

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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 Paramedics employed by the Ambulance Service of New South Wales in Australia marched on the New South Wales parliament today. They called for the Government to sack Ambulance Service of New South Wales CEO Greg Rochford, hire 300 additional ambulance officers and 60 patient transport officers. Paramedics gave the Government 48 […]

New law to help asbestos sufferers in Victoria, Australia

24 November, 2020

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Saturday, May 24, 2008 New legislation in Victoria, Australia will provide for greater compensation for victims suffering from effects of exposure to asbestos. The legislation is called “Bernie Banton law”, after the late campaigner for asbestos-related issues. The law will remove a restriction which prevented asbestos victims from making another claim after being diagnosed with […]