Daily Archives: September 26, 2008
US 'said no to Israel bombing Iran'
From correspondents in London: The Advertiser | September 26, 2008 http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24405383-5005962,00.html ISRAEL seriously considered bombing Iran’s nuclear sites earlier this year but US President George W Bush refused to support such a strike, a British newspaper reported today. Quoting senior European diplomatic sources, The Guardian said Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert raised the issue with [...]
Cab drivers targeted by thieves
The Advertiser September 26, 2008 http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24405882-2682,00.html TWO taxi drivers were assaulted in separate attacks overnight, with one cab stolen by a man and woman. Police arrested a Christies Beach man, 26, and a Woodcroft man, 27, after they allegedly assaulted a driver and attempted to run off without paying the fare in Hindley St at [...]
Life in Aboriginal Australia: Girl sexually abused as she lay dying
Nigel Adlam: The Advertiser | September 26, 2008 http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24405406-911,00.html A 14-YEAR-old girl who ran away from hospital was beaten with a lump of wood by a younger girl before being dragged into bushes by boys who tried to rape her as she was dying, a coroner has been told. Observers sat in stunned silence in [...]
Anti-racism academic cheesed off with Coon
David Barbeler: News.com.au | September 26, 2008 http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24405098-421,00.html AN anti-racism campaigner says Coon cheese is next on his hit-list after the Queensland Government ruled a grandstand being rebuilt in the state’s south would not be renamed after E.S. “Nigger” Brown. Toowoomba Sports Ground Trust chairman John McDonald said yesterday that while the grandstand bearing Brown’s [...]






