Monday 28 July 2008

Charity has its heart in the right place, The Australian, 28 July, 2008. Picture Alan Pryke.






Charity has its heart in the right place

Stapleton, JohnThe Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 28 July 2008: 5.
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One morning in September 2000, having returned to Israel after a stint of world travel, he went to a job interview in the plush offices of one of the country's leading law firms. In the afternoon he went for an interview in the rundown apartment at Holon, near Tel Aviv, which served as the offices of the charity Save A Child's Heart.
Organisers claim the saving of Iraqi and Palestinian children in a Jewish hospital is a classic example of what Save A Child's Heart is all about.
"The more Israeli and Palestinian doctors work together, the better it is for the Palestinian health system. Save A Child's Heart is about saving the lives of children, but also about developing the medical capacity of poorer countries, and building connections, breaking down walls and stereotypes.

Saturday 26 July 2008

Farmers on dam site fight for memories - CLIMATE CHALLENGE, Weekend Australian, 26 July, 2008. Picture Sam Mooy.


Farmers on dam site fight for memories - CLIMATE CHALLENGE

Stapleton, JohnWeekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 26 July 2008: 12.
Critics call it the "Orkopoulos Dam", after former Hunter state Labor MP and convicted pedophile Milton Orkopoulos, whose arrest embarrassed the NSW Government.
He doesn't care how much money he is offered. "I am devastated," he said. "I have told them they will never have enough money to buy this place. It is irreplaceable. There is a lot of history here. It was a happy place; not any more."
"The term `think of all the money' makes my blood boil," she said. "We want our land, our home, our roots, our memories. To be told all you have worked for in the past and all you have laid out for the future is to be taken from you without justification is truly demoralising."

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Monday 21 July 2008

Cop who gave hat to Pope dies, The Australian, 21 July, 2008.

Cop who gave hat to Pope dies - PAPAL VISIT SPECIAL

Stapleton, JohnThe Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 21 July 2008: 9.
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It had been the policeman's dream to see the Pope on a never-realised visit to the Vatican in Rome. Instead, he met the Pope in person, but he was too sick to get up from his ambulance stretcher.
"Someone must have spoken to the Pope about ([Gary Hill]) wanting to give him a hat, and after the Pope blessed Gary, I saw him look at Gary's police hat and he must have thought, `This is the hat they wanted to give me'," Superintendent Bruce Lyons, a friend, said.

Saturday 12 July 2008

Jacka name soldiers on to serve country, The Australian, 24 July, 2008.




Jacka name soldiers on to serve country

Stapleton, JohnThe Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 24 July 2008: 7.
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Mr Jacka's Certificate of Enlistment, which he received after a short ceremony at army recruiting offices in western Sydney, pledged allegiance to the Queen and declared he would "loyally and faithfully serve".
Australia's official war historian Charles Bean described Jacka's feat at the Somme as "the most dramatic and effective act of individual audacity" in the history of the Australian army.
Early last century, recruiting posters showed Jacka holding a rifle above the message: "Show the Enemy what Australian Sporting Men Can Do."

Thursday 10 July 2008

Big stink surfacing over farm emissions, The Daily Post, Rotorua, New Zealand, 10 July, 2008.

Big stink surfacing over farm emissions

AnonymousThe Daily Post [Rotorua, New Zealand] 10 July 2008: A.14.
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"It is just scare tactics," Mr [Mick Keogh] said. "The release of the Garnaut report ... is all carefully stage-managed, beautifully set up so the public will be scared out of their wits."
The NFF has called on the Government to petition for new accounting rules under the Kyoto Protocol to ensure agriculture's sequestration of carbon was acknowledged and its "rigid and short-sighted accounting rules", which emphasised reforestation but ignored pasture growth, were overthrown.
Farmers are critical of the Government's failure to explain how an ETS would work. Chris Griffin, a Victorian dairy farmer, said most of his colleagues had no understanding of what an ETS would entail. "There is not a lot of science out about what impact it could have."_News Ltd