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WHO cancer rate data show’s Australia has worst in the world

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Could it also have to do with all the uranium dust (which also does affect New Zealand)?

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– WHO cancer rate data show’s Australia has worst in the world:

AUSTRALIA has become the cancer capital of the world and experts say we must beat the obesity bulge to tackle the deadly disease.

AUSTRALIA has become the cancer capital of the world and experts say we must beat the obesity bulge to tackle the deadly disease.

An international comparison has puts us ahead of New Zealand, North America and Western Europe in terms of cancer rates, and nearly double the global average.

We have the highest rate of melanoma and prostate cancer in the world and the third-highest breast cancer rates.

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Australian Banks Reportedly Freeze Accounts Of Bitcoin Users

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– Australian Banks Reportedly Freeze Accounts Of Bitcoin Users:

Adding to the pressures on bitcoin early this morning, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that bitcoin users across Australia are reporting that their accounts have been abruptly frozen by the country’s “Big Four” banks. And while the banks have remained largely tight-lipped about the closures, many angry account-holders are jumping to conclusions and blaming the banks for punishing them because of their involvement with bitcoin.

Bitcoin investors are claiming Australia’s banks are freezing their accounts and transfers to cryptocurrency exchanges, with a viral tweet slamming the big four and an exchange platform putting a restriction on Australian deposits.

According to the Herald, cryptocurrency trader and Youtuber Alex Saunders called out National Australia Bank, ANZ, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Westpac Banking Corporation on Twitter for freezing customer accounts and transfers to four different bitcoin exchanges  – CoinJar, CoinSpot, CoinBase and BTC Markets.

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Australian Defence Force in ‘increased readiness’ following Russian military exercise

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– ADF in ‘increased readiness’ following Russian military exercise:

The Australian Defence Force was reportedly operating in a state of “increased readiness” as Russian activity in Indonesia prompted concerns.

THE Australian Defence Force in Darwin was reportedly in a state of high alert as Russian military planes carried out exercises close Australia earlier this month.

Russian strategic bombers were conducting navigation exercises out of an Indonesian military base, with the Northern Territory RAAF Base operating at “increased readiness” as a result, according to the ABC.

According to reports, the “short period” of heightened alert followed concerns the Russian aircraft may have been collecting valuable intelligence during the military exercises.

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Hardline Australian Muslim sheikh REFUSES to say Merry Christmas to anyone so he doesn’t have to explain himself to Allah when he dies

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– Hardline Australian Muslim sheikh REFUSES to say Merry Christmas to anyone so he doesn’t have to explain himself to Allah when he dies

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Australia: Braced for Boxing Day terror: Police protect Sydney shoppers by blocking off roads with huge semi-trailers and concrete bollards – after last week’s car horror in Melbourne

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– Braced for Boxing Day terror: Police protect Sydney shoppers by blocking off roads with huge semi-trailers and concrete bollards – after last week’s car horror in Melbourne

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Australia: Security services to track 300 high-risk mentally ill people in effort to stop rampage attacks in Melbourne after Bourke and Flinders streets tragedies

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– Security services to track 300 high-risk mentally ill people in effort to stop rampage attacks in Melbourne after Bourke and Flinders streets tragedies:

High risk Victorians who pose a threat to the community will be tracked as part of the state’s response to two vehicle attacks in Melbourne.

The Fixated Threat Assessment Centre was announced in October, and Premier Daniel Andrews says it will help prevent car attacks on crowds like those in Bourke Street and Flinders Street.

‘The same model has been deployed in other parts of the world, it’s been very, very effective,’ he told reporters on Sunday.

The new centre will track 300 people in its first year once it starts operating. 

Read moreAustralia: Security services to track 300 high-risk mentally ill people in effort to stop rampage attacks in Melbourne after Bourke and Flinders streets tragedies

Australia: Brother of an ISIS TERRORIST is allowed to join the police after dodging background checks in an astonishing security breach

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– Brother of an ISIS TERRORIST is allowed to join the police after dodging background checks in an astonishing security breach:

  • Brother of ISIS terrorist was allegedly accepted into Queensland Police Force
  • Recruit had allegedly completed two weeks of training in police academy
  • The man made it through a ‘rigorous vetting process’ and background check

The brother of a man who fled Australia to become in ISIS terrorist three years ago was allegedly accepted into the Queensland Police Force.

The recruit, who has not been named, was allegedly enrolled in police training and had made it through a ‘rigorous vetting process’ before the connection was discovered by the police force, according to News Corp.

The man had completed two weeks of training but resigned when confronted by authorities.

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#Australia: Mother of #SaeedNoori, the Afghan who mowed 18 Christmas shoppers with his SUV this week, wants beat up the photojournalists with her bag when she appeared in court of #Melbourne.

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Multiple Injuries Reported After Car Plows Into Central Melbourne Shoppers In “Deliberate Act”; Driver Arrested

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– Multiple Injuries Reported After Car Plows Into Central Melbourne Shoppers In “Deliberate Act”; Driver Arrested:

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As The Age reports:

Sue from Walker’s Doughnuts on Elizabeth Street told radio station 3AW that she heard screams before she saw “people flying everywhere“.”We could hear this noise. As we looked left, we saw this white car, it just mowed everybody down,” she said. “People are flying everywhere. We heard thump, thump. People are running everywhere.”

A young mother who was at the scene with her young daughters told radio station 3AW they fled as the car ploughed into pedestrians.”I didn’t want the kids to see anything,” she said. “We just ran. “I wanted to get the girls out of there so we ran into the closest building.

Chris Gath said he was standing at the 7-Eleven on the corner of Flinders and Elizabeth streets with a coffee in hand when he heard screaming. “I heard it first and then I turned around and saw lots of bodies on the floor. “I saw a car ploughing into many people and bodies flying everywhere.”

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Australian Government Wants To Punish Whistleblowers And Journalists Who Leak Classified Documents With Up To 20 Years In Prison

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– Australian Government Wants To Punish Whistleblowers And Journalists Who Leak Classified Documents With Up To 20 Years In Prison: 

Whistleblowing stories have become something of a commonplace, as a stream of Techdirt posts attests. Some leaks offer massive revelations, like the documents released by Chelsea Manning, or Edward Snowden. Others are smaller scale, but expose unsuspected activities that powerful people were trying to keep in the shadows. Here, for example, is a recent leak published in the Guardian about big companies spying on law-abiding organizations that dare to disagree with them:

They shine a rare light on a habitually secretive industry in which large firms hire covert operatives to monitor and infiltrate political groups that object to their commercial activities. At a premium is advance information, tipping off the firms about protests that are being organised against them.

As the Snowden files proved, leaks about government activities can have particularly important knock-on consequences in terms of improving the balance of power between citizens and their supposed representatives. Perhaps because of that effect, the Australian government plans to bring in new laws that could see whistleblowers jailed for 20 years:

Read moreAustralian Government Wants To Punish Whistleblowers And Journalists Who Leak Classified Documents With Up To 20 Years In Prison

Australia: A follow up on the ‘it was warmer in 1790 in Sydney’ story

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– A follow up on the ‘it was warmer in 1790 in Sydney’ story:

Readers may recall the story  Global Warming?……. It was warmer in Sydney in 1790 by Craig Kelly, MP in NSW Australia in response to some of the recent alarmist caterwauling in the press about the hot summer in Australia being a sign of ‘global warming’. He writes in with an update regarding criticisms by Steven Mosher regarding instrument calibration.

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Australian Central Bank – Bitcoin Is Bad But You’d Love A Digital “e-AUD”

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– Australian Central Bank – Bitcoin Is Bad But You’d Love A Digital “e-AUD”:

Sweden’s Riksbank, the world’s oldest central bank, is exploring the possibility of a digital register-based e-krona; the Reserve Bank of New Zealand is researching whether its physical currency could be replaced by a digital alternative; the Bank of England is trialling blockchain-like systems; the Monetary Authority of Singapore is examining the use of distributed ledger technology for clearing and settlement of payments; and the PBoC said in October that it had completed tests on algorithms for a prototype of its own digital currency.

Now the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has entered the fray with an all too familiar refrain.

We’re paraphrasing…Bitcoin is bad, the realm of criminals and little more than a speculative mania, but the technology underlying Bitcoin has great potential, which we can exploit in time with our own “superior” digital currency.

This is what Philip Lowe, the RBA’s Governor, actually said about Bitcoin at the Australian Payment Summit, which took place today at the Hyatt Sydney Regency in Sydney Harbour.

Read moreAustralian Central Bank – Bitcoin Is Bad But You’d Love A Digital “e-AUD”

Australia: 200+ Africans Rampage Beach Goers. (St Kilda) (Melbourne) – (Seven News Exclusive Video)

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Over 200 Africans have stormed and rioted on St Kilda foreshore, attacking Australians and stealing their phones and wallets. Police could not control the situation that stemmed from day assaults to night time attacks on beach goers and people passing by. Premier Daniel Andrews’ Labor Party government, a big supporter of multiculturalism, did not make any comments.

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Australia: Apex gang-linked thug, 20, spared jail despite terrifying series of ice-fuelled jewellery heists told he can go on HOLIDAY to Sudan while on bail

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– Apex gang-linked thug, 20, spared jail despite terrifying series of ice-fuelled jewellery heists told he can go on HOLIDAY to Sudan while on bail:

  • Akon Mawien was high on ice when he robbed a number of jewellery stores 
  • But the 20-year-old has won the freedom to travel to Sudan while on bail 
  • His victims are furious they will be repairing businesses while he is overseas

A young man linked to the notorious Melbourne Apex gang has been spared jail and allowed to travel overseas on a lavish holiday.

Akon Mawien was high on ice and armed with a hammer when he helped steal about $200,000 worth of goods from multiple jewellery stores.

But the 20-year-old has won the freedom to travel to Sudan while on bail, the Herald Sun reported.

Police said his victims are furious they are repairing their businesses while he will be living it up overseas. 

Read moreAustralia: Apex gang-linked thug, 20, spared jail despite terrifying series of ice-fuelled jewellery heists told he can go on HOLIDAY to Sudan while on bail

Elderly couple who have been paying life insurance for 24 years told their family will receive NOTHING if one of them doesn’t die in the next six weeks

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George and Irene Nesbitt, (pictured) both aged 89, have paid more than $30,000 on their life insurance policy for the last quarter of a century – but were told the money will expire if one of them doesn’t die within the next six weeks

– Elderly couple who have been paying life insurance for 24 years told their family will receive NOTHING if one of them doesn’t die in the next six weeks:

An elderly couple who have been paying life insurance for nearly 25 years have been left reeling after learning they won’t receive a cent unless one of them dies very soon.

George and Irene Nesbitt, both aged 89, have paid more than $31,000 on their life insurance policy for the last quarter of a century – but were told the money will expire if one of them doesn’t die within the next six weeks.

Speaking with A Current Affair, the distressed couple admitted they have only a few hundred dollars to their name, and without an insurance payout, they won’t be able to afford their own funerals.

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