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Sexual harassment, bullying widespread in Australia police: Report
Aug 22, 2016 09:59Almost fifty percent of women working for Australia’s national police have been sexually harassed in the past five year, a new report reveals.
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Australia, Papua New Guinea to close refugee camp on Manus Island
Aug 17, 2016 11:49Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) agreed Wednesday to close a controversial camp of asylum seekers on the remote Manus Island, weeks after a court ruled that holding refugees in the facility was illegal.
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Calls grow for probe into disturbing abuse of refugees by Australia
Aug 15, 2016 12:30Opposition parties in Australia and New Zealand have joined calls for an inquiry into recent disturbing reports about the abuse of asylum-seekers on remote Pacific islands.
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UN voices concern about child abuse in Australia's refugee center
Aug 13, 2016 04:12The United Nations human rights body has voiced concern about reports of abuse in the Australian-run offshore detention facility on the Pacific Island of Nauru.
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Australia denies report of sexual abuse against refugees on off-shore centers
Aug 11, 2016 10:06Australian authorities have denied a report that detailed alleged cases of sexual abuse against refugees in an Australian-run off-shore detention center, accusing the asylum seekers of making false allegations of sexual harassment.
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‘Far-right’ Australian man charged with planning terror attacks
Aug 07, 2016 09:34An Australian man, reportedly linked to anti-Islam and anti-refugee groups, has been arrested on charges of planning terror attacks in the country.
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‘Racist’ cartoon strokes debate over abuse of Australian natives
Aug 06, 2016 12:29An Australian newspaper cartoon widely slammed as racist has renewed a national debate on the discriminatory treatment of the country’s native people amid a scandal over the abuse of Aboriginal minors in prison cells.
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Australia suspends aid to NGO over Zionist reigme claims of ‘Hamas links’
Aug 05, 2016 09:59Australia has suspended funding for operations of a major international NGO in the occupied Palestinian lands following Israeli regime claims that the director of its Gaza branch diverted millions of dollars to the resistance movement, Hamas.
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Australians protest against teen abuse in detention centers
Jul 31, 2016 02:55Hundreds of Australians protested Saturday against the maltreatment of minors in detention centers, less than a week after a shocking video emerged showing the abuse of aboriginal children in a prison in the Northern Territory.
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Australia counter-sues minors abused in Northern Territory prison
Jul 29, 2016 10:38Australia has launched a counter-suit against two of the six aboriginal children recently revealed to have been abused by prison guards, alleging the minors had damaged the prison in an escape attempt.