Melbourne, Oct 15 : Former Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews has given evidence at the government-ordered inquiry into the bungled Haneef investigation, less than one month before the inquiry is due to hand in its report.
Andrews’s evidence came as Attorney-General Robert McClelland repeated his expectation that the Australian Federal Police would make a publicly available submission to the inquiry, which is due to report on November 14.
Melbourne, Oct 15 : Roaming around in Beijing’s Forbidden City would not require people to take a flight to the Communist nation, for now a virtual three dimensional recreation of the vast palace allows people to tour the grand place without leaving their living room.
In fact, the new virtual palace designed by IBM, also allows the visitors to dress up as an imperial eunuch and meet a courtesan.
Online tourists can also watch the Qing dynasty emperor feast at dinner, train fighting crickets and feed them with blood-fattened mosquitoes, or practice archery with the help of a courtesan.
The virtual palace, dubbed "Beyond Space and Time." was unveiled on October 10.
Melbourne, Oct. 15 : The Supreme Court of the Australian state of Victoria has been told that a senior al Qaeda member had told a Melbourne Muslim convert that Osama Bin Laden "wanted a white boy" to carry out a terrorist act.
Joseph Terrence Thomas met senior member Khaled bin Attash just three weeks before he tried to leave Pakistan in 2003. According to The Australian, the court heard that it was at this meeting that Attash told Thomas and some other men he would pay 10,000 Australian dollars to anyone who committed a terrorist act.
Sydney - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Wednesday chided Wall Street investment banks for their "obscene failures" and promised to provide the world with a new set of rules for corporate governance.
"As a government and as a nation, we must respond to the twin evils which are at the root of this malaise - greed and fear," Rudd said.
He offered to draw up new banking regulations that could become "a template for the rest of the world" in dealing with what he called "extreme capitalism."
The prime minister also pledged to limit the pay of bank bosses.
Sydney, Oct 15 : For the next six weeks, travellers entering or leaving Melbourne Airport shall be ‘virtually stripped’ – for security purposes.
Transport security authorities are trialling the new "X-ray backscatter" body scanner, dubbed as a "virtual strip search," at Melbourne airport.
The new imaging technology, called the new millimetre wave imaging scanners, creates an image of an unclothed body.
While the testing will be entirely voluntary during the trial, it is currently being tested to see how the new scanners would affect the flow of passengers through the security point.
Melbourne, October 15 : Aussie researchers will soon be exploring the possibility of installing solar panels in people’s clothing to generate electricity.
The study will be one of the research projects that are being funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC), an agency of the federal government.
The funding will be used to study everything from protecting the Tasmanian Devil from the deadly facial tumour disease to maintaining public health during heatwaves.
There will also be a study about the interactions between humans and robots.
Melbourne, Oct 15 : Former Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews has given evidence at the government-ordered inquiry into the bungled Haneef investigation, less than one month before the inquiry is due to hand in its report.
Melbourne, Oct. 15 : The Supreme Court of the Australian state of Victoria has been told that a senior al Qaeda member had told a Melbourne Muslim convert that Osama Bin Laden "wanted a white boy" to carry out a terrorist act.
