Perth, August 25 : Muslims and Catholics have been enraged by explicit sex-education lessons in Western Australia schools, where girls as young as 14 are being made to roll condoms on to plastic penises.

Prominent WA Muslim imam Abdul Jalil Ahmad branded the lessons "pornography in the classroom''''.

Peter Rosengren, the Editor of the Catholic Church''s The Record newspaper, said that such a way of imparting sex education to school students was indicative of society''s over-sexualisation of children.

Melbourne, Aug 25 : Australian baby boomers are the nation’s biggest spenders, according to a new survey.

Conducted by retail consultancy Directional Insights, the survey revealed that older people in Australia owned the most expensive homes, and spent more money than any other generation.

It revealed that typical baby boomers aged 40 to 59, and Gen Ys aged 15 to 24 were egocentric, optimistic and opinionated.

Baby boomers shopped fast and spent more than any other generation.

Melbourne, Aug 25: The Australian Police have said that the nine-year-old boy of Indian origin Yadav Munohur had a strong fascination for water, and this may have been the reason why he was attracted towards the Gardiners Creek where he drowned to death on August 7.

The police maintained that the nine-year-old school boy had been “fascinated with water and sea creatures” when he supposedly disappeared into the Gardiners Creek.

Sergeant Chris Jones said that a search of Yadav''s school bag had found homework about sea creatures, water and rainfall, and that the primary school student was also due to attend an excursion to Melbourne Aquarium, reported The Age.

Sydney - Kangaroos the size of horses and three-ton rhino- like diprotodons roamed Australia until humans arrived on the continent around 50,000 years ago.

Some scientists blame meat-eating mankind for hunting them to death while others say the megafauna were climate-change casualties and became extinct on their own.

The poster boy of the humans-as-killers school is Macquarie University ecologist Tim Flannery, who had a good go at the meteorologists in his 1994 book The Future Eaters.

But they won't lie down.

Sydney University archaeologist Judith Field leads those who are convinced that the culprit was the climate.

Melbourne, Aug 23 : Following reports of an active racket involved in kidnapping children from India and shifting them to Australia for adoption, Aussie Opposition leader Dr Brendan Nelson has demanded that the “kidnapped” children living in his country should be returned to their home country.

Any children kidnapped in an overseas adoption racket will likely have to be returned to their families, Nelson said.

Media reports over the past two days have suggested that at least 30 children adopted in Australia may have been stolen from their parents by a child trafficking ring operating in India between 1998 and 1999.

Mumbai-based drug major Lupin has acquired over 30 per cent stake in Generic Health Pty Ltd.

Generic Health Pty Ltd is leading company in the Australian market. It is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded by managing director, and a pharmaceutical executive, Gavin Upiter in 2004.