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The couple's once in a lifetime holiday was overshadowed when a woman died mid flight and was placed in the seat next to them. An emotional Australian couple have been left "traumatised" after they were forced to sit next to a dead woman for hours after she died suddenly mid-flight. Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Colin were on a Qatar Airways flight from Melbourne to Doha, en route to Venice in Italy, when a woman suddenly collapsed in the aisle after going to the toilet.

Melbourne -- Australians celebrated and protested across the country on Sunday as Australia Day drew attention to political differences over Indigenous rights months out from a federal election. Australia Day marks a British colony being established at Sydney Cove on Jan 26, 1788, which eventually led to Britain claiming the entire country without a treaty with its Indigenous inhabitants. Indigenous rights advocates call Jan 26 “Invasion Day” and protest rallies have been held in major cities. Many argue that Australia's national day should not commemorate such a divisive event. Australia Day is usually a public holiday and because it fell...

Typical Haaretz Haaretzism: pro Arab supremacy Islamic racism. Letting horrific comments on too. Most comments on the Dec/5/24 antisemtic attack on Haredi (who are even non zionist BTW, but that's besides the point) synagogue in Australia try to justify the horrendous crime. This, Arab apparently, for example is: Adding quotation mark on "m'antisemitism' but shamelessly equates the Holocaust with clashes, battle in Gaza where its regime makes sure civilians die (still, it's historically lowest, compared to other wars). If anything, this and other hortific hate crimes and the sickening rationalization prove that anti-Jewish hatred is in fact the very basis...

Worshippers were forced to flee a Melbourne synagogue early Friday morning after it was set ablaze in an arson attack Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony called “act of hate.” Sixty-plus firefighters were called to Adass Israel synagogue in the Victorian state capital just after 04:00 local time on Friday (17:00 GMT Thursday), finding the building fully ablaze when they arrived. Local media outlets confirmed people were inside at the time for morning prayers and they had reported seeing firebombs thrown by masked assailants. One person was injured and the fire caused extensive damage.

A lawyer in Melbourne, Australia has been referred by a federal circuit judge to the Office of the Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner after filing a summary of authorities that do not exist, which he prepared using Gen AI assistant Leap LawY. The case, which happened in the summer but we first became aware of thanks to coverage on 10 October by The Guardian newspaper, was heard by Justice Amanda Humphreys. Subsequent research confirms that another lawyer has fallen foul of Gen AI hallucination, and filing case law without verifying the accuracy of the information. Justice Humphreys adjourned divorce...

The New York Times said it took disciplinary action against a reporter who acknowledged leaking data about a WhatsApp group chat for Jewish business people that led to its members being doxxed and harassed by activists sympathetic to Palestinians. Natasha Frost, a Times reporter who was based in Melbourne, Australia, earlier this year, downloaded and shared 900 pages of content from the private WhatsApp chat that was launched by Jewish professionals in response to the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas terrorists that claimed the lives of nearly 1,200 Israelis. Frost acknowledged to the Wall Street Journal that she shared the...

A leader of Australia's Roman Catholic church has barred a group of liberal followers from using a church venue to hold a conference at which a gay rights activist was to speak. Cardinal George Pell, who has refused to give communion to gays and once called homosexuality "a greater health hazard than smoking," said it would be unsuitable for the liberal Australian Reforming Catholics group to meet on church property. It was not immediately clear what the gay activist planned to speak about. Pell also forbade liberal Bishop Pat Power from celebrating Mass at the event, which has been moved...

Josh Feldman ג'וש פלדמן @joshrfeldman This is absolutely bonkers. Melbourne anti-Israel activist Laura Allam has been arrested for organising the kidnapping and torture of a man because he worked for a Jew. Police say the man required extensive treatment in hospital for his injuries. #auspol From theaustralian.com.au 5:46 AM · Feb 27, 2024

A young mother-of two has tragically died after having a 'routine' surgical abortion at a women's health clinic in Melbourne. Harjit Kaur, 30, had just landed a new IT job with footwear giant Nike and was preparing to buy a family home with her husband, Sukhjinder Singh, where they could raise their four-year-old daughter and two-year-old son. But their plans were thrown into disarray when she discovered in early January she had accidentally fallen pregnant. The busy mum felt she was not mentally, physically and financially ready to have a third child, so the couple made the tough decision to...

An ultra-rare gigantic rat so big that it puts New York City's subway-dwelling rodents to shame has been caught on camera for the first time. Uromys vika, a giant rat known for being "one of the world's rarest rodents" according to the University of Melbourne, is found in just one isolated spot throughout the world – the island of Vangunu in the Solomon Islands. The species was only first identified by a single animal discovered in 2017, but recently, university researchers said that after placing out glass oil lamps filled with sesame oil, they captured 95 images of four different...

n a strange and horrifying case out of Australia, Melbourne doctors killed an unborn baby while performing a sex change on a woman who wanted her uterus removed. She had no idea she was pregnant so the baby was killed during the surgery. The woman who received the hysterectomy procedure now calls herself a man by the name of Jesse Pohlner. She was four months pregnant when she underwent a full hysterectomy at Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Pohlner had her uterus and ovaries removed and she told reporters “there was no pregnancy test performed.” “I would call it...

Victoria Police officers have been accused of racial profiling, with a damning report showing they disproportionately targeted people of non-Anglo appearance during the pandemic. African, Middle Eastern and First Nations people were up to four times more likely to be fined for COVID-19 breaches when considering their share of the state’s population. More than 37,000 fines were issued for COVID-related offences in 2020, with at least 28,000 including details of the person’s perceived racial appearance, according to data from Inner Melbourne Community Legal released on Tuesday. More than 20 percent were issued to people of African and Middle Eastern appearance,...

A local community has been rocked by the shock death of a much-loved teenager who tragically died in his sleep. Heartbreaking tributes are flowing for Melbourne student Balin Menzies, 15, who died suddenly on April 21. It is not yet known what caused his death. Balin was actively involved in various sporting and community groups across Greensborough in Melbourne's northeast. The teen was also a promising street artist who painted murals under the name Posh, including a wall at Greensborough Skate Park. The mural is now surrounded by spray paint cans and flowers in his honour. Greensborough College paid tribute...

My grandfather the Right Reverend JR Blanchard attended Queen Elizabeth's coronation. At the memorial service for her on 9/11 last year in Melbourne, Victoria Police physically and sexually assaulted me. I wrote to the Lord Mayor and City Councillors asking their support for an independent investigation. They have not replied. The Herald Sun newspaper of April 17 had the front page headline "Criminal Free Run"

The Great Scenic Railway, at Luna Park in Melbourne, Australia, is the second oldest rollercoaster in the world: and it's one of only a few which still uses a manual brake. Here's how it works.

Australian police in the state of Queensland, out of concern for the spread of COVID, have requested that citizens report on people they know have taken a stance against COVID-19 vaccines, as well as report on those with extremist views. “If it’s anybody out there that knows of someone who might be showing concerning behavior around conspiracy theories, anti-government, anti-police … conspiracy theories around COVID-19 vaccinations … we’d wanna know about that, and you can either contact police directly or go through constables,” Queensland Police Deputy Commissioner Tracy Linford said in a video shared by political commentator Rukshan Fernando in...

In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia. Armed with a metal detector, he discovered something out of the ordinary – a very heavy, reddish rock resting in some yellow clay. He took it home and tried everything to open it, sure that there was a gold nugget inside the rock – after all, Maryborough is in the Goldfields region, where the Australian gold rush peaked in the 19th century. To break open his find, Hole tried a rock saw, an angle grinder, a drill, even dousing the thing in acid. However, not even a...

Anastacia and Angelique are proud Greek supporters and candidates of Freedom Party leader Morgan C Jonas. Their party is small and they are young and new to politics. But their hearts are pure and their hands are clean. Please pray for them.

Anastacia Ntouni and Angelique are Greek-Australian Freedom Party candidates for the lower house of Victoria's state parliament in next months's election. They do not want any more of a government which: A. imprisons people in their own homes for the bogus excuse of public health safety. B. abuses human rights. C. lets teachers teach gender fluidity to small children. Women like this are both profoundly conservative custodians of the Greek democratic culture and radical revolutionaries opposing despotism. God Bless Freedom.

MELBOURNE, Fla. – A man accused of attacking his girlfriend in her apartment Tuesday was arrested after the woman’s twin daughters fended him off, giving their mother enough time to find safety, according to the Melbourne Police Department. Officers responded at 1:21 p.m. to a disturbance at Manatee Cove Apartments, where the woman told police she had just been attacked at her residence by her boyfriend, 33-year-old Andrew Williams, Jr. According to a news release, Williams was “unexpectedly surprised” when the woman’s daughters — both 6 years old — used toys, sticks and a hair dryer in an attempt to...