1. MH17 site dangers
Australian Federal Police have cancelled plans to head to the site of the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine.
Fighting between pro-Russia separatists and government troops in the area has prevented access to the site.
The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe said last night the operation was too risky to go ahead. “There is fighting going on. We can’t take the risk,” said Alexander Hug, of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) according to the BBC.
Yesterday shelling was reported close to the MH17 crash site.
Earlier the Prime Minister had said that it was a risky mission.
“Frankly, we need to be prepared to take some risks in order to do the right thing by our dead and by their grieving families,” he said, The Australian reports.
2. Asylum seekers flown to Curtin detention centre
The first group of asylum seekers to reach mainland Australia in more than seven months have now arrived at the Curtin detention centre in Western Australia. 157 men, women and children had been detained for three weeks at sea while the Federal Government negotiated a deal with India to take back the asylum seekers. The Guardian reports Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young will visit the Curtin detention centre to check on the welfare of the children.
3. Schoolgirl tied up in playground and sexually assaulted
A South Australian school girl has been the subject of such intense bullying and cyber bullying she was tied up in a playground by a hose and sexually assaulted by eight boys reports News Limited.
The boys are yet to be prosecuted. For more read this post here.
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And story close to my heart, the case of fellow Wollongong girl and Solicitor Katie Foreman, who was murdered by her boyfriend and three other losers by being burnt to death in her own home in 2011. RIP Katie.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/k...
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7) I don't understand it.
Couple of mixed race have children. If the mother is widowed or divorced her child is of mixed race, why is it different ?