The Australian Government awarded Woodside Petroleum three exploration leases 260 kilometres off the Western Australian coastline, just to the west of Rowley Shoals.
Eight Falun Gong practitioners and two other Chinese asylum-seekers had a closed-door meeting in Darwin with immigration officials today, as they tossed up whether to continue [...]
A group of 10 Chinese nationals claiming to be members of the persecuted spiritual group Falun Dafa have arrived in Darwin by boat, and are planning to apply for asylum.
Data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed that the number of men teaching in the non-government sector has grown by 25 per cent since 2001.