Category: Australasia
Canny Kiwis give green thumbs-up to growing their own vegetables
Almost 60 per cent of New Zealanders say they have taken up vegetable gardening in the past 12 months.
‘More ghosts’ after earthquake
The “sheer strength and power” of the September 4 earthquake has more than doubled the number of reported supernatural events in Canterbury (New Zealand), a paranormal investigator says.
Cane toads are evolving into super-invaders
Scientists have demonstrated a “runaway evolutionary effect” that is speeding up Australia’s cane toad invasion.
Massive street brawl in Adelaide after first Miss Africa beauty pageant
FOUR men suffered stab wounds as a day of intermittent violence following South Australia’s first Miss Africa pageant erupted into a vicious all-in brawl.
90% of web snoop document censored to stop ‘premature unnecessary debate’
The federal government has censored approximately 90 per cent of a secret document outlining its controversial plans to snoop on Australians’ web surfing, obtained under freedom of information (FoI) laws, out of fear the document could cause “premature unnecessary debate”.
Influenza vaccine sends children into convulsions
Influenza vaccines have sent 57 children into life-threatening convulsions, reports The Age out of Australia. These influenza vaccines were being give to children under five to “protect” them from seasonal flu, but after receiving the shots, these children started going into convulsions.
This, of course, baffles conventional doctors who have all been told that vaccines are perfectly safe and could never harm anyone. So rather than pausing to consider what might be contained in the vaccines that’s causing children to go into convulsions, they charge ahead with the recommendation that even more people should get vaccines.
Parents recount flu jab nightmare
More and more parents from around the country are recounting horrific flu jab experiences amid mounting controversy over adverse reactions to the seasonal flu vaccine.
Australia’s chief medical officer, Professor Jim Bishop, has urged doctors not to use the vaccine on children under five, following more than 250 reports of adverse reactions – a figure experts and parents fear is being severely underestimated.
Flu shot fatality – toddler dies 12 hours after having vaccination
A FAMILY is in mourning after their toddler unexpectedly died less than 12 hours after receiving a seasonal flu vaccination.
Two-year-old twin Ashley Jade Epapara had been “perfectly fine” before dying at her Upper Mt Gravatt home, on Brisbane’s southside, on April 9.
Flu shots suspended after kids hospitalised
The Western Australian Government has suspended all flu vaccinations for children under five while it investigates a spike in admissions to Princess Margaret Hospital in Perth.
The Health Minister, Kim Hames, says 45 children have been taken to hospital suffering high temperatures and febrile convulsions after receiving the vaccination.
Don’t raise your family in Britain, say expats: UK voted worst place in developed world to bring up children
Britain is the worst country in which to raise children, while Australia is the best, a study has found.
The survey of expatriates living in six different countries found there was a better standard of living Down Under, and a better quality of family life.
A massive 78 per cent of children who moved there from countries such as the UK spent more time outdoors than they did before, and the majority ate more healthily.
Australian farmer claims skull is Ned Kelly’s
Forensic tests to determine whether skull handed in to authorities came from outlaw who was hanged in 1880.
Little town with a big image problem
A spat over whether Dannevirke (New Zealand) should retain its Scandinavian heritage could see the axe fall on its Viking icon.
Opponents say portraying a warrior race renowned for pillaging, looting, and carrying off women would be culturally insensitive and …
