Germany’s Nazi government was so angry about a dog trained to imitate Hitler that it started an obsessive campaign against its Finnish owner, according to newly discovered documents. In the middle of World War II, the Foreign Office in Berlin commanded its diplomats in the Nazi-friendly Nordic country to gather evidence on the dog, and [...]
Forget the sniffer dogs, crack teams of mice are being trained to detect bombers and drugs couriers at airports. The sniffer rodents are then hidden in airport scanners, ready to raise the alarm. The mouse-powered scanner looks like a metal detector or full-body scanner, but one side of it houses three concealed cartridges, each containing [...]
I hadn’t realised there was a detention centre, Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation, just up the road in Broadmeadows. You’ll find it hidden away behind the army barracks on Camp Road with no sign to indicate it’s there at all. The detention centre holds an estimated 42 unaccompanied Afghan teenagers – all from the Hazara ethnic [...]
Although several times more powerful than the earthquake that hit Haiti in January, the quake in Chile resulted in less damage and fewer casualties for a number of reasons, ranging from better infrastructure and preparations to the location of the epicentre relative to urban centres. The priorities of disaster response, however, are now all too [...]
Image via Wikipedia Union delegates to the Australian Labor Party (ALP) national conference last week lined up completely behind the Rudd government’s draconian “Fair Work” industrial relations regime, which includes the retention of punitive powers against construction workers. In return for their public embrace of the government’s legislation, the unions have been rewarded with promises [...]
