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Bilingual TV presenters leave me speechless
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Bilingual TV presenters leave me speechless
Gavin Esler

CAN you imagine - for example - Gaby Roslin and Terry Wogan conducting interviews bilingually on live TV in German and English? No. Neither can I. In fact, I am not sure who among any of my colleagues on any British TV channels would be up to the task of live interviews with foreign dignitaries, flipping effortlessly between any two European languages. Perhaps Ulrika Jonsson in Swedish? Maybe.

I confess it would be completely beyond me, too. But at one of the highlights of the social year in Europe - this week’s ball at the State Opera in Vienna - Austrian television... (read more)

Bilingual TV presenters leave me speechless
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Austrian tourist killed while being photographed at sunrise - National - www.smh.com.au
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Tourist killed while being photographed at sunrise

Two Austrian tourists' first glimpse of an Australian dawn ended in tragedy when one was crushed to death in a rock fall.

The men, both in their late 30s, arrived in Sydney from Austria on Friday to stay with friends in Avalon.

Early yesterday they decided.... (read more)

Austrian tourist killed while being photographed at sunrise - National - www.smh.com.au
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NEWS.com.au | Child porn on former diplomat's PC (February 9, 2004)
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Child porn on former diplomat's PC

FORMER Australian diplomat William Stuart Brown is being detained in Bali accused of sexually molesting two boys.

Island police have found pornographic photographs of..... (read more)

NEWS.com.au | Child porn on former diplomat's PC (February 9, 2004)
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IHT: News Analysis: Germans blame U.S. for Qaeda acquittal
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Germans blame U.S. for Qaeda acquittal
Richard Bernstein/NYT

BERLIN From the point of view of many Americans - and certainly of many irritated officials in the Bush administration - the fight against international terrorism received a sharp setback when a German court.... (read more)


IHT: News Analysis: Germans blame U.S. for Qaeda acquittal
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A gaze into the WMD abyss - OpinionAlanRamsey - www.smh.com.au
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A gaze into the WMD abyss

The camera does not lie. "Never, ever" proved our Prime Minister does when he thinks he must. So do "core" and "non-core" promises. Iraq proves it, too, however shrill the protests. But the camera does not lie.

Have a look at page three of The Australian Financial Review on Tuesday. There is a photo there which shows John Howard like you've not seen him before. A little grey man burdened by, what? Responsibility? His conscience? The thought of the Mack truck bearing down? Whatever, Grandpa John, aged 64, suddenly looks every one of his years, and many more as well. An anguished, unguarded moment caught by an alert camera.

Howard is standing, in a ....(read more)

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/06/1075854063338.html
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Refugee group highlights child detention rates. 04/02/2004. ABC News Online

Refugee group, A Just Australia, has released figures on the number of children who are being held in immigration detention centres.

The group says there are currently 172 children in detention.

Its figures show more than half of that number are held on Nauru and have been there for more than two years.

It says 16 children have been released from detention since December, and 11 others will be released from Nauru to be resettled in New Zealand.

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