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The inquest into the fatal boat explosion involving Afghan asylum seekers and the Australian navy in April 2009 has ended with appalling conclusions. Despite evidence suggesting the five deaths and extensive injuries could have been avoided if defence personnel had operated differently, the refugees received sole blame and may face criminal charges.
On March 15, opposition leader Tony Abbott said the shadow cabinet would support the federal ALP government鈥檚 extension of 鈥渋ncome management鈥 to more welfare recipients in the Northern Territory 鈥 not just those living in targeted Aboriginal communities.
Victorian fuel supplies could be threatened if agreement is not reached in an industrial dispute between Shell and tanker drivers at its Newport depot.
91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Niko Leka spoke with Professor Louise Newman Friday, chair of the Detention Expert Health Advisory Group (DEHAG) following her recent visit to immigration facilities on Christmas Island.
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On March 16, former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib won his case for defamation against an article by Piers Akerman in February 2005 in the Daily Telegraph.
CAIRNS 鈥 Three Queensland doctors published a letter in the international medical journal The Lancet on March 6, highlighting the difficulties women in the state face accessing medical and surgical abortions.
Federico Fuentes and Kiraz Janicke concluded their ten-day tour of Canada on March 7, with a rally in Vancouver entitled 鈥淐hange the System, Not the Climate.鈥 Fuentes shared the platform with Pablo Solon, Bolivia鈥檚 UN ambassador and chief spokesperson on climate change.
Aboriginal services workers and community members from across the Illawarra and Shoalhaven regions held a 鈥渃ommunity issues workshop鈥 on March 17.
Hearings in the ongoing coronial inquest into the November 2004 death in custody of Mulrunji Doomadgee, a member of the Indigenous community on Palm Island, were held on the island and in Townsville from March 8-12.
At 8am on February 17, 100 families were evicted from the Nuevo Sol housing estate, leaving its inhabitants without a roof over their heads. That morning, an individual appeared without legal written orders accompanied by 200 police, trained dogs and bulldozers to carry out the eviction.

The Indonesian government headed by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (commonly known as 鈥淪BY鈥) claims it has reduced poverty in Indonesia from 17.7% in 2006 to 14.2% in 2009.