Word: australian
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...fathers were up to three times more likely to use drugs and engage in criminal behavior. Last month, an Israeli study reported that children with absent fathers were more likely to have trouble forming new relationships, whether the absences were permanent or shorter term. When children reach school age, Australian psychologist Paul Amato found, fathers are even more important to self-esteem than mothers...
...Public attention and help will only last so long. Even with the aid of the Australian-led Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands and international charities, the country's far-flung provinces are neglected. Honiara's bureaucrats-foreign and local-don't get out this way. Violence in the capital eventually shows up in the remote islands as severe shortages of food, chronically ill and unschooled children and dire family poverty. This lack of administrative oversight and political will brings resentment, to be sure. But it also allows charlatans to flourish. When natural resources such as fish and trees aren...
More than five years after being brought to Guantánamo Bay, Australian David Hicks last week became the first Guantánamo inmate to be convicted of a crime after agreeing to a plea bargain. His surprising sentence includes nine months in prison, a one-year prohibition against speaking to the press, and an agreement not to press charges against U.S. government. Officials at Guantánamo have faced increasing pressure—and Supreme Court orders—to try the individuals being held. This first trial, however, is hardly reassuring; rather, it highlights the government?...
David Hicks is an Australian who was captured in Afghanistan in 2001. It wasn't until after almost five years of detention at Guantánamo that he was brought to trial before a U.S. military judge. At the end of a tumultuous day, he pleaded guilty to providing material support to a terrorist organization, a charge stemming from time spent in an al-Qaeda training camp...
...Born and bred in Sydney's Sutherland Shire, home to 2005's Cronulla beach riots, Cowell would seem to have a unique take on the forces shaping Australian society from within and without. "We have so far to go in this country," he says. "We're so young but we don't seem to celebrate that in the right way. We seem to fear our youth. So we quickly want to get old. We quickly want to take on these formulated ideas from the past instead of celebrating our naivety, and growing confidence from choosing...