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...boat, the Ady Gil, during what has become an annual confrontation between whale hunters and activists in the southern seas. One crew member, a cameraman hired by Animal Planet for the reality TV show Whale Wars, sustained minor injuries in the incident, but Australia's Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, said after the incident occurred on Wednesday that it was "miraculous that lives were not lost...
...attacks but substandard private colleges and courses that market to South Asian students, as well as poor-quality housing, exploitative work conditions and the need for local benefits like travel concession cards which, they say, will improve safety. The protests were timed to coincide with Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard's trip to India at the start of September, in which she aimed to calm the diplomatic waters, and a Senate inquiry into the welfare of international students. More demonstrations are likely when students head to the capital to air their grievances at an international student roundtable hosted...
...government and the Australian Council for Private Education and Training, however, say only a small number of operators are culpable and that the sector has a good international reputation for providing high-quality education. Deputy Prime Minister Gillard told TIME that the rapid and substantial growth of the sector has "delivered with it opportunity [as well as] issues" and that improvements would come from new measures such as increased police patrols in problem areas, a new student hotline for complaints and requirements that all 1,300 of the Commonwealth-registered training organizations in the country reregister themselves to prove "that...
...request demands proper consideration.' JULIA GILLARD, Australia's acting Prime Minister, after the Bush Administration appealed to let Guantánamo detainees resettle Down Under should the prison be shut down...
...Pixie for his fresh looks, and Dr Death for his cold stare of disapproval, Rudd was said to have few friends in Canberra. Former Labor leaders Paul Keating and Mark Latham described him, respectively, as "a menace" and "a terrible piece of work." But by picking left-winger Julia Gillard as his deputy, he won over the factions - and got the leadership. He started campaigning the same day. Labor's poll numbers jumped from the low 40s to the high 50s; within three months Rudd led Howard as preferred P.M. By the time the election was called, in October, Howard...