Word: monash
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...violence looks unlikely to abate anytime soon. Bikie gang expert and criminologist Arthur Veno, a professor at Monash University in Melbourne, says the step-up in violence is happening because of the rise of Notorious, a younger gang that has muscled in on established gangs' turf in Sydney. "This new gang doesn't have the traditional rules of engagement that the bikies share among themselves," he says. "The war has broadened from the issue of a simple battle over the issue of the drug pyramid. It has now spilled into the long-term affiliations between clubs and has allowed...
...kept in refugee camps. Sadly, the unfortunate Palestinians' numbers have now ballooned from thousands to millions. All refugees have rights. The Jewish refugees from Arab lands are the forgotten refugees who were never compensated, either for their financial loss or the trauma that they suffered. Lillian Cohen, KFAR MONASH, ISRAEL...
...night at 3am in the week before the fires and I thought things were not well. I was watching the weather and I did up a fire awareness notice which got published in some of the papers and sent around," says Packham an honorary research fellow at Monash University. "I did the calculations and you can work out the flame heights of a fire and there were some scary figures. Flames up to 60 to 70 meters [2-to 230 feet] high...
...Kong - tenement frontages, old movie posters - and applied them to clothes and accessories, articulating a prototypical Hong Kong identity just as the city was in the throes of decolonization. "Fashion and dress [have] always been part and parcel of social change," says Yeoh Seng Guan, a communications professor at Monash University Malaysia, "both in terms of reflecting and inciting...
...former Muslim youth leader will be the first opposition politician to ever become Malaysia's Prime Minister. "With Anwar resurgent and within a whisker of the top job, there are uncanny similarities between the 1998 [political] crisis and the current one," says Wong Chin Huat, a political scientist at Monash University's Kuala Lumpur campus. Anwar puts it more bluntly. "I thought, 'Not again,'" he told TIME. "But this shows how desperate the government is. The economy is in a bad state, [parliamentarians] are crossing over to our side, there's turmoil within UMNO...