Australia is part of the Asian neighourhood, but is generally referred to as an Oceanic country. Oceania contains Australia and proximate islands which lay on the Australian continent.
We are basically our own region.
Australia's economy has overtaken Spain's to become the 12th-largest in the world, according to the Government's analysis of new International Monetary Fund (IMF) data.
Treasurer Wayne Swan has described the result as a "remarkable achievement" given Australia's relative population size...
It's a double banger.
Not only are sanctions hurting their economy, but their domestic policies are hurting them aswel. Ahmedinejad just blames it on the "west"
I'd like to remind people that it's most countries around the world that has sanctions on Iran.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iranian authorities used aggressive measures Wednesday in an attempt to halt the nosedive of the country's currency, making arrests, vowing to stamp out sidewalk money changers and warning merchants against fueling the mounting public anger over the economy.
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Sexual exploitation is the sexual abuse of children and youth through the exchange of sex or sexual acts for drugs, food, shelter, protection, other basics of life, and/or money.
Read your own link.
Information isn't physical, no, but it is still considered theft when you steal it. You are taking something of value from someone else who does not give you permission ie theft.
Assange received this stolen information and then distributed it. It would be the same as if...
It doesn't matter if he is a journalist or not and it doesn't matter if he is an American or not.
He received documents which were obtained by theft and he then distributed these stolen items.
It would be like me breaking into your house, stealing things and then saying "oh, don't arrest me...
Nothing Julian Assange did was "Free speech" Theft is not free speech. As for the charges against him regarding the rape. He has a reputation of being a pig towards women. He is probably using his leaks as an excuse to get out of what he did.
The only reason why so many people on this forum...
Well there does seem to be a fair amount of Australian and Indonesian related articles regularly and i think a dedicated section would encouraged more to be posted.
It seems there is a section for every part of the world except Oceania which includes Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and many pacific nations.
I think it would be a good idea to have one.