Kompas.com says hundreds of Australian pedophiles are now traveling abroad where they are involved in predatory behavior with little fear of arrest, as Australian law is largely unable to touch them. The latest statistics point to Bali as a main destination for pedophiles. A report in Adelaide Now’s website said that in the first two months of 2012, a total of 195 of the 14,300 registered Australian sex offenders for crimes against children were traveling abroad. Read Article
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A rescue helicopter is on its way to pick up two men injured in an avalanche on Mt Taranaki, on the west coast of New Zealand’s North Island. Read Article
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A TOURIST has vowed never to come back to Hervey Bay after she was hit by an egg thrown from a passing car. The incident happened outside the Hervey Bay Ice Creamery in Torquay on Saturday night. Read article
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A VICTORIAN tourist has died after she plunged 60 metres from a cliff down a waterfall in a remote tourist attraction region of WA. The 37-year-old was with her husband at Big Mertons Falls, in far north Western Australia, when she slipped at about 10.30am on Sunday. Read article
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A record 97 people have contracted a potentially fatal bacterial disease in the Northern Territory this wet season, health authorities say. Acting director of the Centre for Disease Control in the Territory, Steven Skov said there had been 97 cases of melioidosis locally this wet season, resulting in nine deaths. Read article
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AN Australian tourist, who was charged with sexually abusing three young boys last year but was freed after posting bail, was arrested anew outside his hotel room in Lapu-Lapu City last June 8. The foreigner, who was arrested based on a warrant issued by Judge Ester Veloso, did not resist arrest. Read article
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A NEW Zealand woman is facing up to two years’ jail for allegedly attacking a passenger on an international flight from Melbourne. Frances Macaskill, 58, allegedly assaulted a man on Jetconnect’s QF37 from Melbourne to Wellington on Saturday morning. Read article
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A 27-year-old tourist has drowned after slipping into a rock pool in North Queensland about noon on Sunday. The European man was swimming with friends at the Wheel of Fire Falls at Finch Hatton Gorge west of Mackay when he fell into the water and did not surface, the Daily Mercury reports. Read article
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Biosecurity authorities have confirmed two horses have died in separate outbreaks of hendra virus in central and north Queensland. The properties near Rockhampton and at Ingham have been quarantined. Read article
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The 24-year-old Digger, from Townsville’s 3rd Brigade, and his female friend, 20, were killed in a motorbike crash at Douglas about 11.15am, just hours after a foreign visitor, 27, died when he was thrown from his van after it collided with a truck north of Cardwell. Police said the motorcycle’s female passenger died at the […]
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