Brendan writes:
“Just received this in the post. Might have been slightly more efficient sending it to my tenant in Dublin rather than to me in Melbourne [Australia]…”
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Dean McMenamin tweetz:
Bush fire just outside Devils Marbles in Northern Australia reminded me of Ireland.
Dean left Dublin in April of 2013 with the aim of cycling to India but continued on to Australia, where he is presently.
He has cycled almost 24,000 kilometres to date and raised more than €5,000 for Concern Worldwide and Cycle Against Suicide in the process.
Playing a foreign game?
And good at it.
Ireland’s Aussie Rules team bossing it in AUSTRALIA.
Australian Rules Football League of Ireland reports:
Ireland’s National Men’s Aussie Rules Team, The Blu Marine Irish Warriors are still on track to become the first team to win back to back AFL International Cup titles, following a come from behind win in their final pool game. The Blu Marine Irish Warriors will now play South Africa in the Semi-final on Tuesday. Should they win they will defend their title in the MCG next Saturday
Meanwhile, The Banshees continued on their hot-streak versus USA Liberty
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Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Go Team Budgie Smuggler.
Tony Abbott renews push on national security laws (TheAge)
Thanks Mark Geary
Halls Creek
ABC News reports:
An Irish backpacker has been charged with hiding the body of her newborn while travelling in a remote part of Western Australia. The 25-year-old was charged with “concealing the birth of a child that died before or after birth”, WA police said.
The law requires all births to be reported, even if the baby has died of natural causes.The woman had been travelling through the Kimberley region with friends and had not realised she had fallen pregnant, police said.
She gave birth one night in May, while at home alone in the town of Halls Creek.
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She appeared in court in Kununurra at the end of last month, when the case was referred to Perth, and she is due back in court later this year. The charge carries a maximum penalty of two years in jail.
It is understood the woman has had to remain in Perth while the court case proceeds.
Irish backpacker charged with concealing death of newborn in outback WA (ABC News)
Pic: Madjital Moorna
Smoking rates in Australia fell at their fastest pace in more than two decades, following the introduction of the world’s first law forcing cigarettes to be sold in plain packaging.
The daily smoking rate fell 15 per cent between 2010 and December 1 2013, when one in eight Australians said they lit up at least once a day, according to the most comprehensive survey undertaken since the new rules came into force.
Australia, which introduced plain packaging in December 2012, is at the centre of a global debate over whether laws removing all corporate branding and adding graphic health warnings can reduce smoking. Tobacco companies claim the rules do not work and say they infringe their intellectual property rights.
Simon Chapman, a professor in public health at the University of Sydney, told the Sydney Morning Herald that plain packaging was almost “like finding a vaccine that works very well against lung cancer”.
Australia smoking rates tumble after plain packaging shift (Jamie Smyth, Financial Times)
Previously: Lung May He Run
Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland
The Brits and Aussies are coming to town for the Tri Nations Tag Series. It all kicks off TOMORROW (Saturday) in Belfield, University College Dublin.
Kieran Ryan writes:
“Ireland beat Great Britain in last year’s International Series but the Australians, being the current world champions, are a completely different prospect so it promises to be a top class series of tag rugby…”
Further test games and the Tri Nations itself will take place in Limerick on Friday, July 11th.
Sunday night saw another episode of HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and this week Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was profiled.
Abbott’s awkward Irish joke from 2011 is at 01:50.
Contains NSFW language.
Tony Abbott lambasted on US TV show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Nick Bond, News.com.au)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIXP5XH_LZc
Doing us proud.
Australian Crimestoppers has broadcast a fresh appeal to find two men with Irish accents – one wearing a Dublin football GAA shirt – involved in a brutal melee in March on Princes Bridge Southbank, Melbourne, Victoria.
Do you know them?
Thanks Mark Geary
[Donie O’Sullivan]
Police have defended criticism they did not take the disappearance of Irishman Donal O’Sullivan seriously after he was found close to where he went missing in Bondi Junction five days ago.
Mr O’Sullivan’s disappearance sparked a large search with about 100 people, mainly friends and members of the Irish community, scouring Sydney’s eastern suburbs for him.
[On Wednesday night, he was discovered by a caretaker in the stairwell of a commercial building and he remains in a serious condition in hospital with head and back injuries] .
Paramedics were called and he was taken to St Vincent’s Hospital where he remains in a serious condition with head and back injuries.
…But Mr O’Sullivan’s family has been critical of police, saying they were not taken seriously because Mr O’Sullivan is Irish. Eastern Suburbs Crime Manager Ana Loughman said she was satisfied police conducted a thorough search.
“When I reviewed the report and have actually looked at what work went into finding Mr O’Sullivan, I’m confident in saying that we did everything we could under the circumstances,” she said.
Thanks Mark Geary