Posted: September 12th, 2011 | Author: Edmund Tadros | Filed under: Data, National | Tags: Defence, Immigration, Tenders, The Canberra Times | No Comments »
By Edmund Tadros and Bianca Hall
Detention centre operators, an international training company, a NSW Government department and a multinational IT firm are the big winners from the Federal Government’s immigration policies.
An analysis of tender data by The Canberra Times has identified, for the first time, the companies that have won the most lucrative contracts from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship since 2008.
Combined with information from DIAC, a fuller picture has emerged of the true cost of the Federal Government’s asylum-seeker policy, with a refugee advocate saying the money could be better deployed in cheaper community-based alternatives.
Read more about the cost of Australia’s immigration policies at The Canberra Times.
Posted: June 18th, 2011 | Author: Edmund Tadros | Filed under: Freedom of information, My highlights | Tags: Defence, Freedom-of-Information, The Canberra Times | No Comments »
By Edmund Tadros and Markus Mannheim
Australia’s military university has filed at least 29 formal reports of alleged sexual offences over the past decade, including claims a female cadet was king-hit and raped while unconscious.
But the records, obtained under freedom of information law, may represent a mere fraction of all reported assaults at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
One colonel warned the school’s commandant, Commodore Bruce Kafer, in April that its archives were ”patchy” about incidents before 2009 and could not be relied on as a full account of the academy’s troubled history.
Read more about ADFA at The Canberra Times.
Posted: June 17th, 2011 | Author: Edmund Tadros | Filed under: Technology | Tags: Earthquake, Google Earth, New Zealand, smh.com.au, Technology | No Comments »
Christchurch resident Renea Mackie took these photos of her city four months after the massive earthquake that rocked the city in February. Photo: Renea Mackie.
The massive earthquake that destroyed large parts of New Zealand’s second biggest city struck at 12:51pm on an overcast Tuesday in February, as Grant Wells was eating a Chinese meal in a Christchurch food court.
“As soon as the shaking stopped, I got out of there as fast as I could,” the 43-year-old consultant says.
“I had to climb over a fridge that had fallen over as I left.
“Then there was about two hours of just utter, well, the world had turned upside down.
“Cell phones weren’t working, the streets were gridlocked.
“My car was on the fifth floor of a car park and I couldn’t get it out.”
The earthquake that hit the South Island province of Canterbury on February 22 killed 181 people and destroyed or badly damaged about 900 buildings in Christchurch city.
The government and residents are now using a mix of high- and low-tech methods to reimagine how a rebuilt Christchurch could look and to remember what they have lost.
Read more about the technology being used to rebuild Christchurch at smh.com.au.
Posted: April 2nd, 2011 | Author: Edmund Tadros | Filed under: My highlights | Comments Off
ADFA’s decade of sex claims
Australia’s military university has filed at least 29 formal reports of alleged sexual offences over the past decade, including claims a female cadet was king-hit and raped while unconscious.
But the records, obtained under freedom of information law, may represent a mere fraction of all reported assaults at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
APEC 2007 – Truth revealed by Freedom-of-Infomation
 Activist ‘Paddy’ Gibson lands payout after APEC arrest
POLICE made a secret payment to an activist wrongly arrested during the 2007 Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit and then used this payout as an excuse to stop an internal investigation into the arrest, documents released under Freedom of Information laws reveal.
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Posted: April 2nd, 2011 | Author: Edmund Tadros | Filed under: My highlights | Comments Off
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