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Steven Berveling is very tall and thin. The white shirt and dark pants make him look professional. “It’s very nice to meet you,” he greets me in a gentle voice, standing at attention and stretching his hand to shake mine. He has …

On the pre-dawn tarmac of Melbourne Airport, Black Caviar stretched her legs before her black travel suit was removed and she was led into quarantine. The champion returned to Australia having clocked up 22 unbeaten wins at Royal Ascot in a nose-bitingly …

At the recent meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Panama South Korea announced that it will begin scientific whaling research subject to the approval of the IWC scientific committee. The scientific committee will meet next year in Seoul to discuss their …

There will be ‘no truce with the criminals’ pledges Mexico’s newly-elected President Enrique Peña Nieto. He has slick shiny black hair which he combs into a small mountain at the front of his head, a nugget of gold for political cartoonists. But …

Once thought to be the stuff of nightmares, organ trafficking is a threat that just became more real by (officially) landing on our doorstep. Miranda Farrell finds out if we’re prepared. On 28 July 2011, news broke that an elderly Sydney woman …

As Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono arrives in Australia for talks with Prime Minister Julia Gillard,  there is speculation that the increased US presence in Australia’s north, announced during President Barack Obama’s visit in November, may be another item up for discussion during the two-day leaders’ …

The personally controlled electronic health record system will go live tomorrow, but medical and security experts are voicing their unease. Brittany Cooper examines the privacy issues at stake for health consumers. There was an elderly customer in the pharmacy where I used to work …

They say a picture paints a thousand words. But as I fixed my gaze upon Kamalesh’s harrowing oil painting, I began to wonder whether the age-old idiom did this work enough justice, writes Anusha Menon. We’d talked about his time at Villawood …

The NSW Land and Environment Court on May 22 overruled Blacktown Council’s refusal of the mobile tower Telstra proposed to build at Quakers Hill. Court Commissioner Sue Morris ruled that there was no reason to reject the tower based on health risks …

Africa is a continent, not a country. The 54 African countries are unfailingly either ignored in our media or the stories that we see are negative. Africa has positive stories to tell but editors in Australia choose not to let us hear …