A shark has been caught on camera making a meal of another shark along Australia‘s Great Barrier Reef. Released earlier this month, the pictures show a tasseled wobbegong halfway through swallowing a brownbanded bamboo shark.
“The first thing that caught my eye was the almost translucent white of the bamboo shark,” Ceccarelli said in an email. Expecting to find the front part of the bamboo shark hidden under a coral ledge, Ceccarelli swam closer—and the highly camouflaged wobbegong materialized.
“It became clear that the head of the bamboo shark was hidden in its mouth,” she said. “The bamboo shark was motionless and definitely dead.” (Also seeshark pictures by National Geographic fans.)
“I doubt that this is the first time such a thing has been seen,” said Ceccarelli, who added that she does think this is the first published photograph of a wobbegong swallowing another shark.
Australia is seen in India as boorish,racial and ethnocentric .
Does Australia know how much they are hated by the world , especially by the British and New Zealanders?
Ricky Ponting at a training session at the Adelaide Oval (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Its visible face in India is,of course, is its Cricket, and Cricketers, whom Indians love and hat at the same time.
While the Indians love Brett Lee,Don Bradman,Dennis Lillee Adam Gilchrist,Shane Warne,they respect McGrath and hate Steve Waugh,Ricky Ponting,Bill Lawry.
Look at their behaviour.
Apart from being totally uncouth and ill mannered, Ricky Ponting publicly pushed Senior Politician,Cricket Administrator and Central Minister aged Sharad Pawar in Public in front of the cameras.
Bill Lawry is notorious for his ‘Saree hides all sins’
This despite the accolades showered on them for their skills.
Who can forget the ‘Monkey gate’?
Nor have they endeared them by their pub brawls in and outside Australia.
Neither their politicians nor their Media are the epitome of culture.
Remember what the past Prime Minister has to say of the Indians in Australia or how the media treats Indian news/events?
What about the college making Indian wear colonial dress and making them serve Food?
The current “‘ television series has led a mixed group of Indian citizens on an at times hair-raising guided tour of Australia, a nation that the program’s title suggests is ”Dumb, Drunk & Racist”. does not help either.
The perception among the educationalist of the Australian Universities is no good.
They are seen as after only money and the curriculum is not up to the mark .
Indian students also contribute to an extent by not following the Australian mores and style of living and the general refrain from Australians is that the Indians do not integrate well with the Community.
A comment that appeared for following story, though may look silly, it has its point.
Unless a special effort is taken, the relation is bound to worsen.
The least they could do is to ask its Cricketers to behave like adults.
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Comment.
While its easy for most of us to ignore the talentless efforts of
wannabee ABC egomanics like Hildebrand, its far less easy
to ignore the constant bombardment from Indian call centres.
If India wants to do anything positive for its relationship
with Australia it should rein in this form of aural abuse.
I’ve lost count of how many Indian voices have rung
often claiming to be calling from Melbourne, while
obviously doing so via a international phone line.
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SteveH.
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OVER recent weeks a ”reality” television series has led a mixed group of Indian citizens on an at times hair-raising guided tour of Australia, a nation that the program’s title suggests is ”Dumb, Drunk & Racist”.
Having got our attention with this outrageous provocation, it becomes clear that the bleak label is host Joe Hildebrand‘s own creation – his Indian fellow travellers are clearly in at least two minds about the proposition.
Clever, funny and at times brave and insightful, the show entertains. It also confronts a serious issue: are Indians and Australians ready for that larger journey towards understanding each other better?
Recent signals have been mixed. Assaults and robberies that affected Indian students in 2009-10 saw them leave Australia in droves. The exodus wrought havoc in the tertiary education sector and cost Australia billions of dollars.
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Aussies visiting India used to be set upon by happy crowds chanting names such as ”Boon”, ”Border” and ”Mark Taylor”. Cricket is still a shared passion, but since the student crisis travellers from Down Under have been asked, “Why do Australians hate us?”
The good news is that recent polling suggests an unexpectedly rapid recovery in Australia’s reputation in India. The AMR Research data, revealed in a report published today by the Australia India Institute, shows that Indians surveyed ranked Australia the eighth-best country in the world, up from 35th during the depths of the student crisis.
Yet similar optimistic moments in the past have turned out to be false dawns and there has been precious little solidarity between our democracies. Australia hasn’t hosted a visiting Indian prime minister for 26 years.
The AII report, Beyond the Lost Decade, reveals some of the reasons why. Influential Indian policymakers regard Australia’s foreign policy as ”erratic”, ”impetuous”, ”immature” and ”unduly mercantilist”. Australian diplomats counter that India is simply holding on to old grudges, mainly the perceived overreaction to its 1998 nuclear tests.
The report, produced by a taskforce whose members combine decades of experience in diplomacy, government and media, finds that perceived commonalities such as cricket, democracy and the English language have created a deceptive sense of familiarity that masks very different world views.
India’s need for energy security will not necessarily produce close political ties. India demands respect and prefers discrete alliances with reliable partners. It seems to move slowly, yet once its confidence is gained – as an unlikely friend in Israel has gained it – doors can open quickly.
The Labor Party’s decision last December to lift its ban on uranium sales to India created a circuit-breaker and an opportunity to advance the relationship. But since then the Gillard cabinet has not formally adopted the policy, apparently due to problems with international treaty obligations. This is creating renewed uncertainty among some Indian officials.
Women who go through in vitro fertilization (IVF) early in life have a higher risk of developing breast cancer compared to women who opt for other fertility treatments, according to an Australian study.
“Women who started taking fertility drugs and went through IVF around their 24th birthday had a 56 per cent greater chance of developing breast cancer compared to those in the same age group who went through fertility treatments without IVF.
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But there was no increased risk for women who started fertility treatments when they were about 40 years old, regardless of whether they had IVF or not.
The researchers said: ‘For younger women there is some cause for concern, because it appears that they may face an increased risk of breast cancer after IVF treatment.’
The findings were based on a study of more than 21,000 women and published in the journal Fertility and Sterility.
Study author Louise Stewart from the University of Western Australia said younger women might see an increased risk of breast cancer because they are exposed to higher levels of circulating estrogen during their cycles of IVF treatment.
In the UK 45,264 women had IVF treatment in 2010. A third of women under 35 successfully had a child as a result
However, she added: ‘I don’t think it’s a huge increased risk that you should worry or panic (about).’
The researchers collected information on 21,025 women between the ages of 20 and 40 who went through fertility treatment at the hospitals of Western Australia between 1983 and 2002.
They were able to piece together enough data to follow the women for some 16 years to see if they developed breast cancer.
Roughly 1.7 per cent of the 13,644 women who only used fertility drugs without IVF ended up developing breast cancer by the end of the study.
That figure was about two percent for women who used fertility drugs and underwent IVF – a difference that researchers said wasn’t statistically significant.
This changed when women were divided into different age groups, with women aged 24 about one-and-a-half times more likely to develop breast cancer if they had IVF alongside other fertility treatments.
However, Stewart said they couldn’t yet say that IVF was causing the increased cancer risk in younger women, as these women could be different in some significant way from those who only have other types of fertility treatment.
‘If for example, younger women who had IVF were more likely to have a specific cause of infertility, and this was related to an increased risk of breast cancer, then it would appear that IVF was related to breast cancer when in fact it was the type of infertility that was more common in women who had IVF,’ she said.
Linda Giudice, president-elect of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, added: ‘The development of breast cancer is linked to estrogen exposure and the longer one is exposed, the greater the risk.
‘In an IVF cycle there is a short, but significant elevation in circulating estrogen, and whether this is linked to the observations found in the study is not clear at this time.’
FAIR Work Australia has ordered the reinstatement of an employee who was sacked for telling his boss to “get f … ed”.
Security guard Craig Symes was sacked from Linfox Armaguard last year after he told his manager to get f … ed, complained about the “f … ing roster” and then aggressively poked a notice board – all while carrying a loaded gun.
Symes, who had worked with the Brisbane firm since 2000, cracked during a monthly meeting last December after having a fight with his wife before work. “He was frustrated with his wife and, in hindsight, should not have come (to the meeting),” FWA heard.
He abused manager Aryn Hala after being assigned to a faulty armoured van and stormed out.
Symes later apologised in writing but was sacked the next day.
FWA ruled Symes’ behaviour amounted to misconduct but found his dismissal was harsh.
While finding swearing at a person was “of a different character” to swearing at an object, or as an adjective, FWA Commissioner Helen Cargill said it was “also relevant to consider the evidence that the respondent’s workplace is one in which bad language is commonly used and in which … employees may have received mixed messages about such use”.
She said the swearing was not “overheard by other employees which could have undermined Mr Halas’ authority”.
Ms Cargill ordered the company reinstate Symes with back pay – less six weeks pay as a penalty.
Throughout History, the real sons of the soil,The Aborigines of the World(the word was coined to indicate
‘ A member of the indigenous or earliest known population of a region; a native’.) were the victims of the Colonial powers right from the Spanish.
Indigenous Australians – Aboriginal (Photo credit: azfar ahmad | thepatahtumbuh)
In their quest for resources and markets for their Produce, these powers.Great Briratin,Spain,France, went about in a systematic way to root out the Natives of the Land.
This,they ensured by luring the Natives by Money,Wiping out their language,making them feel that their Culture is inferior.
Even to-day India fells it.
The British were the past masters of this art.
They divided the country ,especially India, by destroying the Cultural Institutions,attempted to kill the local languages with the introduction of English as the official Language,under the guise of introducing the World to the Natives.
This was complemented by the Proselytising Missionaries, who promised wealth and Salvation, denigrating Native Religions.
In fact this activity still goes on unchecked.
Al-Jazeera has scheduled a Programme to cover this aspect with reference to day’s Aborigines.
Let us know what we were and where have we have come from.
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Living the Language can be seen on Al Jazeera English each week at the following times GMT: Tuesday: 2230; Wednesday: 0930; Thursday: 0330;Friday: 1630; Saturday: 2230; Sunday: 0930; Monday: 0330
Australia: The Aboriginal People – from April 17
Guatemala: The Maya – from April 24
Canada: The Ktunaxa – from May 01
Bolivia: The Aymara – from May 08
New Zealand: The Maori – from May 15
Over the Airwaves – from May 22″
Now the few remaining indigenous languages are in danger of dying out in the coming years. The struggle to preserve them often rests with a few dedicated individuals striving to not only re-learn the language of their ancestors, but to also teach it to others.Michael Jarrett, who teaches the Gumbaynggirr language spoken on the coast of New South Wales, says: “When I was growing up, the Aboriginal people were forbidden to speak their language. So I didn’t get to hear fluent speakers talking together. But the land is starting to hear the native tongue again. The Gumbaynggirr language belongs in Gumbaynggirr territory. It hasn’t heard the language for many, many years.
The government of Australia has a very poor record when it comes to treatment of its Aboriginal citizens. Indigenous Australians were dispossessed of their land, despised for their culture, and marginalized, abused, and murdered. Perhaps most notorious of all the Australian policies were those that led to what has become known as the Stolen Generations. Under several federal and state programs that continued into the 1970s, the government forcibly removed Aboriginal children from their families and sent them to white families and church-run institutions for cultural reprogramming. A recent national report on the policies found that there was not a single Indigenous family that did not have at least one child taken away. Despite the deliberate genocidal nature of these programs, the government for many years refused to apologize for them. That same hostile attitude toward Aboriginal peoples was reflected in the Australian government’s long and vigorous opposition to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Fortunately, there have been improvements in the past couple of years. A change in administration led to a national apology from the government for the Stolen Generations, and the country as a whole celebrates Sorry Day. The new administration also reversed the country’s opposition to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. But there is still along way to go. Indigenous peoples on average live 17 years less than non-Indigenous people, and every measure of social and physical welfare, from infant mortality to nutrition to health, housing, education, and employment, is significantly lower for Aboriginal Australians than for non-Indigenous Australians. And all of the negative markers for disenfranchised populations—imprisonment, domestic violence, alcoholism—are much higher for Aboriginal peoples. An Aboriginal man is 13 times as likely to be in jail as a non-Indigenous Australian, and an Indigenous teenager is 28 times more likely to be in jail.
The government is making efforts to address some of these imbalances, but their handling of child abuse in Indigenous communities demonstrates how far they have to go. They enacted a set of programs that essentially let the government take control of Indigenous communities and undermined their land rights. That situation reflects a larger problem: even where there are government programs aimed at addressing the injustices and issues facing Indigenous people, there is far too little involvement of Aboriginal Australians in setting up or implementing policies.
Indigenous groups in Australia are increasingly well organized and successful. They have in recent years made some impressive gains in land claims, but the process of claiming land rights and the legal framework in which it operates still strongly favors the state and creates unnecessary hurdles for Indigenous Peoples. Most original Indigenous land has not been restored yet.
The problems facing Indigenous Australians are similar to those of Indigenous Peoples around the world, and Cultural Survival was founded 40 years ago to address those problems. To see a list of Cultural Survival archival articles about Aboriginal Australia, click here. To learn more about Indigenous issues around the world and what you can do to help, go to our home page here.
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