Melbourne, Aug. 28 : Australian Police have arrested several Indian students for violating the country’s immigration laws.
According to The Australian, nearly 300 overseas students were thrown into detention centers in Sydney and Melbourne in the past three years after falling foul of Australia''s immigration laws.
Documents obtained by The Australian under Freedom of Information laws reveal that in the three years to the end of March, 299 overseas students were put into the Villawood Detention Center in Sydney or the Maribyrnong Center in Melbourne. Most were deported and five are still in detention.
University, TAFE and secondary school students from 24 countries were detained.
Melbourne, Aug 28 : A school in Australia is under attack for urging its students to read Penthouse, a soft-core pornographic magazine.
St Stanislaus College, in Bathurst is also under fire for child-sex allegations following which, police sex crimes squad has been called in to investigate the claims involving a former college boarder subjected to horrific late-night prayer sessions.
Melbourne, Aug 27 : In a place where men outnumber the women by 10 to 1, Dani Walker has come out to be the only lady under 40, who is still single in Nar Nar Goon, Victoria.
Walker, who had moved to Nar Nar Goon this year and was dubbed as the "phantom lady", revealed that she had not noticed that there was an overabundance of single men.
"I''ve been single for a fair while. I suppose when I''ve been down to the pub I''ve been there with my three brothers, so I''m pretty oblivious to the men,” News. com. au quoted her as saying.
"I''m a sociable little munchkin, so I''ll talk to anyone. I haven''t really been looking too hard, I suppose," she said.
Melbourne, Aug 27 : Second Life virtual world user Kimberly Jernigan, who fell for her fellow user, has been charged with trying to kidnap him at gunpoint.
Jernigan, 33, of North Carolina in the US was also charged with attempted kidnapping, burglary and aggravated menacing in a bizarre case of virtual love and real violence.
As the case revealed, Jernigan had allegedly launched two plots to kidnap her former boyfriend, a 52-year-old man she met in Second Life.
The man had reportedly begun a relationship with Jerrigan in cyberspace, but ended it after meeting her in person.