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Children try to reach plastic bags full of food

Australia's charity sector will continue to provide essential services to people here and overseas long into the future.

Independent charity regulator is long overdue

By Andrew Hewett

August 28, 2008 12:12:00

Australia is years behind other nations in our standards of regulation of charities and not-for-profit organisations. More

Tags: international-aid-and-trade, business-regulation, community-and-society, federal-government, charities, australia


You said it

August 28, 2008 10:24:00

Politicians never cease to amaze me. No matter what side they are on, they have no idea of how the majority of Australians live. - Fig Barton - Whiteman Creek, NSW

August 28, 2008 10:21:00

Would somebody please tell Brendan Nelson that they lost the election and he doesn't even have the support of most of his own party, let alone the general population? - Jan Payne - Lane Cove, NSW

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They said it

August 28, 2008 14:51:00

The skeleton of what is thought to be a World War II pilot hangs in the jungle canopy

It's swinging like somebody caught in a tree and that's when you can really see the cabling and it's the exact shape of a body, same size, everything, but it's just covered in moss. It's exactly what it looks like, just somebody caught in a harness.

Authorities are investigating the discovery of what guide David Collins says could be the skeleton of a World War II pilot along PNG's Kokoda Track.

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