You are currently browsing the EU Australia Online archives for June, 2009.
Damir Dokic, father of the Australian tennis professional Jelena, has reportedly been gaoled for fifteen months in Belgrade (12.6.09), for making threats against the Australian Ambassador there. … Read More »
The World Health Organisation in Geneva has declared the first influenza epidemic in over 40 years, placing the H1N1 virus at Level six, top of its epidemic scale.
The move follows a new surge of cases especially in Australia. … Read More »
The new Australian Defence Minister, John Faulkner, is this week in Europe (9-14.6.09), to attend to “issues of importance to Australia’s Defence interests” – focused on the NATO-led commitment in Afghanistan.
In the Mediterranean, an Australian warship has come to the aid of a boat, crowded and adrift. … Read More »
The Brazilian government and armed forces are reporting that seventeen bodies have been found with floating debris in the sea, from the crash of an Air France flight last week (1.6.09). … Read More »
Heads of state and of government headed the celebrations beginning at Normandy for the 6th June, 60th anniversary commemorations of D Day.
The military code-name for the great amphibious operation became a signal for a decades-long campaign, to roll back despotism and untruth.
American leadership played a part, then, and today in the person of President Barak Obama. … Read More »
Too many people of European background who live in other countries have no true idea of what their Old Country is like today, according to Ambassador David Daly. … Read More »
The twentieth anniversary of the shootings at and around Tienanmen square (4.6.09) is being greeted with refreshed horror worldwide, and a certain arrogance in Beijing – where the archived news has been officially called “groundless allegations”.
In this commentary Lee Duffield recalls the moment as seen from another public square, in Europe; and he reprises the information that came out, about the reality of a “Tienanmen Solution” much feared in Eastern Europe, just months after the tragedy in China. … Read More »