SHOCKING footage of a teenage fight club at the Northern Territory's largest shopping centre has been posted on the internet.
Video: The new fight club
The videos, called "Cas Fights", show barechested boys punching, kicking and wrestling each other in the carpark and surrounds of Casuarina Square while other teens egg them on.
In one video a slight, blond boy is punched repeatedly in the face until he goes limp on the footpath outside the Casuarina Square food court, the NT News said.
Monday 19 September 2011
Sunday 28 August 2011
Former AFL footballer Fabian Francis has been found guilty of assaulting his former wife
Francis, 37, of Greenwith in Adelaide's north, was found guilty by a District Court jury on Friday after a trial for 20 abuse-related crimes against his former wife Debra Buckskin between 1998 and 2008.
Cleared of some charges but found guilty of others, Francis was emotional as the jury found him guilty of eight of 20 charges.
He was found guilty of one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, five counts of aggravated threatening to cause harm and two counts of aggravated assault.
During the trial, prosecutor Mark Norman said Ms Buckskin had endured years of abuse at the hands of her jealous, controlling and cruel husband.
Mr Norman said the former Port Adelaide player had blackened her eyes, bruised her body, broken her teeth, threatened her with an axe and forced soil into her mouth.
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Labour MP Craig Thomson
Besieged federal Labor MP Craig Thomson insists he's done nothing wrong, as the opposition sought answers over claims surrounding a union credit card being used for prostitutes.
Hotel bills obtained by Fairfax show phone calls made to two Melbourne brothels in 2006 were from rooms hired in Mr Thomson's name.
The member for the NSW Central Coast seat of Dobell has repeatedly denied using his credit card to pay for escort services, saying it was regularly used by other people within the Health Services Union when he was its national secretary.
He's also been under fire for waiting until this week to disclose that the ALP's NSW branch had paid a "sum of money" - reportedly $90,000 - to his lawyers on his behalf to allegedly avoid bankruptcy after ending a defamation case against Fairfax.
Mr Thomson told reporters in Canberra on Friday, as he entered a committee meeting, the allegations was unfounded. "The reports yesterday and in the paper last night are completely untrue," he said.
"I have denied these allegations before - there is nothing there that is new at all. "I will get on and do my job."
Monday 22 August 2011
Rapist preys on Perth sex workers
Police suspect a serial rapist is preying on sex workers in Perth's northern suburbs.
The man is believed to be responsible for two violent sexual assaults and another attempted sexual assault in the past month and detectives fear he may strike again.
A 39-year-old woman was attacked in the first incident late last month at a massage parlour in Doubleview.
Police say once the man was inside, he grabbed the woman around the throat, forced her onto a bed and sexually assaulted her.
Twenty days later, the same man tried to enter a massage parlour on Sackville Terrace in Scarborough, but was refused entry.
He returned to the Doubleview premises where he assaulted another woman, also 39-years-old.
Security surveillance cameras outside the Doubleview property captured the man entering the premises.
He is described as being in his 40s, fair skinned, approximately 177 centimetres tall, and of medium build with short dark hair.
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Saturday 13 August 2011
No more handouts for Aboriginals, says ex-Australian of the Year Galarrwuy Yunipingu
FORMER Australian of the Year and Aboriginal leader Galarrwuy Yunipingu has called on his people to stop accepting welfare handouts, saying it is killing them.
Mr Yunipingu was speaking at this year's Garma Festival, held on a remote region of Yolngu land on the edge of the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Northern Territory.
"Stop relying on welfare handouts," he told an audience, which included executives from Rio Tinto and Fortescue Metals chairman Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest.
"Please no more, please no more welfare handouts. "It's a killer to the Yolngu Society." Instead, Mr Yunipingu said his people deserved appropriate education.
"Not just any Mickey Mouse teaching, not just any education for blackfellas, please give us a real teaching give us a real education."
The Garma Festival is a celebration of the Yolngu cultural inheritance and will run until Sunday
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