Re: Australian Boat People Saga - lesson ideas

[Dan Robinson <dlrbnsn2@eclipse.net>]

This also has implications in Norway, since the rescue vessel is
Norwegian. This link was posted to another list. You migh want to
add it to the ones that Barbara mentioned.

<http://www.aftenposten.no/english/ >

Dan Robinson
HW Wilson Company
Bronx, NY
drobinson@hwwilson.com


On 1 Sep 01, at 11:03, Barbara Braxton wrote:

> Dear Folks
> This may seem to be off-topic for this list, but I don't believe it is.
>
> Australia is apparently in your news bulletins because of the situation that
> arose last week when a Norwegian ship rescued about 450 people from a
> sinking boat in Indonesian waters, and after they threatened him with
> violence, the captain felt compelled to change course and sail towards
> Australia.
>

>
> Some useful websites that you might use would be
> http://www.news.com.au/ which gives you access to most of the major daily
> newspapers
> http://www.smh.com.au/ - The Sydney Morning Herald
> http://www.theage.com.au/ The Age  - Melbourne's main daily
> http://www.f2.com.au/ - home page of the Fairfax group which is the other
> main media empire
> http://ninemsn.com.au/news/ - one of four major TV networks
> http://i7.com.au/Home - the second major channel
> http://www.abc.net.au - the government television channel
> (trying not to show any bias here)
>
> http://www.abs.gov.au - the Australian Bureau of Statistics
> http://www.immi.gov.au/ - the Department of Immigration
> http://www.dfat.gov.au/media/tampa.html the Department of Foreign Affairs
> and Trade
>
>

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