Pleas for a refugee Afghanistan women’s cricket team to get to play together have finally been answered by Australian cricket.
The two men have been ordered to stand trial over the alleged rape of a heavily intoxicated woman during a threesome at an inner-city apartment.
North Bondi RSL’s members initially supported NSW RSL president Mick Bainbridge. Like them,and unlike most other members of RSL branches,he was young and he had seen combat. Now they want him to resign.
It’s been three years since Afghanistan’s women cricketers escaped the Taliban. While determined to stay together,they are frustrated nothing has come of their pleas to play.
As the world looks on in horror at events unfolding in the Middle East,Herald journalists Kate Geraghty and Matthew Knott,who have just arrived in Israel,talk about what it’s like to fly into a conflict zone.
Religious police are roaming bus stops and shopping centres searching for dress code violations or any women who might laugh or raise their voices.
As humanitarian crises unfold around the globe,the United Nations is looking at its books.
Former Defence Force chief Angus Campbell and other leading military figures are facing growing calls to surrender their military honours after more junior Afghanistan war commanders were stripped of theirs.
Daisy Turnbull’s point is well made. Where are the backyards to play in? Where are the creeks to dam? Where are the places to cycle to? It would be nice to think we can turn this around,but for many this will not be possible.
David Hastie’s quoting of the Netherlands as a country with more students than Australia in private schools than public ones is not an accurate comparison (“In defence of private school funding:it’s not the great divide”,September 13). Private schools in the Netherlands are mostly chosen for children who require additional needs or for international students who have not yet learned Dutch;they are certainly not regarded as a status symbol,as can happen here.
The war criminal attended a gala to mark a Special Air Service Regiment anniversary days before the government stripped officers of honours earned in Afghanistan.