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The peak national body for homelessness has called for a coordinated Commonwealth response to homelessness.

Homelessness Australia says Government agencies need to focus on access to housing, providing support and early intervention.

The comments were prompted by new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showing an overall increase in the number of people who are homeless.

Executive officer of Homelessness Australia, Simon Smith, says apart from housing, homeless people also need support.

“We need a significant investment in dollars in homeless services in Australia,” he said.

“What we don’t have at the moment that we need is someone who can work with the person who’s been homeless to help them get back on their feet.”

Melbourne could replace Sydney as Australia’s most populous city according to new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

The latest population projections by the bureau show Melbourne ’s population could reach between 6.1 million to almost 7.9 million people by 2056, almost double its current size.

While, Sydney’s population would grow to just 7.7 million with a large number of people expected to move interstate.

New statistics forecast the state of Victoria will swell to about 9.8 million by 2056, an additional four and a half million people.

Australia’s total population is predicted to grow to almost 42 million people over the same period.

Melbourne seems to be the one place in Australia I can exist happily, Sydney seemed worse every time I could see from the shithole - it is a boiling pot of those rich and everyone else poor. Melbourne hasn’t lost its mateship and genuinity in its people as a whole, making it an integral influence to the shaping of an Australian identity.

After a disasterous ending to what I would call my winter hybernation, the beginning to Spring downunder ‘08 has been surprizingly good. I guess to put it simply, one of my pc’s died, after not taking well to his freshly purchased xp operating system and peripherals (ati graphics card, audigy sound card with external plug and play control unit and daughter card). To put it simply - he died with a freshly purchased copy of windows xp onboard, and at $250 a pop at the local computer store, you could probably understand my panic when realizing windows xp will not activate again so smoothly as it did the first time.

One would be understandably stressed at knowing the chunk of microsoft baggage sitting amongst the grand pile of cd’s one can hoard over the years, aint really thiers at all - or is it?

Well if you are one with a pirated copy or maybe a code writing, program developing, operating system wiz kid from some grubby little hole under your mums sink in romania somewhere - good luck to you, but for me - the owner of such an expensive piece of software in such a poor nieghbourhood - I have to say at first, I was outraged. That software nearly cost me all my dole check, and for someone in my situation, that means constipating cheap meals and a meal from a food van once or twice to come for a fortnight. Cool, but not when this happens. So anyhow, after some surfing around on the net, a look at some crack, hacks, cheats and keygen software, I realized that the non-sense could stop if I just gave them a call and explained the situation, but that was Saturday…. they were not taking calls again till Monday…. FUCK!!!!
So here I am, posting to my blog from my freshly validated copy of xp, and I have to say that I am delighted. It has been a long weekend for such a simple solution - if you have a genuine copy of xp and need it re-validated, it is as simple as making a phonecall to thier call centre in your local region. It is the first question you will come accross in the validation process as to whether you require phone validaion or cable validation. If you have validated your genuine copy of xp once allready, do not panic - for the number to call, follow through with validation by checking the button for telephone validation then clicking next. You will be asked firstly what region of the world you are in, then be given the corresponding number for your region. Ring the number with your 42 digit id given below the phone number, they will then give you the *matching 42 digit id for that id number only. Enter that number in, click next and ther it is.

So if you have a pirated copy, keep working on your shite. From what I gather, most of it was scams, trojans, and viruses, apart from the free linux based systems which I would recommend for a second computer less vulnerable to pacifiers in the time it takes one to build it up to thier specs - or buy a mac.

After two weeks of heartache, the parents of missing boy Yadav Munohur had their worst fears confirmed when his body was found in a creek near their Melbourne home on Thursday.

Yadav’s mother Aarti and father Kailash identified their son’s body after construction workers found it in Gardiner’s Creek in Melbourne ’s east, close to the spot where he was last seen exactly two weeks ago in similar wet, cold conditions.

It was only a short distance from where the nine-year-old’s blue thongs were found by police early in the search.

Police visiting the family said the couple and their two daughters were too distraught to speak publicly.

Police struggled to explain how Yadav’s body had surfaced in an area they had already searched when he went missing on August 7.

They said it can take a human body a fortnight of decomposing to become light enough to surface, while Sergeant Graham Rodgers speculated that rain may have helped to expose the body.

“I don’t know why (it had not been found earlier). It may have been snagged, it may have been underwater for a period of time and recent rains just brought it to the surface,” Sgt Rodgers told reporters.

“It’s a very sad ending unfortunately. He’s been missing for two weeks so it was an ending that was probably to be expected.

“It’s probable that he washed down from further up.”

Yadav was adopted two years ago from an orphanage in Mumbai, India, and was last seen walking from his home toward a nearby park in Hawthorn.

It was feared at the time that he had fallen into the creek which runs along the edge of the park about 400 metres from the family home.

Yadav’s body was spotted by concrete cutter Stuart Denson at about 8am Thursday as he was about to start his working day helping widen the Citylink freeway.

Mr Denson’s workmate Darren Jones climbed down from a 10-metre high concrete pylon to investigate before ringing police.

“It looked like a dummy but I touched his ear, it felt soft and not hard like a dummy so I knew,” he told reporters, adding Mr Denson and he were upset by the find.

“It’s not very nice, not when you’ve got kids of your own.

“I just hope that it was an accident and he fell in and no rat’s killed him.

“At least now he’s been found they can do something about it and start living now they have got the boy back.”

Gary Campbell, principal of Auburn South primary school where Yadav was a grade four student, choked back tears as he spoke about Yadav.

He said the school was in mourning but was being supported by counsellors and a tribute to Yadav was planned.

“They’re (students) obviously very upset, we’re watching them” Mr Campbell said.

“The worst has happened. But in a way they were prepared for the worst.”

He was a lovely, happy, cheerful kid. His English wasn’t fantastic but he was going to the language school in Melbourne .”

Mr Campbell said the school had also contacted Yadav’s family to offer support, and Education Department guidance officers had been working with the family.

Police will compile a report for the coroner.

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Followers of a spiritual movement banned in China have rallied in Melbourne , calling on the public not to forget the Olympic host’s human rights record.

The Falun Gong has been outlawed in China since 1999 when it was accused of engaging in illegal activities, jeopardising social stability, advocating superstition and spreading fallacies.
My comments
For centuries, other sailing ships respected the many freedoms enjoyed by those native to ‘Australia’, opting to share ideas, trade and respect with my ancestory. You are talking of autraucities which I of course empathise with but fail to see how much you respect the land you stand on. I was fortunate enough to have learnt and assisted in the education of this very culture - and just so happened to rid myself of severe life threatening respiratory problems (a common threat to a perfectly balanced way of life accostomed to the identy, as well as the fact a recessive gene bleaches the skin of my belief) through swimming, thanks to my parents, and it was when I swam faster than most I realized the olympics was a realistic goal to shoot for… alot of the cultural values have been misinherited, misinterpreted and in most cases - the monarchy/Great Britain - limited it’s value and in essence, erased it for it’s so called evil and beastly ways of life.

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Its Melbourne spokeswoman Ana Vereshaka described the movement as an ancient spiritual practice that involved exercises to cultivate the mind and body that also promoted peacefulness and tranquility.

My comments

I guess the very fact the indigenous gifts of mind, body and spirit synchronicity are lost in time, really does make you as tyranical as the next ignorant oxygen thief.

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Members who said they directly experienced persecution in China attended Saturday’s rally at the Melbourne City Square.

“Our main message is to remember that behind the opening of the Olympic Games there are labour camps within walking distance of Olympic venues where Falun Gong practitioners are tortured and persecuted,” Ms Vereshaka said.

The group wants the Chinese Communist Party to immediately release all Falun Gong followers, end their persecution and investigate both the disappearance of thousands of practitioners in China and claims of organ harvesting.

My comments

I guess for you “Msss Vereshaka”, a truth more sinister lie beneath the very ground ignorance stands upon till it is given the same effort one puts into the very deed which brought such inbalance and lack of humility.

Melbourne transit police are distributing pamphlets to train travellers as they continue to search for a missing nine-year-old boy.

Yadav Munohur - who only recently arrived from India - ran away from his home in Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, after an argument with his mother around 5:30pm AEST on Thursday afternoon to play at a Kooyong Park.

The boy’s adoptive parents say he has a fascination with trains and trams.

He was last seen at the Hawthorn park on Thursday night, but Melbourne police do not believe items found in a park at Hawthorn belong to the boy.

Searchers found tracksuit pants similar to the boy’s today, along with a Metcard.

Police and SES volunteers have spent the past two days searching the park and Gardiner’s Creek.

Sweeps of the creek and Yarra River failed to find the boy.

The seizure of the world’s largest ecstasy haul has caused a major disruption to organised crime in Australia and overseas, Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty said.

The AFP says it seized 4.4 tonnes of ecstasy with a street value of $440 million and arrested 20 people across Australia in police raids on Friday morning.

During a joint 12-month investigation by the AFP and Customs, 3,000 tomato tins were found to contain 15 million ecstasy tablets when they were shipped from Italy to Melbourne in June last year, police said.

Police also allege they seized 150 kilograms of cocaine from the same syndicate in July this year.

The investigation also identified a money laundering operation worth more than $9 million.

Thirteen people appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court facing charges including drug trafficking, drug importation and money laundering.

At a press conference in Melbourne , four customs officers guarded the massive haul of drugs contained in plastic bags and containers sitting on a large table.

Mr Keelty said the investigation also involved cooperation with European police where search warrants were executed in Belgium and the Netherlands with investigations continuing in Italy.

“This is part of a global international syndicate,” Mr Keelty said.

“This is a major disruption to transnational organised crime, both for this country and abroad.”

The investigation was the largest ever undertaken by the AFP, Mr Keelty said.

“This is the epitome of what organised crime investigations are about and this is for the AFP in our 30 year history, this is the largest operation we have ever undertaken.”

Customs CEO Michael Carmody described the drug importation as sophisticated and well organised.

He said the investigation started after officials received small snippets of intelligence more than 12 months ago.

Those appearing in court were Melbourne men Alan Saric, 34, of Werribee, Francesco Madafferi, 47, of Greenvale, Antonio Sergi, 34, of Sydenham, Mohamed Nasfan Abdul Nazeer, 24, of West Footscray, Tanesh Bernard Dias, 35, of West Footscray, Rob Karam, 41, of Kew, John Higgs, 63, of Taylors Lakes, Gratian Bran, 51, of Cheltenham and Salvatore Agresta, 40, of East Keilor.

Also appearing were Sharon Ropa, 37, of the Melbourne suburb of Carlton, Pasquale Sergi, 45, of Griffith, NSW, Pasquale Barbaro, 46, of Tharbogang, NSW, and Severino Scarponi, 39, of Glenside, South Australia .

Seven other people have also been charged.

Police executed 45 search warrants in Victoria, NSW, Tasmania and South Australia .

Prosecutor Brent Young asked the court for extra time to prepare the case.

He said police had intercepted 187,000 telephone calls and had 3,600 hours of listening devices to trawl through.

Mr Young said a brief of evidence would not be available for six months.

Ten of the accused made no application for bail and were remanded to appear in the same court for a special mention hearing on March 26 next year.

Madafferi was granted bail on conditions including reporting to police daily. He will also appear in the same court on March 26 next year.

Dias and Nazeer, who are not charged with drug offences, were remanded to appear in the same court on February 9 for committal mention.

Thousands of people have gathered across Arctic regions, Siberia and China to see a total eclipse of the sun, despite Chinese warnings that it could augur bad luck.

Tourists and local residents lined the banks of the River Ob in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, screaming with delight as the moon fully obscured the sun and the sky went dark, Russian television stations reported.

“It was scary, wild. Everything went dark and the wind blew,” one Russian told Vesti 24 television channel after watching the eclipse through his telescope. “You looked through the telescope and everything was shaking.”

Novosibirsk was the largest major city on the path of the eclipse, which could also be seen in northern Canada, Greenland, Norway, Mongolia and China over two hours.

“Siberia’s capital for the first time became a tourist Mecca,” NTV television channel commented.

About 200 people gathered in Norway’s far northern Svalbard archipelago in the main settlement of Longyearbyen. One estimated the temperature had dropped about 10 degrees Celsius during the eclipse.

“It was a special experience. The colours of the houses completely changed. The light went more white than usual,” local guide Sigmund Andersen told NTB news agency.

“When such rare things happen one gets the impression something supernatural has taken place.”

In China about 10,000 people gathered for the eclipse in the small town of Yiwu, 500 km east of Urumqi, the official Xinhua news agency said.

Foreign tourists had also come to see the eclipse, Xinhua said, with at least 500 foreign travellers in Yiwu and Jiayuguan in neighbouring Gansu province.

In Novosibirsk, about 10,000 tourists, including “eclipse chasers” from abroad, had booked hotel rooms months in advance, despite prices raised to astronomical levels, local media reported.

And more than 1,000 visitors went to the remote north Siberian town of Nadym, the place where the eclipse lasted the longest, located just below the Arctic Circle, Interfax news agency reported.

In Moscow groups of workers gathered on pavements to watch the partial eclipse just visible in the capital, obscured by clouds hanging over the city.

A total solar eclipse is caused when the moon blots out the sun by passing directly between it and the earth and has traditionally been associated with misfortune.

At any one point, the full eclipse lasts about two minutes.

Astrologers and feng shui experts in China said earlier the eclipse might spook the superstitious a week ahead of the Beijing Olympics. But they added Chinese authorities had nothing to fear.

“Protests and chaos on the street are very likely but they will not do any permanent harm to the Chinese authorities,” one of China’s most renowned feng shui and astrology experts, Mak Ling-ling, told AFP earlier.

Meanwhile Russia’s Strategic Rocket Force, responsible for the country’s nuclear arsenal, offered reassurance that the eclipse could not disrupt their systems and the navy even announced it had test fired a missile on Friday from the Barents Sea, hitting a target in far eastern Kamchatka.

“Neither solar or lunar eclipses, nor periodic geomagnetic radiation causing sun spots affect the working of the control systems of strategic missiles,” Alexander Vovk, a spokesman for the strategic missile force, told Interfax.

Total eclipses occur on average once every 18 months. However Vesti 24 said another was not expected in Novosibirsk until 2372.

Having the correct and proper education, most go forth in some form of ambitious path of career often pre-determined by the accredited credentials attained officially in certifiable dignity… blah blah bloody blah! thus (in my mind) creating the many wasted life hours in synthetic light powered economically by melon headed methane producing obese sheep happy to continue grazing on health-defying straw whilst the ba(n)ck paddock reflects the selfish, life-deforming, anti-existance capitalism glorifies.
Politics, for the most part, makes me angry. For me, it has always been the pinnacle in wasteful intelect clubs radiating harmfully high quantities of what I call detremental personal atmospheric radiation, meaning most cows grazing and farting happily in the slaughter pen have a more purposeful existance to thier moment in the environment. What keeps society clutching to the now shredding chabby-chic betty crocker picket fence is the rare brush with a more positively charged member of the devolver club, passionate and possibly even true to thier word and one of integrity… sometimes - such as in the case of Peter Garret, dancing and promissing of a true endeavour not 10 feet away from where I stared the woolloomooloo train overpass to sleep on something softer than the rough roadside surface, for the sake of record sales , only to contradict and compromise - its best to keep an open mind and a determined spirit when such balls of steel come knocking on the door of housing estates in similar stead.
Rarely are there any form of outsider dressed people carrying pens and notepads of non-suspicious looking cop-scrawl, except for the wayward salesman I am happy to educate and direct to a more viable location (for his own sake). I am who I am, and in the instance I refer to, nothing gave me more joy than to be the nosey prepared neighbour, delighted by the chance my ears confirmed to me in that very gutsy knock at the screen door. For once, we were being counted as part of the species, and not human collateral damage. I guess for me to say that she was timid at first would be understood in my mohawk and untidy appearance but as soon as the conversation was engaged in it was a commitment I felt two humans made to sustain life as opposed to anti-ecologically geared profits for the banks to reflect in digital stature of falsehood.
Important to me was the fact that she grew up several houses outside the estate, and even her business card depicts a view of the hoddle street high-rises behind her somewhat visionistic profile pic… so now that you are listening Lindy Mills, ALP candidate for Langridge Ward, city of Yarra, a true account of what I would call a true waste of ecology is by reflecting on both poor duty of care for people and the environmental surroundings and poverty realised by little to no enrichment being either facilitated or communicated to the residents of the estate. In my building alone, there are 4 aspiring muso’s who have engaged in the art most of thier lives, and of course thiers, like most true musical scenario’s - it is left to ferment in such a place as an underground carpark full of obsolete unimpressionable fixtures to discourage even a spoon-spangler from engaging in musical self development. In addition, painters and sculpters, designers and dancers of all nationalities - but especially the aboriginal artists and storytellers must be given the tools as if it were a naturally occuring abundance as it were pre-white settlement, and a true honour system for those wishing to paint for patron. Having been through the jail system witnessing the true crimes commited against incarcerated indigenous artists, the fee they recieve and the near natzee like attachment of wealth given to a painting by an aboriginal in custody is truly sickening and tyranical. It is about time the sorry one spoke of worked harder at fixing the cart behind the horse, and possibly even understand how to survive in a country proven inhabited for 40,000 years - and still no recognition to the importance of fire meetings by the law forbidding it. 1 Designated place is all we ask for. More native plant incentives and education on simple native plant anatomy and nursery tips on local vegetation once shaping this area to ensure that sustainable ecosystems can also be accomplished by residents at the currently existing grow community nature paddock, expanding a more practical approach to the problem we are in a direct path of. Catchments have been eroding, and a more attentive position must be taken now to assist in the most realistic return to its optimum flow into the yarra by understanding the earths needs surrounding it. Any hesitation should only result in exponential detrement, and imenent distress.
I also take note of how local wildlife have addapted, and it seems since the south american tree was lopped some honey gliders, possums and birdlife have depleted. The constant cutting of foleage by board unenthusiastic wage earning chainsaw men maximising his capital slovenly, causing wind damage and hedgening like natures perfect packaged routine.(NOT) That shit is for toorak.
Most of all I guess the more you open doors, the less they need slamming shut. Provide stigma, and such a pressence of authority in the estate will diminish, thus reducing the instances of negative practices, and initiate a more communicable environment of goal oriented humans, and less a placement at arms length.
Concluding the body of evidence would be simple here - people are board. They don’t want the bare minimum being offered like dangled carrots for donkeys. Take some risks, start with the simple shit, allow for some uniqueness and for once maybe we can get real. Facilitation is the key - not regulation.