
“An Australian woman who allegedly set fire to her husband’s genitals because she believed he was having an affair appeared in court on a murder charge Monday. After the fire spread through the family home, Rajini Narayan, 44, told neighbours she had only wanted to burn her husband’s penis ’so it belongs to me and no one else,’ prosecutors said.” [Link]

“A Christian fundamentalist politician, the Reverend Fred Nile, is calling for topless sunbathing to be outlawed, and he has received backing from several mainstream MPs. Nudity is illegal in Australia except on designated beaches, but local councils consider toplessness acceptable. Nile wants the legislation to be tightened. ‘The law should be clear,’ he said. ‘It must say: ‘Exposure of women’s breasts on beaches will be prohibited’.'” [Link]

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Paris Hilton is in Melbourne Australia to host a New Years 2009 party

“Marcus Squirrell, from Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology, sounded out 1,325 men who spent over 12 hours a week on internet sex sites and found that over a quarter of them were clinically depressed. ‘Thirty per cent had high levels of anxiety and 35 per cent were moderately to severely stressed, which is, of course, extremely high,’ he told a conference in Melbourne. The more time his respondents spent in online sexual activity, the worse their level of depression and anxiety.” [Link]
“Levi Kereama, who went on to perform with his brothers in R&B group Lethbridge, plunged to his death from a Brisbane hotel on Saturday night. Just hours earlier the 27-year-old had played at the Parklife Festival in Brisbane’s Botanic Gardens and Riverstage.” [Link]

“Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says that his country must be prepared to respond to an emerging arms race across the Asia-Pacific region.The Australian military would be built up to meet the challenge, he said.” [Link]

“John Morgan, a 51-year-old surf shop owner from the east coast tourist town of Byron Bay, compared his terrifying 170-foot ride off a local beach to being towed by a jet ski. He said he was about 330 yards from shore and paddling out when the 10-foot shark swelled up from underneath him Sunday afternoon. ‘It freaked me out,’ Morgan said. ‘It bumped my leg rope and next thing it tangled itself in the leg rope and started charging out to sea with me in tow.’” [Link]
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