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= Britons leaving the UK to get their relatives in =  [|COMMENTS (191)] By Catrin Nye BBC Asian Network & Newsnight  The Briton who married an American and moved to France to get into the UK  [|Continue reading the main story]

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British citizens are bypassing immigration regulations to get their relatives into the UK, using a technicality that means that if they work in another European country for three months, they can be considered under EU rather than British law on their return. Is this cheating the system or just getting past unfair rules? Sarah Pitard is a screenwriter from Chicago who had been living in the UK for four years on student visas when she married actor Chris Hall from Swindon, in December 2012. When the couple applied for their marriage visa the UK Border Agency returned their form saying they had not enclosed payment details. The couple maintain that these details had been included, but by that time it was too late for them to re-apply as Sarah's existing visa was about to expire. "Our visa was refused and when I calculated how many days I was allowed to stay in the UK it turned out we had 48 hours to leave the country, otherwise I would have been banned for 10 years.  [|Continue reading the main story]
 * [|New UK visa rules 'causing anguish']
 * [|UK families speak of visa rules pain]
 * [|How immigration law splits families]

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> If it is a cheat then we will cheat so that we can stay together for the rest of our lives” Chris Hall, with his US wife Sarah Pitard "I called Chris who had just left for a big theatre tour, and I said 'You gotta come back - meet me at St. Pancras'," Pitard recalls. "And we just shot out on the Eurostar and landed in Paris. I had never even been to France." Under UK law, Hall was only able to bring his wife, a non-European Economic Area (EEA) citizen, in to Britain if he met the £18,600-a-year base earnings requirement. But UKBA would not count some of his income as it comes from freelance acting work. So despite being married to a British citizen, Pitard was not allowed back in to the country. A friend, though, knew of another way of getting a spouse in to the country. The method they went on to pursue is known as the Surinder Singh route, named after an historic court case. It involves leaving the UK and working in the EEA for about three months.

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= McDonald's app reveals cow your burger came from in transparency drive = == Australian customers of fast food chain McDonald's can now track the progress of a meal from the herd of cattle that become meat in their burgers to the restaurant where they are served, all through a smartphone app. ==  McDonald's Australian app allows customers to identify the farm that supplied meat for their burgers Photo: SWNS <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #282828; display: block; font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 10px;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em;">The "Track My Macca's" app, which uses the Australian nickname for McDonald's, currently tracks some of the chain's most popular products, including the Big Mac, McChicken burger, Filet-O-Fish, and three, six or 10 packs of Chicken McNuggets. It also reveals the supply chain of the fast food giant's french fries. Track My Macca's uses a customer's location and a scanned QR code (mobile barcode) on the side of a burger's container, along with the date and time, to tell users its source and where the meat in it was processed before being cooked onsite.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em;">Users can then listen to a "real meat story" from a farmer, and accounts from bakers and fishermen who supply the chain with ingredients for their products.

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=<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 2.461em;">Radio host sacked over Australia PM Gillard interview = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;"> Howard Sattler was sacked after asking Julia Gillard if her partner was gay because he was a hairdresser <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;"> [|Continue reading the main story]

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;">A radio presenter has been sacked in Australia for asking Prime Minister Julia Gillard in a live interview if her partner is gay. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;">Howard Sattler suggested to Ms Gillard that her partner of seven years, Tim Mathieson, had to be homosexual because he was a hairdresser. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;">Ms Gillard characterised his comments as an absurd generalisation. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;">The DJ was suspended and then sacked by Fairfax Radio, which apologised for the "disrespectful" questioning. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;">The incident on Thursday comes as Australia prepares for a general election on 14 September - one which Ms Gillard looks set to lose to the Tony Abbott-led opposition. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;">It also comes in a week dominated by a row over the emergence of a menu prepared for an opposition party fund-raiser that made offensive comments about Ms Gillard's body. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;">Mr Abbott has condemned the menu, for which the owner of the restaurant where the function was held has taken responsibility. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;">But wrangling is continuing over the opposition's version of events and the role of election candidate Mal Brough, who hosted the event. <span class="cross-head" style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.231em;">'Put off' <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;">Fairfax Radio said initially that Mr Sattler had been suspended from his position at Perth-based 6PR pending an internal inquiry and [|issued an apology statement.] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;">"Fairfax Radio management has reviewed this interview and considers that the questions posed by Mr Sattler were disrespectful and irrelevant to the political debate," it said. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;">"The PM answered Mr Sattler's questions with dignity and some patience." <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;">The station's general manager then announced on air on Friday afternoon that Mr Sattler had been sacked. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;">Australia's Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that many women in public office faced a "significant demeaning attitude, sexist questions, invasive questioning". <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;">"It's got to stop because we want women in public office, we want women to step up and be part of a decision-making of this country... [but] women and young women are put off by what they see." <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;">Ms Gillard on Friday echoed those comments. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;">I want young girls and women to be able to feel like they can be included in public life and not have to face questioning like the questioning I faced yesterday, she said.
 * [|Australia PM condemns 'breast' menu]
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 * [|Australia's election: 100 days to go]

Target has announce it has eliminated 260 jobs in the Geelong area, reducing their labor force by 25%. Geelong has been hit by Ford Motor Company who announced that they would be closing its auto plant by October 2016 due to poor new car sales. Economists predict that the Australian unemployment rate will rise to 6% in the future due to the slowing economy. www.abc.net.au/news
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June 12 2013 BBC News (Wales) =<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 2.461em;">Joshua's Wish charity 'not able to meet its debts' = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;">

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;">[|ADVERTISEMENT] 12 June 2013 Last updated at 15:25 ET [|Help] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;"> The charity Joshua's Wish has been closed, leaving over 60 young people thousands of pounds out of pocket. They had letters saying an Australia trip was cancelled but airline agents say flight tickets are still valid. Each had raised £3,000 for the charity, which was founded in Wales and formerly known as The Joshua Foundation. In a tweet, the organisation's founder Sarah Cornelius-Price said: "I am unable to comment on the closure of Joshua's Wish." Graham Down, appointed as an insolvency practitioner following the closure of Joshua's Wish, told BBC Wales Today the charity was not able to meet its debts. [|Debt-hit children's charity closed]

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June 10, 2013 BBC Australian News =<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 2.461em;">Rescue efforts for Australia asylum boat called off = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #505050; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif;">Many asylum seekers make the dangerous journey by sea to Australia <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;">Australian authorities have called off rescue efforts for a boat carrying asylum seekers that sank north of Christmas Island. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;">The search for survivors was abandoned late on Sunday, two days after the submerged vessel was first spotted in the sea. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;">At least 55 people were thought to have been on the boat, Australian authorities said. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;">Ships and aircraft had spotted a total of 13 bodies, as well as debris. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;">The boat was seen northwest of Christmas Island - the closest piece of Australian territory to Indonesia - on Wednesday, when it did not appear to be in distress. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;">A navy vessel subsequently went to intercept it, but could not find it. An aircraft spotted its submerged hull on Friday. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helmet,Freesans,sans-serif; font-size: 1.077em;">Officials said about 55 people had appeared to be on the boat. Their nationality was not known, but most of the asylum-seekers who make their way by boat to Australia via Indonesia come from Sri Lanka, Iraq and Afghanistan.


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**Australia**, officially the **Commonwealth of Australia**, [|[11]] is a country comprising the mainland of the [|Australian continent] , the island of [|Tasmania] and numerous [|smaller islands]. It is the world's [|sixth-largest country by total area]. Neighbouring countries include [|Indonesia], [|East Timor] and [|Papua New Guinea] to the north; the [|Solomon Islands] , [|Vanuatu] and [|New Caledonia] to the north-east; and [|New Zealand] to the south-east. For at least 40,000 years [|[12]] before the first [|British settlement] in the late 18th century, [|[13]][|[14]] Australia was inhabited by [|indigenous Australians], [|[15]] who belonged to one or more of roughly [|250 language groups]. [|[16]][|[17]] After discovery by [|Dutch] explorers in 1606, Australia's eastern half was claimed by [|Great Britain] in 1770 and settled through [|penal transportation] to the colony of [|New South Wales] from 26 January 1788. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades; the continent was explored and an additional five [|self-governing] [|Crown Colonies] were established. On 1 January 1901, the six colonies [|federated], forming the Commonwealth of Australia. Since Federation, Australia has maintained a stable [|liberal democratic] political system that functions as a [|federal] [|parliamentary democracy] and [|constitutional monarchy]. The federation comprises [|six states and several territories]. The population of 23 million [|[4]] is highly [|urbanised] and heavily concentrated in the [|eastern states]. [|[18]] A highly [|developed country] and one of the wealthiest, Australia is the [|world's 12th-largest economy] and has the world's [|fifth-highest per capita income]. Australia's military expenditure is the [|world's 13th-largest]. With the [|second-highest human development index globally], Australia [|ranks highly] in many international comparisons of national performance, such as quality of life, health, education, [|economic freedom] , and the protection of [|civil liberties] and political rights. [|[19]] Australia is a member of the [|G20], [|OECD] , [|WTO] , [|APEC] , [|UN] , [|Commonwealth of Nations] , [|ANZUS] and the [|Pacific Islands Forum]. (Via Wikipedia)



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