Topix: Latest and Most Recent News from Oceania [March ‘11 Diet]

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An American evangelical group, known as Family Radio, has paid for billboards to be put up across New Zealand warning that Judgement Day is coming.

Source: Judgment Day? Yeah, right

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IMMIGRATION Minister Chris Bowen says efforts to speed up refugee claims are about to produce results as the government makes arrangements to move some asylum seekers to the Australian mainland for processing.

Source: Immigration Minister Chris Bowen.

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TWO men are facing deportation after an illegal immigrant swoop on a boat in Weymouth Harbour.

Source: Illegal immigrant swoop: Two face deportation after boat raid

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On the hunt through trash and treasure Sarah McInerney March 22, 2011 - 2:23PM Be the first to comment A garage sale in Paddington run as part of Woollahra Council's Second Hand Sunday program.

Source: Clothes on a rack.

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'Pinocchio Gillard': strong anti-Gillard emissions at Canberra carbon tax protest March 23, 2011 - 3:51PM Abbott congratulates tax rally Tony Abbott tells an anti-carbon tax rally Julia Gillard it's not full of environmental vandals.

Source: No Carbon Tax protest in canberra

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BIRTHDAY GIRL: Clyde woman Maudie Wilson, who turns 108 today. Clyde woman Maudie Wilson isn't too happy with being in the spotlight.

Source: Is she NZ's oldest person?

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Warm, humid weather is disappearing from south-eastern Australia, a sign of changing seasons, Weatherzone says.

Source: Change of seasons - goodbye to humidity

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The director of one of Australia's biggest Ponzi schemes, which collapsed owing investors $68 million, has been jailed for more than 13 years.

Source: Chartwell's Hoy jailed for 13 years

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How is the world reducing carbon emissions? In the first of a two-part series on tackling climate change, Adam Morton writes that progress is being made on some surprising fronts.

Source: Clearing the air

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AN indigenous lobby group has urged the public to keep pushing governments to close the life expectancy and opportunity gap between black and white Australia on the eve of national Close the Gap Day.

Source: Public pressure needed to close indigenous gap