People could be threat to ecology

Josh Gordon The Rudd government will consider adding 'human population growth' to a key list of ecological threats that underpins Australia's environmental laws.

Man of his people

Miranda Devine Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson has his own past and the future of all indigenous children in mind as he travels with Miranda Devine to Cape York.

Stosur hopes she's inspired people

Darren Walton She may have lost the French Open final, but Samantha Stosur is hoping her heroic efforts in Paris will inspire more people to play tennis in Australia.

John Edward: I hear dead people

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Psychic John Edward is no stranger to criticism, being, as he is, in the business of interpreting dead people's messages to the bereaved.

Ten face people smuggling charges

Ten Indonesian fishermen will face a Brisbane court today charged with people smuggling.

Ten alleged people smugglers in court

Ten Indonesian men have appeared in a Brisbane court accused of smuggling 76 Afghan asylum seekers to Australia between December 2009 and January 2010.

Tourists told to be village people

Iconic Victorian villages will be the centrepiece of a $36 million tourism campaign promoting the state's regional areas.

Natural, fair-minded leader of people

Lindsay Murdoch Michael Gumbuli Wurramara becomes a member in the Queen's Birthday Honours for service to the Anglican Church.

12 boat people drown on way to Australia

Up to 12 asylum-seekers are believed to have drowned during a failed attempt to reach Australia from Indonesia.

Flood of offers to house boat people

Yuko Narushima The federal government has been inundated with offers to house asylum seekers from companies, charities and ordinary Australians.

Gender less important than age when it comes to predicting how people will vote

PETER MUNRO Pick a young person at random and it's a calculated punt they are more likely to vote for the Greens than a 60-year old.

More people seeking hospital treatment

The number of people seeking treatment at Australian hospitals is about 20 per cent higher than it was five years ago, a new report shows.

Accused people smuggler awarded $7500

Margaret Scheikowski An extortionist has been awarded $7500 in defamation damages for untruthfully being described as a people smuggler.

Gillard targeting people smugglers

Karlis Salna PM Julia Gillard will push for greater regional co-operation on people smuggling, including setting up a processing centre for asylum seekers in East Timor.

Sri Lanka has improved but people still 'vulnerable'

Farah Farouque and Matt Wade Prime Minister Julia Gillard's revised approach to processing applicants from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan amounts to ''racial discrimination'', according to an asylum seeker advocacy group.

More money to fight people smuggling

The government will provide Indonesia and other countries with patrol boats and surveillance aircraft as part of a regional fight against people smuggling.

NSW 'has capacity' for people smugglers

NSW has the capacity to house people smugglers but who will pay for their incarceration remains unclear, Premier Kristina Keneally says.

WA keen to transfer 'people smugglers'

The transfer of alleged people smugglers to prisons in NSW and Queensland is a fair outcome and will take the burden off WA, Premier Colin Barnett says.

Accused people smuggler held in Pakistani jail

Mirza Houssain

Matt Wade, Islamabad In a rare victory over people smugglers, Mirza Hussain - who is accused of trying to take Afghans to Australia illegally by boat, is behind bars in his homeland Pakistan.

Process boat people on Nauru: Abbott

The government should reopen the refugee processing centre on Nauru if it is intent on processing asylum seekers in a third country, Tony Abbott says.