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Contact UsThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has banned several models of dishwashers manufactured by Electrolux and Westinghouse in NSW, Australia after reports that they caught fire due to manufacturing fault.
Several Electrolux dishwashers banned in Australia
August 5th, 2008 by Kiyani
Video game ‘Fallout 3′ banned in Australia
July 10th, 2008 by Kiyani
Fallout 3, the third part of award winning Fallout role playing video game has been banned in Australia due to drug use depiction.
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31 year old beats 3 year old to death: worst case of abuse
June 10th, 2008 by Kiyani
Timothy Leonard Gordon Farmer, a 31 year old man from Australia has been sentenced to 10 years in jail after he was found guilty of bashing a 3 year old baby boy, Mason James Coughlan, to death in 2006. The supreme court judge described injuries to the child as “almost beyond belief”.
Australian game developer receives death threats
June 9th, 2008 by Kiyani
Infinite Interactive, a video game developer headquartered in Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia has received death threats from gamers frustrated by a glitch in one of its puzzle games. Threats were received via email and the game in question is Puzzle Quest: Challenge Of The Warlords which has a battle malfunction in its Playstation Portable (PSP) [...]
90 pedophiles arrested in Australia
June 5th, 2008 by Kiyani
Australian Federal Police (AFP) has caught 90 people in connection with child pornography. The Operation Centurion, which is part of a wider Interpol investigation involving 170 countries was launched six months ago.
Playstation 3 consumes more power than a medium sized fridge
June 3rd, 2008 by Kiyani
According to a study by Australian consumer group Choice, video game consoles such as Sony Playstation 3 consumes five times more energy than a medium sized refrigerator. They found out that a medium sized refrigerator of about 12 cu. ft. volume (60 inches in height) will cost $50 a year while Sony Playstation 3 will [...]
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Torch relay in Indonesia on grim trip
April 22nd, 2008 by Kiyani
JAKARTA (Reuters) – The Olympic torch was paraded through a heavily guarded stadium in Jakarta on Tuesday after police stopped about 100 anti-China protesters from disrupting the latest leg of the torch’s fraught journey around the world. Indonesian badminton star and Olympic gold medalist Taufik Hidayat lit a cauldron in front of a cheering crowd [...]
