Sydney Uni Handball Club this afternoon consolidated its wins against Auckland Region Handball to retain the Oceania Club champions title and represent – for the second time – the region in the 2013 IHC Super Globe tournament in Qatar this August/September [...]
Members of Australia’s Filipino Ministerial Consultative Committee (FMCC) urge Australian government’s assistance in seeking justice for murdered Adelaide-based Australian national Ceferino Lapuz Jr. Mr Lapuz was gunned down on May 5 in the Philippines [...]
A lower overseas voter turnout is trending last night based on unofficial partial returns. Hong Kong which has the largest overseas voters population (83,000-plus registered voters) had less than 28,000 ballots cast as of last Sunday (May 12). Voting in Hong Kong is most heavy during weekends, particularly as voters cast their ballot using the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) system [...]
Based on latest reports, overseas voters turnout for the May 13 election may exceed the levels recorded in 2010. In Hong Kong, for example, as of last Thursday (May 9) more than 22,000 voters have cast their ballot since last April 13, reported Edna Aquino who heads a migrant advocacy group in Hong Kong. [...]
With less than one week to election day, 34 Filipinos representing an automated election watch group, AEC Watch, over the weekend filed a complaint against the Philippine Commission on Elections (Comelec) before the UN Human Rights Committee. Meanwhile, Comelec chief Brillantes said that PCOS source code is now available but review will not be completed after the elections [...]
The US Pinoys for Good Governance (USP4GG) and the Global Filipino Diaspora Council (GFDC) today announced the names of 11 senatorial candidates and a party list that they are endorsing for the May 13 elections. The criteria of both organisations in choosing the candidates to be endorsed are competence, integrity and a track record of accomplishing observable good results that benefit people, said Atty. Ted Laguatan, Spokesperson and Legal Counsel for both USP4GG and GFDC [...]
The Philippine Consulate General in Sydney on April 19 welcomed TFA editor Romy Cayabyab as the first re-enfranchised voter to cast his ballot. Mr Cayabyab did not participate in the last 2007 and 2010 elections. He was in Manila during the 2010 election as a Comelec-accredited foreign election observer.[...]
Anzac Day commemorations began today with the Dawn Service. In Western Sydney, people gathered in the darkness at the Pinegrove Memorial Park for the service. Federal and state members of Parliaments, RSL officers, officials of local government and other services in the area led the crowd to pay their respects to the past and present Australian service men and women.
A study by two graduating students of the University of the Philippines’ journalism program found that 11 party-list representatives in the 15th Congress failed to author a single bill in their first two years related to their represented sectors, a PhilStar story reported recently. The 11 party-list representatives named in the research study were [...]
Filipino-Australian Eleanor Marie Pendleton, beauty editor of In Style Magazine, was the recipient of the coveted Jasmine Awards for Journalistic Excellence at the 2013 Jasmine Awards held last April 16. Eleanor, 24 years old and considered as Australia’s youngest beauty editor in Australia’s magazine publishing industry, also won the Best Visual Story on Fragrance category award. She is the daughter of The Filipino Australian contributing writer, Lutgarda (Lee) Espiritu-Pendleton of Bundaberg, Queensland [...]
Sydney Uni handballers retain Oceania Club champions title
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Sydney wins game one of Super Globe qualifier
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Filipino youth in ‘back to our roots’ cultural exhibition
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Filipino advisers in Australia seek justice for Filipino-Australian “dual” murdered in PHL
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Handball champions for Super Globe qualifier this weekend
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Global Filipinos Australia deplores ARMM election postponement
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Iglesia Ni Cristo members help in Bundaberg relief work
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Liberals select Filipinos in western Sydney
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Cen Amores is People of Australia ambassador
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First Multicultural Media Awards showcases multicultural and indigenous journalists
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Peter Alderton: Filipino advisers in Australia seek justice for Filipino-Australian “dual” murdered in PHL
Rechilda Schortz: Filipino advisers in Australia seek justice for Filipino-Australian “dual” murdered in PHLJasveer Singh Deou: Australia seeks foreign workers, but beware of illegal recruitersWilly Varona: UP students research finds 11 party-list solons not representing their sectorsGerman P. Palabyab: UP students research finds 11 party-list solons not representing their sectors
