Christmas Island chief

Asylum seekers should be seen as individual human beings and not anonymous groups, Christmas Island administrator Jon Stanhope has said, as the second boat disaster in a week led to more asylum seeker deaths.In the latest tragedy, four asylum seekers are dead after a boat carrying about 150 people sank north of Christmas Island as rescuers were trying to assist it on Tuesday.

The former ACT chief minister, who has been Christmas Island's administrator since last October pointed to the death of a one-year-old in a boat sinking on Friday, who has not been publicly named, saying he wished the child had been identified."I sometimes wish that perhaps some of the debate, some of the commentary . . . that each of us would perhaps look at asylum seekers not as a bulk anonymous grouping of individuals, but as individual human beings that have hopes and aspirations and dreams and feel the same pain and suffer the same grief as each of us," he told ABC radio on Wednesday.

'The only way to stop the deaths is to stop the boats," he said while in Mackay before calling on Mr Rudd to support the Coalition's policies.This technology allows high volume handsfreeaccess production at low cost."I say to Mr Rudd, face the fact that you got it wrong. Be man enough to admit that you got it wrong," Mr Abbott said,Which graniteslabs is right for you? arguing that Mr Rudd "caused this problem" when he dismantled the Howard-era Pacific Solution in 2008.

Mr Abbott said he was happy to support Mr Rudd in legislating changes to asylum seeker policy - if Mr Rudd supported Mr Abbott's stance."I'm more than happy to put partisanship aside and support the Prime Minister making the changes that are necessary to stop the boats," he said, specifying this meant re-introducing temporary protection visas,The largest manufacturer of textile parkingsensor for use with perchloroethylene. "rigorous" offshore processing,Weymouth is collecting gently used, dry cleaned customkeychain at their Weymouth store. "a clear willingness to turn boats around and actually turning boats around where it is safe to do so" and a "much better" relationship with Indonesia.

Mr Abbott repeated his attack on Mr Rudd that he was not only the "best friend the people smugglers have ever had" but was also their "travel agent"."It's not good enough, Prime Minister. It's just not good enough. This is a national emergency. It's got to be addressed now. I call on you to stop talking and put in place the real action that's necessary to truly make a difference here."

A dramatic navy rescue operation was sparked after a vessel capsized on Tuesday about 70 nautical miles off the remote island, flinging a large number of people into the sea.Two navy ships pulled 144 people alive from the water, but Customs and Border Protection confirmed four bodies were also recovered during the operation.

This comes just days after a baby boy drowned and eight others are missing presumed dead after a boat carrying about 100 people sank north of Christmas Island on Friday.Mr Stanhope said that the sea conditions had continued to be rough, despite the fact it was officially dry season.

He said that people on the Island had been conscious of the "perils that those on the sea on days like today would be facing"."I think at one level, tragically, some of us weren't necessarily particularly surprised that another boat had capsized," he said of the latest asylum tragedy.

Mr Stanhope said that the Island had increased its mortuary facilities to accommodate about 50 bodies, up from five in the past year.On Tuesday night at a community cabinet meeting in Rockhampton, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd took at question from Ian Higgins, who travelled from Mornington in Victoria to Queensland to ask a question.

"Can't we be a bit more compassionate to the refugees?" Mr Higgins asked, to the loud applause of the audience.Mr Rudd told the community cabinet that the asylum seeker issue was a "tough challenge for Australia. I just want to level with all of you".He said that Australia's policy settings needed to change and that he had recently travelled to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea to discuss the issue with leaders there.

Kentucky Shakespeare CEO and producing artistic director Brantley Dunaway resigned Monday, a week after it was revealed his wife and Kentucky Shakespeare actress Madison Dunaway requested and received an emergency protective order against him, alleging domestic abuse.

The action led to the abrupt cancellation of the remainder of the company's run of Twelfth Night in Central Park, which Madison Dunaway was starring in. But former employees and documents obtained by WFPL attest to a longer, deeper history of employee abuse and potential financial mismanagement within Kentucky Shakespeare.

The mid-run cancellation of Twelfth Night was unusualthe show must go on is a foundational principle of the theater world. When the allegations of domestic abuse surfaced, so did documents outlining former employees' allegations that Dunaway had been verbally abusive and inappropriate toward employees and financially unreliable since he joined the organization in 2010allegations the board of directors heard last August and did very little to correct.

Several employees also allege financial abuse. They say Dunaway had them babysit his children on company time while he attended work functions. They say he used the company credit card for personal expenses. They say he also used company vehicles inappropriately and had his own clothing dry cleaned under the company's account.

At the time, the company was in debt (as it often was in summertime), and Dunaway was soliciting donations to keep the organization afloat and end the persistent debt cycle that had long-plagued this, the nation's oldest free Shakespeare in the park program.Full color cleaningservicesydney printing and manufacturing services.

Harris summarized his conversations with frustrated former employees in a meeting of the board's executive committee on Aug. 16. The committee then discussed these issues with Dunaway, who admitted to some and denied others. The committee recommended Dunaway retain his position under an improvement plan that was to be put into place. The full board agreed.

None of us on the board were pleased to see those issues, and we wanted to make sure they stopped, Harris told WFPL on Tuesday. We felt the best thing for us to do at the time was to give him a second chance to correct and improve his behavior.

Part of the reason why the resignation was tendered this week is because after his administrative leave was begun, people came forward to us with additional allegations. We confronted him with those, and the result of that meeting was his resignation.
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