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The 33 trapped Chilean miners may not receive any wages while they are trapped underground, a union official has claimed.

Evelyn Olmos says that San Esteban, the company that operates the mine, has said it has no money to pay their wages and absorb lawsuits, and is not even participating in the rescue Mr Olmos has called on the government to pay the workers’ wages starting in September, as well as giving help to the roughly 100 other people at the mine who are now out of work and 170 more who work elsewhere for San Esteban. (via Trapped Chilean miners won’t get paid while they’re buried alive | Mail Online)

More than 90 Afghan asylum seekers have broken out of the Darwin detention centre and are holding a mass protest on the side of a busy road.

The asylum seekers are holding signs which read: “Please help us”, “Show us mercy”, and “We are homeless, defenceless and we seek protection”.

Two of the asylum seekers have told the ABC they are from Afghanistan and have been waiting up to nine months in detention. They say they arrived by boat and have now been refused refugee status in Australia.

“Every week, every day, we going to die,” one of them told the ABC.

“Nine months we here because that’s why I want to go out to talk with you, all of the population of Australia.

“I need your help.

“My children aren’t safe in this place; we don’t know where is our family.” (via Asylum seekers stage break-out protest - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Fred Nile caught in web porn scandal

Conservative NSW MP Fred Nile has denied that he has been accessing pornographic websites on his parliamentary computer, saying someone else must have used his log-on.

Mr Nile, from the Christian Democrat party, says reports in today’s Daily Telegraph that porn websites have been accessed from his office 200,000 times are impossible.

Mr Nile is well known in NSW for his conservative stance on social issues, having been a long-time opponent of things such as the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

Mr Nile’s denial comes after Labor cabinet minister Paul McLeay resigned after admitting accessing adult and gambling websites on his parliamentary computer.

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