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MENDHAM – Gerry Lichtenberger wanted to do something dramatic to bond with his son, Jason.
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surfing orlando florida?
I would like to go surfing but I live in orlando, fl and am not too close to any beach
I think the experience would be fun but mostly I would like it as an exercise
so I was wondering, is there any way to get the benefits of surfing when you can’t really surf?
any fitness class that simulates surfing maybe?
thank-you
Well the closest thing I could think of is that some water parks offer a surfing pool, it like keeps you in the same place allowing you to surf in a not to big of pool. The next thing that comes to mind is playing the wii on the balance board (ha). It teaches you balance and would come in handy, it’s great as a work out program. I think this site lets you buy wii games cheap, check it out if you are really interested. (www.welikewii.com) Have fun learning to surf!
Turbo Kick Round 36
The diagnosis of mesothelioma is shocking, but it does not mean that you have to give up on taking care of yourself. Most people do not experience symptoms for several decades, so starting or continuing an exercise program is a beneficial practice.
Healthy enjoyable exercise as well as good nutrition is essential to anyone’s health. They are both a way to take charge of your health and improve your physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.
Getting Started
If you know or suspect that you have been exposed to mesothelioma, inform your doctor immediately. At the same time, talk to your doctor about your fitness and exercise goals, especially if you are starting a new program.
One of the reasons people do not stick with new exercise programs is that they do not find them enjoyable. There are so many different fitness programs that there are bound to be several that fit with your lifestyle. As you choose an exercise plan, consider the following:
· Is the exercise comfortable and gentle on your body?
· Is the activity easily accessible?
· Do you enjoy it?
· Is there variety?
· Do you feel more energy and vitality afterwards?
If you feel pain in any way or if the exercise causes you any discomfort, discontinue the activity until you talk to your doctor. In order to have a well balanced fitness program, remember to mix it up. Diversity is key for success with exercise.
When developing your plan, try a variety of exercises that provide cardiovascular, strength-building, and flexibility. Yoga and walking are two ways to gently start a new routine. Begin slowly and gradually increase in strength and duration.
Boost Your Immune System
Cardiovascular exercise can boost your immune system, increase your energy, and improve your emotional outlook. Some studies show a decrease in the need for oxygen for patient’s suffering with lung disease. This is good to know when dealing with mesothelioma. Try aerobic fitness classes, dance classes, or bicycling, or check with your local health clubs for specialized cancer programs in your community.
Additional Support for Your Body
As a mesothelioma survivor, you are bound to have good days and bad. If you are not feeling well, that is a good time to honor your body’s need to rest. Stretching may be beneficial, or you could choose to have a massage. Acupuncture may also help you relax, regroup, and refocus your energy.
Good nutrition that includes fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean meat gives your body the fuel it needs to function optimally. This holds true for everyone, especially the cancer patient. In addition, two often overlooked resources are relaxation and meditation. A healthy fitness program can help you take your mind off your illness and focus it on living well.
About the Author
If you would like to learn more about your options for dealing with mesothelioma and you live in the Baltimore or D.C. area, please contact the law office of Matt Kiely today.
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College degree almost completed. Can i be a fighter pilot with my stats?
so anyways i was wondering if anybody had any reliable information on what my real chances were to be a fighter pilot. Its my life dream.
My stats:
BS Aerospace Engineering
Minor: Computer Science; Math
GPA: 2.3
Eyesight 70/20
Physical Fitness : Excellent
im not sure what else really matters to them.
Im not a dumb guy by any means. Since im studying aerospace engineering i know virtually everything there is to know about a plane. Also, from the little flight time that i have had over my life, i can feel and have been told that i have a natural talent when it comes to flying planes. The point is that i know that i would make an excellent pilot. But how do i convince the armed forces to take me into pilot training?
I was once flatly told by an air force recruiter that i could never become a fighter pilot due to my gpa. Help me prove him wrong.
I know many services will fix my eyesight with approved LASIK or PRK. Could i qualify for this?
the 2.3 GPA will be hard to overcome. some Branches the minimum to apply is a 2.5. in order to have a serious chance you need a 3.5.
getting selected for a commission is hard. getting selected for Aviation is twice as hard, and getting Fighter? about ten times harder than THAT.
about half of the people who apply for Aviation are actually qualified. less than half of them are even selected..and then it becomes needs of the service which platform you get.
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Exercise Survey Please Help:)?
ok, for my PE class i need to get data on what people do for exercise. So if you could please please pretty please comment below with the following information:
1)Male or Female
2)Age Group
– #1 ( Ages 5-17)
– #2 (Ages 18-25)
– #3 (Ages 26-45)
– #4 (Ages 46-66)
And what activity do you do the most for exercising?
Walking
Gardening/Yard Work
Stretching Exercises
Weight Lifting
Running
Aerobics
Bike Riding
Stair-master
Swimming
Tennis
Golf
Racquetball/Handball
Bowling
Other
THANKS so so so much:)
Additional Details
please also add how active you consider yourself:)
1)Female
2)16
activities: walking, running, swimming, aerobics, and dancing.
I think i’m pretty active but at times I can also get super lazy.
Video Prototype Micro Doodle, Hasso Plattner Institut, Winter 2008
can you guys help me with this survey?
I need to interview three people from different age groups, backgrounds, socioeconomic and cultural statuses to determine which of these factors have an effect on what physical activities they choose to participate in.
So choose which activity you would most likely participate in if you wanted to work out.
Walking
Gardening/Yard Work
Stretching Exercises
Weight Lifting
Running
Aerobics
Bike Riding
Stair-master
Swimming
Tennis
Golf
Racquetball/Handball
Bowling
Other
and please tell me [if you feel comfortable with it] your gender and age, so I can put your answers under the correct category, this assignment is for my p.e. class!
bike-riding 13
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Which is the better gym to work as a personal trainer for… 24hr Fitness or Lifetime Fitness?
Is there anyone who has personal trained at these places that can give me some input? I just graduated with a 4-year Kinesiology degree and am ISSA certified. What is the pay difference between the two? What was it like working there? Benefits? :) Thanks.
Carson
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Fitness Training : Benefits of Aerobic Training
19th century
1800s
26 January 1808 – George Johnston played a key role in the only successful armed takeover of government in Australia’s recorded history, the Rum Rebellion. Johnston later sailed for England and was found guilty of mutiny.
1820s
14 September 1828 – Bank of Australia robbery
1830s
9 June 1838 – Myall Creek Massacre
1850s
28 November – 3 December 1854 – Eureka Stockade Gold prospecters staged an uprising against government leading to armed conflict; 22 miners and 6 soldiers were killed
1860s
30 June 1861 – Lambing Flat riots White miners riot against Chinese immigrants, killing several (numbers unknown).
17 October 1861 – Cullin La Ringo massacre in Central Queensland. Nineteen white settlers killed, the largest massacre of whites by Aborigines in Australian history..
1865 – Daniel Morgan, a prominent bushranger who had been raiding banks in Victoria and New South Wales for more than a decade, is tracked down and killed by vigilantes, whereupon his corpse was mutilated.
1869 – Bushranger Andrew “Captain Moonlite” Scott robbed the London Chartered Bank in Mount Egerton, Victoria escaping with 1,000.
1870s
1878 – Bushranger Ned Kelly raids a bank in Euroa and, at a nearby sheep ranch, hosts a party for his 22 hostages shortly afterwards.
October 1878 – Stringybark Creek Massacre – Victorian bushrangers the Kelly Gang ambush and kill three police officers at Stringybark Creek
1880s
26 June 1880 – Joe Byrne shot dead Aaron Sherritt for giving the police information about the Kelly Gang in exchange for money.
27 June 1880 – Ned Kelly’s Last Stand – The Kelly Gang held the town of Glenrowan, Victoria hostage at the town’s inn in an attempt to ambush police. The attempt failed and a siege ensued on the 28th, during which three members of the gang and at least one young boy were killed, and Ned Kelly was captured.
11 November 1880 – Ned Kelly hanged at the Melbourne Gaol.
16 May 1881 – Police Trooper Harry Pearce was viciously attacked by a prisoner, Robert Johnson, with a knife while on escort to Kingston SE. Pearce died of his injuries on 19 May, the second South Australian policeman to die while on duty. Johnson was executed at Mount Gambier Gaol on 18 November the same year.
1890s
24 December 1891 – The Windsor murder – English gasfitter, confidence trickster and career criminal Frederick Bailey Deeming murdered his new wife Emily (ne Mather) at a newly rented house in Andrew Street, Windsor, Melbourne, burying her body under the hearth. He had previously murdered his first wife Marie Deeming and their four children and buried them beneath the floor of a house at Rainhill, England in July or August 1891. Their bodies were not discovered until after the Windsor murder. Deeming was arrested at Southern Cross, Western Australia, and after a trial at Melbourne, he was executed in June 1892. His notoriety in Australia was such that he was widely believed to be Jack the Ripper.
15 January 1894 – The baby farming murderess Frances Lydia Alice Knorr is hanged.
26 December 1898 – Gatton murders – Three members of the same family are sexually molested and murdered near the town of Gatton, Queensland (unsolved)
20th century
1900s
6 October 1909 – Martha Rendell is hanged in Western Australia for the murder of three of her stepchildren.
1910s
July 16, 1911 Scott Street Tragedy – Timothy Daly is gunned down on a street in Newcastle, New South Wales. A policeman on a passing streetcar is first to the scene.
November 16, 1911 – George David Silva murdered six members of the Ching family near Mackay, Queensland.
June 8, 1912 – 12-year-old Ivy Mitchell was raped and murdered on her way home from school near Samford, Queensland by Ernest Austin; he was the last person in Queensland to be hanged.
January 1, 1915 Two men flying a Turkish flag attacked a picnic train near Broken Hill, in what is known as The Battle of Broken Hill. Both attackers were shot dead by police; four other people were killed and seven wounded.
February 14, 1916 Liverpool riot An initial mutiny/strike by 5000 AIF soldiers from Casula near Liverpool became a three day riot and pub crawl ending at Central and East Sydney, involving commandeered trains, destruction of property, and confrontations with police and military guards. NSW Premier William Holman called a state of emergency and closed Sydney’s pubs. About 1000 soldiers were court-martialled and gaoled or discharged from the army. One consequence was the introduction of six o’clock closing, already present in South Australia, following a June 1916 referendum. The NSW “six o’clock swill” saw the rise of sly-grog shops, and lasted until 1955 when the closing time was changed to 10pm following another referendum.
December 1917 – early 1918 – Wonnangatta murders – in the remote Wonnangatta Valley in East Gippsland, Victoria. The victims were Jim Barclay, the manager of Wonnangatta Station, and John Bamford, a cook and general hand. Barclay’s badly decomposed body was found near the station homestead on February 23, 1918. He had been shot from behind with a shotgun. It was assumed the missing Bamford was the culprit and a state wide search was begun. However, Bamford’s body was found late in 1918 on the Howitt Plains after the winter snows had melted. He had also been shot from close range. No arrests were ever made, despite the State Government offering a 200 reward.
1920s
21 December 1921 – The Gun Alley Murder – 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke was found raped and murdered in Gun Alley, Melbourne. 28-year-old Colin Ross was hanged for the crime, but in 1992 re-assessment stated Ross was probably innocent.
May 1926 – Forrest River massacre – Western Australia – 11 people were murdered in a series of punitive raids after the murder of a pastoralist in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
April 1927 – Newcastle Tragedy – Mary Buckley was slain by her husband at their Newcastle townhouse while she slept in the same bed as their 16-year-old daughter.
August 1928 – Coniston massacre – Northern Territory police constable William Murray leads a series of raids on Aboriginal tribes in response to the murder of a local dingo trapper. The official death toll was 31, but some experts believe it to be much higher.
December 1929 – May 1930 – The Murchison Murders – Snowy Rowles murdered three men in Outback Western Australia using a method being discussed by novelist Arthur Upfield for a forthcoming book.
1930s
1 September 1934 – Pyjama Girl murder – The body of a woman found beaten and half burnt in a culvert near Albury, New South Wales.
1932-1934 – Caledon Bay crisis – A series of rapes, murders and retaliatory violence involving Japanese, Aboriginals and white Australians in the Northern Territory.
1935 – The Shark Arm Case – The arm of murdered man James Smith is disgorged by a tiger shark being held in a public exhibit in Sydney (unsolved).
1940s
3 May-4 November 1942 – Eddie Leonski, an American soldier, murdered three women in Melbourne, Victoria, in the Brownout murders.
1950s
19 September 1952 – Betty Shanks was murdered; she was found the following morning in the front yard of a house on the corner of Thomas and Carberry Streets The Grange. This is one of the classic unsolved Queensland cases
1960s
7 July 1960 – 8-year old Greame Thorne is kidnapped and murdered days after his parents win the Opera House Lottery.
19 July 1960 – First Skyjacking/Hijacking in the world Trans Australia Airlines Flight 408
1964 – The Nedlands Monster – Eric Edgar Cooke murdered eight people and assaulted 20 more during a crime spree in Perth.
11 January 1965 – Wanda Beach Murders – Two teenage girls murdered on a southern Sydney beach (unsolved).
26 January 1966 – Beaumont children disappearance – Three young children disappear from Glenelg Beach in Adelaide, South Australia (unsolved).
8 May 1969 – 15-year-old Alfred James Jessop strangled eight-year-old Vicki Barton after she refused to have sex with him at a vacant block in Lawson, NSW. He then used his bicycle trailer to carry her body to bushland where he buried her; he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1978 and was paroled in 2003.
1970s
6 September 1971- Clifford Cecil Bartholomew shot dead his wife Heather, their seven children, his sister-in-law and his nephew with a .22-caliber rifle at their dairy farm in Hope Forest, South Australia.
6 October 1972 – Faraday School kidnapping – a teacher and her six female pupils were kidnapped for $1 million ransom in rural Victoria by unemployed friends Edwin John Eastwood and Robert Clyde Boland.
15 November 1972 – Ansett Airlines Flight 232 – aircraft hijacking in Australia. Ansett Airlines flight 232 from Adelaide to Alice Springs with 28 passengers and a crew of 4, followed by a gun battle at Alice Springs Airport where the hijacker, Miloslav Hrabinec, shot himself. He died later that day.
8 March 1973 – Whiskey Au Go Go fire: 15 people were killed in an arson attack on a Brisbane nightclub.
25 August 1973 – Adelaide oval abduction – Joanne Ratcliffe, aged 11, and Kirste Gordon aged 4, were abducted (unsolved).
4 July 1975 – Juanita Nielsen Disappearance – Kings Cross newspaper publisher Juanita Nielsen disappears after running a campaign against local development and investigating links between developers and criminal activity (unsolved).
25 December 1975 – Savoy Hotel Fire: Reginald John Lyttle set fire to a hotel in Kings Cross after shooting the hotel’s chief of security dead. 13 died from carbon monoxide poisoning and one from burns in the fire.
21 April 1976 – Great Bookie Robbery – A gang of six men stole an undetermined sum (between $6 and $12 million) from the Victoria Club in Queen Street, Melbourne. One man, Norman Lee, is charged along with two others but all three were acquitted (technically unsolved).
17 July 1977 – Donald Mackay disappearance – Anti-drugs campaigner Donald Mackay from Griffith, New South Wales disappeared, presumed murdered. James Frederick Bazley was sentenced to three consecutive terms of life imprisonment plus 12 years without the possibility of parole in 1986 for the murder of Mackay, the murders of Crown witnesses Douglas and Isabel Wilson and the armed robbery of $260,000 from a security van in 1978; he died of cancer in 2001.
13 February 1978 – Sydney Hilton bombing – Three men killed by a bomb blast outside Commonwealth Heads of Government Regional Meeting in Sydney. Ananda Marga members were imprisoned but later pardoned and released
22 April 1978 – discovery of the Truro murders.
11 August 1978 – John Ernest Cribb raped Valda Connell before stabbing her and two of her children, Sally and Damien Connell, at Swansea, NSW.
22 November 1978 – The Magnetic drill gang stole $1.7 million from a Murwillumbah bank.
1980s
26 April 1980 – Louise and Charmian Faulkner disappearance – A mother and her two and a half year old daughter disappeared from outside their St Kilda, Victoria residence and are presumed murdered (unsolved).
23 June 1980 – Family Court judge Justice David Opas was shot dead at his home by an unknown gunman .
23 June 1983 – Martin Leach bound, gagged and stabbed Charmaine Ariet and bound, gagged, stabbed, raped and slit the throat of her cousin Janice Carnegie before burying their bodies in a gully at Berry Springs.
18 August 1983 – Douglas Crabbe rammed his 25 ton Mack truck into a motel bar at the base of Uluru, Northern Territory, killing 5 people and injuring 16.
22 January 1984 – Police are attacked after a rock concert at Colley Reserve, Glenelg, leading to a major riot and the arrest of 60 people.
14 August 1984 – Fine Cotton Affair – A syndicate of trainers and bookmakers substituted one horse for another at a Brisbane horse race.
2 September 1984 – Milperra massacre – Two rival bikie gangs staged a shoot-out in a car park of a south-western Sydney hotel. 7 people were shot dead and 15 others injured.
9 May 1985 – Christopher Flannery disappearance – Melbourne criminal Christopher Dale Flannery disappears without trace, presumed murdered (unsolved).
2 February 1986 – Anita Cobby murder – Sydney nurse Anita Cobby was abducted, robbed, raped, brutalized and murdered by career criminals John Travers, Michael Murdoch and brothers Michael, Gary and Leslie Murphy.
6 February 1986 – Sallie-Anne Huckstepp murder – Sydney prostitute and police informant Sallie-Anne Huckstepp is found strangled and shot in Centennial Park. Convicted murderer Arthur “Neddy” Smith is charged with ordering the killing but was acquitted (unsolved).
27 March 1986 – Russell Street bombing – Four men planted a car bomb outside Police Headquarters in Russell Street, Melbourne; a 22-year old policewoman was killed in the explosion and 22 others injured.
19 August 1986 – Samantha Knight disappearance – 9-year-old Samantha Knight disappeared from a Bondi street; it was eventually found that she had overdosed on sedatives given to her by convicted pedophile Michael Guider.
19 July 1987 – Lloyd Clark Fletcher raped and stabbed 15-year-old Janet Phillips in Wynnum, Queensland.
9 August 1987 – Hoddle Street massacre – 19-year-old Julian Knight killed 7 people and injured 19 at random in Hoddle Street, Melbourne before surrendering to police.
27 November 1987 – 12-year-old Sian Kingi was abducted, raped, tortured, stabbed and strangled in Noosa, Queensland by married couple Barrie Watts and Valmae Beck.
8 December 1987 – Queen Street massacre – Frank Vitkovic shot dead 8 people in the Australia Post building in Queen Street, Melbourne before leaping to his death from the 11th floor window. 5 others were seriously injured.
8 September 1988 – Janine Balding murder – 21 year old Janine Balding was abducted, robbed, raped and murdered by five homeless youths in Sydney’s west. Stephen “Shorty” Jamieson, 16-year-old Matthew Elliott, and 14-year-old Bronson Blessington were convicted of Balding’s murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
12 October 1988 – Walsh Street police shootings – Two police officers were executed in Melbourne (unsolved).
10 January 1989 – Colin Winchester murder – The Assistant Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police was shot dead outside his home in Canberra by a sniper, later identified as former public servant David Harold Eastman.
November 1989 – Leigh Leigh murder – Newcastle teenager Leigh Leigh was raped and murdered on a Newcastle beach at a party.
1989-1990 – Granny Murders – John Wayne Glover murdered six elderly women across Sydney’s north shore.
1990s
Port Arthur Prison Colony, site of the Port Arthur massacre
11 July 1990 – Sarah MacDiarmid disappeared from Kananook railway station in Melbourne, Victoria; presumed murdered (unsolved).
30 August 1990 – Paul Anthony Evers killed 5 people and injured 11 with a 12-gauge shotgun at a public housing precinct before surrendering to police.
1991 – Karmein Chan murder (unsolved)
25 May 1991 – 21-year-old English backpacker Fiona Carty was sexually assaulted and throttled to death by car thief and con-artist David Troy Masters.
4 July 1991 – Victor Chang, world famous heart surgeon, is murdered in Sydney during an extortion attempt.
29 July 1991 – Six-year-old Sheree Beasley was kidnapped and murdered by serial flasher and sex offender Robert Lowe at Seaford.
17 August 1991 – Strathfield massacre – Wade Frankum shot seven people dead before killing himself in a Sydney shopping centre.
27 July 1992 – Brian Corrigan shot and killed his pregnant wife Kim and their unborn daughter at their Kiama home.
16 August 1992 – 18-year-old Clinton Trezise was bashed to death with a hammer by John Justin Bunting at Bunting’s Salisbury North home in the first of the eleven Snowtown murders; Trezise’s remains were found in a shallow grave on a farm in Lower Light exactly two years later, but he is not identified until 1999 (see below).
19 August 1992 – Andrew Garforth kidnapped, raped and drowned nine-year-old schoolgirl Ebony Simpson at Bargo, New South Wales.
19881992 – The Backpacker murders – Ivan Milat murdered seven tourists and buried their bodies in Belanglo State Forest.
7 February 1993 – Greenough Family Massacre – Karen McKenzie and her three children were murdered at their remote rural property in Western Australia by former farmhand William Patrick Mitchell.
30 March 1993 – Cangai siege – Murderers Leonard Leabeater, Robert Steele and Raymond Bassett held hostages in a siege at Cangai, near Grafton, threatening to kill people indiscriminately. Leabeater killed himself the following day; Steele and Bassett surrendered to police, and Steele was later sentenced to five consecutive life sentences without parole; he hanged himself in prison on 23 December 1994. Bassett was later sentenced to two consecutive life sentences with a non-parole period of 34 years for his part in the killings.
June and July 1993 – The Frankston Serial Killer, Paul Denyer, murdered three women before being captured.
2 March 1994 – NCA Bombing – A parcel bomb explodes at the Adelaide office of the National Crime Authority, killing Detective Sergeant Geoffrey Bowen and injuring lawyer Peter Wallis. Dominic Perre was detained but released due to lack of evidence (unsolved).
22 August 1994 – Kyle and Latisha O’Neill were shot dead as they slept by their father, Norm, in a double murder-suicide in Stirling, Western Australia.
5 September 1994 – Sydney politician John Newman was assassinated outside his home on the orders of political rival Phoung Ngo.
9 December 1994 – cousins and alcoholic career criminals Vester and Brendan Fernando abducted, raped, stabbed and decapitated nurse Sandra Hoare in Walgatt, NSW; Vester stabbed and strangled Brendan in jail on 22 September 1999.
29 October 1995 – 10-year-old Leanne Oliver and nine-year-old Patricia Leedie were raped and bashed to death by local handyman and mechanic and convicted sex offender Paul Stephen Osbourne at Warana Beach, Queensland.
28 April 1996 – Port Arthur massacre – Martin Bryant killed 35 at Port Arthur, Tasmania and injured 21 others in a shooting spree.
7 September 1996 – British tourist Brian Hagland was murdered by Aaron Martin at Bondi Beach.
10 October 1996 – Tjandamurra O’Shane was set alight in a school playground in Cairns, Queensland by unemployed drifter Paul Wade Streeton.
18 May 1997 – champion waterskier Jason Burton was stabbed to death while trying to break up a fight at the General Bourke Hotel in Parramatta, NSW, by Emad Sleiman.
15 June 1997 – Jaidyn Leskie was murdered and found dumped in a dam near Moe, Victoria (unsolved).
6 October 1997 – Bega schoolgirl murders – 14-year-old Lauren Barry and 16-year-old Nichole Collins were kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered by New Zealand-born career criminal Lindsay Beckett and Victorian prison escapee Leslie Camilleri.
16 January 1998 to 15 June 2009 – Melbourne gangland killings – A series of 35 murders of crime figures and their associates that began with the slaying of Alphonse Gangitano in his home, most likely by Jason Moran, the latest victim being Des Moran who was murdered in Ascot Vale on 15 June 2009.
12 June 1998 and 19 June 1998 – Mark Valera tortured and murdered Albion Park shopkeeper David O’Hearn and former Wollongong Lord Mayor Frank Arkell. Mark’s sister Belinda van Krevel later ‘asked’ boyfriend Keith Schreiber to murder her father Jack van Krevel in retaliation for alleged sexual assault claims.
16 August 1998 – Victorian police officers Gary Silk and Rodney Miller were shot dead in an ambush by Bendali Debs and Jason Joesph Roberts in the Moorabbin Police murders.
20 May 1999 – The Snowtown murders were uncovered when the remains of eight bodies were found in six acid-filled barrels in a disused bank vault in Snowtown, South Australia, and the remains of two more bodies were later discovered under a brick rainwater tank stand at a Sailbury North property, bringing the total number of victims to eleven.
21st century
2000s
29 February 2000 – Katherine Knight stabbed, skinned, partially cooked and cannibalized her defacto husband John Price in Aberdeen, New South Wales.
13 March 2000 – Millewa State Forest Murders – Barbara and Stephen Brooks and Stacie Willoughby were found dead, all three having been shot execution style and left in the forest.
Winter 2000 – Sydney gang rapes – A series of apparently racially-motivated gang rapes against teenage girls swept Sydney’s west.
23 June 2000 – Childers Palace Fire – Robert Paul Long set fire to a backpacker’s hostel in Childers, Queensland; 15 people were killed.
15 September 2000 – The activities of serial pedophile Geoffrey Robert Dobbs were exposed after he brought in a VCR for repair at a Melbourne electronics store; police later determined that Dobbs molested at least 63 girls (including five family members) aged between one month and 15 years in Queensland between 1972 and 2000 while a teacher and youth leader. Dobbs was sentenced to two consecutive terms of indefinite imprisonment with a review period of 30 years in 2003.
10 July 2001 – Sef Gonzales bashed, stabbed and strangled his sister Clodine, mother Mary, and father Teddy within two and a half hours in their North Ryde home in Sydney, NSW.
14 July 2001 – British tourists Joanne Lees and Peter Falconio are assaulted near Barrow Creek, Northern Territory by Bradley John Murdoch; Falconio is never found and Murdoch is subsequently found guilty of his murder.
4 April 2002 – Society Murders: Matthew Wales drugged and bashed his mother Margaret Wales-King and stepfather Paul King to death before burying them in a shallow grave at Marysville.
14 October 2002 – Dr. Margret Tobin, the South Australian Minister of Mental Health Services, was shot dead by Jean Eric Gassy as she walked out of a lift in her office building.
21 October 2002 – Monash University shooting – Huan Xiang opened fire in a tutorial room, killing two and injuring five.
April 2003 – Pong Su incident: A North Korean freighter was boarded after four-day chase and taken into custody in connection with a worldwide heroin smuggling operation.
30 November 2003 – Cyclist Ian Humphery was stuck and killed by Eugene McGee along the Kapunda Road, South Australia. Due to the controversy over McGee’s later conviction and the public protests it ignited, the South Australian Government ordered a Royal Commission into the incident and the trail.
31 December 2003 – convicted pedophile Jeffrey John Hillsley bashed former coworker Michael Davies to death with a hammer and kidnapped and raped his 10-year-old stepdaughter at Campsie, NSW before being captured by special operations police.
14 February 2004 – 2004 Redfern riots – Aboriginal youths rioted against police in response to the death of 17-year old TJ Hickey, who accidentally impaled himself on a fence while fleeing police he mistakenly believed to be pursuing him.
March 2004 – Darwin sex workers Phuangsri Kroksamrang and Somjai Insamnan were bound with cable ties and thrown alive into the Adelaide River by Ben William McLean and Phu Ngoc Trinh.
23 March 2004 – John Sharpe murdered his pregnant wife, two-year-old daughter and unborn son with a speargun at Mornington, Victoria.
26 July 2004 – Moorebank Hotel shooting: Security guard Karen Brown shot and killed armed robber William Aquilina after he violently bashed her and stole the hotel’s takings in a Sydney carpark. Brown is charged with murder but acquitted on the grounds of self defence.
11 February 2005 – Maria Korp murder – Melbourne woman found in a coma in the boot of her car. Her husband and his lover were subsequently charged with her murder after Mrs Korp’s life-support was switched off.
26 February – 1 March 2005 – Macquarie Fields riots – residents of the south western Sydney suburb rioted in response to the deaths of two youths during a police pursuit. The youths were passengers in a stolen car being driven by a known criminal. Residents believed police were unfairly persecuting local youths.
1 June 2005 – Indonesian embassy bioterrorism hoax
5 November 2005 – Sydney teenager Lauren Huxley was bashed, raped and set alight in her home by Robert Black Farmer.
December 2005 – 2005 Cronulla riots – rioting by European Australians and people of Middle Eastern origin directed against each other sparked by the reported bashing of Surf Life Savers the previous week by several individuals of “middle-eastern appearance”; retaliatory and counter-retaliatory violence continued for two weeks.
7 January 2006 – Mark Galante shot dead his pregnant wife Jody and their unborn child at Parklea Markets.
18 February 2006 – Cardross Hit and Run – Thomas Graham Towle crashed his car at high speed into a group of 13 teenagers killing six and injuring seven near the town of Cardross, Victoria.
20 February 2006 – Errol Graham Hayes set fire to a house at Annerley, Queensland; his former girlfriend, Theresa Marchetti, her new partner, Mark Christensen, and his own 18-month-old son, Joshua Hayes, were killed in the fire.
26 June 2006 – Canning Vale murder – 8-year-old Sofia Rodriguez-Urrutia-Shu was raped and murdered in a suburban Perth shopping mall by Dante Wyndham Arthurs.
5 June 2007 – Tony Mokbel arrested – Convicted drug trafficker Tony Mokbel was arrested in Athens, Greece after fleeing Australia in March 2006 during his trial for the importation of cocaine.
18 June 2007 – Melbourne CBD shooting – Christopher Wayne Hudson opened fire on three people, killing one and seriously wounding two others who intervened when Hudson was assaulting his girlfriend at a busy Melbourne intersection during the morning peak. He gave himself up to police in Wallan, Victoria on 20 June.
7 February 2009 – 2009 Victorian bushfires – Arsonists lit several fires contributing to the deaths of 173 people.
7 March 2009 – drug affected Aaron Joseph Streets bashed and stabbed wheelchair-bound disabled pensioner Dean Gower at Moonah, Tasmania.
2 June 2009 – Violence against Indians stirs up international controversy.
18 July 2009 – Five members of the Lin family were found dead in their home in Epping, New South Wales.
2010s
3 February 2010 – Darwin shopping mall bombing – A man detonates a homemade bomb inside an insurance office in Darwin, wounding 15 people.
See also
Crime in Australia
List of Australian criminals
List of disasters in Australia by death toll
For information and debate pertaining to the massacre and genocide of Aborigines, see Indigenous Australians, Black War and History Wars
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