CANBERRA adidas ultra boost herre , Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- Australia's Prime Minister MalcolmTurnbull has declared that Australians should be proud of theirnation's history even if the first Australians were not perfect,rubbishing claims that some monuments remembering historicalfigures should be edited or changed.
Earlier this week, respected Indigenous journalist and activistStan Grant said some statues, such as one which declared that JamesCook founded Australia in 1770 adidas ultra boost grå tilbud , should be edited to show that itwas in fact Indigenous Australians who were the first people.
But speaking on Macquarie radio on Friday, Turnbull said thattrying to "edit" Australia's colonial history was "dead wrong."
"I am an admirer of Stan's but he is dead wrong here," the primeminister said, "trying to edit our history is wrong."
"All of those statues adidas ultra boost grå , all of those monuments, are part of ourhistory and we should respect them and preserve them -- and by allmeans put up other monuments, other statues and signs and sightsthat explain our history."
He said that Australia was the "greatest country in the world,"declaring that Australians should "be proud" to acknowledge thecolonial past even if the relationship between white settlers andthe Indigenous population was fractured during the early years.
Meanwhile former Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader JohnHoward agreed with his contemporary adidas ultra boost rød tilbud , saying that while Australia'scolonial policies were "not without fault," acknowledging them wascrucial to understanding and forgiveness.
"Their settlement policies, their colonial policies, were notwithout fault adidas ultra boost rød , but they were infinitely better than thealternatives from around the time," Howard said.
"If you start mucking around with statues then you might as wellstart tearing down the pyramids." Enditem
SHIJIAZHUANG, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers are trying toretrieve the bodies of two divers that went missing in northChina's Hebei Province earlier this month.
The divers, a man and a woman adidas ultra boost blå tilbud , were both Shanghai residents. Thefemale victim, aged 39, was also a permanent resident of Singapore.Their bodies were discovered 63 meters underwater in PanjiakouReservoir in Qianxi county.
According to the local public security bureau, they received areport about the missing divers on Sept. 7. On Monday morning adidas ultra boost blå ,their bodies were found near the place where the Great Wall dipsunderwater in the reservoir.
The victims and six other divers all belong to the GlobalUnderwater Explorers, a non-governmental organization aimed atunderwater exploring.
Retrieval work is difficult because of high technological demandand unknown underwater conditions. Enditem
BRASILIA, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's Lower House of Congress Speaker Eduardo Cunha was involved in an organized crime ring within the state energy company Furnas, Brazil's prosecutor general Rodrigo Janot told the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
The lastest allegation came after new charges were brought against Cunha by Senator Delcidio Amaral, who were arrested in November on corruption charges, according to Brazilian daily O Globo.
Corruption scandal involving energy companies and government officials emerged and rocked Brazilian politics over the past year.
Presenting the document to the Supreme Court, Janot said the investigation seeks "to find evidence linked to a cell of a large organized crime group, specifically linked with possible illegal practices within Furnas."
"This cell counts as one of its leaders the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Eduardo Cunha," Janot said.
The criminal organizations "has operated for many years and through various schemes established within Petrobras, the Chamber of Deputies, and other public entities."
Once the case is opened, Cunha would appear before the court within 90 days.
Suspicions have circled around Cunha for corruption and money laundering for months, after Switzerland revealed hidden accounts in his name, containing millions of U.S. dollars, which he had previously denied.
The Supreme Court has opened a case against him on charges of facilitating illegal contracts and receiving bribes within the Petrobras corruption ring.
Janot also asked the Supreme Court to investigate around 30 other political leaders, all of which are allegedly involved in the Petrobras corruption ring.
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LISBON, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Portugal inaugurated an avenue named after football legend Eusebio Eusebio da Silva Ferreira in capital Lisbon on Monday to mark the first anniversary of his death.
The ceremony took place outside the Luz Stadium of Benfica with the presence of Lisbon Mayor Antonio Costa and Benfica President Luis Filipe Vieira to inaugurate a new avenue dedicated to football star Eusebio, who passed away one year ago.
Filipe Vieira said that Eusebio ""marked generations"" and had died ""physically"" last year but still remained present in Portuguese people's lives.
""The avenue is a just tribute ... Eusebio will be happy wherever he is. He is eternal adidas ultra boost hvid tilbud ,"" Filipe Vieira said.
Lisbon Mayor and leader of the Socialist party Antonio Costa said the inauguration of the avenue was an expression of Portugal' s heart felt condolence for one of the ""greatest Portuguese figures in the 20th century.""
Eusebio is remembered with great affection in Portugal. When he died last year, the authorities declared three days of mourning and President Anibal Cavaco Silva made a televised address praising him for his ""affability and humility.""
Portugal's Benfica star nicknamed ""Black Panther"" was top scorer at the 1966 World Cup and died aged 71 from a heart attack on Jan. 5, 2014.