MELBOUNE - Croats in Australia - and the general Croatian community - in recent months have often been the target of malicious smear campaigns by mainstream media and various anti-Croatian lobby groups to discredit our name and respected standing in the wider Australian community.

SYDNEY - A 36-year-old man is fighting for his life in a Sydney hospital after being critically injured in a major explosion of a Croatian owned takeaway food shop in the early hours of Monday morning.

PERTH - Earlier this month, the Croatian Dom Gwelup in Western Australia celebrated their 25th anniversary in fine style.

MELBOURNE - Following a huge haul of pirated Croatian music CDs in August 2007, the Victorian Police on Tuesday raided the residential premises of another large scale pirate Croatian music seller in the outer-western Melbourne suburb of Taylors Lakes.

The Australian television industry was sent into shock late last week with the untimely death of popular Perth born Channel Ten newsreader, Charmaine Dragun. The 29-year-old's body was found at The Gap - a well known suicide spot in Sydney's east - shortly before 4pm on Friday.