11.   Meanwhile, prominent Hong Kong democracy campaigner Szeto Wah said he would decline an invitation to attend a reception marking the national day.

12.   Prominent anti-nuclear campaigner Helen Caldicott called on the government to issue potassium iodide tablets to every house in Sydney as a precaution against a possible attack on the reactor.

13.   The new bill features Sir Henry Parkes, a prominent campaigner for federation, and Catherine Helen Spence, a journalist, social reformer and novelist.

14.   Two prominent pro-democracy campaigners were arrested this week and accused with a third dissident of endangering state security.