At number one, the issue of asylum seekers was red hot following the unrest at Villawood Detention Centre, with our Your Say thread proving irresistible for people on all sides of the debate.
Secondly, the death of Sydney girl Kiesha Abrahams captured the attention of the country. News that charges were laid against her mother and stepfather after nine months became our second biggest story of the week.
At number three, the not so sweet issue of child labour, exploitation, and Easter eggs put a sinister spin on the chocolate season. Double the reason to feel guilty, perhaps.
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Justin Bieber made a trip to Sydney this week. We didn't cover it. But we did cover one he made to the harbour city last year. And thanks to the wonders of search engines and legions of teenage girls (and boys? and grown ups too, mayhaps?), it made number four. Just plain Bieberific.
On a serious note, Japan is still struggling to cope with the aftermath of its earthquake and tsunami. Almost 25,000 Japanese troops will undertake a massive new search for bodies along the Pacific coast where thousands are still missing, and you wanted to know more, pushing it into number five.
Business tycoon and TV star Donald Trump thinks he's got a shot at the US Presidency. The Hawaiian-born man (or is he?) in the White House wants to nip it all in the bud, and attacked head on Trump's apparent main pitch for the top job- that Obama is not actually an American - unlike big Don, of course. Obama released his birth certificate to get him to pipe down. Trump said, well, you know, it might not be real anyway, and claimed a victory .What can you do?
Who's afraid of Google? Well, naturally not us at SBS online. But the story of the 'stalker' sneaking into Google's HQ after it (allegedly) snuck inside her head and made her do things shows that all is not perfect with the search giant's PR. Not the kind of story they might wish for - but it made number seven for us.
ROYAL WEDDING ALERT in eight. Well, it's a story about Thorpey really. Nice chap. So nice, he was invited to the Royal Wedding. The last two British Prime Ministers weren't. But Thorpey was. So were a number of representatives from countries with questionable human-rights records.
Julia Gillard was in China, reportedly laying down the law as regards human rights, amongst other things. News that Wen Jiabao was all 'wotevs' was not only massively unsurprising, but good enough reading to make it in to number nine.
What the? 2008? Never mind, news that a Brisbane Islamic school was accused of banning the national anthem - two and a half years ago - must have hit a nerve somewhere. Such a nerve that it got enough clicks to squeeze into the top ten. You couldn't make it up. And we wouldn't.
