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Australia praised for new refugee policy
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5.14.2008 : 5:35 am
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CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia's new government won praise from the United Nations and human rights groups Wednesday for offering refugees permanent sanctuary rather than temporary visas.
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Australian fined for buckling in beer, not child
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5.13.2008 : 2:57 pm
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DARWIN, Australia -- An Australian man has been fined after buckling in a case of beer with a seat belt but leaving a 5-year-old child to sit on the car's floor, police said Tuesday.
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Australian pokes shark in eye to survive mauling
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5.12.2008 : 5:12 pm
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SYDNEY, Australia -- An Australian swimmer says he survived a mauling by a 16-foot shark by wrestling with the beast, finally getting free by poking it in the eye. The shark, believed to be a great white, seized Jason Cull by the left leg as he was swimming at Middleton Beach in southwestern Australia on Saturday.
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Australia probes claims soldiers abused Afghan prisoners
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5.9.2008 : 2:21 am
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SYDNEY, Australia -- Australia is investigating allegations that its soldiers mistreated suspected insurgents in prison in Afghanistan, the military said Friday. A senior Afghan National Army commander made the allegations during a weekend meeting with NATO-led International Security Assistance Force officers, the Australian Defense Force said in a statement.
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Scientists map the genetic makeup of the platypus
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5.8.2008 : 6:34 pm
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SYDNEY, Australia -- With a bill like a duck, a tail like a beaver and snake-like venom hidden in heel spurs, the platypus could be the result of some strange genetic experiment.
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Australia's Koalas at risk from climate change
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5.7.2008 : 3:22 pm
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CANBERRA, Australia -- Koalas are threatened by the rising level of carbon dioxide pollution in the atmosphere because it saps nutrients from the eucalyptus leaves they feed on, a researcher said Wednesday.
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Chinese cheer on as Olympic torch starts mainland leg
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5.5.2008 : 8:36 am
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SANYA, China -- Cheering Chinese stood on their chairs and waved flags as the Olympic torch started its mainland leg Sunday on the tropical island of Hainan -- the first stop in what is expected to be a peaceful three-month journey to Beijing.
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Australian doctor proposes paying $47,000 for a kidney
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5.5.2008 : 5:49 am
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SYDNEY, Australia -- An Australian doctor proposed Monday that the government pay up to $47,000 for kidney donations to overcome a chronic shortage.
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Doctor: Australia boat collision claims 6th victim
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5.2.2008 : 1:10 am
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SYDNEY, Australia -- A sixth person died of injuries suffered when a fishing trawler collided with an overcrowded boat in Sydney Harbor, authorities said Friday.
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Fiji deports second newspaper publisher
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5.2.2008 : 12:25 am
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SUVA, Fiji -- Fiji's military government defied a High Court order and deported the Australian publisher of the South Pacific country's leading newspaper Friday, continuing a campaign of media intimidation it began within days of seizing power.
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Giant squid has world's largest eyes
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4.30.2008 : 6:08 pm
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Marine scientists studying the carcass of a rare colossal squid said Wednesday they had measured its eye at about 11 inches across -- bigger than a dinner plate -- making it the largest animal eye on Earth.
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Australia to remove gay discrimination from 100 laws
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4.30.2008 : 2:18 pm
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CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia's new government won praise Wednesday for its plan to eliminate discrimination against gay couples in more than 100 laws, but even those applauding said it should go further and approve same sex marriages.
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Australia to spend $2.9 billion to buy water from farmers
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4.29.2008 : 5:28 am
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CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia's government promised Tuesday to spend about $2.9 billion to buy river water from farmers in a bid to address the country's worst drought in a century.
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Nauru political deadlock ends
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4.29.2008 : 12:04 am
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- The government has won a majority in a snap election held in the tiny Pacific island country of Nauru, ending a five-month political deadlock over the budget, a government spokesman said Tuesday.
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Australian tax evasion scheme exposed
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4.28.2008 : 6:07 am
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SYDNEY, Australia -- Police arrested an Australian man Monday on charges of running a money laundering scheme that helped clients avoid taxes by transferring $93 million through offshore bank accounts, an official said.
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Australian killed in Afghanistan
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4.27.2008 : 11:31 pm
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CANBERRA, Australia -- Taliban militants attacked an Australian patrol with automatic rifles and rocket propelled grenades in southern Afghanistan, and the ensuing battle left one of the commandos dead and four others wounded, officials said Monday.
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Nauru government claims success in election
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4.27.2008 : 6:28 am
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- A member of Nauru's government claimed victory Sunday for the ruling administration in a snap parliamentary election, but results couldn't be confirmed with the electoral office because communications to the mid-Pacific island were down.
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200 Australian troops to quit East Timor
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4.26.2008 : 7:30 am
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CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia will withdraw 200 troops from nearby East Timor because security in the restive nation has improved since rebel soldiers wounded the president, Australia's prime minister said Saturday.
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Fiji dig yields fine jewelry from early Lapitas
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4.23.2008 : 3:14 am
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SUVA, Fiji -- Excavators of the earliest human settlement in Fiji have found a cache of jewelry and high quality pottery dating back some 3,000 years and made by the Stone Age colonizers of the South Pacific.
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Spider plague closes Australian hospital
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4.22.2008 : 11:28 pm
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SYDNEY, Australia -- A tiny Australian hospital is closing temporarily because of an infestation of poisonous spiders. The Baralaba Multi Purpose Health Service will close for 24 hours starting Thursday morning so officials can fumigate the building to get rid of redback spiders that have been found in large numbers in the main part of the hospital.
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Australia extends continental shelf
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4.21.2008 : 6:28 am
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CANBERRA, Australia -- The world's largest island just got larger. Australia extended control of its continental shelf by nearly 1 million square miles under an agreement with the United Nations, Resources Minister Martin Ferguson announced Monday.
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Australia 'ideas summit' yields wide-ranging proposals
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4.20.2008 : 2:11 pm
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ADELAIDE, Australia -- Celebrities, activists and politicians put forward dozens of proposals for the country's future on Sunday, ranging from a health agency funded by a junk food tax to incentives for Australians to work in rural communities.
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Funeral held for New Zealand river tragedy victim
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4.19.2008 : 1:58 am
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- A grieving mother placed a simple brown teddy bear in her teenage son's open casket Saturday as mourners bade farewell to one of the victims of a river tragedy that killed six high school students and a teacher earlier this week in New Zealand.
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Parliament of Pacific island nation Nauru dissolved
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4.18.2008 : 12:23 am
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SUVA, Fiji -- The president of the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru declared an emergency Friday, dissolved parliament and called new elections next week in a bid to boost his grip on the government amid a fierce row with the opposition.
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New Zealand teen tells of surviving river tragedy
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4.17.2008 : 1:20 am
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- A teenage survivor of a river tragedy that claimed seven lives said in a printed account that he heard his schoolmates cheer as he jumped into a raging river to swim to safety. Most of those cheering were not so lucky.
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Relatives mourn WWII battle victims
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4.16.2008 : 2:55 am
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PERTH, Australia -- Relatives of sailors who died in Australia's worst maritime tragedy held a memorial Wednesday near the site of their deaths -- made possible for the first time by the wreck's recent discovery.
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Australia to probe medical testing claim
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4.16.2008 : 1:45 am
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CANBERRA, Australia -- Advocates for indigenous Australians alleged that Aboriginal children were used as test subjects for leprosy treatments in the 1920s and 1930s, sparking a government investigation.
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7 die in New Zealand river tragedy
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4.16.2008 : 1:43 am
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- A flash flood struck a high school hiking group at a wilderness gorge in New Zealand, sweeping six teenagers and a teacher to their deaths in a tragedy that shocked the country.
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12 Stand Trial in Australia Terror Plot
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4.15.2008 : 7:10 am
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MELBOURNE, Australia -- Twelve terror suspects planned to bomb a packed sports stadium during the grand final match of the Australian Football League in 2005, a witness testified Tuesday.
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Up to 8 Teens Swept Away in NZ River
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4.15.2008 : 5:41 am
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Rescuers were searching for up to eight teenage students at an outdoor program who were missing after being swept away by a raging river in New Zealand, officials said Tuesday.
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