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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the world's smallest continent and a number of islands in the Southern, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and the French dependency of New Caledonia to the northeast, and New Zealand to the southeast.
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Come in spinner
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:49:40 -0000
Big polluters are pulling no punches in shifting the cost of tackling carbon in the atmosphere onto others, write Marian Wilkinson, Ben Cubby and Flint Duxfield.
Sea level fear overstated: meteorologist
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:22:48 -0000
The impact of predicted sea level rises on coastal development on Australia's eastern seaboard has been exaggerated, a meteorologist says.
Rain isolates thousands in northern NSW
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:00:45 -0000
State Emergency Service workers are bracing for a long night following heavy rain on the mid north coast forcing residents to evacuate their homes.
Australian architects come up trumps at world design festival
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:01 -0000
A SQUARE in busy New York, a sports hall at Berry south of Sydney and a holiday house on Victoria's Morning Peninsula have one thing in common - they were designed by Australians.
Fifty rooms and a tower: just the place for a party
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:01 -0000
WITH its stone walls, gargoyles, peaked archways and tower, the Abbey in Annandale is a house that has always stimulated the imagination.
Give it a rest: too much exercise a worry in the long run
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:01 -0000
FORGET the morning jog and go back to sleep: exercise may be bad for you.
After recovery, three rescued turtles come out of their shells
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:01 -0000
AFTER months in the care of humans, three precious green sea turtles are back in the hands of chance. The three young reptiles were born last summer somewhere on an unknown beach in Queensland and were rescued, off course and near death, in the cold waters of Wollongong, Gosford and Dee Why between April and May.
Tenth school for overseas students collapses
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:01 -0000
THE reputation of Australia's $16 billion overseas education industry has been dealt another blow by the sudden collapse of the Global Campus Management Group, which ran four colleges in Sydney and Melbourne with about 3000 students.
Reaction to parole of Chang's killer 'artificial'
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:01 -0000
OPPOSITION by the State Government to parole for one of the killers of the heart surgeon Victor Chang was a political reaction to an ''artificially stirred up'' outcry, his lawyer told the Parole Authority yesterday.
Illegal fishers escape the spotlight
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:01 -0000
HOBART: The Rudd Government has pulled plans to publicise the discovery of massive illegal fishing nets in the Antarctic while the ship that found them, Oceanic Viking, is under a different spotlight.
Fake POW will plead guilty to fraud
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:01 -0000
THE prisoner-of-war impostor Rex Crane, who dishonestly received $400,000 in war pension payments, will plead guilty to fraud and deception.
Western Sydney faces water crisis, scientists warn
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:01 -0000
THE State Government must consider curbing population growth in western Sydney because there will not be enough water to sustain agriculture, recreation and environmental flows in the region, scientists say.
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Come in spinner
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:49:40 -0000
Big polluters are pulling no punches in shifting the cost of tackling carbon in the atmosphere onto others, write Marian Wilkinson, Ben Cubby and Flint Duxfield.
Sea level fear overstated: meteorologist
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:22:48 -0000
The impact of predicted sea level rises on coastal development on Australia's eastern seaboard has been exaggerated, a meteorologist says.
Rain isolates thousands in northern NSW
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:00:45 -0000
State Emergency Service workers are bracing for a long night following heavy rain on the mid north coast forcing residents to evacuate their homes.
Australian architects come up trumps at world design festival
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:01 -0000
A SQUARE in busy New York, a sports hall at Berry south of Sydney and a holiday house on Victoria's Morning Peninsula have one thing in common - they were designed by Australians.
Fifty rooms and a tower: just the place for a party
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:01 -0000
WITH its stone walls, gargoyles, peaked archways and tower, the Abbey in Annandale is a house that has always stimulated the imagination.
Give it a rest: too much exercise a worry in the long run
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:01 -0000
FORGET the morning jog and go back to sleep: exercise may be bad for you.
After recovery, three rescued turtles come out of their shells
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:01 -0000
AFTER months in the care of humans, three precious green sea turtles are back in the hands of chance. The three young reptiles were born last summer somewhere on an unknown beach in Queensland and were rescued, off course and near death, in the cold waters of Wollongong, Gosford and Dee Why between April and May.
Tenth school for overseas students collapses
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:01 -0000
THE reputation of Australia's $16 billion overseas education industry has been dealt another blow by the sudden collapse of the Global Campus Management Group, which ran four colleges in Sydney and Melbourne with about 3000 students.
Reaction to parole of Chang's killer 'artificial'
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:01 -0000
OPPOSITION by the State Government to parole for one of the killers of the heart surgeon Victor Chang was a political reaction to an ''artificially stirred up'' outcry, his lawyer told the Parole Authority yesterday.
Illegal fishers escape the spotlight
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:01 -0000
HOBART: The Rudd Government has pulled plans to publicise the discovery of massive illegal fishing nets in the Antarctic while the ship that found them, Oceanic Viking, is under a different spotlight.
Fake POW will plead guilty to fraud
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:01 -0000
THE prisoner-of-war impostor Rex Crane, who dishonestly received $400,000 in war pension payments, will plead guilty to fraud and deception.
Western Sydney faces water crisis, scientists warn
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:01 -0000
THE State Government must consider curbing population growth in western Sydney because there will not be enough water to sustain agriculture, recreation and environmental flows in the region, scientists say.
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