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BBC News
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Seventy people have been arrested in Australia in a nationwide operation to crack down on the use of images of child sex abuse posted on the internet.
The arrests, which include a policeman and several teachers, followed a six month investigation by po..
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CNN
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Plans to slaughter 400 kangaroos living on an abandoned military site near the capital of Australia have been put on hold due to public opposition, the Defense Department said Monday. Instead, the department said it has asked the local government to consi..
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BBC News
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Australian Defence Minister Brendan Nelson has admitted that securing oil supplies is a key factor behind the presence of Australian troops in Iraq.
He said maintaining "resource security" in the Middle East was a priority.
But PM John Howard has pl..
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BBC News
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard has announced a shift in policy on climate change, promising to set up a carbon trading scheme to cut pollution.
Mr Howard said he would set a target next year for limiting greenhouse gas emissions and also pledged..
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CNN
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Prime Minister John Howard said Friday that people with the AIDS virus should not be allowed to migrate to Australia, and that the government was investigating whether it could tighten existing restrictions.
The comments triggered anger among AIDS work..
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Physorg
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Australia has announced plans to ban traditional light bulbs in a move Prime Minister John Howard called a practical step toward slowing climate change. Claiming a world first for a national government, Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull said incand..
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News.com.au
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ANTHRAX has broken out on a sixth property in northern Victoria. The bacterial disease has been found on a farm at Tatura, east of the outbreak area around Stanhope...
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CNN
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Senior U.S. officials said on Tuesday they would be unable to meet deadlines set by Canberra for the trial of Australia's sole Guantanamo Bay inmate, as Prime Minister John Howard stepped up pressure over the case...
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News.com.au
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A PLANE-load of prisoners from British jails could be headed Down Under more than 200 years after Britain first sent boats full of convicts to Australia...
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CNN
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Wildlife authorities investigating why thousands of birds fell from the sky over a town in remote southwestern Australia have ruled out infectious diseases but are no closer to figuring out what killed them, a state official said Friday...
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Financial Times
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he seriousness of Australia’s environmental problems was underlined Wednesday with the release of data showing that the country appears to be experiencing the effects of global warming more deeply than other parts of the world...
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CNN
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The latest leg of the protest-plagued Olympic torch relay brought the flame to Australia Wednesday, with demonstrators vowing to show up in their hundreds despite promises of tough police countermeasures. Shortly before the flame arrived, police arrested..
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BBC News
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A Chinese man accused of murdering his wife in New Zealand and abandoning his three-year-old daughter in Australia has been arrested in the United States.
Nai Yin Xue, who is in his 50s, was detained by members of the public in Atlanta, Georgia, who re..
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BBC News
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Australia says it will send a ship to collect two activists from a Japanese whaling vessel, in a bid to end a two-day Antarctic stand-off.
Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said a ship monitoring the whalers would retrieve the men as soon as possible...
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BBC News
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Australian Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd has been sworn in as prime minister, following a landslide victory in parliamentary elections last week.
Immediately after the ceremony, he signed documents to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, revers..
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BBC News
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Millions of Chinese-made toys have been recalled in the US and Australia after they were found to contain a substance linked to the date-rape drug GHB.
A total of five children were taken to hospital after swallowing tiny beads known as Bindeez in Aust..
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MSNBC
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Millions of Chinese-made toys have been pulled from shelves in North America and Australia after scientists found they contain a chemical that converts into a powerful “date rape” drug when ingested. Two children in the U.S. and three in Australia wer..
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BBC News
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A man has been charged with murder in Australia after allegedly punching and kicking an elderly man during a heated argument over water restrictions.
Ken Proctor, 66, was watering his front lawn in southern Sydney on Wednesday when Todd Munter, 36, wal..
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News.com.au
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NETWORK Ten's controversial show Californication will be investigated by media watchdog the Australia Communications and Media Authority.
The smutty satirical show was immediately infamous for featuring former X-Files star David Duchovny in four sex sc..
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