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- The Orstrahyun: Australia 'locked out' of huge new East Asian Free Trade Union on orders of China
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from theorstrahyun.blogspot.com
  Alexander Downer has, by now, learned that Australia has been locked out of joining a vast new ASEAN nations free trade and energy union. And China demanded Australia be excluded. Downer is at the East Asia Summit, where he laughingly claimed he would be trying to get a last minute climate change related 'breakthrough agreement' from developing countries like China, Indonesia, Vietnam and The Philippines. Good luck with that...
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- Australia election ousts Howard
  Posted by Jeff from Chicago Tribune
  The new Australian President promises to ratify the Kyoto protocol and withdraw some troops from Iraq.
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- Australia: Police mobilised against high school students at APEC demonstration
  Posted by Sandyenglish
  Police in the Australian state of New South Wales launched a major operation yesterday aimed at intimidating high school students protesting against the Iraq war and US President George Bush. Along with 20 other world leaders, Bush is in Australia for this week’s Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.
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- Petraeus Trial Balloon in Australia: Surge Working?
  Posted by Jeff from The Australian
  General Petraeus told The Australian during a face-to-face interview at his Baghdad headquarters there had been a 75 per cent reduction in religious and ethnic killings since last year, a doubling in the seizure of insurgents' weapons caches between January and August, a rise in the number of al-Qa'ida "kills and captures" and a fall in the number of coalition deaths from roadside bombings.
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- Sydney split by fence to keep protesters away from world leaders at APEC
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from Scholarsandrogues.wordpress
  Apparently it's an honour for Sydney to be chosen to host the APEC summit in three weeks time, bringing together more than 20 world leaders, including President Bush. But most Sydneysiders are wondering why they couldn't have gone elsewhere, now that the full scope of staggering security measures are being made public. A 5k long, 3-metre high security fence will cut Sydney's central business district in half...
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- Perth Independent Media Centre: Howards military plan causing panic in Indigenous communitues
  Posted by theangryindian from Angryindian.blogspot
  "Prime Minister John Howard has this morning admitted, in response to questions by Neil Mitchell on Southern Cross radio, that "if" it comes to taking lands away from Aboriginal communities and Aboriginal people, he will adequately compensate them", WA Rights group Project SafeCom said this morning...
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- Aborigines face alcohol ban after report on child sex abuse | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
  Posted by Jeff from Guardian UK
  Alcohol and pornographic material are to be banned in some indigenous communities in the north of Australia after a report claimed "rivers of grog" were fuelling the sexual abuse of children.
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Australia apology to Aborigines

For what?

Medicine, agriculture, education?

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Spotted Owl AU: Tiny animals stop Australian mine

For $10bn, I would kill all animals in Australia.

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Australian Prime Minister Howard's Address: "Reflections On The Situation In Iraq"
I've seen some comments that say this speech was a hoax. Still don't know for sure.
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Dropped out of the rat race, but possibly still a rat… Now viewing the world from Down Under.
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