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- Japan-Australia security declaration strengthens US encirclement of China
  Posted by Sandyenglish
  A joint security declaration signed by Australian Prime Minister John Howard and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on March 13 is a significant step toward the formation of a triangular US-Japan-Australia grouping directed against China.
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- Anti - Whaler Nations Give Japan a Warning
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  'The Japanese whaling program next year envisages killing humpback whales. Humpbacks are one of the most iconic whale species. I know this program is going to generate enormous hostility from round the world,'' he said. New Zealand would voice its opposition to the program with the Japanese at the IWC's next annual meeting, in Alaska in May, he told New Zealand's National Radio.
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- Australia ponders climate future
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  "The really scary thing is last time we had a drought of this intensity that lasted about five years - it lasted for about 50 years," cautioned Professor Andy Pitman from Macquarie University in Sydney.
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- Going dark with corporate governance
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  The costs of Sarbanes-Oxley has prompted some smaller companies to delist themselves from the stock market and "go dark''. An Australian study shows that if the US had been less strict with corporate governance four years ago, things would have been very different now.
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- Police battered in mob mayhem | Sunday Herald Sun
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  VIOLENT anti-G20 protesters unleashed mayhem in Melbourne yesterday, rioting in the streets and attacking police as pedestrians fled in fear.
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- Flesh-eating Kangaroos and Demon Ducks in Australia's Past
  Posted by Billbar from Live Science
  A saber-toothed kangaroo and a giant 10-foot-tall, 881-pound bird scientists nicknamed the "demon duck of doom'' were among the largely unknown species uncovered in the dig in Australia's Outback, Prof. Mike Archer told reporters Wednesday. "They were galloping kangaroos, they didn't hop,'' Archer said. "They were also far more muscly than the kangaroos we know, with sharp saber-like incisors and powerful forelimbs to help rip and tear their prey.''
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- Killer salinity rings Australia's desert heart
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  Only the Sahara has more desert than Australia, whose red center has long been thought uninhabitable by modern man. But while Australia's central deserts are now seen as benign and are starting to yield fruit, salination is turning once productive farmland into lifeless dirt tracts. But while Australia's central deserts are now seen as benign and are starting to yield fruit, salination is turning once productive farmland into lifeless dirt tracts
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pater2five comments on:
Australia apology to Aborigines

For what?

Medicine, agriculture, education?

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rwtaylor comments on:
Spotted Owl AU: Tiny animals stop Australian mine

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

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Billbar comments on:
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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Jeff comments on:
Santas fight and steal in the streets
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