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      Parents pinch pennies from piggy banks

      Posted by Billbar from Yahoo News!

      25% of Australian parents regularly "borrow" money from their children's piggy banks to pay for anything from bread to luxury holidays. Mums are more than twice as likely to raid their children's savings than dad. Happened to me...

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    • 3 Australians rescued after 3 weeks adrift

      Posted by Billbar from UPI

      John Tabo, 35, his 20-year-old son John Jr., and 16-year-old nephew Tom Tabo went missing April 17 from their island home off Queensland's southern coast in the Torres Strait. A Queensland police spokeswoman said all three men were treated for dehydration and sunburn and had lost a lot of weight, but were otherwise fine.

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    • Activists plan naked meat protest

      Posted by Billbar from The Advertiser

      Animal Liberation New South Wales spokeswoman Angie Stephenson today said activists were setting up banners at the the 2006 World Meat Congress to be held at the Brisbane Exhibition and Convention Centre and preparing a "surprise" nude display for tomorrow and a street march through Brisbane's CBD and inner-city South Bank on Saturday.

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    • Take a ride on the 'sex train'

      Posted by Billbar from The Australian

      There's nothing in the world like a ride on the sex train - at least according to the organisers of Sexpo, whose new R-rated take on the traditional fair ground ghost train by letting riders in mini carriages zip past computer-operated mannequins simulating sex scenes.

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    • I've Lost 9st on Frog Diet

      Posted by Billbar

      Rick Megee, 35, who was missing in the Australian Outback for nearly three months told yesterday how he lost nine stones [112 pounds] after surviving on frogs, grasshoppers, lizards and snakes.

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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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    Billbar comments on:

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    I've seen some comments that say this speech was a hoax. Still don't know for sure.

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