It's invaded
Australia, but the cane toad has not triggered the ecological catastrophe that some predicted
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AFP - Tour de France runner-up Andy Schleck has not been selected for the world road race cycling championships to be held in
Australia later this month, the national federation said Thursday.
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Reuters - Uncertainty over the shape of
Australia's controversial mining tax is likely to last well into 2011 after national elections which returned the country's first minority government since World War Two.
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MELBOURNE,
Australia (AP) -- Two men were arrested after bewildered diners at a McDonald's spotted them wrestling a 5-foot (1.5 meter) python named Boris in the restaurant parking lot, police said Thursday....
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AFP - French energy giant Total has paid a little over 625 million euros for a 20-percent stake in a major liquified natural gas project in
Australia, two of the other companies involved announced Thursday.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) -
Australia's competition regulator blocked National
Australia Bank's $12 billion bid for AXA Asia Pacific for a second time, dashing NAB's efforts to cement its dominance in the world's fourth-largest wealth management market.
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Microsoft's new gamepad for Xbox 360 comes Down Under on November 9 for A$99.95.
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SYDNEY (AP) -- A Russian circus touring
Australia has dropped an act in which a performer swallows a live fish then regurgitates it after complaints that it was in poor taste and inhumane.
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AP - Among the newly elected legislators congregating for the first time Thursday at Parliament House were
Australia's first Muslim lawmaker, its youngest-ever at 20 years old and the first Aboriginal in the House of Representatives.
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