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• Australia to hand over new ball to Bollinger in Adelaide Test

  
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  Adelaide (Australia), Dec.3 (ANI): New South Wales fast bowler Doug Bollinger will open the bowling for the Australians in the second Test against the West Indies at Adelaide Oval commencing here from Friday. A Daily Telegraph report said the gregarious left-arm pacer will be given the new ball ahead of Mitchell ...
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
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  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• Aussies keen on giving Windies another three-day blow-out

  
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  Adelaide (Australia), Dec.2 (ANI): Australia’s players are again intent on tearing down West Indies inside three days.Adelaide has hosted 10 matches decided in four days, and the thought of wrapping up the duel for the Sir Frank Worrell Trophy with another three-day Test is music to the ears of fast bowler Peter ...
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• Oz PM angers Muslims with his `right to leave’ remark

  
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  Canberra (Australia), Dec.2 (ANI): Muslim representative bodies across the world, and particularly in Australia, have reacted angrily to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s `adjust or leave Australia’ remark, saying the comment was prejudicial to their community and uncalled for.Rudd had said that Muslims who ...
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• 1 In 2 Australian Adults Feel It’s Okay For Children To Drink

  
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  Ayinde O. Chase - AHN Editor Victoria, Australia (AHN) - A new survey shed interesting insights into the acceptable perception of alcohol use by children. Half of Australians adults 15 to 17 year olds should be allowed to consume alcohol under parental supervision at home
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• For Australians, houses are bigger-is-better

  
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  Sydney, Dec 1 (DPA) Australian houses are now double the size of the average house in Europe and three times bigger than homes in Britain, official figures showed. At an average for houses and apartments of 214 square metres, Australians now outrank even Americans as having the biggest houses on the planet.While newly ...
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• Australians have the world’s largest houses

  
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  Melbourne, Nov 30 (ANI): Aussies have beaten the Americans to become the owners of the largest houses in the world, says a new report by Commonwealth Securities, also known as CommSec. The CommSec data shows that the size of an Australian house has increased on average by 10percent in the last ten years to a [...]
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• Formidable Australia was just too much for `barbecued’ Windies: Roebuck

  
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  Sydney, Nov.30 (ANI): Noted cricket columnist Peter Roebuck has said Australia was just too formidable a side to be outplayed by the West Indies in the first Test played at the Gabba in Brisbane last week.In an article for the Sydney Morning Herald, Roebuck claims the virility that was missing from their cricket ...
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• Australians try to stop sheep burping to reduce methane emissions

  
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  London, November 30 (ANI): Reports indicate that Australian scientists are trying to breed a sheep that belches less, as they look for ways to reduce harmful methane emissions from the country’s flocks. According to a report in the Telegraph, John Goop, the study leader, measured the sheep’s emissions by herding ...
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• Kangaroo ‘dream cream’ may prevent skin cancer

  
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  Melbourne, November 30 (ANI): Kangaroos may be the long awaited answer to preventing skin cancer.Researchers from Melbourne University, Dr Linda Feketeova and Dr Uta Wille, along with Austrian scientists from the University of Innsbruck are looking at a DNA repair enzyme found in kangaroos.Apparently, the enzyme can ...
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• Books for Xmas 2009

  
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  For those whose tastes run to the literary, the crime novel to die for this Christmas is Peter Temple’s Truth. The fictional underbelly of the Victorian police, dry as the crackle of eucalypt leaves in the moment before the fireball hits. A stripped-down, elegant and elliptical story of hard men and violence on ...
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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
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  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
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  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• More bad news for Malcolm Turnbull (Australian voters prefer Joe Hockey as conservative leader)

  
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  JOE Hockeys stocks as future Liberal leader have surged after a new poll found he is Coalition voters favourite to lead the embattled party. Thirty-nine per cent of Coalition voters said they preferred Mr Hockey, while 26 per cent favoured Tony Abbott and 25 per cent wanted encumbent Malcolm Turnbull to remain. The ...
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• Eid ~ A Special Report

  
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  The View from Fez team were invited into a local Moroccan home to celebrate Eid. Our host was the gracious Thami from Thamis Restaurant. Just after we arrived two visitors to Fez also were invited in. One was from Mexico and the other was Tess, from Sydney, Australia. Needless to say the visitors were amazed at their ...
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• The Idealistic Faces Of “Australianism”

  
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  IN 1973 Al Grassby, immigration minister in the Whitlam government, announced the end of the white Australia policy. “It is dead,” he said. “Give me a shovel and I will bury it.” But the policy’s passing does not mean that it has been forgotten. Successive immigration controversies since have prompted claims ...
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• Camel meat ~ is Australia out of touch?

  
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  Many people who have visited Morocco can attest to the wonderful flavour of camel meat. Either as steaks, minced up in kefta, or even (if you visit Cafe Clock in Fez) - camel burgers. But in some places, camels are being shot and left to rot. The View from Fez investigates: It is not very often that ...
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• Paul Hasluck

  
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  I dont know who Paul Hasluck is. I think MAYBE I saw his name yesterday when researching John Curtin. Perhaps theres some connection?Well, Lord Wiki says he was a Governor-General.He had the job from 1969-1974. I probably also saw his name when reading the book by Gough Whitlam. Hasluck was the ...
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• My right arm

  
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  Why? See All hands on deck to bridge the indigenous reading gap.Posted in Australia, Australia and Australian, education, Indigenous Australians, literacy
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• Australian Parliament condemn Mumbai attacks

  
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  Canberra (Australia), Nov 26 (ANI): Australian Parliament on Thursday joined hands with India to condemn the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.Both the treasury and the opposition sides of the Australian Parliament made statements in both houses during the first anniversary of the terror strike on India’s financial ...
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