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/ 2 February 2011
Thousands of people fled their homes and crammed into shelters on Wednesday as a powerful cyclone barrelled toward a string of popular tourist cities.
Australian financial markets bet on Monday that inconclusive weekend elections would deliver a change of government.
Jacob Evans had no hint of the mine that ripped into his legs. Neither did his dog, nor the US patrol that had already walked over the buried charge.
Australia summoned China’s ambassador on Monday for a second time to press for details of the detention of Rio Tinto’s top iron ore salesperson.
Australia’s Labour government has begun softening voters for a painful budget with the biggest fiscal deficit on record.
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/ 3 September 2008
There is no end in sight to global food shortages and multiple crises from climate change and energy and water scarcity will soon intensify.
On the grey clay of an ancient lake bed on the edge of Australia’s outback, Guy Kingwill is at the frontier of a global rush to commercialise water.
In the biggest pro-Beijing rally of the protest-marred Olympic torch relay, more than 10 000 Chinese Australians rallied in Canberra on Thursday, bringing a sea of red Chinese flags and drowning out Tibetan demonstrators. Protests and tight security have followed the Olympic torch around the world over the past month.
Police began an unprecedented security crackdown in Australia’s national capital, Canberra, on Wednesday to protect the Olympic flame from protests during the latest leg of the torch’s troubled journey around the world. China had hoped the torch’s progress would be a symbol of unity in the run-up to the Beijing Games.
Visionary science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke was buried on Saturday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, where the nation paused for an international ”titan” it had adopted as its own. British-born Clarke, best known for his work on the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, died aged 90 of respiratory complications and heart failure.