Defending champions ACT Brumbies overcame new injuries on Friday to beat South Africa’s Stormers 22-19 Friday in the Super 12 rugby union competition. Already missing key backline players, the Brumbies suffered a further blow on the eve of the match when centre Gene Fairbanks withdrew because of a facial injury.
Australia and East Timor were resuming talks on Monday on how to carve up billions of dollars worth of oil and gas under the seabed that divides one of the Asia-Pacific’s richest nations from one of the region’s poorest. Three days of talks were getting under way in the Australian capital, Canberra, five months after the acrimonious collapse of the last round of negotiations.
Bulls captain Anton Leonard returns from injury to lead his side out against the defending Super 12 champions, the ACT Brumbies, at Bruce Stadium in Canberra, Australia, on Friday. Leonard, who missed the first game because of injury, has made a miraculous recovery and will start in his traditional eighth-man position.
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/ 8 November 2004
Seventies British pop star Leo Sayer said on Monday he will move to Australia to restart his career in a country that respects its musical heroes. The London-based, curly-headed singer had hits in Britain, the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe and South Africa with songs such as You Make Me Feel Like Dancing and When I Need You.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard has been accused of turning his back on Asia, kowtowing to the United States and being Australia’s most bland leader. On Saturday, he assured himself a place in history with his fourth straight election victory, which will make him Australia’s second-longest-serving prime minister in December.
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef will become the largest protected marine region in the world when a ban on fishing over a third of its area is enforced later this year. The government intends to implement the ban midyear, despite the protests of commercial fishers who have battled the proposal for four years.
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/ 10 February 2004
Australia’s consumer watchdog on Tuesday launched a three-day crackdown aimed at tackling bogus websites designed to swindle internet users, as part of an international campaign to highlight and shut down such scams.
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/ 23 December 2003
The Australian government praised Zimbabwe on Tuesday for the rapid arrest of two men who allegedly killed an Australian accountant by forcing him to drink acid. Philip Laing (51) of Perth, who worked for the Eastern Highlands Tea Estate in Zimbabwe, was allegedly killed on Friday in a gang attack on the British company’s offices.
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/ 3 December 2003
Australia on Wednesday urged African leaders attending a summit of Britain and its former colonies this week to pressure Robert Mugabe to resign as president of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe was suspended from the Commonwealth’s decision-making councils following alleged intimidation and vote-rigging in Mugabe’s 2002 re-election.
Mugabe’s castle in the air
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/ 29 November 2003
Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Saturday refused to back down on his position that Zimbabwe should remain suspended from the Commonwealth after the African country’s president Robert Mugabe accused him of a vendetta.
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/ 24 October 2003
Australia said on Friday that 52 000 sheep aboard the so-called ”ship of death” had been accepted by Eritrea, ending an embarrassing two-month saga after Saudi Arabia rejected them on health grounds.
For the dozen or so protesters at Canberra’s Aboriginal ‘tent embassy’, these freezing winter mornings still start with coffee brewed over a campfire. But after more than 30 years, it is the last days for the site: the government has vowed to close it by the end of this month.
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/ 10 February 2003
South Africa and Nigeria will allow Zimbabwe to be readmitted to the Commonwealth group of nations when its suspension expires next month, says Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
The Dalai Lama arrives on Saturday on a 10-day visit to tell Australians how they can find happiness.
In a blow to Aborigines, Australia’s highest court has ruled that they do not have rights to oil or minerals found under tribal land now being used by mining companies.
Police say they’ve tracked a woman missing for almost 26 years and found her living under a new identity.
Two South Africans who tried to smuggle fresh and dried fruit into Australia in their luggage have been fined nearly 10 000 Australian dollars ( 600).
Australia said on Thursday it was ”very disappointed” by South Africa’s decision to increase tariffs on sheep meat imports and was investigating whether the move was in breach of World Trade Organisation rules.