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Australian panel to recommend changing constitution to recognize Aborigines - CNN.com

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Jethro Mullen, CNN - Jan. 18 (News Report) - "The lack of acknowledgment of a people's existence in a country's Constitution has a major impact on their sense of identity, value within the community and perpetuates discrimination and prejudice.."

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Planet Likely to Become Increasingly Hostile to Agriculture

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Scientific American - By Douglas Fischer - Dec. 07 (News Report) - YTo get a glimpse of the future, look to East Africa today. The Horn of Africa is in the midst of its worst drought in 60 years: Crop failures have left up to 10 million at risk of famine; social order has broken down in Somalia, with thousands of refugees streaming into Kenya; British Aid alone is feeding 2.4 million people across the region. That's a taste of what's to come, say scientists mapping the impact of a warming planet on agriculture and civilization.

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Escaped Pet Birds Are Teaching Wild Birds to Speak English

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Treehugger - By Stephen Messenger - Sep. 15 (News) - Across parts of Australia, reports have been pouring in of strange voices chattering high in the treetops -- mysterious, non-sensical conversations in English. But while the phenomena is certainly quite odd, its explanation isn't paranormal.

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Oceans left out of climate debate

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - Aug. 08 (News Report) - Oceans have been left out of climate change debate in Australia, the founder of Earthwatch says. Brian Rosborough said the role of oceans and coasts should be given more attention. "Coastal vegetation and oceans which account for 55 per cent of all the c

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Warning: extreme weather ahead

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By John Vidal - Jun. 14 (News Report) - Tornados, wildfires, droughts and floods were once seen as freak conditions. But the environmental disasters now striking the world are shocking signs of 'global weirding' Drought zones have been declared across much of England and Wales, yet Scotland has just registered its wettest-ever May. The warmest British spring in 100 years followed one of the coldest UK winters in 300 years. June in London has been colder than March. February was warm enough to strip on Snowdon, but last Saturday it snowed there. Welcome to the climate rollercoaster, or what is being coined the "new normal" of weather. What was, until quite recently, predictable, temperate, mild and equable British weather, guaranteed to be warmish and wettish, ensuring green lawns in August, now sees the seasons reversed and temperature and rainfall records broken almost every year. When Kent receives as much rain (4mm) in May as Timbuktu, Manchester has more sunshine than Marbella, and soils in southern England are drier than ...

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Apocalypse not now: Rapture fails to happen

Sat, 21 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By David Batty - May. 21 (News) - Christian doomsday prophet Harold Camping looks likely to be less than rapturous after his prediction that the world would end on Saturday failed to materialise. The 89-year-old Californian preacher had prophesied that the Rapture would begin at 6pm in each of the world's time zones, with those "saved" by Jesus ascending to heaven and the non-believers being wiped out by an earthquake rolling from city to city across the planet. But as the deadline for the Apocalpyse passed in the Pacific islands, New Zealand and Australia, it became apparent that Camping's prediction of the end of the world was to end not with a bang but with a whimper. Only on Twitter did the supposed armageddon sweep the world, with users expressing their mock disappointment at the lack of dead people rising from their graves. New Zealander Daniel Boerman tweeted : "I'm from New Zealand, it is 6:06PM, the world has NOT ...

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Forget the billions, return Jabiluka site to Kakadu, say traditional owners

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - By Lindsay Murdoch Jabiru - Apr. 06 (News Report) - Warned about the wrath of Djang... Yvonne Margarula, one of the traditional owners from the Mirarr people, in front of an image of her father. Photo: Glenn Campbell ABORIGINAL traditional owners have declared they want the multibillion-dollar Jabiluka ur

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Mass 'scareware' attack hits 1.5M websites, still spreading -

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

USA Today - By Michael Winter - Apr. 02 (Special Report) - A massive attack that's trying to scare computer users into visiting a bogus antivirus site has infected more than 1.5 million websites and continues to spread, according to an Internet security firm. Several pages on Apple's iTunes store have been infected. The so-called LizaMoon "SQL injection attack" began Tuesday and is being tracked by Websense. Such attacks redirect users by exploiting programming errors and poorly written code and scripts. eWeek says the attack is "out of control ... with no end in sight." Nearly half the compromised sites are in the United States. Other affected countries include United Kingdom, Kuwait, India, Australia, Turkey, Brazil, Israel, Mexico, Taiwan and Chile.

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Relief as Queensland studies cyclone damage

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Kristen Gelineau - Feb. 03 (News Report) - One of the most powerful storms ever recorded in Australia pulled houses apart and snapped power poles as it ripped across flood-sodden Queensland state Thursday but didn't kill anyone. Officials had issued days of increasingly dire warnings

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Australia Floods Inundate Brisbane, 43 Missing

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - Jan. 12 (News Report) - Massive floods shut down the center of Australia's third-largest city, sent thousands fleeing from their homes and sparked panic buying of food on Wednesday as rescuers searched for 43 people missing in floodwaters.

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Australia: Queensland floods spur more evacuations

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Jan. 01 (News) - Thousands more people are preparing to evacuate their homes as one of Australia's worst floods continues to inundate the state of Queensland.

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Australia's Julia Gillard forms new government on shaky ground

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Sep. 07 (News) - Australia?s Julia Gillard barely squeaked into power. But her slim majority means that passing any legislation will be ...

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Deepwater Horizon oil plume more than twice all natural seeps in the northern Gulf of Mexico

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The New Orleans Times-Picayune - By Mark Schleifstein - Aug. 19 (News Report) - A Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute research team found an extensive plume of droplets of oil about four-fifths of a mile below the surface and stretching 22 miles southwest of the Deepwater Horizon well site deep below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico during a 10-day research cruise at the end of June.

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Australia to mount legal bid against Japan whaling

Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - May. 28 (News Report) - Australia says it will mount a legal bid at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, against Japan's whaling programme.

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US vows punishment for North Korea over ship sinking

Fri, 21 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - May. 21 (Investigative Report) - The US state department says there "will definitely be consequences" for North Korea following the sinking of a South Korean warship in March. The North is facing international condemnation after investigators blamed it for the sinking of the ship, in which 46 sailors died. Pyongyang has rejected the claim as a "fabrication" and threatened war if sanctions were imposed. China urged restraint and did not criticise the North.

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Stimulus building chief in bid to take over NSW planning

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - By Matthew Moore - Apr. 19 (News) - THE man in charge of spending $7 billion of federal stimulus funds says the program has been so successful his office should take over most of the state's major planning decisions.... The infrastructure co-ordinator-general and chairman of the NSW National Building and Jobs Plan Taskforce, Bob Leece, says he will lodge a submission...[He] was granted extraordinary powers to bypass planning laws and speed up the spending of federal funds and, despite some ''grumbling'', he saw no reason why such powers could not remain in force permanently.

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Australia, India sign education deal

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - By Greg Roberts - Apr. 08 (News Report) - Three months after the stabbing death of Indian graduate Nitin Garg on his way to work in Melbourne, Australia and India have signed a major deal on education.

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Chinese Freighter Slams Great Barrier Reef

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Keith Bradsher - Apr. 05 (News Report) - Salvage experts and a tugboat crew struggled on Monday to save a large Chinese freighter that slammed into the Great Barrier Reef off Australia over the weekend, trying to prevent the vessel from breaking apart as some of the 1,075 tons of engine fuel in its tanks began oozing from the hull, threatening the world’s largest collection of coral.

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Rio Tinto announces Chinese deal

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Mar. 19 (News) - The Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto says it has signed a deal with China to develop a massive iron ore project in West Africa.

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Heavy rainfall boosts Brisbane dams

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Sydney Morning Herald - By Kym Agius - Mar. 03 (News) - Brisbane's dams are now more than 80 per cent full, three years after supplies shrank to alarming levels.

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Chinese hack film festival site

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jul. 26 (News Report) - Chinese hackers have attacked the website of Australia's biggest film festival over a documentary about Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer. Content on the Melbourne International Film Festival site was briefly replaced with the Chinese flag and anti-Kadeer slogans on Saturday, reports said. In an earlier protest on Friday, Beijing withdrew four Chinese films. Melbourne's The Age newspaper says private security guards have been hired to protect Kadeer and other film-goers.

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All dry on the western front

Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Australian - By Cheryl Jones - May. 13 (Special Report) - The team, co-funded by the Australian Climate Change Science Program, investigated 1000 virtual years of the late 20th century in 20 virtual worlds with varying degrees of global warming, and presented its results at a recent meeting of the American Geophysical Union. "The climate model is projecting that as we go into the future, with global warming continuing, the Indian Ocean Dipole will perhaps occur more often," Cai says. "In a warming world, the number of positive Indian Ocean Dipoles will increase by around 20 per cent." An increase in the frequency of positive dipole events would exacerbate droughts kicked off in autumn - the critical crop-planting season, when rainfall plummets in El Nino years - and extended through winter by an awry Southern Annular Mode. It would drag the droughts into spring while increasing their severity.

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Meltdown Australia

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - Mar. 31 (Special Report) - Like so many of the earth’s treasures these days, the Great Barrier Reef faces a grave threat. Polyps, the tiny organisms that manufacture the coral, are threatened with extinction because of rising water temperatures, caused by global warming. This film documents the damage already caused, examines possible remedies and questions whether man still has time to save the reef.

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Australia slashes immigration as recession looms

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Mar. 17 (News Report) - Australia will cut its intake of migrants for the first time in a decade, the government said today, amid concern that skilled foreign workers could stoke resentment by taking jobs at a time of rising unemployment.

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Former Microsoft exec grows global literacy effort

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

KING5.com - By Charlotte Starck - Feb. 06 (News Report) - This morning, 250 million children around the world didn't go to school. And that's something that must change says the one time director of Microsoft's Business Development for Greater China, John Wood. Room To Read brings philanthropists, business and even students attending a "Students Helping Students" breakfast event together to put a dent in illiteracy in seven different countries, including Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Laos, Nepal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Zambia.

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