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4 hrs ago | CSIRO Publishing

The effect of fuel age on the spread of fire in sclerophyll forest in the Sydney region of Australia

Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfire, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Wildfire, Fire, Australia, World News

12 hrs ago | Independent Online

TV show fined for killing, eating of rat

A British broadcaster has been convicted of animal cruelty after two reality show contestants skinned, cooked and ate a rat during filming in Australia.

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16 hrs ago | Physics Org

Nicotine replacement therapy is over-promoted since most ex-smokers quit unassisted

Health authorities should emphasize the positive message that the most successful method used by most ex-smokers is unassisted cessation, despite the promotion of cessation drugs by pharmaceutical companies and many tobacco control advocates.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health, Nicotine, NicoDerm, Nicotine (generic), Medication, Australia, World News,

Mon Feb 08, 2010

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Bureau admits wine production figures wrong

Bureau of Statistics got wine production figures wrong The Bureau of Statistics has made a mistake in its latest report on the Australian wine industry.

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The Age

Nursing home evacuated due to flooding

Eleven high dependency nursing home patients in Sydney's northwest have had to be evacuated due to flooding caused by severe thunderstorms.

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CNN

Some prices can be too good to be true

Royce Smith planned to visit Sydney, Australia during spring break to attend an arts festival and work on a book, when he found an unbelievably good fare on American Airlines' Web site: A round-trip ticket from Wichita, Kansas, to Sydney for just $1,198. In first class.

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Related Topix: Australia, World News, Wichita Metro, Wichita, KS, Wichita State University, Travel

AdelaideNow...

NSW: Rain letting up after weekend deluge

THE heavy rain has eased in New South Wales after thunderstorms and torrential downpours caused problems for hundreds of residents over the weekend.

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AdelaideNow...

Dead fisherman 'called out for help'

A BYSTANDER who saw a 77-year-old fisherman swept off his boat tried to throw him a life jacket before he drowned in rough seas on the NSW mid-north coast.

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Sun Feb 07, 2010

The New Zealand Herald

New NZ Consul-General in Sydney

Diplomat Martin Welsh will be New Zealand's next Consul-General in Sydney. Mr Welsh would lead New Zealand presence in Sydney, looking over trade and enterprise, customs, police, internal affairs and immigration and tourism, Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully said today.

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AdelaideNow...

Family sought to live rent free

THE search is on for a family to live in Australia's first ever smart home. The three-bedroom home in Newington, in Sydney's west, comes with rooftop solar panels, a fuel cell that converts natural gas into electricity, water saving appliances, state-of-the-art lighting and a worm farm.

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People's Daily Online

Bank employee caught viewing nude photos on live TV

Maybe you have experienced stealing vegetables on the Kaixinwang or Happy Net, China's online social networking community, and chatting with friends on the MSN or QQ.

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Australian News

Siddle will fight his way back into the Oz squad: Lee

Sydney, Feb.7 : Australian and New South Wales fast bowler Brett Lee, who is currently out of national reckoning because of a serious elbow injury, has predicted that injured right-arm quick Peter Siddle will fight his way back into the national squad.

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Sat Feb 06, 2010

AdelaideNow...

Chaos: Teen killed as storms lash two states

THE mop up has begun after a night of wild storms which killed one teenager, flooded roads and homes, brought down trees, and caused car crashes across NSW and Queensland.

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Related Topix: Weather, Meteorology, Science, Australia, World News, Natural Disasters, Flood

NEWS.com.au

Up yours Kevin Rudd, I'm not angry at all

PRONE Labor backbencher Belinda Neal has apparently defied Kevin Rudd, revealing that she never undertook an anger management course after all.

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Shanghai Daily

Aussie miner in 'biggest' China deal

AUSTRALIA'S Resourcehouse said yesterday it had secured a deal worth US$60 billion to supply coal to Chinese power stations over a 20-year period, calling it Australia's largest ever export contract.

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ITWorld Canada

Jobs recovery could impact IT contracting: Hudson

While Hudson reported a reduction in jobs for C , C++ and Visual Basic programmers, it said there had been strong demand for support based jobs, such as helpdesk The recovery in the IT jobs market could begin to take its toll on contract positions, according to the latest ICT salary guide by recruitment firm Hudson.

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Related Topix: Australia, World News, Science / Technology, Cloud Computing

Fri Feb 05, 2010

Australian News

Indian attacks: Defensive Victoria Premier seeks another meeting with Indian envoy

Melbourne, Feb.4 : Victorian Premier John Brumby has said that he will meet with Indian High Commissioner Sujatha Singh again after she accused his government of not doing enough to address attacks on Indian students.

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The Star Online

Malaysian neurosurgeon faces murder, manslaughter charges in Australia

MELBOURNE: A Malaysian neurosurgeon is facing murder and manslaughter charges after the bodies of two women were found on separate occasions at his A$1.7mil luxury home in Sydney.

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Freerepublic.com

Men At Work's 'Down Under' stolen from...

A judge in Sydney, Australia ruled today that Men at Work's '80s megahit 'Down Under' infringes on the copyright of an old children's song called 'Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree,' according to the AP.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Men at Work, Australia, World News, Peter Jacobson, Colin Hay

KTVF Fairbanks

Brockovich: 'Film was my curse'

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich attends the Climate Change Coalition dinner in support of candidate Patrice Newell ahead of the State Election, at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre on March 7, 2007 in Sydney, Australia.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Erin Brockovich, Australia, World News, Julia Roberts, Entertainment

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