CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's honey bees, crucial to worldwide food production, need more protection from foreign invaders that could potentially wipe out their population, a parliamentary report said on Tuesday.
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NewsCANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's honey bees, crucial to worldwide food production, need more protection from foreign invaders that could potentially wipe out their population, a parliamentary report said on Tuesday.
_POSTEDBY Admin on Tuesday, June 17, 2008
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CANBERRA (Reuters) - Next time you crank up the volume, beware: an Australian government report said young people risk developing permanent hearing problems if they go to noisy bars and listen to loud music through headphones.
_POSTEDBY Admin on Tuesday, June 10, 2008
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A record number of young Australian women are signing up for jobs as cattle hands on vast outback farms.
_POSTEDBY Admin on Monday, June 09, 2008
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Radiocarbon dating of rat bones and rat-gnawed seeds reinforces a theory that human settlers did not arrive in New Zealand until 1300 A.D. — about 1,000 years later than some scientists believe, according to a study released Tuesday.
_POSTEDBY Admin on Wednesday, June 04, 2008
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Sydney, Australia - Australia's prime minister said Monday that the reasons used to justify joining the war in Iraq turned out to be false.
_POSTEDBY Admin on Tuesday, June 03, 2008
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Australia, one of the first countries to commit troops to the war in Iraq five years ago, has ended its operations there.
_POSTEDBY Admin on Monday, June 02, 2008
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Undercover teenagers could soon be the police's latest weapon in one of the biggest alcohol abuse clampdowns led by the Australian state of Victoria.
_POSTEDBY Admin on Monday, May 05, 2008
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Aboriginal children in Australia were sometimes used for medical tests, it has been claimed.
_POSTEDBY Admin on Tuesday, April 15, 2008
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Two plants that were thought to have been extinct since the late 1800s have been rediscovered in far northern Australia, according to an official report released on Saturday.
_POSTEDBY Admin on Saturday, April 12, 2008
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A rare and threatened species of tiny frog has been found breeding in a New Zealand animal park, meaning its future may now be more secure, researchers said Monday.
_POSTEDBY Admin on Monday, March 03, 2008
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