Australian regulators reject NAB bid for AXA Asia Pacific
(AFP)
Thu, 9 Sep 2010, 9 hours agoAFP - Australian regulators rejected National Australia Bank's 12.2 billion US dollar bid for financial firm AXA Asia Pacific on competition concerns Thursday, in a move welcomed by rival suitor AMP.
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Australian mine tax uncertainty to last into 2011
(Reuters)
Thu, 9 Sep 2010, 10 hours agoReuters - Uncertainty over the shape of Australia's controversial mining tax is likely to last well into 2011 after national elections which returned the country's first minority government since World War Two.
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'Dumb and dumber' pet thieves wrestle python
(AFP)
Thu, 9 Sep 2010, 10 hours agoAFP - Two "dumb and dumber" alleged pet thieves wrestled a stolen python in a McDonald's restaurant carpark as astonished customers looked on, Australian police said Thursday.
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Russian circus cancels 'inhumane' fish-swallowing act
(AFP)
Thu, 9 Sep 2010, 10 hours agoAFP - A Russian circus performer who swallows a live fish and then regurgitates it has been forced to cancel the act after cruelty complaints in Australia.
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Australia's new crop of lawmakers meet in Canberra
(AP)
Thu, 9 Sep 2010, 12 hours agoAP - Among the newly elected legislators who congregated for the first time Thursday at Parliament House were Australia's first Muslim lawmaker, its youngest-ever at 20 years old and the first Aboriginal in the House of Representatives.
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Circus fish-swallowing act dropped in Australia
(AP)
Thu, 9 Sep 2010, 14 hours agoAP - A Russian circus touring Australia has dropped an act in which a performer swallows a live fish then regurgitates it after complaints that it was in poor taste and inhumane.
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East Timor deputy PM quits amid spat with boss
(AP)
Thu, 9 Sep 2010, 15 hours agoAP - One of East Timor's deputy prime ministers said he has resigned after Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao publicly called him a "liar" for his outspoken critiques of the government's failure to tackle corruption and improve people's lives.
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Australian government prepared to adjust mining tax
(Reuters)
Wed, 8 Sep 2010 06:22:17 PMReuters - Australia's fragile Labor government suggested on Wednesday it could adjust a planned profits-based tax on mining companies to bend to demands of the independent MPs giving it a slender grip on power.
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Fragile Australian government battles discord on day one
(AFP)
Wed, 8 Sep 2010 04:04:12 PMAFP - Australia's newly elected Prime Minister Julia Gillard pledged to serve a full term after scraping back into power but her fragile coalition was immediately hit by discord over a new tax Wednesday.
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East Timor deputy PM quits, coalition seen at risk
(Reuters)
Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:53:25 PMReuters - One of East Timor's two deputy prime ministers resigned on Wednesday after he said Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao called him a liar, posing a risk to stability of the ruling coalition of the world's youngest countries.
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Tensions emerge in new Australian minority govt
(AP)
Wed, 8 Sep 2010 10:35:18 AMAP - Tensions emerged Wednesday between Australia's deputy prime minister and a kingmaker independent lawmaker over plans to make mining companies pay more taxes, underscoring the fragility of the country's new minority government.
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Australia's Foster's rejects 2.5 bln dlr wine bid
(AFP)
Wed, 8 Sep 2010 05:20:11 AMAFP - Australian drinks giant Foster's Wednesday knocked back an offer worth up to 2.7 billion dollars (2.46 billion US) from a private equity firm for its wine assets but said it would consider other bids.
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Big aftershock again rocks New Zealand city
(AP)
Tue, 7 Sep 2010 11:57:52 PMAP - A magnitude-5.1 aftershock that hammered New Zealand's earthquake-hit city of Christchurch on Wednesday morning sparked evacuations and fresh damage to buildings, causing authorities to extend a state of emergency for another week.
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Instant View: Australian PM Gillard retains power
(Reuters)
Tue, 7 Sep 2010 07:08:17 AMReuters - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard clung onto power on Tuesday, securing support from independent lawmakers to form a minority government after her Labor Party lost its majority at elections last month.
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Australian independents hand power to PM Gillard
(AFP)
Tue, 7 Sep 2010 06:01:58 AMAFP - Australia's "kingmaker" independent MPs Tuesday handed power to Prime Minister Julia Gillard with a one-seat majority, two weeks after elections produced the first hung parliament in 70 years.
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Floods threaten hundreds more Australian homes
(AFP)
Tue, 7 Sep 2010 04:53:41 AMAFP - Rising flood waters threatened hundreds of Australian homes Tuesday, after scores were inundated by weekend storms which caused millions of dollars of damage, officials said.
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Australia to give US evidence in diving death case
(AP)
Tue, 7 Sep 2010 01:14:20 AMAP - A state government in Australia has agreed to turn over case documents to prosecutors in the U.S. hoping to charge an Alabama man with the drowning death of his wife during a honeymoon scuba dive on the Great Barrier Reef.
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Guilty plea could buy less jail time in Australia
(AP)
Tue, 7 Sep 2010 12:51:49 AMAP - Criminals who plead guilty within six weeks of their arrest could get a 40 percent reduction in their prison sentence under a proposal aimed at reducing the backlog at courts in one Australian state.
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NZ probes skydiving plane crash that killed 9
(AP)
Sun, 5 Sep 2010 05:11:58 AMAP - Investigators expressed confidence Sunday that they will learn why an airplane carrying skydivers crashed in flames near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's Southern Alps, killing four Europeans and five New Zealanders.
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Sea lion mauls 11-year-old boy at Australian zoo
(AP)
Sat, 4 Sep 2010 06:24:36 AMAP - An 11-year-old boy was recovering Saturday after a sea lion mauled him at a popular Sydney zoo's aquarium show as horrified visitors looked on.
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