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2008

Wednesday 25 June 2008 A quiet battle over who can invest in Australia
FOR the record, Australia is open for investment. Its government repeats this line again and again, underscoring it with the observation that a huge percentage of Australia's mining industry is already owned by overseas investors—some estimates say more than half. Overseas capital and expertise, it contends, provide critical help in harvesting its mineral wealth.

Friday 16 May 2008 Australia's budget
Tax cuts in Labor's first budget
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Friday 25 April 2008 The Australia leg of the Olympic torch's procession across six continents began on Thursday before large crowds and tight security. Organizers are hoping a repetition of the ugly incidents and protests over China's human rights record. At least two people were arrested after minor scuffles between supporters and detractors of the Chinese government

Friday Mar 14, 2008 Australia bleeds copper while China booms
High price on black market
With stopped trains, stolen phone lines and pilfered power cables, Australians are paying a hefty price for China's pre-Olympic building boom, police said yesterday.

Tuesday 05 February 2008 Australian concern at China deal
China's move to become the biggest shareholder in Rio Tinto could face scrutiny by Australian regulators.

Tuesday 11 December 2007 The new government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says it will discontinue the policy of the defeated government of Conservative Prime Minister John Howard of sending refugees applicants to remove islands while their claims are processed. The policy was intended to discourage boat people from arriving in Australia. Applicants were sent either to the island of Nauru or to Papua New Guinea while waiting, a process which sometimes took several years. The "Pacific solution" was criticized by rights advocates both in Australia and abroad as inhuman.

Sunday Nov 25, 2007 Australia's new PM Rudd acts swiftly on climate
BRISBANE -- Australia's new prime minister, Kevin Rudd, made climate change his top priority on Sunday, seeking advice on ratifying the Kyoto pact and telling Indonesia he will go to December's UN climate summit in Bali.
Rudd, who swept aside 11 years of conservative rule by John Howard in Saturday elections, also spoke to U.S. President George W. Bush by phone, but would not say when he planned to start a promised withdrawal of 500 Australian combat troops from Iraq.

Friday 23 November 2007 The economy is having an excellent run and business is booming. Can it last?
AUSTRIANS love to complain, but when it comes to their economy even they admit that they are currently grumbling at a high level. After years of catching up with their wealthy European neighbours, they seem to have arrived: leaving aside a handful of countries like Switzerland, Norway and the newly rich Ireland, Austria is up there with the best of them (and, gratifyingly, slightly ahead of Germany). For most of the past ten years average GDP growth, at 2.3% a year, has been faster than the EU's. Last year's solid 3.3% could be matched this year, though next year things are likely to slow down a bit An inaccurate weather forecast brings disaster for many
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WHEN rains fell in May after 11 dry years in a row, Bruce Crafter borrowed from his bank to sow a wheat crop on the family farm where he grew up in western Victoria. Like thousands of Australian farmers who have watched their livelihoods wither away under the country's worst drought in a century, Mr Crafter was encouraged by forecasts of follow-up spring rains in September. He sold one-third of his expected bumper crop on the futures market. But the rains never arrived, and the crops that promised salvation have failed. With no intended irony, Mr Crafter says: “We've been washed out.”

“Wash-out” is the term farmers are using to describe the contracts they can no longer fulfil. Australia is one of the world's biggest wheat exporters. The crop underpins the country's outback farming belt. After recent glitches to wheat supplies in North America and Europe, hopes were riding on the Australian crop, due for harvest by December, to help fill a gap in global demand. The hopes now seem forlorn. In September, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, a government research agency, cut its forecast of Australia's wheat production this year to 15.5m tonnes, one-third below its June forecast. The failure of crucial spring rains since then means production is likely to be even less

Tuesday 11 September 2007

A DINGO ATE OUR SENATE

CTV News and La Presse front, while The National, the Globe, the Star, the Post and the Citizen go inside with Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s address to a joint sitting of the Australian parliament. This is the first time that a Canadian prime minister has addressed the Australian legislature, and the media play this as an historic occasion or as a bit of trivia. CTV’s Lloyd Robertson wreaths the prime minister in yards of gauzy verbiage, calling Harper's address a “rousing speech.” The Post leans heavily on Harper’s claim, no doubt inspired by the anniversary of September 11, that Canada and Australia are “bonded by terror,” while the Citizen runs a photo in which Harper appears to have a halo. The Globe puts things in useful perspective, pointing out Harper’s recent efforts to reposition his government and his penchant for taking shots at the opposition while on foreign visits. All note Harper’s jokes about Australia’s elected Senate, and his statement that Canada’s upper house “must either change or, like the old upper houses of our provinces, vanish.” During a French-language passage in his speech to the parliament of a non-Francophone country—essentially addressing Canada’s French media from a lectern on the other side of the planet—Harper worked in a reference to his policy of recognizing the Québecois as a nation within Canada. La Presse went way over the top in hailing this as a “bold” and “audacious” move, apparently made by Harper on his own and without the input of his close advisers. Surely Harper’s media handlers and speechwriters are raising glasses of Foster’s to their success today, as they’ve turned a turgid official visit to a distant political ally into an ideal pulpit from which to make much sound—while carefully avoiding fury.

Friday 10 August 2007 Australia's PM hits out at executive pay
‘A bit more self-regulation of some of these characters would go a long way,' John Howard says
...After an outcry over an $11.8-million Australian ($10-million U.S.) salary package for Sol Trujillo, the American CEO of Australia's largest phone company Telstra, Mr. Howard said ordinary people saw executive pay levels as “absolutely unreasonable.”

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Sunday 15 July 2007 rci SYDNEY: NEW ALCAN OWNER LOOKING TO CHINA
The CEO of Anglo-Australian mineral firm Rio Tinto says that the acquisition of Canadian aluminum giant Alcan Inc. will improve its chances in China's and India's red-hot minerals markets. Tom Albanese says the opportunities in China alone justify the proposed transaction. On Thursday, Mr. Albanese's firm offered US$38.1 billion for Alcan but some analysts have suggested that Rio Tinto may have offered too much to beat out an earlier rival offer by Pittsburgh-based Alcoa Inc. But the view of Mr. Albanese is that the industrialization and urbanization of China is being powered by three metals, namely steel, copper and aluminum. The proposed transaction has prompted speculation among analysts that in light of the ongoing consolidation of the global minerals sector, Rio Tinto could itself be targeted for a takeover by the world's biggest mining company, BHP Billiton.

Saturday Jun 30, 2007 AUTHORITIES WARN HIGH TIDES COULD WORSEN AUSTRALIA FLOODS
Australian authorities are warning residents that a coming high tide could bring further flooding to the already inundated Southeastern region.

Saturday 16 June 2007 AUSTRALIA Australia's Prime Minister John Howard has met the Dalai Lama despite warnings by China that such a meeting would damage bilateral relations. China is Australia's biggest trading partner. Mr Howard initially said he would not meet the Tibetan spiritual leader during his 10-day visit to Australia but he changed his mind this week after accusations that he was being pressured by Beijing. The Australian government then called on China to respect its democracy, saying the Dalai Lama is welcome in the country any time. China accuses the 71-year old Dalai Lama of being a separatist trying to undermine Beijing's role in Tibet. The Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising against the Chinese. Since then, he has been seeking a form of autonomy but not independence for Tibet. Election climate grips Australia
BY ANGELA MACDONALD-SMITH
National Post
31 May 2007

CANBERRA Clare Idriss was so concerned about carbon emissions generated by her wedding guests travelling across Australia in October that she bought A$350 ($308) of pollution credits to offset the greenhouse gases. The 26-year-old says John Howard,... read more...

Monday 28 May 2007

Australia, Phillipines negotiating defence pact
The Philippines would likely sign a historic defence pact with Australia next week allowing large-scale joint military exercises, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said Sunday, ahead of her departure on an official trip to the region.

Stephen S. Poloz VP EDC Economics Weekly Commentary
Something Good Going Down Under - May 2, 2007
Australia is becoming a sizeable market for Canadian exports, while being a tough competitor against Canada in third markets at the same time. Australia’s trade success warrants more study.
Begin with the trade relationship between Canada and Australia. Canadian exports of goods to Australia amounted to $1.9 billion in 2006, up 14% over 2005. The leading goods exports were in aerospace, telecommunications and other equipment, meat, iron ore and pharmaceuticals. Canada also exports a lot of services to Australia, on the order of $1 billion annually. Australia exported $1.6 billion in goods to Canada in 2006, down 9% from 2005, led by aluminium, wine, chemicals, meat, sugar, base metal ores and pharmaceuticals. Again, services trade is also very important, with Australia exporting on the order of $500 million in services to Canada annually. Past issues | his WN page

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Friday 15 December 2006 ec What happens when small investors play in the big leagues AS A nation, Australians tend to get more excited at the prospect of slugging a ball around a cricket pitch than playing in the big leagues of international finance. But that does not mean they don't like to bat aggressively as investors, too. Unlike America and Europe, where regulators have shielded small investors from exotic investments, such as hedge funds, Australia allows its citizens to hold them as freely as it does mutual funds. So far this freedom has helped the local hedge-fund industry, without hurting the punters.

Monday 20 November 2006 Violence broke out on Saturday at a demonstration in Melbourne, Australia, where some of the world's leading finance ministers are meeting. About three thousand people took part in the demonstration at a city park, then marched to the meeting of Group of 20 finance ministers and officials of the World Bank. About 200 demonstrators harassed police, throwing rocks, bottles and ballons filled with urine. Police declined to say whether anyone was injured or arrested. The protesters widely criticized the war in Iraq, environment issues and capitalism in general.

Friday 10 November 2006 ap Senate votes to lift Australian ban on stem cell cloning
Canberra, Australia — Australia's Senate narrowly voted Tuesday to lift the country's ban on cloning human embryos for stem cell research.
The bill, which was approved 34-32, would relax rules on stem cell research and allow therapeutic cloning of embryos for medical research. The House of Representatives still needs to pass the bill before it becomes law, but lawmakers had expected the Senate to pose the biggest hurdle.

Friday May 19, 2006 rci OTTAWA: AUSTRALIAN PM WARNS AGAINST ANTI-AMERICANISM
John Howard on Thursday became only the second Australian prime minister to address a joint session of Canada's Parliament. During his 23-minute address, Mr. Howard advised the legislators against the danger of anti-Americanism, describing the U.S. as a remarkable power for good in the world, inviting Canadians to appreciate the "decency and hope" which that country represents. The visitor suggested that an isolationist U.S. would make the world a more dangerous place. Mr. Howard also broached the question of climate change, suggesting his country and Canada have common interests in the matter. Unlike Canada, Australia never signed the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change and also unlike Canada, according to Mr. Howard, is on track to meet the accord's emission reduction targets. The prime minister also referred to both countries' massive uranium deposits, saying that international disarmament efforts shouldn't prevent their exploitation. In introducing his guest, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said that their countries have a shared history, "shoulder to shoulder standing up for right..."

Friday May 19, 2006 ts Harper, Aussie PM cement close ties
He's Stephen Harper's new best friend. Australian flags are hanging on the lampposts in downtown Ottawa to welcome Australian Prime Minister John Howard. Graham Fraser reports.

Monday Apr 3, 2006 rci China's premier, Wen Jiabao, is in Australia on a visit that aims to hasten free-trade negotiations. He's the first Chinese premier to visit Australia in 16 years. Arriving in Perth on Saturday, Mr. Wen said that bilateral trade ties were flourishing. China is Australia's second-largest trading partner after Japan. Both countries are eager to expand trade links further. China hopes to sign an agreement to buy Australian uranium for its nuclear power industry. Australia first wants China to guarantee that the uranium would not be used to make nuclear weapons.

Tuesday Mar 14, 2006 rci Queen Elizabeth arrived in Australia on Sunday for a five-day state visit to mark the start of her eightieth birthday celebrations. The Queen and Prince Philip were greeted in Canberra by Prime Minister John Howard. The monarchy's role in Australia is an issue of live debate. The royal couple will visit Sydney and Melbourne, where the Queen is scheduled to open the Commonwealth Games on Wednesday. Canada is sending a team of 253 athletes along with 146 support staff to the Games.

Sunday Jan 1, 2006 ts Giant nickel mine project `has to work this time'
BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA—The first sign that Canadian miner Inco Ltd. is a major force behind the Goro nickel site in New Caledonia is the informal weekly "doughnut talk" here in the cramped hallway of the project's corporate headquarters roughly 1,500 kilometres west of the French island paradise.

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2005

Saturday Dec 24, 2005 bbc Kangaroos 'scared by own noise'
Australian farmers could be about to get an unusual new weapon to protect their crops from rampaging kangaroos.
Researchers in Melbourne have found that these voracious marsupials can be scared off by the thumping sound of their own large feet on the ground.
There could be as many as 60m kangaroos in Australia, and they often compete with livestock for food and water.
Keeping these fleet-footed marsupials away from their crops and water supplies has become a constant battle.

Sunday Dec 18, 2005 Australians shocked as race riots erupt again in Sydney Any hopes that Sunday's race riot was an isolated incident were shattered when car-loads of people rampaged through southeast Sydney, chased by police vehicles.

Tuesday Nov 22, 2005 Another roo on the barbie:
Everyone knows that veal is really baby cow, and that chicken is known (to the upper classes at least) as poultry. And no one talks about eating pig -- everyone says ham or pork. As for human flesh, that question has yet to be answered (see the cannibal flesh donor comments below for further discussion). So what do you call kangaroo? That's not an issue Canadians have to wrestle with, but Australia is quite concerned about it. The antipodean country has been trying to market kangaroo meat to restaurants and consumers (in part because it is overrun by more than 57 million of the jumpy beasts), but it needs a friendly name. It seems people don't like eating it because they have to order kangaroo, and then they get images of that cute little baby 'roo from Winnie the Pooh or whatever, and there goes another order. Feel like suggesting something? Head on over to www.foodcompanion.com.

Thursday Nov 3, 2005 rci Health experts from Canada and the 20 other nations of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum met in Brisbane, Australia, on Monday to talk about the spread of bird influenza in their region. The experts said that it would be possible for their countries to form a task force to help stop bird flu. But they didn't make any recommendations for the APEC summit in South Korea two weeks from now.
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2004

Friday Dec 17, 2004 cbc SHARK ATTACKS CLAIM 2 AUSTRALIANS An Australian teenager was killed Thursday in the country's second fatal shark attack within a week.

Monday Nov 8, 2004 cbc CHINESE COMPANIES INVEST IN AUSTRALIAN IRON ORE A group of state-owned Chinese companies has agreed to help finance and build an iron ore and infrastructure project worth nearly $2 billion (Australian) in the Pilbara region of western Australia.

Thursday Oct 14, 2004 Australia's prime minister, John Howard, won a resounding electoral victory on Saturday to win his fourth consecutive term of office. Incomplete returns indicate that his Conservative Party will win a majority government to make him Australia's second-longest serving prime minister. His supporters pointed to Mr. Howard's strong economic record as the factor that led to victory over the opposition centre-left Labour Party headed by its leader since last December, Mark Latham. Mr. Latham campaigned on a platform of criticism of the government's support of the American-led invasion of Iraq. Mr. Howard's victory will ensure that Australian troops will remain in Iraq.

Sunday Apr 18, 2004 cbc
OLDER BOWERBIRDS LOOK BEYOND SEXY BLUE DECOR As female bowerbirds age, their courtship preferences change, researchers have found.

Stephen S. Poloz VP EDC Economics Weekly Commentary
Australia has it worse: How are they coping? - January 28, 2004
Count one less place in the world where Canadians can feel well-to-do – the Australian dollar has just passed the Canadian dollar in value for the first time since 1998. To get perspective on this, it is useful to go back to the 1995-96 period, which was the last time that the world economy was in approximate balance – all economies were growing, inflation was low and currencies were in line with their fundamentals. The Canadian dollar was at 74-75 U.S. cents, the Australian dollar was at about 80 cents, and it cost about C$1.06 to buy one Aussie. Past issues

2003

Friday, 3 October 2003 Abc
Clive James co-hosts on mornings Well he wasn't supposed to but the rogue raconteur is in Australia on his Words and Music tour, and once he managed to find his way down Adelaide Terrace, Liam just couldn't get him out of the studio!
Clive James is well known for his television shows and story telling ability.
Perth Concert Hall on Thursday and Mandurah Performing Arts Centre on Saturday. Also Clive James met Pete Atkin while studying at Cambridge. | and Sharing a cuppa with Clive James

Wednesday Oct 15, 2003 cbc
AUSTRALIAN FARMERS DON'T WANT SHEEP SHIP BACK
Australian farm groups are protesting against the possible return of 50,000 sheep stranded at sea for seven weeks, warning they could pose a threat to their livestock.
The 58,000 sheep left Australia in early August for Saudi Arabia. But the Saudis rejected the shipment on Aug. 28 for health reasons. The sheep have been cruising in the Persian Gulf ever since.
Saudi officials say too many of them have scabby mouth disease, a highly contagious but low-grade viral disease that afflicts sheep and goats.

Sunday Aug 31, 2003 cbc
SCIENTISTS WORK TO PROTECT WORLD'S CORAL REEFS A group of Australian scientists is planning a major international conference to try to save the world's coral reefs. They say half the reefs could disappear within a generation, victims of disease and global climate change.

Mon, 02 Jun 2003 cbc
Australia to increase reef no-fishing zone
CANBERRA - Australia plans to expand protection to about one third of the Great Barrier Reef, according to a draft proposal released Monday.
The coral reef is the world's largest living structure and is home to 1,500 species of tropical fish. One of Australia's major tourist attractions, the reef is under threat from record high temperatures, pollution and overfishing.

Sunday Aug 31, 2003 cbc
AUSTRALIAN COMPANY TO DEVELOP 'SMART GUN' An Australian gun maker and a New Jersey technical college say they will create a "smart gun" that can only be fired by its owner. see w-n on guns
CANBERRA - Australia plans to expand protection to about one third of the Great Barrier Reef, according to a draft proposal released Monday.
The coral reef is the world's largest living structure and is home to 1,500 species of tropical fish. One of Australia's major tourist attractions, the reef is under threat from record high temperatures, pollution and overfishing.

Monday Jul 7, 2003 bbc
Grape glut 'no threat' for Australia Misplaced nerves about oversupply of grapes could see Australia lose its enviable share of the world wine industry, consultants warn. see w-n wines

Friday Jun 20, 2003 ts
Drought hits Aussie grape harvest Australia's winegrape harvest has dropped for the first time in six years but its quality should be good, an industry body says. WFA's Stephen Strachan "We're the driest continent in the world..."

Tuesday Jun 3, 2003 bbc Australia's Howard to stay on Australian Prime Minister John Howard says he will carry on as leader, ending speculation he might retire.
Mr Howard, who had previously indicated that he might step down when he turns 64 on 26 July, said he had given a lot of thought to his future and would always put his "loyal and generous" Liberal Party first.

Tuesday May 20, 2003 cbcAUSTRALIA WARNS AGAINST TRAVEL TO SOUTHEAST ASIA Fears about terrorism have prompted Australia and New Zealand to issue travel warnings about countries in southeast Asia.

Thursday May 15, 2003 Australia's governor general stepped down Sunday until a resolution is reached on rape allegations made public last week. Peter Hollingworth has denied the charges, which allegedly stem from the 1960s but only surfaced this year.

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Melbourne’s biggest brothel teed up on Wednesday for a suitably glitzy flotation on the Australian Stock Exchange by flying in former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss.
The Daily Planet Ltd., the first bordello in Australia to seek a listing, has ambitions to expand to Sydney and other state capitals. Plans are afoot to convert the 40-room Barclay Hotel in the Kings Cross red-light district into a jumbo brothel with 200 prostitutes, a restaurant and a bar.
“We are going to put in a five-star establishment that will set the tone of the area,” said spokesman Andrew Harris. “Sydney is the perfect market for this.”
Fleiss, who served three years in prison for money laundering and tax evasion, was contracted to draw in investors to the first public offering of Daily Planet shares.

Sunday Apr 13, 2003 Australia outlaws Islamic groups
Australia steps up anti-terror measures by adding six foreign Islamic groups to a list of banned organisations.

Tuesday Mar 18, 2003 Australia's prime minister, John Howard, has announced his country will support the U.S. militarily if it wages a war against Iraq. Mr. Howard says his government's decision was taken at a cabinet meeting on Monday morning. The prime minister says the meeting followed a request for military help from the U.S. president. Australia has already sent, 2,000 troops, fighter jets and warships to the Persian Gulf region but hadn't decided whether to deploy them in a war.

Australia's Iraq role Forces from one of America's staunchest allies are on standby Friday Mar 14, 2003

Thur Mar 13, 2003 PORT-OF-SPAIN:
TALISMAN'S TRINIDAD PROJECTS GETS BOOST FROM DOWN UNDER Australian energy and mining giant BHP Billiton has announced it will invest $327 million US to develop an oil field off the northeastern coast of Trinidad and Tobago, a field in which Talisman Energy Inc. of Calgary, Alta., has a one-fourth share. BHP estimates that the oil field, located near the huge oil fields of Venezuela, contains 160 million barrels of oil and 1.75 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Talisman says the Angostura Oil and Gas field will enter operation by the end of next year. The Calgary firm says production will help replace the production lost when the company sold its controversial share of an oil project in southern Sudan. see T-TLM

Friday Mar 7, 2003 bbc Aussie dollar hits three-year high A glowing endorsement for Australia's economy pushes its currency to a new high against the US dollar.

Tuesday Feb 18, 2003 Iraq offers Australia wheat for peace
Iraq offers to double wheat imports from Australia - one of the staunchest supporters of a US war - if there is a peaceful outcome.

Mon, 20 Jan 2003
FIRE DEMOLISHES AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORY The weekend bush fires that killed four people and left thousands homeless in Australia's capital also destroyed the country's Mount Stromlo Observatory.

Mon, 20 Jan 2003 CANBERRA AUTHORITIES UNDER FIRE FOR DEVASTATING BLAZE Authorities in Australia's capital are being accused of failing to protect the city from bush fires that killed four people and left thousands homeless.

Monday Jan 6, 2003 Australia plans world's tallest tower
An Australian power company aims to build the world's tallest structure - a solar tower - in the heart of the outback.

2002

Friday Nov 14, 2003 cbc
AUSTRALIA'S MOVES IN IRAQ PAY OFF AT HOME POLITICALLY
Australia says it will extend some of its soldiers' tours of duty in Iraq, despite the increasing level of violence aimed at forces with the U.S.-led coalition.

Wednesday Dec 11, 2002 np AUSTRALIAN COURT TO ALLOW CROSS-BORDER INTERNET DEFAMATION SUIT A businessman in Australia was given permission by that country's top court on Tuesday to sue a U.S. publisher for defamation over an article published in the United States and posted on the Internet.

Tuesday May 7, 2002 cbc SCIENTIST UNTIES KNOTTY LACE PROBLEM The way many people tie their shoes is fine, but not the most efficient, an Australian mathematician says.

Monday Dec 2, 2002 cbc
BRUSH FIRES CONTINUE TO THREATEN SYDNEY SUBURBS The worst bush fires in a generation are raging out of control around Sydney.

Monday Dec 2, 2002 cbc
AUSTRALIA PREPARED TO GO AFTER TERRORISTS IN NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES: HOWARD Australia will go after terrorists inside neighbouring countries to protect itself from future attacks, Prime Minister John Howard said on Sunday.

Sunday Oct 20, 2002 nyt
AUSTRALIAN OFFICIALS WARN OF DIFFICULT FIRE SEASON Fire officials in eastern Australia say the annual fire season is going to be long and difficult this year.

Sunday Oct 20, 2002 Handguns to be banned, buyback likely AUSTRALIA BANS HANDGUNS

Sunday Nov 3, 2002 cbc AUSTRALIA'S PM DEFENDS RAIDS ON MUSLIMS Police were justified storming Muslims' homes in several Australian cities during a hunt for possible terrorists, the government said Friday.

Sat, 19 Oct 2002 cbc Australians to hold day of mourning
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - In communities across Australia, people will take part in a national day of mourning Sunday to grieve for those killed by the bombing of a nightclub in neighbouring Bali.

Out West, Aussie Style Sunday Jan 1, 2006