01/05/2009
Fancy flights: New Singapore Airbus jets for Aussie route (News.com.au Travel)
SINGAPORE Airlines is to put the little brother to the Airbus A380 on its Australian itinerary.
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01/05/2009
Van smash: Tourist injured after river plunge (News.com.au Travel)
A TOURIST is in South Australia's Royal Adelaide Hospital after the van he was driving plunged into the city's River Torrens.
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01/04/2009
Low-key luxury lands on 'Australia's Galapagos' (Chicago Sun-Times)
KANGAROO ISLAND, Australia -- The development of a luxury lodge along the pristine south coast of Australia's Kangaroo Island might be one of the most controversial developments here to date.
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12/17/2008
Extreme Convergence In Stick Insect Evolution: Phylogenetic Placement Of The Lord Howe Island Tree Lobster (Medical News Today)
The Lord Howe Island Tree Lobster, Dryococelus australis, was thought to be extinct for decades until an exceedingly small population was recently rediscovered on a rocky islet in the South Pacific. "Tree lobsters" are large ground-dwelling stick insects restricted to New Guinea, New Caledonia and Lord Howe Island.
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12/26/2008
Old gals having quite a donnybrook (The Australian)
WHILE the supermaxis were stealing the limelight at the head of the fleet in the Rolex Sydney-Hobart, there was an equally intense battle 64 nautical miles astern of them between two of the oldest yachts in the race.
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12/20/2008
David versus Goliath (The Courier Mail)
SANYO Maris is about a third of the size of favourite Wild Oats XI, but her crew believes she can take some of the limelight in the Sydney to Hobart.
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12/19/2008
Love in the land of Oz (The New Zealand Herald)
Until Hugh Jackman got involved and set about sweeping Nicole Kidman off her high horse in Australia , our vast and desert-y neighbour wasn't necessarily highest on any list of the world's most romantic destinations.
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12/17/2008
New information about rare stick insect discovered (NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News)
An Auckland entomologist has uncovered new information about the evolution of one of the world's rarest insects.
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