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July 2008
- Pope Apologizes for 'Evil' Clergy Sex Abuse
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 19, 08 6:15 AM CDT
  
  Pope Benedict XVI used unusually strong language today in condemning the sexual abuse of children by Australia's Catholic clergy, reports the AP. The pontiff said the clergy's "grave betrayal of trust" had damaged the Catholic church. "I am deeply sorry for the pain and suffering the victims have endured. I assure them as their pastor that I, too, share in their suffering," Benedict said during a mass in Sydney. "Those responsible for these evils must be brought to justice." More »
  
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  Australia • Pope Benedict XVI • child abuse • sexual abuse • clergy abuse scandal • clergy • Catholic church
- Mickey Mouse Hat Doesn't Get Pope's Blessing
  
  newser | Reuters | Jul 18, 08 2:09 PM CDT
  
  Photographers, children and Disney executives were sorely disappointed this morning when Pope Benedict refused to don a black Mickey Mouse hat, complete with ears, in place of his usual white skullcap. A group from Orange County, Calif., presented Benedict with the getup during World Youth Day festivities in Australia, Reuters reports, but the pontiff politely passed the headgear to aides. More »
  
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  Australia • Pope Benedict XVI • Sydney • Mickey Mouse
- Aussies May Have Slipped Pope a Cat
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 15, 08 1:23 PM CDT
  
  There’s a new papal mystery swirling around the Outback—is Pope Benedict hanging out with a borrowed kitten? Organizers of the Catholic youth festival say they gave Benedict a gray loaner named Bella to keep the cat-loving pontiff company during his Australian sojurn. But when pressed, a Vatican spokesman told the AP he had no knowledge of such a feline. More »
  
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  Australia • Catholic Church • Pope Benedict XVI • Vatican • cat • World Youth Day
- Aussie Court Strikes Down Law Banning Pope Protests
  
  newser | Reuters | Jul 15, 08 3:25 AM CDT
  
  An Australian court has struck down a law aimed at curbing protests during Pope Benedict XVI's visit Down Under, reports Reuters. The law, ruled unconstitutional, had banned protesters from "annoying" those attending papal events. People handing out condoms or wearing anti-Pope t-shirts faced possible $5,000 fines. More »
  
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  Australia • protests • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholicism • protesters • Sydney • Catholic • freedom of speech
- Devils Breed Earlier to Stave Off Cancer
  
  newser | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Jul 14, 08 8:46 PM CDT
  
  Tasmanian devils are reproducing at a younger age to offset a contagious cancer epidemic, the Daily Telegraph reports. The ill-tempered marsupials, suffering from tumors that cut their lifespan in half, are now breeding at age 1 instead of 2 or 3. "We could be seeing evolution occurring before our eyes," one expert told the AP—though the devils may still die off in about 25 years. More »
  
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  Australia • endangered species • evolution • tumor • breeding • Tasmania • Tasmanian Devil
- 'Go Green,' Pope Urges Youth
  
  newser | Sydney Morning Herald | Jul 14, 08 4:35 AM CDT
  
  The Pope yesterday called on the world—particularly young people—to combat global warming with "a style of life that eases problems caused to the environment," reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Pope Benedict issued his plea just minutes before touching down in Australia for an official visit. The Vatican is going green with a new solar power system. More »
  
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  climate change • global warming • Australia • Pope Benedict XVI • Vatican • solar energy • priest sex abuse • World Youth Day
- Pope Vows Abuse Apology in Australia
  
  newser | Reuters | Jul 13, 08 2:06 PM CDT
  
  Traveling to Sydney today, Pope Benedict promised to apologize for a sexual abuse scandal that has rocked Australia's Catholic Church, Reuters reports. He also vowed to ensure it never recurs, and to help Australian victims heal—but one victims' group still accuses the Church of covering up abuse by priests and ensuring they never go to trial. More »
  
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  Australia • Catholic Church • Pope Benedict XVI • apology • priest sex abuse
- In Aussie Outback, It's All in 'Skin' Name
  
  newser | Radio Free Netherlands | Jul 7, 08 7:03 AM CDT
  
  When she moved to the central Australian outback, Penny Bergen was ready for a drastically different life, but she didn’t know it would take a new name to stake her place in a tiny Aboriginal community. Reporting for Radio Free Netherlands, the journalist writes about her experience getting a “skin name”—a community nickname that marks your spot in “a sophisticated and complex kinship system.” More »
  
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  Australia • name • Aborigines • name change
June 2008
- Aussie Minister Ditches Economy for Wombats
  
  newser | Australia's News Network | Jun 27, 08 6:13 PM CDT
  
  The Australian economy might be wobbly, but the treasury secretary would rather be off romping with northern hairy-nosed wombats, the Brisbane Courier-Mail reports. Ken Henry is unapologetically using the legislature's 5-week winter recess to tend to a small population of endangered critters—to the baying of opposition politicians worried over who will tend the economy while Henry is incommunicado. More »
  
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  Australia • economy • endangered species
- Aussie Man's Life Fetches $2M on eBay
  
  newser | West Australian | Jun 23, 08 9:45 AM CDT
  
  An Australia resident may rake in over $2 million after he put his life—including his house, job, and friends—for sale on eBay, the Western Australian reports. The deal, which the man says hatched when his wife left him, comes complete with a jet ski and motorcycle. The reserve price was some $475,000, but bidders have now offered over $2 million. More »
  
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  Australia • eBay • Perth
- Oz Tops US As World's Fattest
  
  newser | Age (Aust.) | Jun 20, 08 5:02 PM CDT
  
  Australia is the fattest nation in the world, the Age reports. A new study says body-mass index measurements pegs 4 million people—26% of the nation's population—as obese, narrowly beating the US, where 25% are obese. An additional 5 million Aussies are classified as overweight—with the usual suspects of more fast food and less exercise behind the epidemic. More »
  
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  Australia • obesity • America • fat • overweight • belly fat
- Man Charged in Wife's Honeymoon Dive Death
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 20, 08 11:25 AM CDT
  
  An Alabama man has been charged with murdering his wife on a diving trip to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the AP reports. The bride, a novice diver, drowned minutes after diving to a shipwreck with her husband. He was a qualified dive rescuer but rose to the surface rather than save her, officials said. Australian police became suspicious when he changed his account of her death and are seeking his extradition. More »
  
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  murder • Australia • drowning • Queensland • coral reef • diving
- Kidman Pregnancy: It Was 'Meant to Be'
  
  newser | Vogue | Jun 18, 08 7:20 PM CDT
  
  A 7-months' pregnant Nicole Kidman talked—what else?—babies with Vogue in an extensive interview, recounting that her first ultrasound brought her to tears. "I didn't think I'd get to experience that in my lifetime," explains the 40-year-old actress, who discovered she was pregnant on the set of her upcoming film Australia . More »
  
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  celebrity • Australia • pregnancy • celebrity pregnancy • Nicole Kidman • Keith Urban
- US Clergy Tell Aussie Critic to Go Home
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jun 7, 08 6:52 PM CDT
  
  On orders from the Vatican, a dozen top US bishops have asked their Australian colleague to cancel his American book tour, the Los Angeles Times reports. But Geoffrey Robinson, former auxiliary bishop of Sydney, vows to keep on promoting Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church , which blames clergy sex abuse on the Vatican's policy of forced celibacy. More »
  
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  Australia • Catholic Church • priest sex abuse • Roman Catholicism • bishop • Cardinal Roger M. Mahony
May 2008
- Tasmania Moving Its Devils
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | May 28, 08 1:22 PM CDT
  
  The Australian government is stepping in to prevent the Tasmanian Devil from extinction, the Wall Street Journal reports, as the ill-tempered beasties have been dying off thanks to the world’s first contagious cancer, which they transfer by biting each other in the face. So zoologists are now working to quarantine infected devils in a natural prison—the Tasman-Forestier Peninsula. More »
  
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  Australia • endangered species • conservation • Tasmania • Tasmanian Devil
- Aussie Pardoned 86 Years After Execution
  
  newser | Reuters | May 27, 08 6:27 AM CDT
  
  An Australian man hanged for raping and murdering a 12-year-old girl has been pardoned 86 years after his execution, Reuters reports. Hairs found in his bed that were said to belong to the victim weren’t hers, recent tests showed. The attorney general said the case was a warning against the use of the death penalty, which hasn't been imposed in Australia since 1967. More »
  
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  murder • Australia • death penalty • capital punishment • execution • child rape • pardon • Melbourne • hanging
- Aussie Anglican Won't Make Nice for Papal Visit
  
  newser | Sydney Morning Herald | May 26, 08 1:09 PM CDT
  
  An influential Anglican cleric won’t be welcoming Pope Benedict to Australia with open arms. But the outspoken dean of Sydney, whose brother is the city's archbishop, says he has no trouble with the public funding that's going toward the pontiff's July visit. Phillip Jensen says he won’t be “going to see him or waving a flag,” but neither will he “pray for rain on his parade.” More »
  
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  religion • Australia • Pope Benedict XVI • Anglican Church • Sydney • Anglican
- Beer Gets Seatbelt, Kid Doesn't
  
  newser | Brisbane Times (Australia) | May 13, 08 5:28 PM CDT
  
  An Australian man has been fined after buckling up his beer but letting a 5-year-old child ride sitting on the floor of his car. "The concern is about people's priorities," a police spokesperson told the Brisbane Times, adding, "It is very unusual to see someone go to the trouble of strapping in a carton of beer instead of a small child. That is the shocking thing." More »
  
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  Australia • parenting • beer • seatbelts
- Climate Change Imperils Koalas
  
  newser | Sydney Morning Herald | May 7, 08 12:36 PM CDT
  
  Koalas' fussy eating habits put them at special risk from global warming, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Hotter weather makes eucalyptus leaves—the animals' only food source—lower in nutrients and higher in toxic chemicals than they once were. The change could force koalas out of areas of their already dwindling habitat, Australian researchers warn. More »
  
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  climate change • global warming • Australia • koala
- Need Cash? Got a Kidney?
  
  newser | Sydney Morning Herald | May 5, 08 6:17 PM CDT
  
  An Australian doctor says the young and healthy should be allowed to sell a kidney for $50,000 Australian (about $47,000 US). Otherwise, patients either languish for years without a needed transplant or travel to third-world countries where they can buy organs on the black market, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. More »
  
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  Australia • organ transplants • kidney transplant • organ selling

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