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Australia stories: 271 news summaries

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Guantanamo Detainee Returns to Australia

Al-Qaeda supporter goes straight to prison

May 19, 07 9:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - After five years in custody at Guantanamo Bay, David Hicks is back in his native Australia, where the convicted Al-Qaeda supporter will spend the next seven months in a maximum-security prison. His family and other supporters spent years campaigning for his release before Hicks pleaded guilty in March to providing... More »

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Afghanistan • terrorism • David Hicks • Australia • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • Guantanamo prisoners • al-Qaeda

(Newser) - An 18-year-old Australian is over $800,000 richer today after a court ruled that his life was "all but destroyed" by school bullying. Australia's Supreme Court said the public school system "grossly failed" Ben Cox when it didn't stop an older student from repeatedly physically and verbally abusing... More »

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Australia • children • school • bullying • Ben Cox • elementary school • teenager

Tasmanian Devils Face Extinction

Iconic marsupials
hit by contagious
facial cancer

May 7, 07 8:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tasmanian Devils, the largest marsupial carnivore and the island's main tourist attraction, are threatened with extinction due to a contagious and fatal form of facial cancer spreading rapidly through the population. "Once they've got a lump, it's a one way trip,"  one expert  says. More »

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cancer • Australia • disease • Tasmanian Devil • Tasmania • extinction • facial cancer • animal

Oz Bans Snoop Dogg

Rapper denied visa to host MTV Australia Awards after  high-profile "incidents"

Apr 26, 07 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Add Australia to the list of countries that don't want Snoop Dogg making a mess in their yards. Just weeks after the U.K. turned away the recording artist and actor, Oz canceled his visa. "He doesn't seem the sort of bloke we want in this country," Immigration... More »

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music • Australia • violence • Snoop Dogg

Aussies Dismantle South Africa

Australian Juggernaut to Face Sri Lanka in Cricket Final

Apr 26, 07 5:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Australia's wily bowlers looked unbeatable in an all-around thumping of fellow Antipodeans South Africa. The Aussies will oppose Sri Lanka in the final of a cricket World Cup marked by controversy and intrigue, including the as-yet-unexplained death of Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer following an eliminating loss to Ireland on St.... More »

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Australia • Shaun Tait • Glenn McGrath • Bob Woolmer • cricket • Cricket World Cup • South Africa

"We Just Did It Because We
Felt Like It"

Australian teenagers,
curious about murder, killed their friend

Apr 24, 07 12:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two 17-year-old Australian girls faced a sentencing hearing yesterday after pleading guilty to the murder of their friend Eliza Jane Davis because, as they described it, “it just felt right.” They plotted the attack the morning after a party. "We were just talking, and for some reason... More »

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Australia • prison • crime • murder • Eliza Jane Davis

East Timor Holds Guarded Elections

Fears of violence hover over country’s first presidential vote

Apr 9, 07 7:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - East Timor is holding its first presidential elections since independence from Indonesia five years ago, with voters choosing between Nobel Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta and seven other candidates. It's hoped that the elections will stabilize the volitile country, where clashes between factions exploded in carnage last summer. International troops—mostly... More »

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United Nations • Indonesia • Australia • East Timor • Xanana Gusmao • election

They Pay the Price of Warming

when it comes to global warming, we're not in it together

Apr 3, 07 5:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - The obligation of people who live in countries that contribute the most to climate change--the developed nations— to those who will suffer most from it —the poor ones—is the subject of a provocative piece in the New York Times. More »

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climate change • environment • technology • Australia • carbon dioxide • India • drought • global warming • science • Netherlands • aid • Peter Gleick • Malawi • flood

Tsunami Slams Solomon Islands

Island of Gizo said to be "entirely washed away and people are floating in the sea"

Apr 2, 07 7:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - A tsunami hit the Solomon Islands early Monday morning, killing at least 12 and stranding thousands more. The 8.1 quake brought huge waves nearly a mile inland in some places. "I'm driving down the street -- there are boats in the middle of the road, buildings have completely... More »

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weather • Australia • Solomon Islands • South Pacific • tsunami • Gizo

Hicks Will Walk After 9 Months

Australian's 7-year sentence for aiding terrorists suspended in exchange for silence

Mar 31, 07 11:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Australian terror suspect David Hicks will serve just nine months more in detention, the AP reports, despite receiving a seven-year sentence from a military tribunal at Guantánamo yesterday. In an extraordinary plea deal, the rest of the sentence was suspended in exchange for his silence about his treatment during... More »

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Afghanistan • David Hicks • Australia • military tribunal • Guantanamo Bay • guilty plea

Gitmo Detainee Pleads Guilty

Australian who trained with al Quaeda has spent five years in custody

Mar 27, 07 6:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - David Hicks became the first person convicted under President Bush's much-maligned military tribunal system after entering a surprise guilty plea  to charges of providing material support to terrorists. The contentious proceedings may prove a new source of controversy, however, as the judge excluded Hicks' stwo civilian lawyers from court and... More »

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War on Terror • politics • David Hicks • Australia • military tribunal • Guantanamo Bay • court • conviction • detainee • guilty plea • al-Qaeda • George W. Bush

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