Beware the April swindles ABC Online, Australia By News Online's Nic MacBean The flying penguins hoax was just one of many that had people scratching their heads on April 1. (AFP/Australian Antarctic Division: Matt Low) Metric time, flying penguins and changing pi. That's right, it's that time of ...

Santos nears its coal seam gas milestone The Australian, Australia In the annual report Mr Gerlach said Santos welcomed the South Australian Government's removal of a 15 per cent cap on shareholdings in the company in November. Speculators have suggested that the removal of the cap has made the oil and gas producer a ...

national broadband plan doomed to fail The Age, Australia Given the level of coming online services — video conferencing, interactive Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 applications, internet TV and so on — who would buy a 12Mbps service when a piece of 100Mbps was available? Further development of HFC technology could see ...

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Fetish group makes plans for internet lockdown Sydney Star Observer, Australia A fetish group is investigating self-censorship after BDSM websites appeared last week on the leaked internet blacklist the Government intends to filter from Australian homes. Sydney Leather Pride Association had plans to put educational videos and ...

FOCUS: Australia jittery of China's state investment in its mining ... istockAnalyst.com (press release), OR ''You can look at it through the window of reciprocity, that is, would China allow an equivalent investment by the Australian government in their mineral base. Quite obviously, the answer is no,'' he told Kyodo News. Joyce said he is also concerned ...

ARC China Weekly News Summary Proactive Investors UK, UK Aluminum Corp of China (Chinalco) got an initial go-ahead from the Australian government for its $19.5 billion investment into the Rio Tinto Group. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said in a statement on its website that it does not ... FOCUS: Australia jittery of China's state investment in its mining ... istockAnalyst.com (press release) all 29 news articles

Tuesday 31 March 2009. Facts and Figures 2008 by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has found that property. 'While some of the increase in recorded violent crime has been attributed to increased reporting.

The Hon Martin Ferguson AM MP. Minister Ferguson said: China and Korea are two of Australia's most important international markets in almost every Australian industry sector. Minister Ferguson also noted that China and Korea are important markets for Australian tourism our fifth and seventh biggest tourism markets respectively.

Today I approve the application by Hunan Valin Iron and Steel Group for up to a 17.55 per cent shareholding in Fortescue Metals Group, subject to the formal and strict undertakings I have sought from Hunan Valin, and which have also been agreed to by Fortescue Metals Group. Hunan Valin will report to FIRB on its compliance with these undertakings. Hunan Valin also intends to acquire some shares from other shareholders.

The latest forecasts provided by the OECD and World Bank demonstrate the rapidly deteriorating global economic conditions Australia now confronts. The World Bank has also dramatically revised down its global growth forecasts to -0.6 per cent in 2009. The latest OECD and World Bank economic forecasts further underscore the need for urgent, decisive and globally coordinated action to respond to this global crisis.