Showing posts with label australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label australia. Show all posts
Friday, August 15, 2025

Participants in Sydney's City 2 Surf 14km run had to pay a toll for running through the tunnel

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Remote Australian town hoping to take advantage of being the best place in the world to see tomorrow's scheduled eclipse

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CNN : The town – whose name is pronounced “ex-mowth” – has 3,000 residents but will swell to 20,000 this week ... The Ningaloo area has been...
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Five African lions escaped their enclosure at Sydney's Taronga Zoo while the zoo was hosting a "Roar and Snore" overnight stay program for visitors

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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Taronga Zoo (@tarongazoo) From the zoo's official site : An initial ...
Saturday, May 7, 2022

"The exponential increase in saltwater crocodile populations in [Australia] may be partly a result of them preying on feral pigs"

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“ Crocodiles have gone from a population of … probably a few thousand individuals across the top of Australia in the 1970s, to over 100,000...
Monday, March 22, 2021

Nightmare fuel from Australia's east coast

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The expert consulted "urged people who came into contact with [] to exercise empathy, even if they were scared."
Friday, June 5, 2020

"A family in [Australia] say they are lucky to be alive after they were viciously attacked by a 'terminator-like' wombat"

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News.au : Jeanette is no stranger to the iconic Aussie marsupial, which is why she was delighted when her daughter Kim, who was in a cabin...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

"Huge hail batters Canberra as storms threaten large areas of south-eastern Australia"

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" Hail smashes into Parliament House and brings down trees in the ACT, with more wild weather due to lash NSW and Victoria" Y...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

"Incredible, secret firefighting mission saves famous 'dinosaur trees'" in Australia

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Sydney Morning Herald : "Wollemi National Park is the only place in the world where these trees are found in the wild and, with less ...
Wednesday, January 8, 2020

5,000 to 10,000 "thirsty camels will be shot and killed during major Australian drought"; Rescued koalas snoozing; Kangaroo wants to hug

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CBS : Aboriginal officials in the remote, sparsely-populated northwest region of the South Australia province said the wild animals are en...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019

"In Australia, one cat seems to have destroyed an entire bird sanctuary"

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Sarah Zhang for the Atlantic : That’s when they decided on the stakeout. On the night of December 1, Greenwell and the five residents too...
Sunday, December 23, 2018

"Sydney, Australia, Hit by 'Worst Hail Storm in 20 Years'"

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Sydney has been battered with lightning and hail in wild weather ahead of the holidays https://t.co/Tuw547vUbD #7News — 7News Yahoo7 (@Y...
Sunday, August 12, 2018

"In a Town of 11 People [in Australia], Mysterious Disappearance Turns Neighbor Against Neighbor"

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NYT : He was never seen again. Neither was his dog, a kelpie named Kellie. Four days later, when the police arrived in Larrimah, a North...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

"A US author who bills himself as the 'world's #1 anti-vaxxer' has been denied a visa to enter Australia for a speaking tour"

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" Australia gave bans to two other anti-vaccination advocates last month."
Thursday, August 17, 2017

"A Sixth Australian Politician Might Be A Dual Citizen And This Is Getting Ridiculous Now"

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" Nash is the sixth politician that has been referred to the High Court under Section 44.1 of the constitution that says dual citizens...
Monday, August 14, 2017

"Australia’s deputy prime minister, Barnaby Joyce, may be ineligible to sit in the country’s parliament after it emerged he is a New Zealand citizen"

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TG : Joyce is potentially the fifth politician in recent weeks to fall foul of constitutional rules ... If Joyce is forced out of parl...
Saturday, August 5, 2017

"A local council has banned the construction of a synagogue in Bondi because it could be a terrorist target"

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NAU : The Land and Environment Court backed the decision by Waverley Council to prohibit the construction of the synagogue in Wellington S...
Friday, November 18, 2016

"Disney got a big government grant to make a 'Pirates of the Caribbean' film in Queensland, Australia, but nobody will say how much"

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LAT : Boyd, 39, wanted to know the size of the production grant the Queensland government gave to Walt Disney Co. to entice the company to...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

"100,000 bats fall dead from the sky during a heatwave in Australia"

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" Some bats may appear dead but they are not and when people have attempted to remove them