Canberra as a whole seems the very opposite of Australia, described as "un-Australian" by many critics.
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ADELAIDE, Australia (CNN) -- An Australian company has developed technology that intends to protect divers and surfers from being attacked by sharks while they are in the water.
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Kim Clijsters refused to shed any tears after her last appearance at the Australian Open, a semifinal defeat by top seed Maria Sharapova.
The company acquired a 75% stake in Australian-focused Manassen Foods Australia Pty. from Champ Private Equity in August 2011.
In 1861, Robert (O'Hara) Burke, the Irish-born Australian explorer who crossed Australia from south to north, died on the return journey.
South Australian Cosgrove played three times for the Australia one-day team in 2006, but he has had weight and fitness problems.
The Siding Spring Observatory, located high in a remote area, is home to Australia's largest optical telescope, the 3.9m diameter Anglo-Australian Telescope, as well as several others.
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Correspondents say India's turnaround against a relatively inexperienced Australian team after losing three Test series - including one against Australia 0-4 - in a row over the past year was a remarkable achievement.
The Lions team flies to Australia on Sunday for a five-week tour that includes three Test matches against the Australian national team, which is ranked third in the world after New Zealand and South Africa.
Japanese stocks surged on Tuesday, hitting a fresh multi-year high, while the Australian dollar fell after the Reserve Bank of Australia cut interest rates.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Kimi Raikkonen won Formula One's season-opening Australian Grand Prix on Sunday, jumpstarting Lotus' bid to challenge the series' bigger teams for the 2013 championship.
The banks' larger Australian parents can always borrow cheaply in the short-term market in Australia, where no comparable rule exists, and pass on the proceeds in the form of longer-term lending.
But Carr corrected the record and ordered the investigation on Wednesday after discovering that Australian intelligence officers had alerted some department officials 10 months earlier that the Australia-born Israel resident had been arrested on serious national security charges.
Australia produced a one-two in that event as their Delhi dominance continued, and the Australian women reinforced their world-beating credentials with an easy victory in the 4x100m freestyle relay to end the day's racing, with England taking silver following Canada's disqualification.
The Ballyclare lad took part in a test session on a standard Honda Fireblade in Qatar at the end of last year and then was second fastest behind Australian Brock Parkes in a three-day test at Phillip Island, Australia, in January.
Christmas Island - which lies about 2, 600km (1, 600 miles) from Australia but only 300km south of Indonesia - is often targeted because it is the closest piece of Australian territory to Indonesia.
May has been a month of goodbyes in Australia - Claude Choules, the last living link to combat in World War I and the oldest Australian, the actor Bill Hunter, the Aboriginal world boxing champion Lionel Rose, the spin bowler and coach Terry Jenner.
But even Britain's whingeing Poms have not seen a labour bust-up like Australia's present one since 1986, when Rupert Murdoch, then an Australian, helped smash the British print unions by transferring the production of his newspapers to a non-union plant at Wapping in East London.
"Administrative capitals are normally a feature of federation, such as in Brazil, Australia and the US, " says Professor Peter McDonald of the Australian National University, a well-known demographer and long-time Canberra resident.
Notably, the fire-in-the-belly attitude that marked Australia's assault on Israeli embassy personnel had no parallel in an Australian federal courtroom last week as Judge Neil McKerracher adjudicated an extradition request from Hungary.
"The big question is where does unemployment go, that's when you get the forced selling, " said Ivan Colhoun, head of Australian economics and property research at ANZ, who finds solace in Australia's still-low 5.1% unemployment rate.
Australia's Fairfax Media reported last week that Zygier was one of at least three dual Australian-Israeli citizens being investigated by the main Australian spy agency ASIO in early 2010 over suspicions that they were spying for Israel.
With Foster's main local rival Lion Nathan already Japanese-owned - Lion Nathan owns Tooheys, Castlemaine and Emu, to name but a few - it would mean that most of Australia's most famous beer brands would no longer be Australian owned.
PERTH, Australia (AP) Up to 15 miners were fired from their high-paying jobs in an Australian gold mine after a "Harlem Shake" performance underground was deemed a safety hazard, a newspaper reported on Monday.
Reports in Australian media said about 2, 000 asylum seekers had reached Australia since the country approved plans to re-open offshore processing centres in Nauru and PNG.
This was the day before the Australian medium-pacer went on to take the second best figures in World Cup history and inspire Australia to a dramatic victory over England.
"There was no way I could give my all for Australia if I used the only two-week break we have to play in India, " he wrote in The Australian newspaper.
Swede Henrik Stenson tied with Couples and Australia's Nick O'Hern for third place following a closing 70 with Australian Geoff Ogilvy in a five-way tie for sixth place at eight under alongside Americans Tommy Armour III, Jason Bohn, Mahan and John Mallinger.
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