In May the Reserve Bank appeared to promise the world a further rate rise down under.

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Hearing them talk of tax cuts in a country whose tax take is among the lowest in the Western world likewise has not gone down well under the dour skies of north Europe.

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The Chernobyl plant remained in service until December 2000, when it was finally shut down under pressure form the world's richest nations.

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