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Accor Hotels' Bloomin' Great Spring Hotel Deals Give You $50 Off Your Australian Holiday

prweb.com     30-Aug-2008          

Celebrate Spring in Australia with Accor Hotels and enjoy a $50 discount on your Australian hotel stay! Sydney, NSW August 30, 2008 -- Accor hotels in Australia are coming up roses with their new 'Bloomin' Great Spring...                    

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FACTBOX: Australia's carbon footprint

reuters.com     29-Aug-2008   3 related          

CANBERRA (Reuters) - The Australian government is seeking to introduce one of the world's most inclusive carbon trading schemes by 2010 but needs the support of big business, which fears emissions trading will make them...                    

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Governments try to stop copper thieves (AAP)

yahoo.com     14-Aug-2008   18 related          

Governments and electricity providers have launched a national campaign to catch copper thieves, following millions of dollars of losses. The surging demand for copper in China and India has pushed the price of scrap copper to...                    

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Number of Australian gay partnerships exceeds expectations

pinknews.co.uk     13-Aug-2008   3 related          

More Australian gay couples are registering their partnerships than anticipated by the government. The Civil Partnerships Act 2008 was passed by the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Legislative Assembly in May. The Act...                    

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Australian July Unemployment Rate Remains Steady at 4.3%

economicnews.ca     07-Aug-2008   11 related          

Seasonally-adjusted labour force figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) indicate that employment in Australia increased by 10,900 to 10,721,500 in July 2008. Full-time employment increased by 53,700 to...                    

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Housing commitments hits four year low

yahoo.com     06-Aug-2008   64 related          

Wednesday August 6, 2008, 3:01 pm New home loans in the first half of 2008 have recorded the weakest start to the year in almost two decades, boosting the chance of an interest rate cut by next month, economists say. Data...                    

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Tourism plateaus over year (AAP)

yahoo.com     05-Aug-2008          

The number of overseas visitors to Australia has plateaued in the past 12 months, new figures show. But the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) says there's been strong long-term growth in tourism over the past decade. The...                    

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Feature: Boxing clever

sciencealert.com.au     05-Aug-2008          

A line of ACT Parks and Conservation Officers forms to herd kangaroos out of a ‘roo exclosure’ treatment. That’s the daunting challenge facing a new collaborative research project between scientists at ANU and the ACT...                    

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Job ads continue to drop

smh.com.au     04-Aug-2008   13 related          

The number of job advertisements in Australia has fallen for the third successive month in yet another sign the economy is slowing, a survey shows. Newspaper and internet job ads fell by a seasonally adjusted 0.3 per cent in...                    

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Parasitic Plant 'Wiretaps' Host

isaaa.org     01-Aug-2008   9 related          

A parasitic plant proves to be a clever pest: aside from sucking water and nutrients from its plant host, it also taps into the host's communications traffic. Professor Neelima Sinha and colleagues at the UC Davis Section of...                    

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