Australian officials lose free massages
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Australian public servants are to lose one of their more unusual perks as part of a crackdown on bureaucratic spending -- tax payer-funded massages, reports said Wednesday.
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The Israeli embassy in Australia's capital Canberra was evacuated on Wednesday after the discovery of a suspicious package containing white powder, a spokesman told Reuters.
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SYDNEY : Australia sent a special hostage rescue team to Iraq as it tried to unravel the mystery surrounding claims that Islamic militants have kidnapped two Australian security guards, officials said.
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With neither pomp nor ceremony Andy Roddick and Amelie Mauresmo were jettisoned from the Australian Open on Friday, beaten by unheralded journeymen on the bleakest of nights for the former world number ones.
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Racetracks across Australia were all but shut down Saturday, the country's richest horse race is in doubt and losses could total more than a billion dollars after an outbreak of equine influenza.
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PRIME Minister Mr John Howard was yesterday forced to defend Mr Alexander Downer in relation to the Foreign Ministers comments that Australia was not bound to help the US defend Taiwan.
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Eleven Afghans were prevented from travelling to Australia last week after their visas were found to be false, Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone said.
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Australia sent a customs ship to pick up two anti-whaling activists held on board a Japanese whaler as Prime Minister Kevin Rudd moved Thursday to end a tense standoff in the Antarctic.
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Australia's anti-doping authority clears Olympic champion Ian Thorpe of illegal drug use.
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Australia's widely criticised "Pacific Solution" policy of holding asylum seekers on remote islands ended Friday when the last detainees flew out of Nauru, the government said.
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Australian government bodies withheld billions of dollars from Aboriginal workers, stockpiling the money while children were dying of malnutrition, a study released Wednesday said.
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The specter of crowd trouble reared its head at the Australian Open for the second successive year on Tuesday when supporters wearing Greek colors were sprayed by police and thrown out of the event.
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LABOR has again rejected claims that its plan for free hospital care for over-75s had not been properly costed. A report by Econtech, commissioned by the Australian Health Insurance Association, has estimated
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Australian authorities have cancelled the passports of three Sydney men who allegedly underwent guerrilla training with a radical Islamic group linked to Al-Qaeda.
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Offices of Ireland&#39;s equestrian governing body were broken into overnight after the theft in England of a doping test sample from the horse that helped Ireland win its only Olympic gold medal in Athens.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard angrily rejected suggestions Thursday that members of his party hired investigators to dig into opposition leader Kevin Rudd&#39;s confidential medical records.
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Tens of thousands of Australians have rallied against controversial industrial relations laws, temporarily bringing parts of the country's major cities to a halt.