Parched Australia becomes a nation of water misers
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Glenda Way turns on the shower tap and  reaches for a bucket, catching drops until the water is warm  enough for her wash.
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Australians mopping up flood-damaged homes north of Sydney on Tuesday faced disease from sewage-contaminated floodwaters, while around 1,000 people remained cut off by flooded rivers, said officials.
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KHAYELITSHA, South Africa -- The road in front of Princess Rini's leaky, wooden shack has been paved. There is a primary school and a library down the street. And though three of the outdoor taps the government built nearby are broken, a twist on the fourth brings forth copious clean water.
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd  is the country's most popular leader in two decades after  apologizing to Aborigines for past injustices and ratifying the  Kyoto climate pact, a poll showed on Tuesday.
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Sunday announced a summit of 1,000 ordinary citizens to discuss long-term challenges facing the nation.
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The Australian government has been accused of humiliating Aborigines plagued by a blinding infection after offering to provide their community with a gasoline pump if they agreed to make their children wash their faces twice a day.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  CANBERRA, Australia - An Australian state plans to introduce recycled sewage to its drinking water as a record drought threatens water supplies around the nation, a state leader said today.
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Aborigines organized breakfast barbecues in Outback communities, giant TV screens went up in state capitals, and schools planned assemblies so students can watch the telecast of Australia's government apologizing for policies that degraded its indigenous people.
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LONDON - A clinical second-half performance in the wet carried Australia to a 32-12 victory over a gallant but error-prone New Zealand side in their Tri-Nations test in London yesterday.
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A looming election has turned Australian Prime Minister John Howard's traditional morning stroll into a walk on the wild side.
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Wild camels in drought-stricken Australia are in plague proportions, damaging the environment and property as they compete with native animals for food and water.
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Scientists predict that rainfall in Australia's agrarian south may reduce by 15 percent in the coming decades.
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Australia's government presents a formal apology for past wrongs inflicted on the Aboriginal community.
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The questions were different yesterday, sterner and far more interesting than a week ago. Whereas the South Africans came and crumbled, Australia came and played.
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Aborigines organized breakfast barbecues in the Outback, schools held assemblies and giant TV screens went up in state capitals as Australians watched a live broadcast of their government Wednesday apologizing for policies that degraded its indigenous people
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Australia&#39;s election campaign, which offers some parallels with the US presidential election, entered its final week Monday with Prime Minister John
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The environment took centre stage in Australia&#39;s election campaign on Friday with the nation&#39;s leaders, neck-and-neck in opinion polls, at odds over whether Australia