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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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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LAHORE: Australia has officially pulled out of the Champions Trophy hockey tournament being played here from December 4-12 on security fears.
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CANBERRA/BAGHDAD  - Australian Prime Minister John  Howard retracted his statement Thursday that a body found in  the Iraqi city of Falluja appeared to be that of kidnapped  British aid worker Margaret Hassan.
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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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Some of Australia's top jockeys and trainers, including 11-times Melbourne Cup winner Bart Cummings, have been banned from racetracks in an effort to stop the spread of equine flu, officials said.
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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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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Australian Prime Minister  John Howard, whose government made the largest pledge of aid to  tsunami-stricken nations, toured ravaged Aceh province on  Wednesday as Indonesia said it had buried 110,000 victims.
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Attacks by Australia's conservative  government against its resurgent opposition over links to a  corrupt state leader were turned on their head on Saturday when  a cabinet minister quit amid the growing scandal.
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Australia has sent a customs ship to retrieve two activists who were seized by a Japanese whaling vessel, the country's foreign minister said.
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Olympic hammer champion Adrian Annus has  been stripped of his gold medal after failing to take a drugs  test, the International Olympic Committee said on Sunday.
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Cricket Australia (CA) has canceled  1,300 Ashes tickets after an investigation into internet  auction sales.
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Olympic men&#39;s hockey champions Australia have pulled out of the prestigious Champions Trophy - an event for the world&#39;s top six - in Pakistan because of security concerns.
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AS Australia ends its woefully lopsided Test series against New Zealand with victory at the Adelaide Oval today, there is only one piece of good news for fans - it&#39;s free to get in.
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A scare triggered by a vibrating sex toy shut down a major Australian regional airport for almost an hour Monday, police said. The vibrating object was discovered Monday morning
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Australia played down reports that it had lost almost all of the lucrative Iraqi wheat market to the United States following a bribes scandal.
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Australia says they have rejected an informal request from the United Nations to send more troops to Iraq to protect the world body&#39;s staff there.