Australia ends 'Pacific Solution'
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The last detainees leave a camp on Nauru, ending Australia's "Pacific Solution" immigration policy.
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Australia ended on Friday its controversial policy of sending asylum seekers into often-lengthy detention on small Pacific island nations, with the last refugees leaving Nauru to live in Australia.
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A planned tie-up between Australia&#39;s Qantas and Air New Zealand has been thrown out by New Zealand&#39;s High Court. The decision ends a two-year effort by the airlines to fight off low-cost carriers by combining forces.
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Australia signalled a new hardline approach on welfare for its Aboriginal people as it vowed to end &quot;sit-down money&quot; -- generous handouts for doing little.
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Australia played down US fears that amendments attached to pharmaceutical provisions in their free trade agreement could delay its implementation.
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Leaders of the world's eight major industrialized nations will end their summit Friday with a pledge to help nations on the world's poorest continent.
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The high note which ended the the 10th Asean Summit at the Laotian capital of Vientiane were joined by leaders of Japan, South Korea, India, China, New Zealand and Australia as partners in free trade talks.
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Australia Wednesday dismissed reports that it had assured the Indonesian government an inquest into the killing of five journalists in East Timor was nothing to worry about.
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Australia says it wants to phase out free plastic bags by the end of 2008, after a similar move by China.
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India and around 10 other countries will remain excluded from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum for at least three years, Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced Sunday.
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Australia and New Zealand have cleared the last hurdle to a free trade agreement with the 10-nation Association of South-East Asian Nations, with a meeting of Asian economic ministers yesterday recommending a deal.
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Asia-Pacific leaders, closing their summit, are expected to call for a rapid conclusion to stalled global trade talks.
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Japan has dropped its plan to kill humpback whales in Antarctic waters after strong protests led by Australia, Japanese public broadcaster NHK said Friday.
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Asia-Pacific leaders conclude their summit by calling for a rapid conclusion to stalled global trade talks.
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Australia would not end its biggest single export, coal, as part of the government's strategy to curb greenhouse gas emissions, Prime Minister John Howard said Thursday.
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The sale ends a four-year investment in New Zealand&#39;s national carrier, that has cost the Asian airline half a billion dollars.
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Australia said it was considering signing a new security agreement with Indonesia to replace a treaty between the countries that was scrapped when Canberra sent troops into East Timor in 1999.