Australia & Pacific
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| | Sunday the 17th of August, 2008 was a beautiful late winter day in the harbour city of Sydney. That was when an abandoned baby humpback whale, later named Colin, came into our hearts. This is Colin's plight, which divided the local community after a week long silent struggle, both by the whale and independent marine and wildlife rescue groups to keep him alive. |
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| | There's a radioactive cat on the loose in New Zealand. A true story about Nuts, who was missing and radioactive. |
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| | About the New Zealand parking meter piddler, who has now been unmasked. |
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| | A New Zealand woman has been convicted for disorderly behavior for calling her cat. |
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| | The ban on smoking in restaurants has been somewhat successful. However, one country wants to ban smoking everywhere inside the country's borders. |
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| | Global warming has raised many issues. The most noticeable being our concerns about water shortage. Where has it gone? How are we going to get it back? And by what means? |
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| | On the teacher's strike crisis circling Australia. |
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| | Gisborne is still coming to terms with the 6.8 magnitude quake that rocked the region on Thursday, 20 December 2007. At precisely 8.55pm, the central shopping area was disturbed by the largest quake to hit the region since the Edgecumbe quake in March 1987. |
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| | Has the alternate universe that reality TV has created gone too far? |
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| | China invaded Tibet and has tried to claim and take this country as their own and for the past fifty years there has been unrest, disharmony and anguish among an otherwise peace loving nation. |
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