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• Aussie taskforces honoured in Christchurch

  

  One year ago more than 140 Australian disaster assistance specialists made their way to New Zealand to rescue and assist people caught up in the country’s most deadly earthquake.

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• Paris beats Sydney and London as student city of the world

  

  It has been revealed that Melbourne and Sydney are among the top 10 student cities in the world but they have been beaten by European cities Paris and London. The English capital was voted as the second best city in the world in which to be a university student, with the French capital claiming the top honour.

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• Queen in control: Prince William

  

  He’s the future British king but for now Prince William still does what he’s told by his grandmother.

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• US says Darwin base no threat to the region

  

  Senior US officials, including a high-ranking member of the country’s Pacific forces, have downplayed lingering concerns in Indonesia over plans to station US marines in Australia’s Northern Territory.

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• Australian government gives $19m in aid for African crises

  

  Australia will give $19 million in aid to address two worsening humanitarian emergencies in Africa.

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• Julia Gillard takes aim at China, Russia over Syria

  

  Prime Minister Julia Gillard says China and Russia have failed in their international responsibilities by vetoing a United Nations resolution against Syria’s regime.

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• Vanity cover shot for Australia’s Mia Wasikowska

  

  Australian actress Mia Wasikowska is among a cast of 11 women touted as Hollywood’s new leading ladies in an upcoming edition of Vanity Fair magazine.

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• UN refugee boss to visit Australia

  

  The head of the United Nations’ refugee agency will visit Australia later this month.

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• Indonesians unhappy with Abbott asylum plan

  

  Indonesian police are the latest to voice concerns about the coalition’s plan to turn asylum seeker boats around at sea but Opposition Leader Tony Abbott isn’t backing down.

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• Douglas Mawson honoured in icy Antarctic ceremony

  

  Australia’s Antarctic hero Sir Douglas Mawson and his fellow expeditioners have been honoured in a simple ceremony at the huts they built on the icy continent 100 years ago.

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• Italy ship confusion like Titanic: Aussie

  

  An Australian has spoken of the confusion surrounding his evacuation from a stricken cruise ship which ran aground off the Italian coast.

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• Sheep shearing pitched as Olympic sport

  

  Sheep shearing could be the next big Olympic sport, according to a New Zealand farming lobby group.

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• Vegemite gift for Prince William on Australia visit

  

  Baseball caps, an Akubra, a sleeping bag and a jar of Vegemite were among the gifts handed to Prince William during his trip Down Under in 2011, royal officials have revealed.

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• Bungee jump safe, says company after fall

  

  The video of a bungee cord breaking, the accident almost claiming the life of Australian tourist Erin Langworthy, has been viewed around the world but the company responsible insists bungee jumping with them is sill safe.

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• Australia easing Burma sanctions

  

  Kevin Rudd says the government has decided to reduce the number of Burmese figures to whom Australia’s autonomous financial and travel sanctions currently apply.

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• Seven injured in Qantas flight turbulence

  

  Seven people have been injured aboard an international Qantas flight to Sydney after the aircraft was hit by severe turbulence.

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• Australian kidnapped in the Philippines, family asks for privacy

  

  The family of an Australian man kidnapped by Islamists in the Philippines say they do not want to make any public comments about their ordeal.

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• No new hope for Aussie pair on death row

  

  Jakarta’s successful diplomatic efforts to save Indonesians from the death penalty in other countries do not mean the two Bali Nine members on death row can expect a reprieve, the country’s foreign minister says.

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• Australia welcomes Fiji democracy moves

  

  The Australian government has welcomed Fiji’s decision to lift its draconian emergency laws but says the military regime must do a lot more to restore democracy.

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• Iran test-fires new long range missile

  Iran has test-fired its latest missile system in a show of force and defiance to the west amid the ongoing dispute over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions.

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