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We have started to collect the most important news related to Australia in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Australia: news

Umar Akmal stars in Pakistan win

Monday, July 5th 2010, 19:28
related countries: Pakistan, United Kingdom

Umar Akmal sets up a 23-run win for Pakistan over Australia in the first of two Twenty20 internationals in the UK.
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Indigenous Australians win battle

Monday, July 5th 2010, 7:09

Indigenous islanders in the Torres Strait celebrate Australia's largest ever marine rights victory, after a nine-year legal battle.
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Australia finish series with win

Saturday, July 3rd 2010, 17:24
related countries: United Kingdom

Australia win the final one-day international at Lord's by 42 runs but England take the series 3-2.
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Australian 'Nazi' wins appeal bid

Friday, July 2nd 2010, 11:28
related countries: Aruba, Hungary

Alleged Nazi war criminal Charles Zentai wins a five-year battle against his extradition from Australia to his native Hungary.
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Australia priest jailed for abuse

Friday, July 2nd 2010, 8:24

A Catholic priest in Australia is sentenced to nearly 20 years in jail after admitting sex attacks on boys over nearly two decades.
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Indian-born 'Dr Death' is jailed

Thursday, July 1st 2010, 6:31
related countries: United States

US doctor Jayant Patel is jailed for seven years in Australia, after being convicted of the manslaughter of three patients.
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Aussies prevent England whitewash

Wednesday, June 30th 2010, 19:29
related countries: United Kingdom

Australia win the fourth one-day international by 78 runs to end England's eight-match winning streak.
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'Dr Death' convicted in Australia

Tuesday, June 29th 2010, 11:12
related countries: United States

US doctor Jayant Patel is found guilty of the manslaughter of three patients during his time as a surgeon in Australia.
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Australia's PM picks 'stable' cabinet

Monday, June 28th 2010, 6:03

Australia's new PM, Julia Gillard, appoints a cabinet with few changes, saying her focus is on stability.
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Bryant's Australia

Monday, June 28th 2010, 1:05

Game on - Julia Gillard gets down to business
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Australia PM backs Afghan mission

Friday, June 25th 2010, 11:22
related countries: Afghanistan, United States

Australia's new PM, Julia Gillard, assures US President Barack Obama that she supports the military campaign in Afghanistan.
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Greer to Gillard

Friday, June 25th 2010, 7:18

The rise of women to Australia's ruling heights
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East Timor opens Canberra mission

Wednesday, June 23rd 2010, 9:28
related countries: East Timor
related places: Canberra

East Timor's President Jose Ramos Horta opens an embassy in Canberra - amid tensions over oil and gas in the Timor Sea.
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Cricket: England win ODI against Australia

Tuesday, June 22nd 2010, 21:19
related countries: United Kingdom

Eoin Morgan hits an unbeaten 103 as England beat Australia by four wickets in the opening one-day international at the Rose Bowl.
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Australia's race law reinstated

Tuesday, June 22nd 2010, 9:33

Australia reinstates the race discrimination act, by extending controversial intervention powers to cover non-Aboriginal people.
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Australia mourns mining magnate

Tuesday, June 22nd 2010, 7:30

Australia mourns the mining magnate Ken Talbot who died in an African plane crash along with the entire board of his company.
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Ghana reprimand Muntari for rant

Monday, June 21st 2010, 17:37
related countries: Ghana

Ghana's Sulley Muntari is reprimanded for insulting his team-mates and coach after Saturday's 1-1 draw with Australia.
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Africa search for lost tycoon plane

Monday, June 21st 2010, 10:11

Australia says it will leave "no stone unturned" in the search for mining executives whose plane went missing in West Africa.
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Rugby U: Australia 20-21 England

Saturday, June 19th 2010, 11:57
related countries: United Kingdom

England earn their first victory in Australia since 2003, and only their third ever, to level the series in Sydney.
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Live - international rugby

Saturday, June 19th 2010, 7:12
related countries: New Zealand, United Kingdom
related places: Dunedin, Sydney

Martin Johnson's under pressure England side face Australia in Sydney after the All Blacks hammer Wales 42-9.
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Aussie Cahill given one-match ban

Thursday, June 17th 2010, 10:44
related countries: Germany

Australia's Tim Cahill can still play in the World Cup after receiving a one-match ban for being sent off against Germany.
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Rugby: Australia hold on to beat England

Saturday, June 12th 2010, 11:53
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: Perth

England's pack threatens to earn them a remarkable victory in the first Test but Australia hold on to win in Perth despite being butchered in the scrum.
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International rugby as it happened

Saturday, June 12th 2010, 7:30
related countries: Ireland, United Kingdom
related places: Perth

Australia beat England 27-17 in Perth after the All Blacks beat 14-man Ireland 66-28 in New Plymouth.
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Australia drops out of 2018 race

Thursday, June 10th 2010, 16:56
related countries: United Kingdom

England's chances of hosting the 2018 World Cup are handed a boost as Australia drop out of the race in order to focus on the 2022 tournament.
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Australia summit tackles gambling

Thursday, June 10th 2010, 8:06
related places: Sydney

A summit takes place in Sydney to discuss ways of tackling Australia's high rates of addiction to gambling.
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Hape set for England Test debut

Thursday, June 10th 2010, 6:10
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: Bath, Perth

Former New Zealand rugby league international Shontayne Hape will make his England Test debut in Saturday's game against Australia in Perth.
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"Barrack" mugs withdrawn from Australia's parliament gift shop

Tuesday, June 8th 2010, 9:01
related countries: United States

A gift shop at Australia's Parliament House withdraws 200 mugs marking US President Barack Obama's visit because of a spelling glitch.
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Australia move for asylum seekers

Tuesday, June 8th 2010, 7:14
related countries: Christmas Island

Australia begins transferring dozens of asylum seekers from an overcrowded facility on Christmas Island.
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Japan asteroid probe aimed for Earth

Monday, June 7th 2010, 12:07

Japan's space probe Hayabusa, designed to return samples from an asteroid, is placed on course for a landing in Australia.
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Australia in sex-tourism campaign

Monday, June 7th 2010, 5:36

Australia launches a nation-wide advertising campaign to accompany tough new laws on sex tourism.
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Schiavone wins French Open title

Saturday, June 5th 2010, 15:19
related countries: France, Italy

Francesca Schiavone beats Australia's Sam Stosur in the French Open final to become the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam singles title.
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Stosur & Schiavone set for final

Friday, June 4th 2010, 16:51
related countries: France, Italy

Australia's Sam Stosur and Italian Francesca Schiavone meet in the French Open final on Saturday with a first Grand Slam title on the line for both players.
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Stosur reaches French Open final

Thursday, June 3rd 2010, 14:57
related countries: France

Australia's Sam Stosur storms into her first Grand Slam final with a crushing win over fourth seed Jelena Jankovic at the French Open.
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Nadal coasts past Hewitt in Paris

Saturday, May 29th 2010, 18:32
related countries: France
related places: Hewitt, Paris

Second seed Rafael Nadal makes comfortable progress into the fourth round of the French Open with a 6-3 6-4 6-3 win over Australia's Lleyton Hewitt.
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Australia to act on Japan whaling

Friday, May 28th 2010, 7:28
related countries: Japan

Australia says it will mount a legal bid at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, against Japan's whaling programme.
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Australia expels Israeli diplomat

Monday, May 24th 2010, 16:27
related countries: Israel

Australia expels an Israel diplomat after a probe blames Israel for the use of forged passports in the murder of a Hamas operative.
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Federer overcomes Luczak in Paris

Monday, May 24th 2010, 12:37
related countries: France
related places: Paris

Roger Federer begins the defence of his French Open title with a 6-4 6-1 6-2 victory over Australia's Peter Luczak.
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Black-clad Ninjas chase off muggers in Australia

Thursday, May 20th 2010, 16:15
related places: Sydney

Members of a martial arts school in full ninja gear - chase away three men robbing a student in Sydney.
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Australian MP admits he may not always speak the 'gospel truth'

Tuesday, May 18th 2010, 16:54
related countries: Aruba

An admission by Australia's opposition leader that he does not always speak the full truth deals a surprise gift to PM's Kevin Rudd's government.
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Mining cost

Monday, May 17th 2010, 23:30

Local residents fear Australia's mines leave them sick
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England 'deserve' world triumph

Sunday, May 16th 2010, 20:48
related countries: United Kingdom

Captain Paul Collingwood says England's World Twenty20 triumph rivals the 2005 and 2009 Ashes Test series successes over Australia.
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England seal World Twenty20 title

Sunday, May 16th 2010, 18:45
related countries: United Kingdom

England beat Australia to win the World Twenty20 in Barbados and secure their first victory in 35 years of ICC limited-over competitions.
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England seal World Twenty20 title

Sunday, May 16th 2010, 14:42
related countries: Barbados

England beat Australia by seven wickets with 18 balls to spare to win the ICC World Twenty20 final.
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Aussies stun Pakistan in thriller

Friday, May 14th 2010, 19:29
related countries: Pakistan, United Kingdom

Mike Hussey blasts 60 from 24 balls as Australia fight back to beat Pakistan and set up a World Twenty20 final against England.
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Live - Australia v Pakistan

Friday, May 14th 2010, 15:02
related countries: Pakistan

Michael Hussey hits 60 off 24 balls as Australia pull off a stunning victory over Pakistan for the right to face England in the World Twenty20 final.
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Ghana held to 1-1 draw with Australia

Thursday, May 13th 2010, 14:26
related countries: Germany, Ghana

Australia hold on for a 1-1 draw against Ghana despite having Harry Kewell sent off in the first half.
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Ten-man Australia lose to Germany

Thursday, May 13th 2010, 14:01
related countries: Germany

Australia lose their first World Cup match 4-0 to Germany, after Tim Cahill is sent off with half-an-hour to go.
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Australia arrests Serb suspect

Wednesday, May 12th 2010, 18:12

Dragan Vasiljkovic, a former Serbian paramilitary leader suspected of war crimes, is arrested in Australia.
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Live - West Indies v Australia

Tuesday, May 11th 2010, 16:32
related countries: India

West Indies must beat Australia by 23 runs to reach the World Twenty20 semi-finals after Sri Lanka hit a six off the final ball to beat India and send them home.
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Live - West Indies v India

Sunday, May 9th 2010, 13:04
related countries: India, Sri Lanka

West Indies bat first against India in the ICC World Twenty20 Super Eights, with Australia facing Sri Lanka in the late game.
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Live - Sri Lanka v West Indies

Friday, May 7th 2010, 12:52
related countries: Barbados, India, Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka and Australia record comprehensive wins in the World Twenty20 Super Eights, beating West Indies and India respectively.
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Australia heist sparks burka row

Friday, May 7th 2010, 8:57

An armed robbery allegedly by a man wearing a burka sparks debate in Australia over banning the full-face Islamic veil.
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Aussies crush Tigers to advance

Wednesday, May 5th 2010, 19:55
related countries: Bangladesh

Australia overcome a shaky start to beat Bangladesh and reach the Super Eight phase of the ICC World Twenty20.
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Live text - South Africa v Afghanistan

Wednesday, May 5th 2010, 16:36
related countries: Bangladesh, Barbados

South Africa take on Afghanistan in Barbados for a place in the World Twenty20 Super Eights after Australia beat Bangladesh to qualify for the next stage.
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ICC World Twenty20 day three as it happened

Sunday, May 2nd 2010, 13:10
related countries: India, Pakistan, South Africa

Australia beat Pakistan by 34 runs to win their ICC World Twenty20 group match, after India beat South Africa by 14 runs earlier in St Lucia.
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Fowler moves to Aussie side Perth

Tuesday, April 27th 2010, 9:06
related places: Perth

Former Liverpool striker Robbie Fowler is to play for Perth Glory in Australia next season after being released from his deal with cash-strapped North Queensland.
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