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'likened to a giant wombat'

The nation’s largest telco Telstra tonight confirmed it had started filtering its customers’ Internet traffic for a blacklist of sites containing child pornography as compiled by international policing agency Interpol.

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Yay! RT @sciencenewsgeek: I know @allinthemind will like this story. Southern hairy-nosed wombat discovered in Victoria

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SYDNEY — A judge ordered Australian band Men at Work on Tuesday to hand over a portion of the royalties from their 1980s hit "Down Under," after previously ruling its distinctive flute riff was copied from a children's campfire song.
But the penalty — 5 percent of the song's royalties — was far less than the 60 percent sought by publishing company Larrikin Music, which holds the copyright for the song "Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree."

Scientists in Australia have design a cane toad "sausage" to help protect vulnerable predators from the pois..

Scientists have discovered 850 new species by surveying murky underground waters, caves and 'micro-caverns' in central and southern Australia.

"Our research has revealed whole communities of invertebrate animals that were previously unknown," said evolutionary biologist Andy Austin of the University of Adelaide, in South Australia. "What we have discovered is a completely new component to Australia's biodiversity."

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In 2001, the battle of the coffee machines came to Lygon Street in Melbourne. The old masters of the Mediterranean who brought their coffee-making skills to Melbourne as post-war migrants were facing a new enemy: Starbucks. Lygon Street is sacred ground for caffeinistas: it boasts a large student population, a bloody history with a spate of gangland murders, and has the highest concentration of pasta and density of latte fumes per square kilometre. In short – it's unique. Not the place for cookie-cutter American chains, complained the old guard....The Age reported: "although the list of the stores to be closed has not been released, it is believed the controversial Starbucks shop in Lygon Street, Carlton, is among them."

A wild dolphin is apparently teaching other members of her group to walk on their tails, a behaviour usually seen only after training in captivity. The tail-walking group lives along the south Australian coast near Adelaide. Scientists studying the group say tail-walk tuition has not been seen before, and suggest the habit may emerge as a form of "culture" among this group.

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Christ. Is there anyone currently involved in federal politics who hasn't taken drugs?

"If all this were not enough to make it a very Eden, ... Mensheds Australia has been given a grant to set up sheds to give the menfolk somewhere to hang out together, whittling, scratching each other's balls and talking about building more sheds...