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	Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Australia's neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and the French dependency of New Caledonia to the northeast, and New Zealand to the southeast.
		Queen Elizabeth II is the Queen of Australia, a role that is distinct from her position as Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
		Australia led the formation of the Cairns Group and APEC, and is a member of the OECD and the WTO.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australia (5085 words)

	1999 in Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the violence that follows, Australia is a major contributor of peacekeeping forces.
		November 6 - A referendum is held to determine whether Australia should become a republic and whether a preamble is inserted into the constitution recognising the Aborigines as Australia's first people.
		The 'no' vote on the republic question is blamed on the attention surrounding how a President would be chosen, not on the actual issue of Australia becoming a republic and almost no attention whatsoever on the preamble question.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1999_in_Australia (987 words)

	HONR248D 1999 \| Australia
		There are two labels for post-secondary education in Australia: the term "higher education" refers only to the university-level institutions while "terciery education" refers to both the university level as well as the vocational and training sector.
		Australia's political and historical approach is similar to that of the United States of America.
		In both immigration led to a less than homogeneous national character, in Australia as in the USA the national character is one of the "salad bowl" or "e pluribus unum" where the differences are the one defining characteristic.
	www.otal.umd.edu /honr248d/pastpages/wg99/australia.html (1262 words)

	Stephen Roth Institute: Antisemitism And Racism
		Despite a decrease in reported cases of anti-Semitism from the previous year, the 1999 figure of 253 incidents was still 11 percent higher than the average over the previous nine years.
		Australia is a favorite destination of Jewish emigrants from the former Soviet Union and from South Africa.
		In 1999, the deep divisions within the parliamentary ranks of One Nation in Queensland seemed to discredit the view that a single unified anti-immigration party would sweep to power in Australia.
	www.tau.ac.il /Anti-Semitism/asw99-2000/australia.htm (2403 words)

	Australia: Country Commercial - 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Australia's population is approximately 18 million compared to 270 million in the United States, and has a landmass totaling almost 3 million sq miles.
		Australia's growing export orientation is one of the country's success stories and will continue as a major factor contributing to the nation's economic health.
		Australia has one of the highest vehicle ownership rates in the world, with 11.1 million vehicles registered in 1997 in a country with a population of just over 18 million.
	www.mac.doc.gov /tcc/data/commerce_html/countries/Countries/Australia/CountryCommercial/1999/CountryCommercial.html (19200 words)

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		Australia is now much closer to getting U.S. approval for the changes to its export plants." The USDA was cited as saying that it expected to issue in a few weeks a final decision on Australia's proposed changes.
		Australia has approached this in a sensible way," adding that in some ways, Australia may even be ahead of the United States in improving food safety.
		Australia has adopted a point system to grade meat plants on their performance, and issues an annual "report card" to the president of each meat plant.
	archives.foodsafetynetwork.ca /fsnet/1999/2-1999/fs-02-03-99-02.txt (2698 words)

	Australia
		Australia became known for its liberal legislation: free compulsory education, protected trade unionism with industrial conciliation and arbitration, the secret ballot, women's suffrage, maternity allowances, and sickness and old-age pensions.
		Australia released the Flood report in 2004, an assessment of prewar intelligence on Iraq, which described the evidence supporting Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction as “thin, ambiguous, and incomplete.” But like similar U.S. and UK intelligence reports, it cleared the government of manipulating the intelligence.
		Australia has been the victim of two significant terrorist attacks in recent years: the 2002 Bali, Indonesia, bombings by a group with ties to al-Qaeda in which 202 died, many of whom were Australian, and the 2004 attack on the Australian embassy in Indonesia, which killed ten.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107296.html (1276 words)

	1999 Mission Australia Address
		While the Pilbara enjoys one of the highest average incomes in Australia, residents of the Kimberley are amongst the most disadvantaged.
		In a poll of the church family of the Diocese of North West Australia the most frequently mentioned cause of frustration is the enormous turnover of congregations.
		MU Australia generously provides for the fares of clergy family each year to attend clergy conference or synod.
	www.bushchurchaid.com.au /Resources/resources9.htm (4073 words)

	The EU's relations with Australia: Overview
		Similarly, the EU is also the largest source of foreign investment in Australia, the second major destination for Australian investments abroad and the largest partner for Australian bi-lateral trade in services for at least sixteen years.
		Australia's largest export to the EU is coal, followed by wool.
		Australia is also the largest supplier of wine to the EU.
	europa.eu.int /comm/external_relations/australia/intro (820 words)

	Australia/Fiji Vacation 1999
		Australia is beautiful, its people friendly and interesting, its cities vibrant, its deserts (so we're told) majestic and its coasts inviting.
		While Australia is very definitely a foreign (to us) country, it is also quite similar to the United States, in topology, climate, language and culture.
		In Australia it's a little hard to figure out which is the tail and which is the dog.
	home.pacbell.net /jfcowan/fun/aussie99.htm (2098 words)

	NSSL SWAT Case Study - 14 April 1999: Sydney Australia Hailstorm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		On April 14 1999, a unique data set was collected which was the first of its kind.
		The 5-cm Doppler radar at Kurnell, Australia, near Sydney, was operating with a base data recorder for the first time that a severe storm passed within the radar domain.
		That storm was the great Sydney Australia hailstorm, that produced over one-billion dollars (Australian) damage to the eastern suburbs, making it the costliest Australian natural disaster in history.
	www.nssl.noaa.gov /swat/Cases/990414/case.html (470 words)

	Australia 1999
		Australia is a very easy country, where any item or service can be paid by credit card, and where cash machines are available to "pin" real money.
		Yet, the odd tourist not realising this is responsable that still in 1999 5 birds of the population of approx.
		Australia, together with Papua New Guinea, has the unique property of being the only place where all three kinds on mammals can be found together.
	www.camacdonald.com /birding/tripreports/Australia99.html (16848 words)

	Australia 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		We spent the first week and the last four days of the trip in Sydney, Australia's biggest city and the capital of New South Wales.
		As Australia is a huge place, we had to drive hours and hours just to reach the southern end of it, at Lady Musgrave Island, half a degree outside of the tropics.
		No description of Australia is complete without talking about the interesting animals encountered there.
	sheridan.geog.kent.edu /australiax.html (1369 words)

	SCI-BYTES: Science in Australia
		Australia's world share of science and social-science papers over the last five years, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 22 fields in the Thomson ISI database.
		Also, Australia's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
		As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average, or impact, of reports in plant and animal sciences from Australia exceeded the world average in that field by 11% (3.27 cites per paper for Australia, versus the world average of 2.94 cites).
	www.in-cites.com /research/2004/june_28_2004-1.html (256 words)

	Australian Government Emergency Management Australia - Operations Archive 1999
		Early in the evening of 3 August 1999, an oil spill occurred at a Shell oil terminal at Gore Cove on the north shore of Sydney Harbour.
		Emergency Management Australia, as the Commonwealth agency responsible for coordinating disaster relief, is coordinating relief efforts through the Australian Defence Force.
		Tropical Cyclone Vance, a category 5 cyclone, crossed the north-western Western Australian coast on 22 March 1999, causing extensive damage to the towns of Exmouth and Onslow and to surrounding regions, and minor damage in some areas of inland Western Australia.
	www.ema.gov.au /agd/ema/emaInternet.nsf/Page/RWPA0E8DF05D4EC9F45CA256C83003BEEC2?OpenDocument (2564 words)

	1st Australia Cup 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The inaugural Australia Cup held in January 1999 featured the Matildas, Italy and Canada.
		Italy were favoured after finishing second in the European Championships and looked to have something in reserve in their opening 1-0 win against Canada.
		Australia's most capped player Anissa Tann-Darby produced a match winning freekick in the final seconds against Canada to set up the expected re-match with Italy.
	www.matildas.org.au /austcup99.htm (212 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 6 \| 1999: Australia rejects republic
		In the landmark referendum to decide whether Australia would replace Queen Elizabeth with a president, the "no" votes led 54.87% to 45.13% in the final count.
		During her first visit to Australia after the referendum - in March 2000 - the Queen hinted in a speech that the time might come when Australians would vote to replace her as head of state.
		In June 2001 the Australian Republican Movement revealed plans to resurrect their campaign for the Queen to be replaced as head of state.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/6/newsid_2514000/2514833.stm (367 words)

	CSIRO Australia - Media Releases 1999
		12 April 1999 - Have a good blast - and save a million- Blasting is one of the Australian mining and quarrying industries' most important activities - and CSIRO scientists are developing a way to slash tens of millions of dollars off the national cost while improving safety and environmental performance.
		29 March 1999 - Pioneering new cattle, pig vaccines- A suite of gene modified livestock vaccines is the aim of a new agreement between Australia's CSIRO Animal Health and Canada's Veterinary Infectious Disease Organisation (VIDO).
		15 February 1999 - Taming the raw prawn- The farming of prawns along Australia's coastal fringe is set to double over the next five years, as the prawn industry ramps up in a bid to fill the demand for prawns in Australia and overseas.
	www.csiro.au /news/mediarel/mr1999/mr99all.html (4772 words)

	Australia Post Stamps -- 1999 Legend
		The 1999 Australian Legend is Arthur Boyd, one of Australia’s most prolific and recognised 20th Century artists.
		Although saddened by news of Arthur Boyd's death on 24 April 1999, Australia Post is proud to have recognised Arthur Boyd as an Australian Legend in his lifetime with the release of the Australian Legend stamps on 22 January 1999.
		In the book 'Australians on Boyd' published by Australia Post and released on Australia Day, Managing Director Graeme John said: "The legacy of his work, spanning almost six decades, provides a rich vision of Australia which is full of mystery, myth and hope.
	www.auspost.com.au /philatelic/stamps/index.asp?link_id=1.122 (199 words)

	Policy Implications of the Ageing of Australia's Population Conference - Productivity Commission Conference Proceedings
		The conference proceedings, Policy Implications of the Ageing of Australia's Population Conference, were released on 10 August 1999.
		The proceedings are from the conference convened by the Productivity Commission and the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research on the 'Policy Implications of the Ageing of Australia's Population', held on the 18th and 19th of March, 1999.
		The conference explored the policy implications of the ageing of the Australian population across a broad range of topics, including its effects on economic growth, distribution of government revenue and expenditure in the long run, superannuation, health, the provision of long term care and housing arrangements and the like.
	www.pc.gov.au /research/confproc/ageing (495 words)

	CSIRO Australia - Media Releases 1999 - Health and Nutrition
		9 June 1999 - Award for research into clearner indoor air- Australia is emerging as one of the world leaders in cleaning up indoor air - the stuff we breathe for 97% of our lives.
		25 May 1999 - Animal disease - a worry in any language- Nine Indonesian veterinarians are being trained in Australia this week to enhance their skills in diagnosing important diseases of livestock.
		13 May 1999 - Australians in Malaysian virus fight- Australian scientists are playing a key role in the international effort to stop the deadly Malaysian Nipah virus, which has killed scores of people and thousands of pigs.
	www.csiro.au /news/mediarel/mr1999/mr99heal.html (691 words)

	CNN - Black-striped mussels threaten Australia - April 22, 1999
		Australia may be on the brink of a marine pest infestation that is eerily similar to the zebra mussel invasion that caused tremendous economic and ecological damage to the North American Great Lakes system.
		Divers from the Centre for Research on Introduced Marine Pests discovered the fingernail-sized pest during a scheduled survey of the Port of Darwin in late March.
		The fl-striped mussel has the capacity to colonize tropical and subtropical areas in northern Australia from Freemantle to Sydney as well as the warmer parts of the South Australian gulfs, if transported there, according to marine experts.
	www.cnn.com /NATURE/9904/22/mussel.threat.enn (476 words)

	Amnesty International 1999 Annual Report on Australia
		The Western Australia Ombudsman subsequently began an inquiry into rising prisoner death rates, which had not been completed by the end of the year.
		In a letter to Amnesty International in September, the Department of Immigration argued that Australia's policy on the detention of asylum-seekers did not contravene international law.
		In November Amnesty International urged the Northern Territory government to ensure that children did not suffer discrimination in the justice system and were only detained as a last resort and then held separately from adults, in circumstances which allowed them to maintain contact with their families.
	www.amnesty.org /ailib/aireport/ar99/asa12.htm (1578 words)

	Australia TradeCoast - 1999 Media Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Australia TradeCoast has paper and chemical manufacturers, plus high value metal and food additive production companies, well within in its sights.
		Trade growth, new tenants and infrastructure development comprise early successes for "Australia TradeCoast", an initiative designed to transform Brisbane's air and sea port precinct at the mouth of the Brisbane River into a world standard international investment and trading hub.
		The recent formation of a powerful partnership which brings together a bank of valuable industrial land, an efficient and integrated transport network, and substantial global and national trade links is expected to further fuel Brisbane's growth as a hub for trade and industry in the Asia Pacific region.
	www.australiatradecoast.com.au /content/standard_c2.asp?name=NewsA1999 (263 words)

	Capricorn Expedition 1999 - Across Australia
		Two of the biggest and most important were links to the Victorian Education Department in Australia (as the expedition was followed by many thousands of schoolkids across Australia and indeed from around the world) and also the expedition guestbook.
		In 1999 during the resupply points of the expedition I was able to log onto the guestbook and read the hundreds of new messages.
		It is now also becoming history, as the world that existed in 1999 has moved on of course.
	www.capricornexpedition.com (698 words)

	RNN Exclusiv / RomNews Bulletin in Australia [Dec. 1999]
		After that incident there was just 400 Kosovar refugees left in Australia, and they were all ones trying to stay in Australia permanently.
		We found the lawyer who was presenting the case for 350 of them and asked him if he knew of any Roma among the Kosovar refugees and explained to him that their case for being allowed to stay in Australia would be strengthened if they identified themselves as Roma.
		He told us that he had interviewed them all, one person at a time and alone, and knew all their stories; there was no Roma among them.
	www.romnews.com /a/136-99.html (688 words)

	CIA -- The World Factbook 1999 -- Australia
		Australia subsequently developed its minerals, metals, and fossil fuel markets, all of which have become key Australian exports.
		Economy—overview: Australia has a prosperous Western-style capitalist economy, with a per capita GDP at the level of the four dominant West European economies.
		Australia has suffered from the low growth and high unemployment characterizing the OECD countries in the early 1990s, but the economy has expanded at reasonably steady rates in recent years.
	www.umsl.edu /services/govdocs/wofact99/67.htm (1239 words)

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