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  Barton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Barton is an archaic English language word meaning lands of the manor or meadow and may refer to several places or people:
Division of Barton, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in New South Wales.
Barton Hall is a National Historic Landmark in Colbert County, Alabama
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barton   (182 words)

  
 Liberal Party of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In state politics, however, the reverse applies: the Liberals and Nationals are in opposition in all Australian states and territories.
Throughout their history, the Liberals have been the party of the middle class (whom Menzies, in the era of the party's formation called "the forgotten people"), though such class-based voting patterns are no longer as clear as they once were.
One effect of this was the success of a breakaway party, the Australian Democrats, founded in 1977 by former Liberal minister Don Chipp and members of minor liberal parties; other members of the left-leaning section of the middle-class became Labor supporters.
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 Australia
Although the vast majority of Australians do not consider themselves monarchists, they rejected the referendum because it did not provide for direct, popular elections but instead gave Parliament the power to select the president.
Prime Minister Howard sent 2,000 Australian troops to fight alongside American and British troops in the 2003 Iraq war, despite strong opposition among Australians.
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.
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 Australia - Encyclopedia FunTrivia
John Landy was Australia's first great distance runner and the second man in the world to break four minutes for the mile in 1954.
Way back in the old days there was a big feud over which city was going to be capital, Melbourne or Sydney, so they decided to choose Canberra, a city in between the both of them.
It was chosen as a result of a bitter rivalry between Melbourne, Victoria, and Sydney, NSW, both of which were well-established large cities at the time, so it was a neutral place.
www.funtrivia.com /en/Geography/Australia-313.html   (1343 words)

  
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Life history and behavioural traits of Mnesampela privata that exacerbate population responses to eucalypt plantations: comparisons with Australian and outbreak species of forest geometrid from the northern-hemisphere.
In 'The Australian and New Zealand Society for Magnetic resonance, ANZMAG 2000 Conference, Poster 53'.
Entomological research for Australian eucalypt plantations: conclusions, research priorities and outcomes arising from the Symposium on Insect-Eucalypt Interactions.
www.forestry.crc.org.au /pubs.htm   (4278 words)

  
 Everything about January 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
- 1797 - Albany replaces New York City as the capital on New York.
- 1911 - Northern Territory is separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control.
- as a word in all capitals, ONE, a trademark of Nestlé Purina PetCare for a line of pet food products (acronym for the "optimum nutritional effectiveness" they are claimed to possess).
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