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	Australia
		Australia's external dependencies are the Australian Antarctic Territory, Christmas Island, the Cocos Islands, the Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Norfolk Island, the Ashmore and Cartier Islands, and the Coral Sea Islands Territory.
		Rabbits accompanied the First Fleet to Australia in 1788, but their modern introduction is normally dated to 1859, when Thomas Austin shipped in 24 wild rabbits for hunting, and released them on his property near Geelong, Victoria.
		Australia was a leading whaling nation until the late 1970s, when it agreed to halt most whaling activities in cooperation with an international effort to maintain the whale population.
	mercedes.bravepages.com /Australia.html (21872 words)

	Environmental damage by wild rabbits
		The loss of vegetation from rabbit grazing threatens the survival of native birds, mammals, and insects that rely on plants for food and shelter.
		Rabbit densities of six to seven per hectare are common in arid zones.
		Rabbits are implicated in the decline of many species of native animals.
	www.csiro.au /communication/rabbits/qa2.htm (1359 words)

	The story of the rabbit
		Rabbit meat is tasty and high in protein, and in ancient times rabbit foetuses and newborn young were a particular delicacy.
		The Romans never brought their rabbits to Britain; that was left to the Normans, who regarded rabbit meat as a great luxury and set up warrens on many of their estates.
		The rabbits of Europe and Australia have yet to return to their 1950 levels, and possibly never will, but they are nonetheless extremely numerous.
	www.andrewgray.com /essays/rabbits.htm (830 words)

	CYBEROZ - Where the Rabbit lives. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Rabbit has stood in that firezone and he is transported back to the heaving deck of a massive man of war, responsible for his herd of monstrous dragon roaring beasties........................but that thump is somehow disconnected from the effect immediately.
		Rabbit was mainly concerned at this point with the length of the hollow center, should it be about half the length of the fuel cell instead of the usual three quarters was the question.
		Unfortunately despite trying, the rabbit was unable to hold the front wheel straight enough as it landed with all weight on the one wheel and it buckled, the billy cart ddi a long ploughing dive into the dirt and cartwheeled to a spectacular crash.
	rabbitvoz.blogspot.com (21346 words)

	Esoteric Rabbit Blog » Blog Archive » Let Us Rejoice
		The truth is that for Australia to have a national day worth celebrating, it would have to commit an act of constitution as a non-racist, independent nation, and one with at least some other desirable characteristics, such as egalitarianism and anti-imperialism.
		As at 26th January, 2006, Australia is racist (see also), not independent, and not a nation.
		Howard pays lip service to multiculturalism, but only within the context of a unitary whole, a population of individuals who are, for all their supposedly superficial differences, in the last instance fundamentally the same.
	www.esotericrabbit.com /blog/?p=316 (1179 words)

	Unusual facts about Australia
		Australia is the smallest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent in the world.
		Urban dwellers - Australia is one of the world’s most urbanised countries, with about 70 per cent of the population living in the 10 largest cities.
		Rabbits - For each person in Australia there are two sheep and over 16 rabbits, the latter introduced in 1859 by one enterprising man who brought 24 wild rabbits from England in an effort to remind him of home.
	www.convictcreations.com /culture/facts.htm (3622 words)

	Fortress Australia
		Rabbits destroy crops, denude land of natural vegetation and dig millions of burrows which lead to land degradation and erosion eventually turning rich farm land to desert.
		Rumours have persisted in Australia that all the initial SDI experiments and developments were successful and a large part of the system is fully operated and controlled by America's secret Australian and Antarctic bases.
		Australia was, and still is, an ideal piece of real estate for this purpose and is being utilised to the full.
	members.iimetro.com.au /~hubbca/fortress_australia.htm (12212 words)

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		Some twenty five years later it was found that the rabbit population was developing resistance to Myxomatosis and an entire new stronger breed of rabbits was starting to infest the country.
		The U.S. government has asked Australia to agree to the establishment of a major network of military supply bases in Australia which will be stocked with large quantities of munitions, spare parts and complete equipment to fully support any American military operations in the Asia/Pacific area.
		Further in those states (Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia) where registration was introduced in the 1980's it was an accepted fact that only about 15% to 20% of the guns privately owned at that time were registered in the first place.
	www.rumormillnews.com /FORTRESS_AUSTRALIA.htm (19148 words)

	Australiana at Project Gutenberg of Australia
		It was the time of the discovery of gold in Australia, and after much discussion he and his elder brother joined the stream of adventurers and sailed in 1852 for Victoria.
		We are now at the close of the first century of colonization in Australia, and the time is therefore opportune for an estimate of the influence exercised by the Irish element of the population on the remarkable growth and development of the Greater Britain of the South.
		In trying to tell Australia's story I have of necessity enlarged on the work of the scouts, not because theirs is more important than other branches of the service, nor they braver than their comrades of other units.
	gutenberg.net.au /pgaus.html (11678 words)

	Rabbit, Snail Race To Extinction - CBS News
		The snail and the rabbit, with fewer than 250 breeding pairs, were reclassified from endangered to critically endangered — one step before being considered "extinct in the wild."
		The only burrowing rabbit in Africa, the riverine rabbit, is recognized by its distinctive long ears, a fl-brown stripe on its lower jaw and a dark fluffy tail visible when it hops away.
		So is human invasion, which is also endangering some 85 plant species on the islands due to housing development, tourism and agriculture.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/11/18/tech/main584197.shtml (934 words)

	Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Neville, the Chief Protector of Aborigines, is the legal guardian of every Aborigine in the State of Western Australia.
		This magnificent and tragic story is yet another must-see in re:the little holocausts that have gone on, even in the most "civilized" nations - in this case Australia.
		What a touching story of three girls, marvelously portrayed by unknown young actresses, who escape from a horrific government policy, initiated by white supremacist Australia pre-Hitler and Nazi Germany.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0252444 (542 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Together with most of northern Australia's small mammals, quolls are in decline even in areas that haven't been invaded by cane toads.
		For thousands of years, Australia's Aboriginal people burned the landscape frequently, but each fire was small, so any one patch would burn only once every few years.
		Researchers with the CSIRO, Australia's national research agency, are trying to identify cane-toad-specific genes that control the development of tadpoles into toadlets.
	www.nature.com /news/2004/041213/full/432796a.html (2175 words)

	ScienceDaily: Virus May Control Australia's 'River Rabbit'
		Dr Crane says while carp are a valuable resource in Asian countries, in Australia the fish is generally viewed as a major pest.
		Carp were introduced into Australia in the early 1900s as a food and sporting fish.
		Moth Released To Curb Spread Of Climbing Fern (April 10, 2005) -- More than 100 tiny moths from Australia were released in Florida this morning to begin a biological control effort against an invasive weed that has spread over more than 100,000 acres in the...
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2006/09/060908000617.htm (1763 words)

	Papers/Speeches :: Animals Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Animal welfare and animal rights issues are often hotly debated, both within the animal movement and in the broader community.
		Animals Australia welcomes such debate to enable the development of more mature approaches to the promotion of the animal cause, and to challenge conservative views.
		This section of the Animals Australia website has been created to publish considered papers, usually authored by individuals.
	www.animalsaustralia.org /default2.asp?idL1=1274&idL2=1310 (220 words)

	MBEAW: Australia: Native Peoples
		Barnes, J.A. "Indigenous politics and colonial administration, with special reference to Australia," Comparative Studies in Society and History 2 (1960:133-49.
		Biskup, P. "White-Aboriginal relations in Western Australia: an overview," Comparative Studies in Society and History 10,4 (1968).
		The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982).
	www.mbeaw.org /resources/countries/australianativepeoples.html (336 words)

	The Giant Spider Invasion (1975) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		from Iowa City, IA Filmed on the kinda budget that Ed Wood might have envied (but not too much), half of this film is devoted to the mini-Spider Invasion, and there are a few mildly chilling moments.
		Why they're coming out of a fl hole is anybody's guess, but no doubt it made sense to someone at the time.
		I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0073043 (417 words)

	Australian Invasion
		Only notable stop today: Tamworth, the country music capital of Australia.
		Our destination was Bingara, where we arrived early to get a couple of hours of horse-riding in.
		Had some Rocky Road Pie which instantly doubled my cholesterol: marshmallows, nuts and cherries melted into a huge hunk of solid milk chocolate.
	www.memetic-glutton.org /oz (3386 words)

	Jedi Council Forums - INVASION: Protect South Australia from the Vics!
		Topic: INVASION: Protect South Australia from the Vics!
		SAFF is currently under attack from two other boards Vic and NSW.
		And we'd take the piss outta all of you Auzzies, so we wouldn't help you any.
	boards.theforce.net /Message.aspx?topic=20065662 (191 words)

	Science fair projects 13
		I also write books from time to time, and my (published 2002) story of sugar as a commodity, Bittersweet, is now available from Amazon.
		My 2003 book Rockets, is also out on Amazon, and my new book for 2004, The Killer Bean of Calabar is now out in Australia.
		The sequence of invasion by weeds in a disturbed area
	members.ozemail.com.au /~macinnis/scifun/projects.htm (14491 words)

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