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I quite like the Australia voting system: electorate-wide preferential voting for the House of Representatives and state-wide proportional … gulfstream/973
“Australians hold anti-war rallies.” 1. However messy Iraq might be, the situation doesn’t seem to have reached the level of war. Were … gulfstream/1568
Update on Thomas Hendry, the New Zealander who scored an honorary mention in the 1999 Darwin Awards for winning a bar competition by stapling his penis … gulfstream/1988
"Australia gets drunk, wakes up in North Atlantic" gulfstream/646
“Ali Bakhtiyari, the refugee accused of having fraudulently obtained a temporary protection visa, has admitted to the The Age that he spent two … gulfstream/899
Launching the PS3 in Europe and Australia: “In Sydney Sony and retailer Myer staged a [midnight] launch event at which customers were also outnumbered … gulfstream/2264
Leader of the Democrats (Australia’s third party) assaults a Liberal Senator, apologises, stands aside, then declares: “If anything good can … gulfstream/1356
(Australia) Many Australian conservatives (including Tim Blair) were once not. gulfstream/989
Some proper Aussies in this (fake?) market research video for Drambuie Australia. gulfstream/2361
“The private dreams of publicly held companies.” Top private companies in: the US, the world excluding the US, Australia. (The … gulfstream/1263
Interesting Straight Dope on military budgets. (Not mentioned here is that Australia, for all the fears about being attacked by Indonesia, etc., … gulfstream/1464
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"Cancer is a disease that affects basically every Australian family, yet we raise funds by selling daffodils," Professor Allen said. "And we don't sell … fortune
I first realized I was going to like the Australian outback when I read that the Simpson Desert, an area bigger than some European countries, was named … fortune
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FAQs Australians in the UK - Australian High Commission
Antony Green's Election Blog: Preferential Voting in Australia
History of preferential voting. In Australia, about half the electorates require preferential votes to be counted to get a result, and 80%-90% of the time, the candidate that's ahead initially wins the seat.
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Paul Felix Armand-Delille - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Australia's water shortage | The big dry | Economist.com
Mitchell: While we lose Aussies keep on winning | Columnists | Guardian Unlimited Sport
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The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: Entertainment
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