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After 50 years, the 'lost innocents' shipped from home win apology

150,000 orphan and poor children taken to colonies as 'white stock' suffered years of institutional brutality

Inside Australasia

Waterlow murder hunt police think suspect is still in Sydney

Thursday, 12 November 2009

Australian police hunting the killer of a British art curator and his daughter said they had no reason to believe their prime suspect - named by sources as the victim's son - had left the country.

A birthing partner to be fangful for

Thursday, 12 November 2009

Visitors to a New Zealand oceanarium watched in astonishment when one shark tore a chunk out of another's stomach. But they were even more astonished when four baby sharks tumbled out of the gaping wound.

Sharp-toothed shark acts as midwife

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

Visitors to a New Zealand acquatic centre were stunned to see one shark give another shark an impromptu caesarean section.

King of Tonga bows to history as democracy comes ashore

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

After years of protests, the world's last absolute monarch yields power

Murdoch junior outbids Sydney A-listers on £12.7m house

Saturday, 7 November 2009

Former French consulate with ocean views sets new price record for the city

Leaking oil rig ablaze in Timor sea

Monday, 2 November 2009

Australia promised an investigation today after a massive fire erupted on an oil rig that had been leaking into the Timor Sea - the latest drama in a 10-week saga to plug the hole.

Lead-mining: the ugly truth about Mount Isa

Monday, 2 November 2009

In the boom town next to Australia's biggest lead mine, mothers fear their children are being poisoned, reports Kathy Marks from Queensland

Takeaway killing suspect hands himself in

Friday, 30 October 2009

The prime suspect in the killing of an Irish man in Australia handed himself over to police hours after an emotional plea from the dead man's mother, it emerged today.

Like father, like son: Prince Edward's Australian gaffe

Friday, 30 October 2009

It's another royal blunder Down Under. Seven years after his father marked a visit to Australia by asking an aborigine if he was still "throwing spears", Prince Edward has sparked fresh controversy by saying that the death of a teenager during a Duke of Edinburgh Award expedition could encourage other children to take part in the scheme.

'Beautiful plague' of budgies descends on Outback

Thursday, 29 October 2009

Many people believe the budgerigar's natural habitat is a pet shop. In fact, the bird is a native of the Australian outback, and locals there are saying they have rarely seen flocks of the size that are descending on Queensland this year. Some are calling it a "beautiful plague".

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