List of Australia articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Here’s What It Takes for an Entire Australian City Council to Get Fired
A celebrity photographer turned reality TV star turned mayor is facing calls to resign amid accusations he bullied his staff.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Leaks, Possums, and Asbestos: 6 State Residences That Aren’t as Fancy as You’d Think
A partial list of presidential palaces that are more disaster area than Xanadu.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 An Australian Town Is Buried in a Tumbleweed Called ‘Hairy Panic’
A rural city in Australia is fighting to keep its streets clean from a persistent tumbleweed.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Want to Breastfeed in Australia’s Parliament? Go Right Ahead.
Australian lawmakers will no longer have to worry about missing votes to breastfeed.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 One of the Biggest Objections to the TPP Just Went Up In Smoke
Philip Morris just lost the case against the Australian government that had opponents of the deal wringing their hands.
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<> at London Zoo on May 2, 2013 in London, England. Longform’s Picks of the Week
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 New Zealand’s Flag Referendum Will Pit Silver Fern Against British Empire
New Zealand has chosen a finalist to go up against the traditional flag in a nationwide vote in March.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Worst Vacation Ever for Australian Anti-ISIS Vigilante
It turns out taking a Euro-trip isn't the best idea for foreign fighters in Syria.
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Najibah tried to comfort her daughter Zahra (8) as they both wept over the grave of their husband and father, just south of Kunduz City. Sub Caption: During the two week takeover of Kunduz City by the Taliban from September 28 - October 12, 43-year-old Baynazar Mohammad Nazar (***First name only to be used because of potential threats to his family***) was shot in crossfire between government forces and Taliban fighters on his way home from where he works as a Chowkidor (unarmed guard) in Kunduz City. He spent the next two and a half days being operated on and recovering in the nearby MSF Kunduz Trauma Center. At around 2AM on Saturday, October 3, however, Baynazar was one of at least thirty patients, patient carers and staff who were killed when a U.S. AC-130 gunship destroyed much of the hospital after receiving a request for air support from Afghan Commandos in the area. Baynazar's family spent ten days searching for him - from Kunduz to Baghlan Province to Mazar-e Sharif and back to Kunduz, eventually being told by a shopkeeper near the hospital that he and 12 others had been taken from the hospital and buried on the edge of the city. He is survived by his wife, Najibah, sons, Samiullah (19) and Mohammad Khalid (6) and daughters Raiana (10) and Zahra (8). Longform’s Picks of the Week
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Odds Are New Zealand’s New Flag Will Feature a Fern
New Zealanders began voting Friday for which flag will compete with the Union Jack in 2016.
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Salvadorean castaway Jose Salvador Alvarenga (C) walks out of the San Rafael Hospital with his parents in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, on February 18, 2014. Alvarenga spent 13 months adrift in a small boat in the Pacific and was washed ashore in the Marshall Islands three weeks ago. AFP PHOTO/ Jose CABEZAS (Photo credit should read JOSE CABEZAS/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can a New Mapping Tool Protect Indigenous Land Rights?
Indigenous communities around the world are in uphill battles against governments and corporations to preserve their land. Now, a new mapping tool hopes to help them determine borders and protect their rights.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China Just Took Another Step Toward Joining the IMF’s Currency Country Club
China's renminbi is one step closer to joining the U.S. dollar and other premier global currencies in the IMF's reserve fund.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Read the Text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Here
The text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership has finally been made public. Read it here.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Goodbye to the Dukes and Dames Down Under
The Australian knighthood of British Prince Philip helped pushed Tony Abbott out power in Australia. And on Monday, Malcolm Turnbull eliminated the British tradition entirely.
