List of Australia articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Canada’s Election Will Decide the Fate of the World
If voters oust Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives, they'll be voting for a whole new climate policy — and potentially tipping the scales of December's Paris summit on global warming.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Australia’s Mr. China
Canberra's new prime minister has a plan to shake up the country's balancing act between the United States and China. And Washington might not like it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What to Expect from Malcolm Turnbull
Where does Australia's new prime minister stand on the country's most contentious issues?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 No Politician Was Quite as Adept at Putting His Foot — or Onions — in His Mouth as Tony Abbott
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was pushed out of power Monday. Known for his many public gaffes, here's a look back at some of his most interesting word choices.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Here’s Where China’s Economic Slide Will Hurt the U.S. Economy
China's economic slide could have a ripple affect on the American economy. But certain U.S. sectors are more vulnerable than others.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Bushwalkers in Australia Might Have Just Found the Wooliest Sheep of All Time
A sheep found in Australia this week is so woolly that it may set records in the sheep population there.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 New Zealand Has Chosen Four Finalists for Its New Flag
New Zealand has narrowed down the contestants for its new flag to only four options. See what's on the table for a national vote later this year.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Queensland Is Killing Huge Numbers of Sharks With Little Evidence It Keeps Swimmers Safe
In Queensland, Australia, sharks
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Currency Devaluation Shows the High Cost of China’s Soft Power
Beijing has been spending hundreds of billions of dollars to buy friends and influence its neighbors. Weakening the value of the yuan shows that the bill is coming due — and China may not be able to pay it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 New Zealand Wants to Change Its Flag. These Are the Finalists.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key is tired of being confused for Australia.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Vladimir Putin’s Good-Cop, Bad-Cop Act
Russia's leader wins President Obama's praise for his role in the Iran nuclear deal. But ongoing disputes from Syria to Ukraine raise doubts about the prospects for truly friendly relations.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A clear warning from the Australian Army about ‘Fuzzy Writing and Fatalities’
That’s the title of an article in the Australian Army Journal that a reader kindly mentioned to me after our recent discussion of the disastrous U.S. Army paper on optimizing human performance.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Pentagon Anthrax Scandal Is Getting Worse by the Day
U.S. Defense Department officials said on Wednesday that a total of 51 laboratories in 17 states, the District of Columbia, and three foreign countries have received potentially dangerous samples of anthrax from a U.S. Army lab in Dugway, Utah.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Pentagon Stops Anthrax Shipments as Scandal Grows
More shipments of anthrax identified by the Pentagon.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 An Australian brigadier challenges the U.S. military’s courage — on Vegemite
“Having worked with many U.S. Army (and U.S. Marine Corps) officers and soldiers over the past 15 years, I know for a fact that they are some of the most courageous people on the face of the planet. But when it comes to Vegemite, that courage seems to disappear for some reason.”
