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... as Tasmania; located in Oceania in the Southern Hemisphere. Population: 20,090,437 (est. 2005). ... in New Holland: Sydney (New South Wales), 1788; Swan River (Western Australia), 1829; and ...
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Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 21, 2002
TOWER Technology, a leading provider of infrastructure software for high...
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SYDNEY - An Australian teenager trapped next to a suspicious device for 10 horrifying hours was freed safely late Wednesday, but police said they do not know if the worrisome device is an explosive, who put it there or why.
The device was "very elaborate, very sophisticated" and was placed near the 18-year-old woman, New South Wales state Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Murdoch said. But he refused to confirm reports the device was tethered to the woman's body.
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SYDNEY (AP) -- NASCAR star Tony Stewart has been questioned but not charged by police after an altercation at a Sydney track.
New South Wales state police spokesperson Joanne Elliott said yesterday that the 39-year-old driver, who is in Australia competing in sprint-car races, was released after being interviewed at the Rosehill police station in western Sydney.
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Australia
SYDNEY -- Detectives investigating race riots that rocked Sydney last week seized a pistol, ammunition, knives and smoke bombs in a series of raids Monday. The weapons haul came after police questioned five men detained Sunday night with a container of gasoline and objects for putting together fuel bombs in their car, New South Wales Police said in a statement.
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SYDNEY, Australia - Detectives investigating race riots that rocked Sydney last week seized a pistol, ammunition, knives and smoke bombs in a series of raids Monday.
The weapons haul came after police questioned five men detained Sunday night with a container of gasoline and objects for putting together fuel bombs in their car, New South Wales Police said in a statement.
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An LDS Church missionary who tumbled over a cliff in southern Australia had his fall broken by a cluster of trees and ground foliage, which New South Wales police say probably saved his life.
Elder Matt Weirich, 21, fell some 210 feet from the Grand Canyon Lookout in Morton National Park on Wednesday afternoon while hiking with three other missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Brickbats - Brief Article
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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Lawmakers in New South Wales state passed emergency laws Thursday giving police new powers to crack down on race rioters after days of unrest plagued Sydney's southern beach suburbs.
In one of Australia's worst outbreaks of racial violence, a mob of 5,000 white youths, many of them drunk, descended on Cronulla Beach on Sunday, fought with police and attacked people they believed were Arab.
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Using a number of case studies, the article considers deaths in police custody and in prison, which highlight some of the ongoing issues relating to Aboriginal contact with the criminal justice system, in particular the failure to exercise a proper duty of care, and, more generally, the failure to reduce the levels of criminalization in the indigenous community. The Royal Commission also made specific recommendations designed to reduce the occurrence of deaths in custody, including the removal of hanging points from cells, increasing the awareness by custodial and medical staff of issues concerning the proper treatment of indigenous and non-indigenous prisoners, and a greater commitment to cross-cultural training for police, the judiciary, and other criminal justice staff.\n As noted, ...
... after a pub brawl) and Eddie Murray in New South Wales (picked-up by police for public drunkenness ...