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Meet Aussie the goldfish who swims upside down Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Aussie, who shares a tank on pub bar, has spent the last four years of her life upside down and - as far as anyone can tell - is perfectly comfortable with this.
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Bickering by kids may cost Aussie parents Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A recent trend in the Australian legal system has seen parents being ordered to stop bickering in front of their children or face possible legal action.
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Aussie sperm floods UK Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
While there is a shortage of British sperm donors, Australians backpacking through the UK are among the biggest sperm donors in London.
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Stick up? Aussie burglar prefers sex games to loot Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
It was a stick up of a different kind for one Australian burglar, who broke into a neighbour's house and played sex games in the bathroom with a bottle of toilet detergent and a vacuum cleaner.
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Aussie TV 'changing English accents' Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
The traditional refined English accent is in danger of disappearing, and the hit Australian TV soap Neighbours could be partly to blame.
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Aussie meat pie makeover Posted: 3 years ago by teaya21
what you mean thats not really meat in that pie #?@!
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Stay married and save the planet: Aussie lawmaker Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
Staying married is better for the planet because divorce leads the newly single to live more wasteful lifestyles, an Australian lawmaker said Tuesday.
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Aussie producing oil from coconuts Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
An Australian entrepreneur based in the Solomons Islands is producing fuel and profits from coconuts.
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Aussie lizard rolls over to avoid sex Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
Females of an Australian species of lizard rely on testosterone for a most unusual method of keeping amorous males off their back, researchers have found.
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Scientists discover three new Aussie dinosaurs Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
Palaeontologists have unveiled three new Australian dinosaur skeletons in outback Queensland today.
The two herbivores and one carnivore, excavated from the Winton formation, roamed our land during the Cretaceous period - 98 million years ago.
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Aussie invader's phallic fascination Posted: 1 year ago by Bornbad
Key Quote: "We have found a large number of penises inside their stomachs."
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Food research finds meat pie not so Aussie after all Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
WE might have taken ownership of it, but the pie belongs to Europe.
According to Brisbane food historian Dr Janet Clarkson, who has spent years researching our culinary icon, the pie was invented as a way to preserve meat in medieval Europe.
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Bananabendersaurus: new Aussie dinosaur find Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
Australia is about to experience its own "dinorush", beginning with today's unveiling of a previously undiscovered 25m-long dinosaur that roamed central-western Queensland about 100 million years ago.
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Google's Street View captures the moment a drunken Aussie keeled over outside his home Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A man who fell asleep in a drunken stupor on the grass outside his home was horrified to find his embarrassment posted on the internet.
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When Aussie diplomatic speak goes awry Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A new book by Richard Woolcott, who ran Australia's foreign service for four years, points to the pitfalls of translating thoughts into different languages. Take the Australian diplomat in France who tried to tell his French audience that as he looked back on his career, it was divided in two parts, with dull postings before life in Paris. "When I look at my backside, I find it is divided into two parts."
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Aussie turtles 'ride the EAC' to Peru Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
A marine biologist has helped fill in the so-called lost years of Australia's loggerhead turtles by discovering they are using ocean currents to undertake a 20,000-kilometre, round trip across the Pacific Ocean.
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Aussie Girls Vandalize ANZAC Memorial Posted: 3 years ago by VooDooPeacock
Five teenage girls spraypainted anti-Anzac (Aussie Veteran's Day) slogans on a war memorial hours before the Anzac Day dawn service was due to begin.
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Crocodile visits bar, poses for snaps Posted: 1 year ago by dollyllama
It sounds like the setup to a joke: A crocodile walks into a bar...
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Australia wild party child turns party pro Posted: 2 years ago by bevissimo
An Australian teenager who hosted a wild party that caused a near-riot after 500 guests saw his Internet invitation has decided to turn professional and will host a national party tour, he said on Thursday...Delaney has been lionized by youths as a legend and condemned as an arrogant brat by most other Australians, with Web sites inviting people to "slap Corey down the street". By Thursday Delaney had been slapped by 695,000 Internet users.
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Thousands gather to farewell Aussie 'Croc Hunter' Posted: 3 years ago by afeldman
Thousands of mourners streamed into the 9:00 am (2300 GMT Tuesday) service to commemorate the "Crocodile Hunter."
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