<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Happy Australia Day : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/"/><tagline>Happy Australia Day : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-10-12T23:16:01+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Happy Australia Day]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/48455/1/" /><id>48455</id><summary><![CDATA[Happy Australia Day]]></summary><issued>2008-01-26T10:20:01+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-26T10:20:01+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[<a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.australiaday.gov.au/pages/index.asp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Australia Day</a>, celebrated annually on 26 January, is the official national day of Australia, commemorating the establishment of the first European settlement on the continent of Australia. The date is that of the foundation of a British penal colony in New South Wales, by Captain Arthur Phillip, the first Governor.<br/><b>Where are our Australian Plimates?</b>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Carnivorous Dinosaur Tracks Discovered In Australia]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/39126/1/" /><id>39126</id><summary><![CDATA[Carnivorous Dinosaur Tracks Discovered In Australia]]></summary><issued>2007-10-22T08:54:22+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-22T08:54:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The first fossil tracks belonging to large, carnivorous dinosaurs have been discovered in Victoria, Australia, by paleontologists. The tracks are especially significant for showing that large dinosaurs were living in a polar environment during the Cretaceous Period, when Australia was still joined to Antarctica and close to the South Pole.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Australia pursuades Japan to cease hunting Humpback Whales]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44953/1/" /><id>44953</id><summary><![CDATA[Australia pursuades Japan to cease hunting Humpback Whales]]></summary><issued>2007-12-21T06:18:32+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-21T06:18:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Threats from Australia to take Japan to an international court over their plans to hunt and kill 50 <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpback_Whale" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Humpback Whales</a> have resulted in a Japanese climb down.<br/><br/>This does not yet impact Japan's other whaling activities]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[&quot;Extinct&quot; plants found in remote Australia]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/58146/1/" /><id>58146</id><summary><![CDATA[&quot;Extinct&quot; plants found in remote Australia]]></summary><issued>2008-04-14T04:18:42+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-14T04:18:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Two plants that were thought to have been extinct since the late 1800s have been rediscovered in far northern Australia, according to an official report released on Saturday.<br/><br/>(Picture not related)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Aborigines Have a New Hobby: Camel Hunting]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/50144/1/" /><id>50144</id><summary><![CDATA[The Aborigines Have a New Hobby: Camel Hunting]]></summary><issued>2008-02-11T10:58:12+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-11T10:58:12+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[More than a million roam the Outback, mostly in South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. Biologists say the population is doubling every eight years.<br/> <br/>Mmmmm! Camel, it's what's for dinner.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[&quot;Fat teens&quot; hunt Australia's outback and viewers]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18762/1/" /><id>18762</id><summary><![CDATA[&quot;Fat teens&quot; hunt Australia's outback and viewers]]></summary><issued>2007-05-02T11:10:02+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-02T11:10:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Britain used to ship convicts to Australia. Now it is about to send overweight youths. New reality television series &quot;Fat Teens Can't Hunt&quot; -- a kind of &quot;Survivor&quot; meets &quot;The Biggest Loser&quot; -- will see 10 overweight British teenagers sent to Australia's outback to live and eat with remote Aboriginal communities.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Scientist finds fur seal pups in South Australia]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18210/1/" /><id>18210</id><summary><![CDATA[Scientist finds fur seal pups in South Australia]]></summary><issued>2007-04-27T19:38:30+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-27T19:38:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A South Australian scientist has found a breeding colony of Australian fur seals, thought to be extinct, on Kangaroo Island. (This image not a fur seal from SA...)<br/><br/>Nice to have some GOOD environmental news!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Australia regains worlds smallest international trophy]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sports/l/7843/1/" /><id>7843</id><summary><![CDATA[Australia regains worlds smallest international trophy]]></summary><issued>2006-12-18T19:44:53+01:00</issued><modified>2006-12-18T19:44:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Australia has officially won back the ashes from England in the third cricket test match. Australia's attention is now on a 5-0 whitewash.<br/><i>Picture related</i>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Oldest Diamonds Found in Australia]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33264/1/" /><id>33264</id><summary><![CDATA[Oldest Diamonds Found in Australia]]></summary><issued>2007-08-27T04:00:13+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-27T04:00:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The oldest known diamonds, almost as old as the Earth itself, have been found in Australia and could hold the key to unlocking how the planet's crust evolved.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Australia now world's fattest nation]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/65984/1/" /><id>65984</id><summary><![CDATA[Australia now world's fattest nation]]></summary><issued>2008-06-19T19:09:25+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-19T19:09:25+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Australia has overtaken the United States as the world's most obese nation, a new report says.<br/><br/>The report, Australia's Future Fat Bomb, says 26 per cent of adult Australians - almost 4 million people - are now obese]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[PS3 outsells Wii and Xbox 360 ... in Australia]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25744/1/" /><id>25744</id><summary><![CDATA[PS3 outsells Wii and Xbox 360 ... in Australia]]></summary><issued>2007-06-29T23:12:27+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-29T23:12:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[With 50,000 units sold since March, Sony is ecstatic to exclaim that PS3 is the top selling system in Australia and has been outselling the Wii and Xbox 360 every week.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[New twist in WW1 disapearance of the HMAS Sydney]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/2004/1/" /><id>2004</id><summary><![CDATA[New twist in WW1 disapearance of the HMAS Sydney]]></summary><issued>2006-10-03T20:13:46+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-03T20:13:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[One of Australia's greatest WW1 mysteries is the disapearance of the HMAS Sydney off the North-west coast of Australia. 64 years and a $1.3 million dollar reward by the Australian government have failed to turn up any clues as to the fate of the 645 crewmen and vessel, until now...]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Aussies beware!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/53452/1/" /><id>53452</id><summary><![CDATA[Aussies beware!]]></summary><issued>2008-03-07T03:53:46+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-07T03:53:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[If you live in Australia, New South Wales more specifically, the police are now allowed to search your computer and, get this, <i>all computers networked to it</i>.  To me that equals every computer in the world which has a connection to the internet.<br/><br/>Original /. article <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/03/06/1412221.shtml" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Two spheres have fallen to Earth in Australia and Brazil]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/56342/1/" /><id>56342</id><summary><![CDATA[Two spheres have fallen to Earth in Australia and Brazil]]></summary><issued>2008-03-31T00:23:43+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-31T00:23:43+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[You heard about the first one <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/weird/l/56035/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here.</a>. Now, another one.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Australia clean sweeps the Ashes]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sports/l/8562/1/" /><id>8562</id><summary><![CDATA[Australia clean sweeps the Ashes]]></summary><issued>2007-01-04T20:33:26+01:00</issued><modified>2007-01-04T20:33:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Australia have completed the first 5-0 Ashes clean sweep in 85 years on the fourth day of the fifth Test at the SCG.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Australia being flooded with Poms]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17194/1/" /><id>17194</id><summary><![CDATA[Australia being flooded with Poms]]></summary><issued>2007-04-20T12:37:33+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-20T12:37:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[One in five Britons who move overseas head to Australia, according to figures released in the UK this week.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The big dry - Australia's water shortage]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18323/1/" /><id>18323</id><summary><![CDATA[The big dry - Australia's water shortage]]></summary><issued>2007-04-28T15:26:52+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-28T15:26:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Australia is struggling to cope with the consequences of a devastating drought. As the world warms up, other countries should pay heed.<br/>Another good article from a quality source: The Economist.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Australia issue Whaling Injunction to Japan which Japan refuse to accept]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/48174/1/" /><id>48174</id><summary><![CDATA[Australia issue Whaling Injunction to Japan which Japan refuse to accept]]></summary><issued>2008-01-23T22:51:41+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-23T22:51:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Earlier today, an <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/23/2144854.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Australian Court issued an injunction</a> against Japan to block them from hunting whales in Australian waters.  The whaling company to which it was delivered have refused to accept it, leaving them open to international prosecution]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Funny  Drambuie market research disaster]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43080/1/" /><id>43080</id><summary><![CDATA[Funny  Drambuie market research disaster]]></summary><issued>2007-12-02T19:57:19+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-02T19:57:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[<a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drambuie" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Drambuie</a> is not for everyone. A Drambuie <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.drambuieresearch.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">research</a> team looking to market their drink in Australia found out what some real drinkers think of it. Bad for Drambuie, but funny for us. Link is MPG so might need Quicktime. Flash video <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.drambuieresearch.com/viralVideo01.swf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Roads collapse in record rains across Australia]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/9358/1/" /><id>9358</id><summary><![CDATA[Roads collapse in record rains across Australia]]></summary><issued>2007-01-21T18:19:08+01:00</issued><modified>2007-01-21T18:19:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[With record rainfalls across Australia, roads have collapsed stranding locals.<br/>Some of the pictures in this are awesome]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Joseph and Margarete Higham on run with 100 dogs]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/60947/1/" /><id>60947</id><summary><![CDATA[Joseph and Margarete Higham on run with 100 dogs]]></summary><issued>2008-05-07T10:14:34+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-07T10:14:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A South Australian couple on the run from authorities with up to 100 dogs in a trailer has numerous convictions for animal cruelty around Australia. Witnesses told the court one dog's breed was unrecognisable because it was bald and so affected by mange its skin had turned black.]]></content></entry></feed>