SYDNEY, Australia — Dozens of people are missing and feared dead in the Solomon Islands after being washed from a ferry making a dangerous journey through heaving seas caused by Cyclone Harold. Maritime authorities reported that at least two dozen passengers were aboard the ferry, the MV Taimareho, which set out late Thursday night, traveling […]
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SYDNEY, Australia — With much of the globe under stay-at-home orders, police officers are becoming the enforcers of a new coronavirus code that demands what humans naturally resist: complete isolation and obedience. Empowered by tough new laws and public pressure, police forces are testing how far to go in punishing behavior that is ordinarily routine. […]
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Reports of a performance-focused Toyota GR HiLux continue to heat up in Australia with claims the Ford Ranger Raptor rival could receive a powerful new turbodiesel engine. Shortly after it was revealed that the new LandCruiser 300 Series coming in 2021 will launch with a turbodiesel V6 engine, Cars Guide is speculating that this same […]
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Shortly after reports surfaced that Toyota could be developing GR versions of both the Corolla and C-HR, it’s emerged the automaker has filed to trademark names for both performance-focused models in Australia. The trademark filings, picked up by the GR 86 forum consist of ‘GR Corolla’, ‘C-HR GR-Sport’, and ‘C-HR GR-S.’ All three filings were […]
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SYDNEY, Australia — As countries began sealing their borders against the coronavirus and airlines rapidly slashed flights, Isabel Lo, who is due to give birth in July, had a decision to make: rely on the American health care system or leave her husband to fly home to Australia. Ms. Lo, a Chinese-Australian who until last […]
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SYDNEY, Australia — Joe Brumm’s daughter was 3 when she was first admitted to a hospital with an asthma-like illness. She spent a week in intensive care. “When she gets a cold, her lungs shut down,” said Brumm, the creator of “Bluey,” a wildly popular Australian children’s cartoon for 5- to 7-year-olds. In “Bluey,” Brumm, […]
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Say hello to the 2020 Nissan Navara N-Trek Warrior. It looks pretty serious, doesn’t it? That’s because it is. Introduced late last year by Nissan in Australia, the Navara N-Trek Warrior sits atop the Japanese carmaker’s mid-size pickup truck family and caters towards shoppers looking for a tough-looking pickup that performs just as well along […]
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It’s not unusual for meteors to illuminate night skies over southwestern Australia’s desolate landscapes. But the fireball of July 7, 2017, was different. For a full minute and a half, it just kept burning and burning and burning. The object carved a trace of light as wide across as Texas, then faded. Many meteors disintegrate […]
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Holden dealerships across Australia are threatening to pursue legal action against General Motors for the automaker’s decision to shut down the Australian brand, Car Advice reports. The Australian network of 185 Holden dealers asserts that General Motors knew there was a risk it would close Holden. Despite this, the American company asked dealers to spend […]
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SYDNEY, Australia — The line for unemployment benefits curled around the block in an upscale neighborhood of Australia’s largest city, with officially prescribed wide distances between everyone in need. There were restaurant workers in masks who had spent decades jumping from one hip hangout to another. An immigrant whose paychecks had risen as reliably as […]
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Record-breaking warm waters have bleached large parts of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef this year, as they did in 2016 and 2017, scientists reported on Thursday — the latest sign that global warming threatens the health of one of the world’s most important marine ecosystems. “We can confirm that the Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its […]
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When Pablo Escobar died in 1993, the Colombian drug kingpin’s four adult African hippopotamuses were forgotten. But the fields and ponds along the Magdalena River suited them. One estimate puts their current population at 50 to 80 animals: By 2050 there may be anywhere from 800 to 5,000 in a landscape that never before knew […]
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Honda is drastically changing its business in Australia and confirmed it will cut the number of dealerships and adopt a fixed price sales model. In a statement issued by Honda Australia, the company said changes will be made from July 1, 2021 following 23 consecutive months of decline across the local market. Most notably, the […]
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When Lee Lee developed a raspy cough three weeks ago, there were only a handful of coronavirus cases in Australia. No one was talking yet of social distancing, but when Mrs. Lee’s doctor swabbed her for a coronavirus test, she and her husband got to thinking. If hospitals were to become overwhelmed and their grandchildren […]
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Meet the granddaddy of the animal kingdom, including humans: Ikaria wariootia, a humble worm-like creature that lived an estimated 555 million years ago. This extinct creature is the oldest known “bilaterian,” meaning its body exhibited bilateral symmetry on its left and right sides, in addition to front and rear openings (a mouth and an anus) […]
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The 2020 Nissan Navara N-Trek, designed specifically for the Australian market, looks to add to the off-road prowess of lesser variants with some new parts. But, is it just style over substance? We recently spent a week with one to find out. Eye-catching but not over-the-top Nissan has been building the current Navara since 2014. […]
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LONDON — On Jiani Zhou’s university campus in southwestern England, the racism arrived before the coronavirus did. One girl headed for the stairs as soon as Ms. Zhou stepped up to a dormitory elevator bank in late January. When two construction workers saw a poster of Asian candidates in the student union election, they muttered, […]
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Scientists around the world were waiting at their computers in early January when China released the coronavirus genetic code, the blueprint for creating tests and vaccines. Within days, labs from Hong Kong to Berlin had designed tests and shared their research with others. Within about two weeks, Australia had its own tests, and even citizens […]
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Dr. Catherine Hamlin, an Australian obstetrician and gynecologist who devoted her life to treating Ethiopian women with a devastating childbearing injury and helped develop pioneering techniques to treat it, died on Wednesday at her home in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital. She was 96. Her death was announced by the Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation in Sydney, […]
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Kia has been on a role in recent years with well-rounded models such as the Stinger and Telluride landing with the performance and refinement to match the Europeans at a much cheaper price. In fact, it seems as though Kia can do very little wrong at the moment, quite the change from just a decade […]
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Shortly after General Motors announced it will kill off the Holden brand in both Australia and New Zealand, it’s been confirmed the network of Holden dealerships are working with law firm JWL Ebsworth and forensic accountants KPMG to negotiate compensation offers. According to Australia’s Drive, Holden dealers believe the compensation offers they are receiving are […]
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You can now add the 2021 Australian F1 Grand Prix at Melbourne’s Albert Park to the endless list of events that have fallen victim to the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, following the cancellation of the Geneva Motor Show and the recent postponement of the New York Auto Show, only to mention a few. The decision was […]
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