Australian outbound tourism continues healthy growth due to the country's strong dollar and convenient flights to such destinations as the United States and Canada. A leading Canadian travel company responds by launching a new website specific to this market. (PRWeb Dec 2, 2008)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Canada_Travel/Australia_Tourism/prweb1691174.htm

The Australian branch of Roadrunner Records has posted the sixth and final video in a series of clips featuring MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn, aptly titled Robb Flynn's Rants. In the latest installment, which can be viewed below, Robb tells the viewers what's in store for MACHINE HEAD in 2009.

Australians are getting a big hello from the heavens as Venus, Jupiter and a waxing crescent moon combine to create a celestial smiley face.

Category: Sports
Released: Dec 01, 2008
Price: $3.99

Description:
iTeam Xtra is an organizing application to help plan and organize MULTIPLE sports teams for a sports game or event. It allows the creation of a squad of players for each team, to choose your team for each game and record important information. It also allows you to email the players in the current team with the information about the game. Features: - � Unlimited number of Teams and Games can be added � Use the iPhone and iPod Touch Contacts App to create a Squad of players � Information recorded such as venue/stadium , date and time of game. � Ability to record player score (points or goals) for each game � Record Home or Away and Result. � Automatically Email players for each game with all the important information. � Player statistics created for number of games played, percentage played, total scores and average score per game. � Game History section to allow quick reference to previous results. Who would use this app? � Team Managers, Sports Club Captains, School Team Organizers, Little League and anyone else who arranges teams of players for sporting events. What Sports does iTeam Xtra Support? � Supports many different sports including Soccer, Basketball, Baseball, American Football, Ice-Hockey, Hockey, Netball, Volleyball, Softball, Cricket, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Australian Rules Football, Rounders and Lacrosse. What is Xtra? � This version of iTeam has been completely rewritten to allow multiple teams to be added, each team can even be a different sport. Each Team has a separate squad and statistics. Do you only want to organize 1 team - check out our original - iTeam.

Website: http://www.serendipityappcompany.com/
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Get it on iTunes: iTeam Xtra

iBMJ (Clinical research ed.), Vol. 331, No. 7520. (8 October 2005)/ibr /br /OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of dietary folate intake on the relation between alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: Melbourne, Australia. PARTICIPANTS: 17,447 Anglo-Australian women resident in Melbourne, aged 40-69 years at recruitment in 1990-4, and followed up until 31 December 2003. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Invasive breast cancers diagnosed during follow-up and ascertained through the Victorian cancer registry. RESULTS: 537 invasive breast cancers were diagnosed. Compared with lifetime abstainers, the hazard ratio for breast cancer in women who consumed an average of 40 g or more of alcohol daily at baseline was 1.41 (95% confidence interval 0.90 to 2.23). No direct association was found between dietary folate intake and risk of breast cancer, but a high folate intake mitigated the excess risk associated with alcohol. The estimated hazard ratio of an alcohol consumption of 40 g/day or more was 2.00 (1.14 to 3.49) for women with intakes of 200 mug/day of folate and 0.77 (0.33 to 1.80) for 400 mug/day of folate (P = 0.04 for interaction between alcohol and folate). CONCLUSIONS: An adequate dietary intake of folate might protect against the increased risk of breast cancer associated with alcohol consumption.br /iL Baglietto, DR English, DM Gertig, JL Hopper, GG Giles/i

Communications minister, senator Stephen Conroy, has given a $700,000 foundation grant to the nascent peak body formed to represent consumer telecoms users, the Australian Communications Consumers Action Network (ACCAN).

F.E.A.R. 2 Project Origin has been refused classification by the Australian Classifications Board.

Here’s how I plan to turn the $1,000 per female that the Rudd Government is giving to my kinsfolk on 8 December, 2008 into a heritage that lasts for life. For those readers who are either not Australian, or who are not alive of the recently-announced financial resource the inhabitant Government is substance to families; here [...]

Alors qu'il avait annoncé la semaine dernière que l'Aviron Bayonnais l'avait contacté pour le signer, Matt Giteau ne rejoindra pas le Pays Basque durant l'intersaison de l'hémisphère sud, indique ce lundi The Australian.

An Australian road safety body known for its hard-hitting road safety TV ads has signed a $100,000 deal to advertise on virtual billboards in PS3 games such as Need for Speed. "It's all about engagement with our audience. Eighteen- to 30-year-old males are the biggest cause of road trauma. We want to see if we can talk to this male audience, and if we can get some positive responses, that would be fantastic." said a rep.

This year's Turner Prize winner will be presented at Tate Britain later by Australian singer Nick Cave.

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psmallNick Farrell a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/"the Inquirer/a, Monday 1 December 2008. 10:18:00/small/ppi Australian Great Rabbit Proof Fence plans failing /i/ppTHE AUSSIE government's plans to build a Great Internet Rabbit Proof Fence are floundering with even kiddie welfare groups saying it is a jolly bad idea. The Aussie government thought that it would protect children by mimicking the censorship antics of Communist China but, much to its surprise, has found.../pimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.theinquirer.net/c/554/f/7127/s/279868b/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Even child welfare groups don’t want web censorshiplink=http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/12/01/children-welfare-groups-web" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Even child welfare groups don’t want web censorshiplink=http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/12/01/children-welfare-groups-web" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24193178597/u/89/f/7127/c/554/s/41518731/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24193178597/u/89/f/7127/c/554/s/41518731/a2.img" border="0"//a

Today I was walking Home from Krav Maga. While i was walking I noticed a White iPhone on the floor. I have tried looking for details on the phone but unfortunately it's locked. Is there anyway I can find the owner from looking at the Serial Number or something like that?

Btw It's Australian and is on Optus.

Q

Problem I'm having at the moment is choosing the correct lenses for what I want to shoot, while trying to keep with in my budget.

I currently have the 50D with a Canon 17-40 f4 L lens. I would eventually like to purchase the 5D Mk2 some time towards the end of next year therefore my lens choices need to work on the FF as well.

Scenario 1
Should I get the 70-200 f2.8 IS and perhaps the 50mm F1.4 which would amount to about $3100 in Australian dollars. which would cover what I intend shooting, Although I dont think I need 200mm for weddings.

Scenario 2
Get the 24-70 f2.8 L and the 135mm f2 L This does not cover quite the range of the 70-200 but from what I read the 135mm is a better lens in terms of speed and quality of images being a prime. This would cost $3500 Australian Dollars.

Which scenario should I choose if I plan on doing wedding and event photography, By event I mean music concerts and sporting events. I also like shooting foliage.

Thanks for any advice you can offer

Rockstar have told Gamespot that "the Australian PC retail release of GTA IV will be sold completely uncensored." "Grand Theft Auto IV PC has been rated MA15+ strong violence, sex scenes, coarse language, and drug references by the Australian Classification Office. The PC game is unedited in any way and identical in content to the international version," said a rep.

The Wi-Fi ldquo;digital virtual anything viewerrdquo; that is the Chumby has come to Australia courtesy of local ISP Internode, and to boost the amount of Australian content available, Internode is launching a...

Hello,

I'm new to the site :p obviously. I registered last night (Australian Time). I have viewed the site a few times before, but i'd thought i'd register since i have now go an ipod touch :P. My name is Cohen, i'm 14, 15 in January and i'm from Australia :)

You guys helped me out, getting my hotmail onto my touch and that worked. Thanks for that :)

I love my ipod touch, i have used my friends 1G touch a few times and love it! and then i got my own, and it's awesome. I can go on the school network at school and do some awesome things :). It's really good...

My ipod touch is a 2G, 2.2 Software, 8GB, as you can see in the top right hand corner :p ;)

Anyway, i have made a few posts already.

Just thought i'd introduce myself :)

See you guys around

Cohen :)

P.S. - I like to use my smilies a lot :p :D

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Itsumishi sez, "A few weeks ago it was mentioned that the Australian Labor Government will be trying to introduce mandatory internet filtering despite promises before the election that any filtering would be on a voluntary basis. The whole insane proposal has received very little mainstream media attention despite vocal opposition from the Opposition, some smaller parties, industry experts, ISPs, consumers and even Child Welfare Groups! With trials due to start December 24th (while everyone is distracted by the holiday season) the time to speak up and let Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy as well as the Labor Government know how Australian's feel about this very important issue. GetUp! Campaign Actions (who helped abolish Work Choices and free David Hicks) have set up a campaign to Save the Net in Australia. I urge all Australian's who care about free speech, the internet and our economy to sign up now and stop this insanity before it has real impact on our daily lives." Holly Doel-Mackaway, adviser with Save the Children, the largest independent children's rights agency in the world, said educating kids and parents was the way to empower young people to be safe internet users. She said the filter scheme was "fundamentally flawed" because it failed to tackle the problem at the source and would inadvertently block legitimate resources. Furthermore there was no evidence to suggest that children were stumbling across child pornography when browsing the web. Doel-Mackaway believes the millions of dollars earmarked to implement the filters would be far better spent on teaching children how to use the internet safely and on law enforcement. "Children are exposed to the abusive behaviours of adults often and we need to be preventing the causes of violence against children in the community, rather than blocking it from people's view," she said. "The constant change of cyberspace means that a filter is going to be able to be circumvented and it's going to throw up false positives - many innocent websites, maybe even our own, will be blacklisted because we reference a lot of our work that we do with children in fighting commercial sexual exploitation." Children's welfare groups slam net filters, Save The Net petition...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=2779bba3b87dbc51d7701b6390dd45dbp=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=2779bba3b87dbc51d7701b6390dd45dbp=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=2779bba3b87dbc51d7701b6390dd45db" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

With the RFPs for Australia's National Broadband Network now in, communications minister Stephen Conroy is talking about awarding contract(s) by the end of March, but the Australian Computer Society has...

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/31933?ns=guardianpageName=Technology%3A+Britney+Spears+pushes+Obama+aside+in+internet+search+tablech=Technologyc3=The+Guardianc4=Internet%2CYahoo+%28Technology%29%2CBritney+Spears%2CBarack+Obama+%28News%29%2CBig+Brother%2CReality+TV%2CTelevision+industry+%28Media%29%2CCulture+section%2CUS+news%2CWorld+news%2CTechnology%2CMusicc5=Pop+Music%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CUS+Elections%2CTechnology+Gadgets%2CCorporate+IT%2CTelevision+Mediac6=Sam+Jonesc7=2008_12_01c8=1126572c9=articlec10=GUc11=Technologyc12=Internetc13=c14=h2=GU%2FTechnology%2FInternet" width="1" height="1" //divpBarack Obama's epochal victory in the US presidential election may have transfixed and gladdened the world but the British public, it seems, is more preoccupied with the life and times of another American colossus - a 26-year-old singer by the name of Britney Jean Spears./ppDespite, or perhaps because, she has endured yet another turbulent year, Spears has topped a list of the UK's 10 most searched-for subjects on Yahoo./ppThe huge appetite for information on Big Brother and The X Factor pushed them into second and third place on the search list, while the US election had to make do with the seventh spot, sandwiched between High School Musical 3 and Amy Winehouse. Oasis, who released their seventh studio album, Dig Out Your Soul, last month, came in at number four. Kate Moss, whom the sculptor Marc Quinn immortalised in a pound;1.5m gold statue displayed in the British Museum, claimed ninth place, just ahead of EastEnders./ppAlso on the most-searched list was Heath Ledger, who died in New York in January. The Australian star of the latest Batman film was placed eighth. His performance as the psychopathic Joker in The Dark Knight generated speculation that he may win a posthumous Oscar next year./ppA spokesman for Yahoo Europe said: "It is fascinating to look back over the last year and see the stories, personalities and subjects that have captured our imagination ... some of which continue to be the hot topics of today."/ppSpears has crammed a remarkable amount into the past 12 months. As well as facing trial for driving without a valid Californian licence, having her father granted indefinite control of her assets and spending two days in a psychiatric ward, the singer has managed to confound many by launching a comeback. /ppLast week she was named best international pop star at an awards ceremony in Germany. On Saturday, the singer made her first UK television appearance for four years when she sang her new single, Womanizer, on The X Factor. Her performance brought in the highest ratings for the show, attracting a peak of 12.8 million viewers. Today sees the launch of her sixth studio album, Circus./pp"I've been through a lot and there's a lot that people don't know," she told MTV this year. "I look back and [think]: 'I'm a smart person. What the hell was I thinking?'"/ppDespite her impressive showing in the list, however, Spears' new record has not captivated all the critics. "Circus isn't bad as pop albums go," wrote the Guardian's Alexis Petridis. "But ... it's less edgy and exciting than its predecessor."/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/internet"Internet/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/yahoo"Yahoo/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/britneyspears"Britney Spears/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/barackobama"Barack Obama/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/bigbrother"Big Brother/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/realitytv"Reality TV/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/television"Television/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usa"United States/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/VSGno8P-8b3WyoKLATQa3Gq8PkQ/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/VSGno8P-8b3WyoKLATQa3Gq8PkQ/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/11568?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+Thai+anti-government+protesters+defy+police+warning+to+leave+airportsch=World+newsc3=The+Guardianc4=Thailand+%28News%29%2CWorld+newsc5=Not+commercially+usefulc6=Ian+MacKinnonc7=2008_12_01c8=1126671c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=Thailandc13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FThailand" width="1" height="1" //divpPolice in Thailand ordered protesters to leave Bangkok's two airports yesterday to allow more than 160,000 stranded travellers to fly home./ppBut the authorities showed little sign that they were about to move in forcefully to take control of the airports, which have been closed for six days amid mounting frustration of foreign governments concerned about their nationals./ppThe rising alarm came as more than 10,000 of the beleaguered government's supporters gathered for a mass rally in Bangkok, leading to fears of clashes with their rivals holding the airports and the prime minister's Government House headquarters. Fifty-one anti-government protesters of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) were wounded - four of them seriously - when a grenade blew up in the early hours of yesterday at Government House. /ppSome foreign governments sent emergency planes to rescue their citizens, while airlines put on 60 flights to pick up stranded passengers from a tiny Vietnam War-era airbase 90 miles south-east of Bangkok. Australia's foreign minister, Stephen Smith, expressed dismay over Thailand's inability to evacuate his country-folk caught in the chaos. "It's very frustrating for us and ... for those stranded Australians. Some are becoming increasingly distressed," he said./ppThe deepening crisis has left the prime minister, Somchai Wongsawat, powerless and isolated, governing from the northern city of Chiang Mai for fear of a coup. It has also left Thai businesses, and the tourist industry in particular, reeling./ppEven efforts by the Thai airports authority to negotiate with the protesters occupying Suvarnabhumi - Thailand's main international airport - to allow 88 trapped international aircraft to fly out empty were rebuffed./ppThe PAD demonstrators, who are demanding the prime minister step down, invaded the airport last Tuesday in their most audacious act in months of protests, which was followed a day later by the seizure of the domestic hub at Don Muang, in effect cutting off the Thai capital./ppPolice attempts to take back control of Suvarnabhumi, which handles 700 flights and 125,000 passengers every day, appeared half-hearted, even after the sacking of the national police chief./ppOn Saturday, 150 riot police manning a checkpoint near the airport fled when they were outnumbered by protes