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...current negotiations, Canberra wants better market access for Australian agricultural products or the deal is off. Washington is seeking a removal of Australian restrictions on audiovisual products and foreign investment. As well, Australia's taxpayer-funded Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, under which the federal government buys prescription drugs in bulk to reduce their price for all residents, is being targeted by drug companies. The U.S. pharmaceutical industry is looking for ways of challenging price-control schemes around the world, and the FTA negotiations with Australia are a convenient vehicle for this. Any significant change to Australian pharmaceutical costs - to consumers...
While Optobionics and MnemoScience are busy adding bits of technology to humans, others are trying to make our machines a bit more like ourselves. Alex Zelinsky, CEO of tiny Seeing Machines, based in Canberra, Australia, has been keeping his eye on road wrecks, which kill 1.26 million people worldwide every year, according to the World Health Organization. Working with Swedish carmaker Volvo, Seeing Machines is pairing small, driver-facing dashboard-mounted cameras with pattern-recognition software that analyzes whether the driver's face shows signs of fatigue, a top cause of traffic fatalities. "Our philosophy is that you cannot drive...
Life had also become predictable for Don Ramirez, 53, a financial planner in Canberra, Australia. The former Philippine army officer was itching to work overseas again and signed up with the United Nations Volunteers. He is currently organizing elections in Kandahar, Afghanistan--a hazardous task, as the explosion of a car bomb outside his office in November made obvious. Though unnerved, he wasn't hurt. "Things here are still very unpredictable," he says, but thanks to his life experience, "I am quick to adapt to an ever changing, even hostile, international environment...
...solution that I see is that the U.S. should put as much pressure as they can on China to be more involved in the crisis. It is the Chinese government that enables the North Koreans' Stalinist system to continue to exist with their military pact with them. Heath Francis Canberra, Australia...
...Numbers $58 million is the estimated cost of Canberra's deadly bushfires, which have destroyed 451 homes...