Word: queenslanders
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...make indirect attacks on the ruling party. Perhaps she also feels such an antigovernment work could be written only from the safety of exile?Lau migrated to Australia a few years ago, where the novel has garnered numerous awards, including the NSW Premier's Literary Award and the Queensland Premier's Literary Award. It's heartening to find extraordinary artists like Lau, who through ingenuity and invention manage to be heard...
...Japan, "beauty has never been polarized as a feminine attribute," says Mark McLelland, a sociology professor at the University of Queensland. Last month, a high school student was banned from a judo competition north of Tokyo. Tournament officials were put off by his heavily tweezed face, which they said was "too intimidating." Butch is in the eye of the beholder...
...made it. But by staying far south, he shortened what would have been a nearly 25,000-mile journey at the equator to 19,428 miles. He spent 15 days in freezing cold, breathing through an oxygen mask and using a bucket as a toilet, before alighting in Queensland, Australia, where he dispensed with fine wine and guzzled a Bud Light. Even a millionaire needs endorsements...
...AUSTRALIA The country's Aboriginal languages, such as the tribal Queensland tongues Wanyi, Wakka Wakka and Kullilli, are dying fast--at an estimated rate of one every three years...
...CONVICTED. Robert Long, 38, itinerant Australian fruit picker, on charges of arson and murder for starting the June 2000 fire that killed 15 at a Queensland backpackers' hostel; in Brisbane. Long is likely to face life in prison for setting the blaze in the town of Childers that claimed the lives of four Australians, six Britons, two Dutch, one Irish, one Japanese and a South Korean. DIED. Raffaele Ciriello, 42, veteran Italian war photographer, after being shot six times in the abdomen and chest, apparently by Israeli troops while in the West Bank, becoming the first foreign journalist killed there...