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...Anne Kelly, federal Nationals M.P. in the Queensland seat of Dawson, got e-savvy after visiting a local school. Only one of the students she met read the paper - most got news online. "We had to adopt a more diverse approach to getting our message out," Kelly says. She needed an expert - and hired an 18-year-old. "He had a MySpace site done for me within an hour. He knows how to upload videos and get his friends onto the site. We call him our techno-gecko...
...Graham Young, editor of e-journal On Line Opinion, says that while Australia's use of Internet politicking has grown, it remains well behind the U.S., where massive fundraising, "town hall" debates and even candidacy announcements take place online. Young, the Queensland Liberal Party's campaign chairman from 1995-97, says the Net's real heft is its ability to spread key messages cheaply and easily, with old media then reporting its doings. "It's like malaria," he says. "In the mosquito it does nothing, but once it's infected a human it can spread...
...Center for Disease Control identifies it as the most reported bacterial STD in the U.S., but chlamydia may be on the brink of extinction. Michael N. Starnbach, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, is collaborating with a team of researchers at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia to study the immune system’s response to chlamydia. They hope this research will ultimately result in the creation of a vaccine. “I would hope that we might be able to get to the first phase...of a vaccine trial within the next three...
...horse-racing, lottery and sports-book industry - has one of the highest per capita betting averages in the world (about $2,000 annually), according to figures from the Hong Kong Jockey Club. And rates of addiction appear to be higher. A 2004 study by psychiatrists at the University of Queensland found that Chinese were almost 50% more likely to develop a gambling addiction than Caucasians. In the U.S., about 3.5% of people are classified as pathological and problem gamblers (more than the number of people who suffer from bipolar disorder, Alzheimer's disease or schizophrenia). In Hong Kong...
...director Dean Watt. "If you could put a smell through the Internet we would do it." Right now, though, few would want to be that close to an Australian horse. An epidemic of equine influenza has hit some 5,000 stables and breeding farms in New South Wales and Queensland, resulting in numerous race cancellations and costing the industry an estimated $1 billion...