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Visa sued by Australia regulator
2013-02-04 07:07:18| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission sues credit card company Visa for alleged misuse of market power.
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Australia: Giant Heatwave Delivers Hottest January on Record
2013-02-04 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Australia notches another hot month, breaking a record for January that had stood since 1932. Australia's year of extreme weather has collected a fresh record with January posting the hottest average temperatures for the month on record. With just a day's data to be collected, the average of maximum and minimum temperatures for the month was 29.7 degrees. That tally was 1.79 degrees above the long-term average. Almost certainly there'll be a hotter, longer, more extreme spell (in February)...
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Australia: When Sydney's rivers run high
2013-02-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: There will always be a risk of flood in Brisbane. There will always be a risk of flood on the Gold Coast, a city built on a flood plain and at the convergence of a number of tropical river systems. But it is western Sydney, say emergency management and flood experts, that might be the most vulnerable area to floodwater in the country, at least in its potential to claim life. ''Absolutely it is the biggest flood risk in the state,'' says Steve Opper, the director of community safety at the State...
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Australia: Walls keep water out and flood bills down
2013-02-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: GRAFTON narrowly escaped a major flood this week to the reported delight of the NSW Premier, Barry O'Farrell, and no doubt the town's 18,000 or so residents. The northern New South Wales town averted disaster thanks to an 8.1 metre levee which held - just. The Clarence River, swollen by rain from the powerful remnants of ex-tropical cyclone Oswald, rose to 8.08 metres. ''It was very close,'' Scott Greensill, the general manager for the Clarence Valley shire, said. The river ''was the highest...
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Australia: Queensland is a state of extreme weather, and there will be more on the horizon
2013-02-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sunday Mail: BARELY a week ago all the talk was of fires, cattle dying in the thousands and Queensland slipping into the deadly grip of drought. Wouldn't you know it, days later large slabs of the nation's east coast were in flood, some record-breaking. Since the Millennium Drought that took up much of the 2000s, Queensland's weather has seesawed between floods, fires covering millions of hectares, cyclones and even a tremendous dust storm. The latest shattering event ex-Cyclone Oswald was deemed remarkable...
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