(1) Nulliparous women were also more likely to discontinue the condom because of pregnancy, as were non-Protestants and the Australian-born.
(2) The thermoregulatory responses of this American marsupial were, in most aspects, similar to those of Australian marsupials.
(3) Responding to the 8 vignettes, 30 American and 32 Australian nurses took part in the study.
(4) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(5) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(6) The impact of ethnicity on the stress process in old age was examined using two surveys of Australians aged 60 years and older.
(7) The “100% Australian-made” text on packaging has been enlarged to appeal to customer patriotism.
(8) The Liberal party received $320,000 from the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association.
(9) I am absolutely sick to the stomach that this iconic Australian news agency would attack the navy in the way that it has,” he said.
(10) Blight responded with a hypothetical, telling Ludlam if the ASD asked a foreign agency to get material about Australian citizens it could not access under Australian law, the IGIS would know about it and flag it in its annual report.
(11) According to Australian Associated Press the woman made an official complaint to police on Wednesday morning and supplied some evidence.
(12) Tony Abbott urges Europe to adopt Australian policies in refugee crisis Read more Given that Obama – whatever one’s views on his strategy – is not advocating a bigger military contribution, the only difference is that Abbott is “urging” the US and others to do more, which sounds resolute, and Turnbull says he would consider any request if it was made.
(13) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
(14) The attitudes and practices of 96 doctors toward spousal assault victims in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia, were investigated by questionnaire surveys distributed to general practitioners.
(15) The latest annual report from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has revealed that there was 582,727 requests for phone, web browsing and location data – commonly known as “metadata” – that can reveal detailed information about a person’s personal lives and associations.
(16) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.
(17) For most causes of death, the observed number of deaths of veterans and of non-veterans was less than expected from Australian population death rates, and for no cause was there a statistically significant excess of deaths compared with that of the Australian population.
(18) In addition to published reports and theses, it also includes unpublished data provided to the Australian Institute of Health by State and Territory health authorities.
(19) The Australian prime minister and the Russian president discussed the Malaysia Airlines tragedy during a 15-minute meeting on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit on Tuesday.
(20) Every Indigenous person has felt it Read more But on Friday he received the high-profile support of billionaire James Packer who said the booing had made him “ashamed to be Australian”.
Thunderbird
Definition:
(n.) An Australian insectivorous singing bird (Pachycephala gutturalis). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush, guttural thrush, and black-breasted flycatcher.
Example Sentences:
(1) In their distinctive Thunderbirds-style light-blue uniforms with red trim the Artane Boys Band are icons of Irish music.
(2) Almost ten years ago, we saw a crew of puppets setting out to save the world in the Thunderbirds-style comedy Team America: World Police .
(3) Preamble: What if Kim Jong-il has spent the last few decades in his fiendish lair devising not nuclear weapons, invisible pulse rifles and Thunderbird suits, but a fleet of crack footballers who only now are about to be unleashed on an unsuspecting world?
(4) Take Cranfield Professor Ian Poll, who gave an interview in 2008 propounding a nuclear powered airliner à la Thunderbirds.
(5) Background: Nicknamed Brains after the Thunderbird character by Alastair Campbell in reference to his geeky nature, Miliband was branded a strong Blairite following his seven years as policy chief for Tony Blair – both in opposition and after Blair became prime minister.
(6) I don't know what they're singing, but part of it sounds like the Thunderbirds theme tune.
(7) A transatlantic UAV flight within five years, according to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology What the advocates say: "Still a long way from being the primary energy source for the propulsion of commercial aircraft", DLR (the German Aerospace Centre) GOING NUCLEAR Thunderbirds are Go?
(8) How it works: Small onboard nuclear reactor delivers power to engines State of play: Provocative suggestion as post-2050 solution for powering commercial airliners Latest action: Idea floated by Cranfield Professor Ian Poll in October 2008; previously researched by US and Soviet sides during the Cold War in the hope of keeping bombers airborne without refuelling, and featured on fictional nuclear airliner in the cult 1965 TV animation Thunderbirds Downsides: Practicality, image, radioactive shielding, accident risk, vulnerability to terrorism, nuclear proliferation Likeliest prospects: Idea that refuses to die The vision?
(9) Perhaps they were paying Conservative HQ back for airbrushing their own leader into a non-credible Thunderbird?
(10) The newly appointed secretary of state for culture, media and sport is a devotee of Star Trek and Thunderbirds and a heavy metal fan known to sing karaoke versions of Smoke on the Water and Bat out of Hell.
(11) This remark recalled the kind of messaging that turned the brilliant, warm Julia Gillard into a bogan Thunderbird.
(12) Also Thursday, the pilot of a US Air Force Thunderbird ejected safely into a Colorado field, crashing the fighter jet moments after flying over a crowd watching Barack Obama’s commencement address for Air Force cadets.
(13) Some might see her and Brooke as the Thelma and Louise of a coalition, driving over the cliff towards electoral defeat, she said, but this would not be the case "because unlike a 1966 Thunderbird, the coalition is right-hand drive".
(14) But this remark recalled the kind of loathed campaign messaging that turned the brilliant, funny and warm Julia Gillard into a bogan Thunderbird for nearly her entire time as prime minister.
(15) The Lib Dems have targeted airbrushing ( a topical theme as David Cameron was mocked for looking like a "non-credible Thunderbird" in a poster campaign) to "help protect children and young people from developing negative body images".
(16) If Gmail users could only send email to other Gmail users, and my Thunderbird desktop email software could only send to others using the same package, email would soon turn into a monopoly controlled by one company.