On July 22nd, 2023 with 86 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader maxcelcat writes: A fleet of some 500 drives were performing a display over Melbourne's Docklands in the lead up to the FIFA Women's...
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On December 14th, 2012 with 225 comments
brindafella writes "Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, recorded a spoof speech about the Mayan calendar apocalypse several days ago, for radio station...
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On October 28th, 2011 with 171 comments
First time accepted submitter shocking writes "The Perth Mint has created a gold coin that is just over one tonne in weight and worth over 50 million AUD. From...
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On September 29th, 2011 with 184 comments
bazzalunatic writes "The hottest chili in the world was made by Australians earlier this year, but how did they get the chilies so hot? Seems that worm juice...
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On September 27th, 2011 with 97 comments
bazzalunatic writes "Each wet season in northern Australia dozens of colorful lorikeets have to be rescued because they appear drunk, fall out of trees and...
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On May 5th, 2011 with 42 comments
It's not quite sharks with laser beams attached to their heads, but an Australian prison just got a guard dog with titanium teeth. Axel got his new metal...
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On April 12th, 2011 with 201 comments
bazzalunatic writes "The Trinidad Scorpion Butch T chili is grown and harvested by an Australian company, and not by the inmates of an Australian insane asylum...
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On March 29th, 2011 with 59 comments
An Australian man spending the afternoon water-skiing with his son can't figure out what all the fuss is about. After all, he wasn't piloting the helicopter...
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On November 30th, 2010 with 50 comments
Every dog owner knows there is nothing more pathetic than watching your dog beg for a sip of your delicious beer. Now, thanks to some forward thinking brewers,...
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On October 28th, 2010 with 84 comments
A recent survey of 750 Australian schools has revealed that on average children have grown too large for their chairs and desks. From the article: "The...
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On October 23rd, 2010 with 94 comments
rhettb writes "The mystery of the legendary chupacabra, a beast said to drain the blood of domestic animals at night, has been solved, according to a...
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On October 20th, 2010 with 361 comments
Australian Justice Minister Brendan O'Connor has advised visitors to take a better safe than sorry policy when it comes to their porn stashes, and declare all...
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On October 20th, 2010 with 29 comments
schliz writes "An Australian man has been served a restraining order via Facebook, after unsuccessful attempts by police to reach him by phone and in person....
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On October 6th, 2010 with 144 comments
Australian inventor Sam Adeloju has won the £20,000 ($32,000) James Dyson Award for inventing the coolest piece of life-saving equipment ever. The...
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On September 29th, 2010 with 113 comments
With space tourism becoming a real possibility in the near future, brewers are trying to figure out how to provide a good beer in space. To this end, a...
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On September 13th, 2010 with 150 comments
destinyland writes "An Australian Parliament member has resigned after admitting he'd used government computers to access porn and gambling sites. McLeay 'gave...
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On September 13th, 2010 with 138 comments
Daehenoc writes "Thanks to a lawyer in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, we now know that the Bible makes a better smoke than the Koran. From the article: 'In...
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On September 10th, 2010 with 38 comments
pickens writes "The NY Times reports that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne has announced a ban on the playing of pop music at funerals, which, he...
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On August 26th, 2010 with 412 comments
Tired of looking at an endless parade of dioramas, an Australian teacher had her class plan a terrorist attack that would "kill as many innocent Australians as...
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On July 27th, 2010 with 56 comments
The Plastiki, a catamaran made with plastic bottles, has completed a 8,000 mile trip between San Francisco and Sydney. Captain David de Rothschild said, "The...
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On July 27th, 2010 with 4 comments
When an officer tried to give 40-year-old Eilish De Avalon a ticket she politely told him that she was a being from another world and therefore, "Your laws and...
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On July 27th, 2010 with 54 comments
schliz writes "An Australian cave system visited by 200,000 tourists a year is expanding its range of audio guides to support Klingon. Cave operators...
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On July 7th, 2010 with 43 comments
A French company is offering people the chance to get away from it all and be bound and gagged for a day. The company will abduct you without warning, and hold...
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On July 7th, 2010 with 117 comments
schliz writes "Online poll-based political party Senator Online is looking for senate candidates to contest the next Australian Federal Election. The party...
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On June 27th, 2010 with 18 comments
jalovick writes "With all the talk of Internet filtering in Australia and the high cost to implement the filter, an Australian technology distributor has come...
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On June 8th, 2010 with 126 comments
Chef Yukako Ichikawa will offer a 30% discount to patrons who eat all the food they have ordered, and will kindly ask those who don't clean their plates to not...
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