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A Site for Sore Eyes

Dozens of people have been treated for eye problems at the Royal Adelaide Show after they visited the cattle judging marquee.
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Ambulance staff treated about 30 people on Wednesday and there were reports that people also had sore eyes on Tuesday.
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One Show-goer Margie told ABC Radio of the problem she faced but said other people wearing glasses had been unaffected.

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gumminuptheworks:

you’re doing it wrong

yep. 

i blame Jared

Camel industry heavyweights

From Wikipedia:

Thousands of camels were imported between 1840 and 1907 to open up the arid areas of central and western Australia. They were used for riding, and as draught and pack animals for exploration and construction of rail and telegraph lines; they were also used to supply goods to remote mines and settlements.

Now feral camels dominate the bush, the question is what to do with them: 

Feb. 10, 2010:  Feral camels to be fed to crocodiles
Sep. 3, 2010:  Aussies urged to eat more camels

The Camel Industry Association is working on a plan to make camel meat a regular addition to the Australian dinner table.
Camel industry heavyweights have been granted funding to develop the domestic market and work out the best ways to farm the million feral camels roaming Central Australia.

Child Cruelty: The Meat Pie

From Wikipedia:

An Australian or New Zealand meat pie is a hand-sized meat pie containing largely diced or minced meat and gravy, sometimes with onion, mushrooms, or cheese and often consumed as a takeaway food snack. The pie itself is similar to the United Kingdom’s steak pie.
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Former New South Wales Premier Bob Carr launched a Childhood obesity Summit in 2002 where he told participants that feeding children a diet of meat pies, sausage rolls and chiko rolls was akin to child cruelty.
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The meats allowed by FSANZ in a meat pie are beef, buffalo, camel, cattle, deer, goat, hare, pig, poultry, rabbit and sheep. Kangaroo meat, a leaner alternative, is also sometimes used. However, most pie manufacturers specify ‘beef’ in their ingredients list; typically, those using other types of meat will simply put ‘meat’ in the list instead. FSANZ’s definition of meat includes snouts, ears, tongue roots, tendons and blood vessels. Only offal (such as brain, heart, kidney, liver, tongue, tripe) must be specified on the label. Wild animals (“slaughtered … in the wild state”) may not be used.

Surry Hills

The graffiti was going up on Sydney walls as fast as the Premier and about 1000 volunteers could scrub it off.

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Under the new clean-up orders program, courts will be able to insist that ”suitable” graffiti vandals pay off their penalties by cleaning up graffiti at a rate of $30 an hour, the NSW Attorney-General, John Hatzistergos, said.

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The announcement was made in conjunction with Keep Australia Beautiful’s Graffiti Action Day yesterday, during which graffiti was cleaned up across the city.

Meanwhile, over at Foveaux Street, Surry Hills, pro-graffiti activists were holding their own ”Keep Australia Colourful” day, painting new legal graffiti artworks in protest.

Putting the finishing touches on a piece emblazoned with the slogan “they keep painting, we keep painting” graffiti artist “Numskull”, 30, said tough graffiti policies did not work.

“They keep getting rid of our stuff and we keep doing it again. It’s a pointless process,” he said.

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Lucky spider indeed:  Spider eats bird

“Normally they prey on large insects, it’s unusual to see one eating a bird,” he said.

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“If a spider gets a bird, it`s a very lucky spider,” Mr Czechura said

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Baby Pygmy Hippo

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