Latest and Most Recent Oceania News from Topix [May ‘11 Series]

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Frank Bainimarama has rejected claims that the 2014 election will not go ahead Fiji's regime leader Frank Bainimarama has rejected claims that the 2014 election will not go ahead, dismissing the man who made them as a "little kid who doesn't know what's happening". A former Fiji government insider, Lieutenant Colonel Tevita Mara, fled to Tonga ...

Source: Bainimarama rejects election claims

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Mike and Jeanne Meier of Poulsbo took the North Kitsap Herald with them on vacation to Rarotonga, one of the northern Cook Islands, northeast of New Zealand.

Source: goes on vacation to Rarotonga

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A New Zealand truck driver who inflated "like a balloon" when he fell buttocks-first onto a compressed air nozzle is being described as lucky to be alive.

Source: Truckie 'blew up like balloon' in freak accident

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John Butler and Kasey Chambers are again among the nominees for the annual APRA Music Awards after their respective songs Revolution and Little Bird earned praise from their peers.

Source: 2011 APRA Music Awards nominees announced

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ALMOST half of all Australians working indoors will come out of the winter months lacking in vitamin D, a new study has found.

Source: Indoor workers 'suffer Vitamin D deficiency'

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After news that Britain's beloved Marmite has been removed from supermarket shelves in Denmark it emerged Thursday that Australia's favorite spread, Vegemite, has also been added to the Scandanavian country's banned list.

Source: Ovaltine, Vegemite Banned in Denmark

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A Perth boy stalked a US girl for months, but it was the Domino's pizza he ordered online and sent to her home that allowed US investigators to track him down.

Source: Pizza order leads US police to Aussie teen

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WOMEN will not break the glass ceiling until Australia embraces a go-home-for-dinner corporate culture, says the head of one of the country's largest companies.

Source: Eating the glass ceiling

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HEINZ Australia will shed more than 300 jobs when it moves some of its Victoria, NSW and Queensland operations to New Zealand, it announced today.

Source: Jobs canned as Heinz shifts work offshore

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YULARA, the tourist resort set in central Australia with Uluru and the Olgas in the middle distance, finally became totally Aboriginal-owned this week, completing the process that started 26 years ago with the handover of Ayers Rock to traditional owners.

Source: Indigenous jobs are focus for new Uluru resort owners