Latest and Most Recent News in Oceania from Topix (April 2011 Diet)

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Break up big supermarkets: senator

Chicken added to grocery price wars Australia's two major supermarkets are offering no apologies for their price wars.

Source: Break up big supermarkets: senator.

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That's according to a cross-cultural study of attitudes toward obesity to be published in the April issue of Current Anthropology.

Source: Negative Attitudes Toward Fat Bodies Going Global, Study Finds

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Oysters have long been linked to love because of their supposed aphrodisiac qualities.

Source: Appetising oysters

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Trace amounts of radiation from the damaged Japanese nuclear plant have shown up in seven U.S. states including Alabama, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Source: EPA: Traces of radiation in Ala., 6 other states

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An Australian mother and her giggling 13-month-old daughter were kicked off a bus for making too much noise, a local newspaper reports.

Source: Laughing baby kicked off bus

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You might think it gets easier to stomach news of a good friend or terrific individual ''disappearing'' in China, given the rate at which it has been happening.

Source: My friend, the writer who 'disappeared'

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OVERTIME BILL: SES workers across the state worked around the clock as floods battered centres like Rockhampton , Bundaberg, Brisbane, Ispwich, the Lockyer Valley and Toowoomba and then cyclones flattened far north Queensland.

Source: Flood crews cost $10.5m in overtime

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Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been showered with praise by Fremantle residents for her government's proposed carbon tax during a community cabinet meeting in the West Australian port city.

Source: Fremantle thanks PM for carbon tax

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NEW ROOTS: Zarko Vrhovac, from Slovenia, received a kowhai tree from Hastings District Council to mark becoming a New Zealand citizen.

Source: Taking a shine to Hawke's Bay's sunny skies

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COSMETIC procedures in Australia, including breast augmentation and liposuction, is now worth about $1 billion a year, a conference of surgeons has been told.

Source: Our $1bn addiction to cosmetic surgery