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MONEY MARKETS-Curves steepen after Australia hikes rates | Currencies | Reuters It's pretty much old news now that Australia is recovering from a recession it never had. The interest rate rises are clearly necessary - for Australia's economic health they'll need to reach about 5% or...

Parts of Australia have Switzerland's weather anyway. Australia has pretty much every climatic zone ever.

I fear I'm going to forget to teach my children religion even exists and one day when they're 10 years old they'll be inducted into an evangelical cult due to natural curiosity and no forewarning.

Levitation is floating, right? Humans float in space. They move around by the power of their minds. :shy:

Yeah no. Levitation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Because Christianity is the most common religion.

Sort of. Iceland went broke in the sense that they went from being super rich to just 'only' as rich as your average American. Their quality of life has barely suffered, but their wallets sure have.

Err, always beat Switzerland...

Hmm. Did you read the article? Judging by your post I can only surmise two possibilities: you can't read, or mistook 'economy' for 'economic growth', which I guess comes back to not being able to read. :p To be sure, China's economy is bigger than India's (about twice as big), and will be...

Soon, possibly as early as next year, India's economy will be growing faster than China's, and will continue to do so from then on. BBC NEWS | South Asia | Can India's economy overtake China? A relatively obvious observation, IMHO, but it may come as quite a reality check to some -...

Malcolm Turnbull risks all in carbon debate | The Australian Staking his leadership on environmental action, and outright suggestions of replacement leaders by high-profile members of his party, it looks like Turnbull has decided to go out swinging. Respect for him doing it on this issue...

If the work is voluntary, I see no problem. This isn't a real job for them - it's a skills improvement programme. Similarly, trainees are paid below minimum wage, and charity workers usually paid nothing at all. I think the plan is a good idea and will end up being quite effective. I work in...

Do robots go to hell?

I'm glad the name is so shit, since it makes this shitty new product more likely to fail. Long live classic Vegemite!

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Poland is an EU member, so this law won't hold. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights

The next 1 to 2 months. They've actually got their shit together this time.

There's like an adult back, it's someone has zero defends my sense an adult back, it's like and no air play, it just offense an adult hitting fundamentally unfair about should I cheer for rockets to him? There's someone has zero defense or rockets to hitting someone from 2000 feet with a...

Of course you could, Neb. Now why don't you go play in the backyard with your silly string. The grown ups are talking.

It's not a matter of figuring it out, though, it's a matter of infrastructure. It's not easy to build and maintain, and not cheap. Iran's had this weakness for many years and they still haven't managed to fix it. Meanwhile if ever they lose access to refined oil, the cost to civil order in the...