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From: moorerr@msu.edu (richard r. moore)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: September conditions in tasmania
Date: 6 Jan 93 01:25:46 GMT
Organization: Computer laboratory, michigan state university
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I would like to know what are the usual weather conditions through out 
tasmania in the month of september (coast and mountain areas).  The 
australian tour books give conditions for hobart, but i'm sure that does not 
tell me the likely conditions on the western side.  What are the landscape 
conditions likely to be? wild flowers blooming yet? etc. 

Thanks for any information you can give me.
From: deriche@ee.umn.edu (rsch Mohamed Deriche)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: moving to brisbane
Date: 8 Jan 93 21:12:40 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering, U of MN, Mpls.


Hello, 
I am moving very soon from the USA to Australia (Brisbane) so I wanted to know about the things that should be
bought and brought from the USA which would be more expensive in Australia.
SOme of the things that I would like to know about are:
TV Prices,
VCRs
Microwaves
Beds (single and double)
Bedroom sets
Dining sets ar just tables and chairs sets
Sofas and recliners.
Highchairs, cribs, strollers, and walkers for babies
Clothes
bicycles,
and evything that you know about.
You can either quote prices for new stuff or secondhand.
Your help is very much appreciated.


M. Deriche (U. of Minnesota)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
From: burns@cognet.ucla.edu (Bruce Burns)
Subject: Re: looking for REDGUM
Summary: Australian folk/rock music
Keywords: REDGUM, Australia
Organization: UCLA Cognitive Science Research Program
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 06:51:35 GMT

In article <1io4glINNs13@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cj436@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brian Paganelli) writes:
>
>Has anybody heard from this Aussie band lately?  
>
>Titles: CAUGHT IN THE ACT, FRONTLINE, BROWN RICE AND KEROSENE,
>        MIDNIGHT SUN
>
>Are there any others out?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Brian Paganelli and Mike Detmar
>
You are missing their earlier albums, which are more folky (in the Irish
influenced Australian Folk music way), but no less strident politically.
These albums were: IF YOU DON'T FIGHT YOU LOSE, and VIRGIN GROUND.  I don't
know of any others, but I left Australia in 1988.  I've never heard
MIDNIGHT SUN which is from the time after John Schumman (Sp?) left. Some of
CAUGHT IN THE ACT is from those two albums, in fact I think the only song
from that live albuym that never appeared on a studio record was "Fabulon"
(the song that sounds like "By the rivers of Babylon").

They used to be a great live band but personnally I felt they went down hill
soon after FRONTLINE when they seemed to decide they were a rock band 
rather than a folk-rock band and started butchering their earlier acoustic 
songs with overly electric arrangements.

Maybe though really the start of the decline was when they finally 
appeared in the "glossy pages of the Bulletin", an Australian newsmagazine
they used to refer to with contempt (e.g., the song BEAMOUNT RAG on
CAUGHT IN THE ACT).
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Bruce Burns, Dept. of Psychology, UCLA; Los Angeles, CA, 90024, USA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
From: sprent@sol.surv.utas.edu.au (Tony Sprent)
Subject: Re: September conditions in tasmania
Organization: University of Tasmania
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:15:29 GMT

In article <moorerr.203.726283546@msu.edu>, moorerr@msu.edu (richard r. moore) writes:
> 
> I would like to know what are the usual weather conditions through out 
> tasmania in the month of september (coast and mountain areas).  The 
> australian tour books give conditions for hobart, but i'm sure that does not 
> tell me the likely conditions on the western side.  What are the landscape 
> conditions likely to be? wild flowers blooming yet? etc. 
> 
> Thanks for any information you can give me.
> 
> 

September is still winter in Tasmania. It is the wet season and particularly in 
the mountains it is cold and wet or snowy and dangerous to go into the bush unless
you are experienced. It is the time of the roaring forties with mainly Westerly winds
bringing storms and gales to the West coast. Other than mining towns there is not much
else other than bush, It really is pretty wild and uninhabited, a fantastic place to 
go and see but unless you are lucky with the weather you may not see much at this
time of year. If you intend to come over in September then I would suggest you
concentrate on the East coast and duck over to the West if the weather is good. That is the great 
the great advantage of Tasmania, you can get from one side to the other in a few hours.

The East coast is beautiful as well and there is a lot to do and places to go.
Unfortunately the wild flowers won't be out in September but the countryside is still
worth looking at. As a long-time Tasmaniac I would say that any time is a good time
to visit but it is at its best from Nov-May.

Have a good trip and enjoy it!

Tony Sprent
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
From: simon@earth.monash.edu.au (Simon Cox)
Subject: Re: What is cornflour (in making pavlova)?
Reply-To: simon@earth.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University Dept of Earth Sciences
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 01:14:04 GMT

cornflour == cornstarch
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Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:06:33 CST
From: <U22822@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: HELP ON PUBLISHER INFORMATION

Here in Chicago, it is possible to find books like "Jobs in Chicago:"
"job bank" etc. which give a profile of the companies operating around
Chicago.
Could you provide me the publeisher of such a book written for Sydney
area.
Thanks
Matt
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
From: drizzt@spock.uucp (Neela Jacques)
Subject: Re: September conditions in tasmania
Organization: Choate Rosemary Hall
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:41:36 GMT

>you are experienced. It is the time of the roaring forties with mainly Westerly winds
>bringing storms and gales to the West coast. Other than mining towns there is not much
>else other than bush, It really is pretty wild and uninhabited, a fantastic place to 
>go and see but unless you are lucky with the weather you may not see much at this
>time of year. If you intend to come over in September then I would suggest you
>concentrate on the East coast and duck over to the West if the weather is good. That is the great 
>the great advantage of Tasmania, you can get from one side to the other in a few hours.
>
>The East coast is beautiful as well and there is a lot to do and places to go.
>Unfortunately the wild flowers won't be out in September but the countryside is still
>worth looking at. As a long-time Tasmaniac I would say that any time is a good time
>to visit but it is at its best from Nov-May.
>
>Have a good trip and enjoy it!
>
>Tony Sprent


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Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
From: dyfl@kbs.citri.edu.au (Daniel Lam)
Subject: Re: Duel Australian/USA citizenship
Organization: Collaborative Information Technology Research Institute
Date: 13 Jan 93 00:18:04 GMT

jhk4@po.CWRU.Edu (Judith H. Wernet) writes:
>	I would like to know if anyone has any comments/personal
>experience/knowledge regarding duel Australian/US citizenship
>for Australian born citizens who have residency in the US.

You can't have it.  The United States will require you give up your
Aust. citizenship if you want to become a U.S. citizen.  The only way
to get dual citizenship would be to have been a U.S. citizen in the
first place, and then become an Australian citizen.

--
	Daniel Lam			Phone 	+61 3 2822426
	Melbourne, Australia		Fax   	+61 3 2822490

In my opinion, the opinions expressed here are my personal opinions.
From: ivan@erich.triumf.ca (Ivan D. Reid)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Re: Unemployment rate anybody?
Date: 9 Jan 1993 05:55 PST
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: erich.triumf.ca
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <1ikhhkINNmc8@access.usask.ca>, 
	srikant@skorpio.usask.ca (Srikant Subramaniam) writes...
>Just curious to know - what is the present unemployment rate in Oz ?
	A couple of months ago it was 11.3% (980,000); it's probably
fractionally higher now.

Ivan Reid, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH.     			ivan@cvax.psi.ch
From: jlp@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: settling in Melbourne
Date: 12 Jan 93 12:37:25 EST
Distribution: soc
Organization: Cornell University

Info on apartments in Melbourne

I will be moving to Melbourne in March, and am interested in getting
information on apartments in Melbourne that are near Clayton or Caulfield.

Does anyone have any experiences that you coudl share or recommendations 
that you would make?  I am interested in a 1, maybe 2 bedroom, not too 
expensive apartment.  I have noticed in the ads some abbreviations
that I can't figure out.  What is the preferred method for apartment 
hunting in Melbourne?  (This question may sound obvious, but it isn't
always the same everywhere.  My friends in New York City advise against
checking the ads in the paper, since any available apartment probably isn't
very good,
or else, given the pretty low vacancy rate there, it wouldn't be available.
Instead, they check the obituaries... )

Is it absolutely necessary to have a car in Melbourne?

Any advice on a good, inexpensive hotel or small cooking studio (what DO
you call these, I forget) for a week while I look for an apartment?

Should I check the ads for apartments, go to a rental agency, or check for
informal postings at bookstores, near the universities, etc.

any information appreciated

Thanks.

Jobi Petty
jlp@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu

hunting in Melbourne?  (This might sound like an obvious question,
but in New York City my friends advise against checking the want ads since
                                               
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
From: hsue@ellis.uchicago.edu (yung chang  hsueh)
Subject: email address: U of Melbourne
Reply-To: hsue@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:55:31 GMT

Hi, 

I need to contact  George Codsi of Impact Research Center at University
of Melbourne.  Could anyone please give me his Email address if you know
him or just give me the email address of U of Molbourne or better even th
email address pf Impact Center.  Thank you.


P. S.  Please reply to me Email address. 


Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
From: lwesterag@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: travelling to Sydney
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:16:51 GMT

I'm travelling to Sydney in 2 weeks and am looking for cheap accommodation
preferably near public transport.  Can anyone recommend anything?  I will be
there for 2 1/2 days and so can people recommend what I should see as well?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance
Gill
lwestera@cc.curtin.edu.au

Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
From: daveh@teal.csn.org (Dave Hughes)
Subject: Internet Accees in/near Sidney?
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 03:05:21 GMT


A man here in Colorado is coming to Sidney, and asked if I could
find an access point in Sidney to the Internet, or at least e-mail.
Anybody help here? Or who should he contact when getting there?

Please e-mail if you have a clue

Dave Hughes
dave@oldcolo.com

Thanks!
From: cad28526@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Chuck Douglas)
Subject: Re: Oznews, 9th of January, 1993
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:48:28 GMT

robg@citr.uq.oz.au (Rob Geraghty) writes:

[stuff I wrote about the cane toad magically disappeared]

>I believe the csiro is currently working on methods to eradicate the
>cane toad.  (last I heard they were working on a natural disease of the
>toad)

Didn't they try to do this with the rabbits that were accidently introduced?
They infected them with myxomytosis which ended up killing foxes that were
brought in to control the rabbit population (which didn't work either).

I am not saying that the csiro did it, but they didn't try to stop it 
hard enough.

-- 
Chuckers -- a computer operator/programmer/benthic sorter/emaciated aryan.
cad28526@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu	          |"You know I'll give you everything
Novanet:  douglas/o/nova douglas/cerl/nova|I've got for a little peace of mind!"
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
From: hughes@gary.enet.dec.com (Gary Hughes - VMS Development)
Subject: Re: VHS/BETA formats in Australia?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:25:34 GMT


In article <garry-020193192820@archmac-178.arch.su.edu.au>, garry@archsci.arch.su.edu.au (Garry Stevens) writes...
>In article <ctalbot.725562699@mica.meddean.luc.edu>,
>ctalbot@mica.meddean.luc.edu (Carlos J. Talbot) wrote:
>> 
>> My fiancee will be down in Sydney or Melbourne mid-July and will probably
>> bring a VHS video tape with her. My question is, what format(VHS/BETA) is
>> commonly used in Australian VCRs and do they use NTSC or PAL? Any help would
>> be appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
>As other posts have pointed out the standard in Aus is PAL-D on VHS. In my

Video nit time again :-)

Australia's broadcast standards are PAL-B/G (for VHF/UHF respectively). For the
purposes of videotape, unless you are dealing with PAL-M or PAL-N, PAL is PAL
and you don't need to worry about the letter variants. VHS is much more common
than Beta.

The letter variants become important when dealing with tuners and RF
modulators.

The only PAL-D I've ever heard of is a PDP-8 assembler. Freudian slip,
Quoddles?

gary
From: ian@robots.ox.ac.uk (Ian Reid)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Re: Oznews, 9th of January, 1993
Date: 10 Jan 93 12:04:10 GMT
Organization: Robotics Research Group, Engineering Science Dept, Oxford, UK.
Originator: ian@percy.robots

In article <1ioe13INNs05@huon.itd.adelaide.edu.au> brad@achilles.cs.adelaide.edu.au (Brad Alexander ) writes:
>                News from "The Weekend Australian" 9-1-93 
>                -----------------------------------------
>
> ...
>
>"Scientists brew leathal venom cocktail for crop pests" - Scorpion and wasp
>venom engineered into a wild virus is about to put the sting on beetles and
>locusts that devour tens of millions of dollars worth of crops and pasture
>every year.
>  Molecular biologists at the CSIRO Division of Entomology have achieved a
>world first with a technique for controlling beetle pests without the use of
>artificial chemicals.
>  The technology, which involves genetically engineering a virus that naturally
>affects only the target beetles to make it more deadly, is also considered to
>have potential for use against food and grass pests worldwide.
>  Based on the division's success in engineering another virus to attack the
>cotton bollworm, Australia's worst crop pest, researchers have developed a new
>family of pathogens, the entomopox viruses (EPV's), to curb the damage caused
>by beetles, locusts and grasshoppers.
>-------------


Does anyone have any more details or references on this, either the
bollworm virus or the new one?  It seems like a very scary prospect to
me.

Ian
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From: quodling@stimpy.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian,aus.forsale
Subject: Re: moving to brisbane
Date: 11 Jan 93 15:07:20 GMT
Organization: SPR Alpha Migration Centre

In article <1993Jan8.233220.2063@news2.cis.umn.edu>, deriche@ee.umn.edu (rsch Mohamed Deriche) writes:
> Hello,
> I am going to move very soon from the US to Australia (Brisbane) and I was wondering about the things to bring and the
> things not to bring
> A Whole seafreight is at my disposal.

> TV's
> VCRs

Australia operates on a different Mains voltage and TV standard to the U.S. so,
unless you have a multistandard (PAL/NTSC) and multivoltage TV/VCR, they will
not work in Australia.
> Microwaves
THe same applies for MIcrowaves and other appliances... Australia runs on 240
Volts 50Hz, as opposed to the U.S. 110V 60Hz, You microwave, would emit a loud
brown burning smell, and cease to function..

> Bedroom sets and beds
> Cribs, strollers and walkers for kids
> cloths (men and women)
> sheets, comforters, towels, etc..
> Dinning sets, or just table and chairs
> sofas, couchs, recliners
> bicycles
> and anythings that cames to mind.
> thanks in advance

Having just returned from a U.S. assignment, the most important thing that I
can stress, is buy it in America. I am sorry to be saying this, but the
comparitive prices of such goods in Australian, are totally unreasonable.

Much Australian furniture is based on Pine and/or particle board type woods,
unlike the good solid oak etc furniture available in the U.S. Strollers etc, we
paid $400 for a Mid range Aprica, before leaving australia. We paid $130 for
the top of the line before leaving the U.S. A Fisher Price High chair was
selling for around $250 in Australia, we got ours for $57  at toy's R Us. 

contact me offline if you want more "experience" on this...


-- 
Peter Quodling		         Internet:     quodling@stimpy.enet.dec.com
SPR Alpha Migration Centre       UUCP: ...!decwrl!stimpy.enet!quodling
Sydney, Australia                Phone: 61-2-561 7272           _--_|\
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From: jhk4@po.CWRU.Edu (Judith H. Wernet)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Duel Australian/USA citizenship
Date: 12 Jan 1993 20:41:00 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


G'day
	I would like to know if anyone has any comments/personal
experience/knowledge regarding duel Australian/US citizenship
for Australian born citizens who have residency in the US.
	Thank you
-- 
Judy Wernet
jhk4@po.cwru.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
From: RPAUL@worldbank.org
Subject: Re: FREE STOCKS NEWSLETTER!
Reply-To: RPAUL@worldbank.org
Organization: The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 13:21:51 GMT

Kanth Miriyala writes
"
"We apologize for cross posting this. As we want to attract people
"to investing in stocks we are  trying to post this in places 
"wherer we can reach  non-investors. We sincerely hope that this 
"will prove profitable to you in the long run. 
"
"If you do not want to read any further but want to subscribe to this
"newsletter, send email to kanth@andersen.com with PRAGATI in the subject
"header. It is absolutely free.
"
:<MORE DELETED>
"
"SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
"
"Please send email to kanth@andersen.com with PRAGATI in the header. Don't  
forget to include your email address in your mail!!!

I thought that this type of blatant commercialism was banned from the  
Internet.  Ah well as the saying goes a fool and their money are soon  
parted!

--
Ross Paul
email: RPAUL@worldbank.org

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"I love a sunburnt country...." and all that jazz.
From: stephenw@iris.mincom.oz.au (Stephen Wales)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: Re: Duel Australian/USA citizenship
Date: 13 Jan 93 01:56:42 GMT
Reply-To: stephenw@iris.mincom.oz.au (Stephen Wales)
Organization: Mincom, Brisbane, Australia

In article <1ivacsINNjiu@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> jhk4@po.CWRU.Edu (Judith H. Wernet) writes:
>
>	I would like to know if anyone has any comments/personal
>experience/knowledge regarding duel Australian/US citizenship
>for Australian born citizens who have residency in the US.

I don't know how appropriate this is going to be...but I can tell you about the
other way around.

I'm an Australian citizen currently living in the USA and my wife is pregnant.
Our child will be born here in Denver and so becomes a US citizen. We get
him/her Australian citizenship by descent.

From talking to the Australian Embassy in Washington, our child will have a
perfect right to the 2 passports, as long as he/she always enters the USA on
the US passport and always enters Australia on the Australian passport.
Doing it any other way and the opposite government is going to get upset
and wonder why one of their citizens is entering their own country on a foreign
passport.

They also told us that the child may have to choose one or the other upon
reaching majority, but from what I've heard elsewhere, it really only 
matters if you want to join the military or something else like that.

That's about all the info I have but I'd be interested in hearing of anyone
in my child's circumstances (or the opposite as from the original request)
as it'll give me an idea of what our young'un will have to go through.

Steve.
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| | | | | |   Software Support Specialist |
| | | | | |   Mincom USA, Inc.            | These opinions are mine - Mincom
|M|I|N|C|O|M  Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.    | wouldn't want them anyway :-)
rganization: University of Illinois at Chicago
From: U22822@uicvm.uic.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
Subject: HELP ON SYDNEY PHONE NUMBERS
Date: 9 Jan 93 02:59:39 GMT

Could  anybody provide me couple of phone numbers of employment agencies
in Sydney? I would prefer that employment agency serves engineers too


Matt
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