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True. Fosters has been sold overseas. This is not an attempt to encourage Australians to drink less. It is top-flight business management at work.
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False. There is not a Greek economist named D Fault. You have misread the question.
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True. The standard AFL eye-test reads
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Docklands. The Gobi Desert is in China.
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True. The government changed its mind on the planned development at Ventnor. This was not because of community opposition or tweets from Miley Cyrus. It was because after announcing the decision, the minister recognized that it was stupid. Again, a hallmark of top-flight management.
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True. The Planning Minister (whose name is Mr Guy incidentally, not Mr Bloke) has completed his primary schooling. If there had been room to show the full photo, it would have been clear that he’s wearing long pants.
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True. The infrastructure at Ventnor is magnificent. The white line down the middle of the infrastructure will be completed once the infrastructure is paved.
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True. Poor planning decisions and strange secret approval processes helped the Brumby government decorate its own petard and install industrial strength hydraulic self-hoisting equipment.
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True. The ALP Asylum Seeker policy and the Coalition Asylum Seeker policy are both at odds with the High Court decision, both at odds with public opinion and both supported by sections of the media. This greatly assists in the elimination of any doubt on the matter.
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The Singapore Stock Exchange was refused permission to buy the ASX. Australians do not want their guesswork being processed off-shore.
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The pictures show (1) famous international statesman Tony Blair and (2) a smurf, a small plastic clown.
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False. The action hero was Indiana Jones. Alan Jones is a Sydney broadcaster and part-time motivational transport hostage consultant.
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True. It is now possible to pay the Australian Taxation Office with a credit card. Please don’t panic. Personal debt in this country is not a problem. In the event of an emergency an oxygen mask will drop from the panel above your seat.
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True. Energy and gas used to be owned by the government. This was inefficient and in order to create competition and lower prices, the industry was privatized. Energy and gas prices have now tripled. (This can’t be right. Please check this.)
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The result of the government’s very exacting scientific experiment involving cattle in the Victorian high country is as follows: Yes, all the whales killed by Japanese whalers proved to be dead, so we sold them to people who ate them.
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Apologies: There was a problem with the previous answer. The correct answer is: Yes, all the cattle destroyed vegetation and shat in the water. This was roughly in line with scientific projections.
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True. Samantha Stosur was promoted to the position of ‘Slammin’ Sam' because she won a Grand Slam tournament. News editors may have felt this was not sufficiently obvious from the story, which was that Samantha Stoser had won a Grand Slam tournament.
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You were asked for the next number in this sequence: 100billion, 1000billion, 10000billion. The answer of course, was Italy.
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Einstein. His Special Theory of Relativity has been questioned following the discovery of neutrinos which apparently travel faster than light. Craig Lowndes and Mark Skaife filled the minor placings and still head the overall standings.
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False. Mr Demetriou is not related to Mr Loaf. Mr Loaf was hired because he is such an excellent singer.