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1) A long-running drug trial was abandoned in June 2008 in Sydney because the jurors were doing what?

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2) What did the Muslim students ask for at La Trobe University in 2008?

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3) When was the comment "What's the G20" (attributed to George Bush) first reported? (Which Australian newspaper? What date?) Was this story covered in the Washington Post?

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4) Use Factiva for this question. You may want to use the online Support to answer this question.

Complete this statement: A minimum of ???? characters before the wildcard truncation ($ and *) is required.

 5) Complete this table:

Find the Start Date/First Issue for these newspapers on Factiva, to complete the table.

Newspaper Start Date
The Age  
The Australian  
The Canberra Times 3 September  1996
The Heidelberg Leader  
The Sydney Morning Herald  
The Times 2 January 1981
The New York Times  
Time Magazine: [Country of origin: United States] 29 January 1996

6) Locate a complete copy of this article.

 

 7) "Google's new Chrome browser presents a privacy risk for consumers". Discuss.

 
 
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